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32 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
33 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
35 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
36 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
38 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
39 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
40 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
42 A few contributors may be cited in this file by their initials.
43 Each accounts for half of one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
44 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
46 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
47 it is not possible to add this information.
50 + modify configure scripts to use overlooked cases for LD and
51 PKG_CONFIG variables (report by Alan Webb, Gentoo #866398).
52 + modify nsterm to use xterm+alt1049 (report by Paul Handly) -TD
53 + modify putty to use xterm+alt1049 -TD
56 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses and c++
57 libraries and progs directory.
58 + add curses_trace to ifdef's for START_TRACE in test/test.priv.h
62 + modify delscreen to more effectively delete all windows on the given
64 + amend portability note for delwin in manual page.
65 + adapt test/test_delwin.c from example by Bill Gray.
66 + account for prescreen data if freeing leaks in pthread-configuration
67 + split-out _nc_set_read_thread(), to reduce compiler warnings about
68 pthread_self(), which may/may not be a weak symbol.
69 + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c
72 + amend end_of_stream() to allow for input files without a final
74 + check for non-textfiles to tic.
77 + fixes to build with dietlibc:
78 + add configure check for fpathconf (report by Georg Lehner).
79 + add configure check for math sine/cosine, needed in test/tclock,
80 and eliminate pow() from test/hanoi (report by Georg Lehner).
81 + use wcsnlen as an alternative to wmemchr if it is not found
82 (adapted from patch by Georg Lehner).
83 + trim out some unwanted linker options from ncurses*config and .pc
84 files seen in Fedora 36+.
87 + add portability notes for delscreen and delwin in manual.
88 + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c, test/rain.c
89 + improve pointer/limit checks associated with deleting a screen
93 + build-fix for test_mouse.c, for non-standard cfmakeraw.
94 + improve shell-scripts with shellcheck
95 + fix typo in run_tic.in (report/patch by Jan Starke).
98 + lock the prescreen data consistently in newterm, etc., for the
99 pthreads configuration (report by Tom de Vries).
102 + add consistency check in tic for u6/u7/u8/u9 and NQ capabilities.
103 + use NQ to flag entries where the terminal does not support query and
105 + use ansi+enq and decid+cpr in cases where the terminal probably
106 supported the u6-u9 extension -TD
107 + add/use apollo+vt132, xterm+alt47 -TD
110 + improve man/curs_bkgd.3x, explaining that bkgdset can affect results
111 for bkgd (report by Anton Vidovic).
112 + correct dsl in dec+sl (report by Rajeev Pillai) -TD
113 + add/use ansi+cpr, decid+cpr -TD
116 + add a null-pointer check for term_names field in copy_termtype(),
117 needed for MinGW port (report by Peiyuan Song, cf: 20220521).
118 + revise kon/kon2/jfbterm to undo "linux2.6" change to
119 smacs/rmacs/enacs (Debian #1012800) -TD
120 + amended note for att610+cvis0, as per documentation for att610,
124 + modify waddch_literal() to allow for double-width base character when
125 merging a combining character (report by Gavin Troy).
126 + improve _tracecchar_t2() formatting of base+combining character.
129 + add note on portable memory-leak checking in man/curs_memleaks.3x
130 + remove u6-u9 from teken-2018 -TD
131 + set "xterm-new" to "xterm-p370", add "xterm-p371" -TD
134 + expanded notes for teken/syscons -TD
135 + fix overlooked copying of extended string-heap in copy_termtype
137 + update config.guess
140 + improve memory-leak checking in several test-programs.
141 + set trailing null on string passed from winsnstr() to wins_nwstr().
142 + modify del_curterm() to fix memory-leak introduced by change to
146 + further improvements to test/test_mouse.c; compare with ncurses test
150 + add test/test_mouse.c (patch by Leonid S Usov).
151 + add a few debug-traces for tic, fix a couple of memory-leaks.
154 + build-fix for debug-traces (report/patch by Chris Clayton).
157 + modify samples for xterm mouse 1002/1003 modes to use 1006 mode, and
158 also provide for focus in/out responses -TD
159 + modify default case in handle_wheel() to always report button-release
160 events, e.g., for xterm mouse mode 1003 (patch by Leonid S Usov).
161 + improve valid_entryname() to disallow characters used in terminfo
162 syntax: '#', '=', '|', '\'.
163 + alter copy_termtype() to allocate new str_table and ext_str_table
164 data rather than relying upon its callers.
165 + use calloc in _nc_init_entry() when allocating stringbuf, to ensure
167 + add library-level TYPE_CALLOC for consistency with TYPE_MALLOC.
168 + add some debug-traces for tic/infocmp.
171 + in-progress work on invalid_merge(), disable it (cf: 20220402).
172 + fix memory leak in _nc_tic_dir() when called from _nc_set_writedir().
173 + fix memory leak in tic when "-c" option is used.
176 + add a limit-check to guard against corrupt terminfo data
177 (report/testcase by NCNIPC of China).
178 + add check/warning in configure script if option --with-xterm-kbs is
179 missing or inconsistent (Arch #74379).
180 + add setlocale call to several test-programs.
181 + allow extended-color number in opts parameter of wattr_on.
184 + add test/test_unget_wch.c
187 + amend extended_captype(), returning CANCEL if a string is explicitly
189 + make description-fields distinct -TD
193 + add teken-16color, teken-vt and teken-sc -TD
194 + add a few missing details for vte-2018 (report by Robert Lange) -TD
198 + correct setal in mintty/tmux entries, add to vte-2018 (report by
200 + add blink to vte-2018 (report by Robert Lange)
201 + improve tic warning about XT versus redundant tsl, etc.
204 + add xterm+acs building-block -TD
205 + add xterm-p370, for use in older terminals -TD
206 + add dec+sl to xterm-new, per xterm patch #371 -TD
207 + add mosh and mosh-256color -TD
210 + replace obsolescent "-gnatg" option with "-gnatwa" and "-gnatyg", to
211 work around build problems with gnat 12.
212 + update external links in Ada95.html
213 + trim unused return-value from canonical_name().
216 + fix issues found with coverity:
217 + rewrite canonical_name() function of infocmp to ensure buffer size
218 + corrected use of original tty-modes in tput init/reset subcommands
219 + modify tabs program to limit tab-stop values to max-columns
220 + add limit-checks for palette rgb values in test/ncurses.c
221 + add a few null-pointer checks to help with static-analysis.
222 + enforce limit on number of soft-keys used in c++ binding.
223 + adjust a buffer-limit in write_entry.c to quiet a bogus warning from
227 + expanded description in man/resizeterm.3x
228 + additional workaround for ImageMagick in test/picsmap.c
231 + improve font-formatting in other manpages, for consistency.
232 + correct/improve font-formatting in curs_wgetch.3x (patch by Benno
236 + workaround in test/picsmap.c for use of floating point for rgb values
237 by ImageMagick 6.9.11, which appears to use the wrong upper limit.
238 + improve use of "trap" in shell scripts, using "fixup-trap".
241 + minor updates for test-packages
242 + improve handling of --with-pkg-config-libdir option, allowing for the
243 case where either $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR or the option value has a
244 colon-separated list of directories (report by Rudi Heitbaum,
249 + add ABI 7 defaults to configure script.
250 + add warning in configure script if file specified for "--with-caps"
252 + use fix for CF_FIX_WARNINGS from cdk-perl, ignoring error-exit on
254 + improve readability of long parameterized expressions with the
255 infocmp "-f" option by allowing split before a "%p" marker.
258 + improve checks for valid mouse events when an intermediate mouse
259 state is not part of the mousemask specified by the caller (report by
260 Anton Vidovic, cf: 20111022).
261 + use newer version 1.36 of gnathtml for generating Ada html files.
264 + add section on releasing memory to curs_termcap.3x and
265 curs_terminfo.3x manpages.
268 + improve markup, e.g., for external manpage links in the manpages
269 (prompted by report by Helge Kreutzmann).
272 + install ncurses-examples programs in libexecdir, adding a wrapper
273 script to invoke those.
274 + add help-screen and screen-dump to test/combine.c
277 + add test/combine.c, to demo/test combining characters.
280 + improve configure check for getttynam (report by Werner Fink).
283 + fix errata in description fields (report by Eric Lindblad) -TD
284 + add x10term+sl, aixterm+sl, ncr260vp+sl, ncr260vp+vt, wyse+sl -TD
287 + add dim, ecma+strikeout to st-0.6 -TD
288 + deallocate the tparm cache when del_curterm is called for the last
289 allocated TERMINAL structure (report/testcase by Bram Moolenaar,
291 + modify test-package to more closely conform to Debian multi-arch.
292 + if the --with-pkg-config-libdir option is not given, use
293 ${libdir}/pkgconfig as a default (prompted by discussion with Ross
297 + fix memory-leak in delwin for pads (report by Werner Fink, OpenSUSE
298 #1192668, cf: 20211106),
301 + minor clarification to clear.1 (Debian #999437).
302 + add xterm+sl-alt, use that in foot+base (report by Jonas Grosse
304 + improve search-path check for pkg-config, for Debian testing which
305 installs pkg-config with architecture-prefixes.
308 + improve check in misc/Makefile.in for empty $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
309 + modify wnoutrefresh to call pnoutrefresh if its parameter is a pad,
310 rather than treating it as an error, and modify new_panel to permit
311 its window-parameter to be a pad (report by Giorgos Xou).
312 + fix a memory-leak in del_curterm (prompted by discussion with Bram
313 Moolenaar, cf: 20210821).
316 + simplify some references to WINDOWS._flags using macros.
317 + add a "check" rule in Ada95 makefile, to help with test-packages.
318 + build-fix for cross-compiling to MingW, conditionally add -lssp
321 + corrected regex needed for older pkg-config used in Solaris 10.
322 + amend configure option's auto-search to account for systems where
323 none of the directories known to pkg-config exist, adapted from
324 mailing-list comment (report by Milan P. Stanic).
326 20211021 6.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
327 + update release notes
328 + add "ncu2openbsd" script, to illustrate how to update an OpenBSD
329 system to use a current ncurses release.
332 + check for screen size-change in scr_init() and scr_restore(), in case
333 a screen dump does not match the current screen dimensions (report by
337 + amend change for pkg-config to account for "none" being returned in
338 the libdir-path result rather than "no" (report by Gabriele Balducci).
341 + build-fix for pmake with libtool.
342 + improve make-tar.sh scripts, adding COPYING to tar file, and clean up
344 + add link for "reset6" manpage in test-package ncurses6-doc
345 + revise configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir, using the actual
346 search path from pkg-config or pkgconf using the output from --debug
347 (report by Pascal Pignard).
348 + freeze ABI in ".map" files.
351 + implement "+m" option in tabs program.
352 + fill in some details for infoton -TD
353 + fix spelling/consistency in several descriptions -TD
354 + use vt420+lrmm in vt420 -TD
355 + modify save_tty_settings() to avoid opening /dev/tty for cases other
356 than reset/init, e.g., for clear.
357 + modify output of "toe -as" to show first description found rather
359 + improve tic checks for number of parameters of smglp, smgrp, smgtp,
360 and smgbp (cf: 20020525).
361 + correct off-by-one comparison in last_char(), which did not allow
362 special case of ":" in a terminfo description field (cf: 20120407).
363 + remove check in tic that assumes that none or both parameterized and
364 non-parameterized margin-setting capabilities are present
368 + use return-value from vsnprintf to reallocate as needed to allow for
369 buffers larger than the screen size (report by "_RuRo_").
370 + modify tset "-q" option to refrain from modifying terminal modes, to
371 match the documentation.
372 + add section on margins to terminfo.5, adapted from X/Open Curses.
373 + make tput/tset warning messages consistently using alias names when
374 those are used, rather than the underlying program's name.
375 + improve tput usage message for aliases such as clear, by eliminating
376 tput-specific portions.
377 + add a check in toe to ensure that a "termcap file" is text rather
379 + further build-fixes for OpenBSD 6.9, whose header files differ from
383 + add kbeg to xterm+keypad to accommodate termcap applications -TD
384 + add smglp and smgrp to vt420+lrmm, to provide useful data for the
386 + build-fix for gcc 3.4.3 with Solaris10, which does not allow forward
387 reference of anonymous struct typedef.
388 + modify tput to allow multiple commands per line.
389 + minor fixes for tset manpage.
392 + adjust ifdef in test_opaque.c to fix build with ncurses 5.7
393 + add testing note for xterm-{hp|sco|sun} -TD
394 + corrected description for ansi.sys-old -TD
395 + add xterm+nopcfkeys, to fill in keys for xterm-hp, xterm-sun -TD
396 + use hp+arrows in a few places -TD
397 + use hp+pfk-cr in a few places -TD
400 + correct logic in filtering of redefinitions (report by Sven Joachim,
404 + modify linux3.0 entry to reflect default mapping of shift-tab by
405 kbd 1.14 (report by Jan Engelhardt) -TD
406 + add historical note to tput, curses-terminfo and curses-color
407 manpages based on source-code for SVr2, SVr3 and SVr4.
408 + minor grammatical fixes for "it's" vs "its" (report by Nick Black).
409 + amend fix for --disable-root-environ (report by Arnav Singh).
410 + build-fix for compiling link_test
411 + drop symbols GCC_PRINTF and GCC_SCANF from curses.h.in, to simplify
412 use (Debian #993179).
415 + correct reversed check for --disable-root-environ (report/analysis
416 by Arnav Singh, cf: 20210626).
417 + apply gcc format attribute to prototypes which use a va_list
418 parameter rather than a "..." variable-length parameter list
419 (prompted by discussion in a tmux pull-request).
420 + modify configure scripts to filter out redefinitions of _XOPEN_SOURCE,
421 e.g., for NetBSD which generally supports 500, but 600 is needed for
423 + improve documentation for tparm and static/dynamic variables.
424 + improve typography in terminfo.5 (patch by Branden Robinson).
427 + improve tparm implementation of %P and %g, more closely matching
429 + move internals of TERMINAL structure to new header term.priv.h
430 + add "check" rule for ncurses/Makefile
431 + corrected tsl capability for terminator -TD
432 + add check in tic to report instances where tparm would detect an
433 error in an expression (cf: 20201010).
434 + correct a few places where SP->_pair_limit was used rather than
435 SP->_pair_alloc (cf: 20170812).
436 + fix missing "%d" for setaf/setab code 8-15 in xterm+direct16 (report
437 by Florian Weimer) -TD
438 + fix some documentation errata from OpenBSD changes.
442 + add workaround for broken pcre2 package in Debian 10, from xterm #369.
445 + ignore "--dynamic-linker" option in generated pkg/config files,
446 adapted from "distr1" patch.
447 + add CF_SHARED_OPTS case for Haiku, from patch in haikuports.
450 + add extensions in xterm+tmux and ecma+strikeout to ms-terminal,
451 but cancel the non-working Cr and Ms capabilities -TD
452 + add foot and foot-direct -TD
455 + add workaround for Windows Terminal's problems with CR/LF mapping to
456 ms-terminal (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
457 + review/update current Windows Terminal vs ms-terminal -TD
460 + correct typo in "vip" comments (report by Nick Black), reviewed this
461 against Glink manual -TD
462 + fill in some missing pieces for pccons, to make it comparable to the
464 + modify mk-1st.awk to account for extra-suffix configure option
465 (report by Juergen Pfeifer).
466 + change default for --disable-wattr-macros option to help packagers
467 who reuse wide ncursesw header file with non-wide ncurses library.
468 + build-fix for test/test_opaque.c, for configurations without opaque
472 + improve history section for tset manpage based on the 1BSD tarball,
473 which preceded BSD's SCCS checkins by more than three years.
474 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure (report by Urs
476 + further improvement of libtool configuration, adding a dependency of
477 the install.tic rule, etc., on the library in the build-tree.
481 + amend libtool configuration to add dependency for install.tic, etc.,
482 in ncurses/Makefile on the lower-level libraries.
483 + modify configure script to support ".PHONY" make program feature.
486 + add configure option --disable-root-access, which tells ncurses to
487 disallow most file-opens by setuid processes.
488 + use default colors in pccon "op" -TD
489 + correct rmacs/smacs in aaa+dec, aaa+rv -TD
490 + add hpterm-color2 and hp98550-color (Martin Trusler)
491 + regenerate man-html documentation.
494 + improve configure-macro used for dependencies of --disable-leaks such
496 + trim trailing blanks from files
499 + fixes for scan-build, valgrind build/testing.
500 + update config.guess
503 + add a summary of ncurses-specific preprocessor symbols to curses.h
504 (prompted by discussion with Peter Farley, Bill Gray).
507 + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20210509 to eliminate
508 an unnecessary warning in config.log (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
509 + add a note in manual page to explain ungetch vs unget_wch (prompted
510 by discussion with Peter Farley).
511 + add sp-funcs for erasewchar, killwchar.
512 + modify wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr to improve compatibility with SVr4 curses
513 in its treatment of interrupt and quit characters (prompted by
514 report/testcase by Bill Gray)
515 + update config.guess, config.sub
518 + improve manual pages for wgetnstr, newwin (prompted by
519 report/testcase by Bill Gray).
522 + modify tputs' error check to allow it to be used without first
523 calling tgetent or setupterm, noting that terminfo initialization
524 is required for supporting the terminfo delay feature (report by
526 + fix several warnings from clang --analyze
527 + add null-pointer check in comp_parse.c, when a "use=" clause refers
528 to a nonexisting terminal description (report/patch by Miroslav
529 Lichvar, cf: 20210227).
532 + add a special case in the configure script to work around one of the
533 build-time breakages reported for OpenBSD 6 here:
534 https://www.mail-archive.com/bugs@openbsd.org/msg13200.html
535 There is no workaround for the other issue, a broken linker spec.
536 + modify configure check for libtool to prevent accidental use of an
537 OpenBSD program which uses the same name.
538 + update config.guess, config.sub
541 + avoid using broken system macros for snprintf which interfere with
542 _nc_SLIMIT's conditionally adding a parameter when the string-hacks
543 configure option is enabled.
544 + add a "all::" rule before the new "check" rule in test/Makefile.in
547 + improve CF_LINK_FUNCS by ensuring that the source-file is closed
548 before linking to the target.
549 + add "check" rules for headers in c++, progs and test-directories.
550 + build-fix for termsort module when configured with termcap (reports
551 by Rajeev V Pillai, Rudi Heitbaum).
554 + extend --disable-pkg-ldflags option to also control whether $LDFLAGS
555 from the build is provided in -config and .pc files (Debian #986764).
556 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses and c++
557 libraries and progs directory.
558 + fix off-by-one limit for tput's processing command-line arguments
559 (patch by Hadrien Lacour).
562 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library and
564 + improve description of BSD-style padding in curs_termcap.3x
565 + improved CF_C11_NORETURN macro, from byacc changes.
566 + fix "--enable-leak" in CF_DISABLE_LEAKS to allow turning
567 leak-checking off later in a set of options.
568 + relax modification-time comparison in CF_LINK_FUNCS to allow it to
569 accept link() function with NFS filesystems which change the mtime
570 on the link target, e.g., several BSD systems.
571 + call delay_output_sp to handle BSD-style padding when tputs_sp is
572 called, whether directly or internally, to ensure that the SCREEN
573 pointer is passed correctly (reports by Henric Jungheim, Juraj
577 + build-fixes for Solaris10 /bin/sh
578 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs,
579 form and menu libraries.
582 + add configure option --enable-stdnoreturn, making the _Noreturn
583 keyword optional to ease transition (prompted by report by
587 + improve parameter-checking in tput by forcing it to analyze any
588 extended string capability, e.g., as used in the Cs and Ms
589 capabilities of the tmux description (report by Brad Town,
591 + remove an incorrect free in the fallback (non-checking) version of
592 _nc_free_and_exit (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
593 + correct use-ordering in some xterm-direct flavors -TD
594 + add hterm, hterm-256color (Mike Frysinger)
595 + if the build-time compiler accepts c11's _Noreturn keyword, use that
596 rather than gcc's attribute.
597 + change configure-check for gcc's noreturn attribute to assume it is
598 a prefix rather than suffix, matching c11's _Noreturn convention.
599 + add "lint" rule to c++/Makefile, e.g., with cppcheck.
602 + improve configure CF_LD_SEARCHPATH macro used for ncurses*-config and
603 ".pc" files, from dialog changes.
604 + reduce dependency of math-library in test programs.
605 + minor fixes for test_tparm.c (cf: 20210306)
606 + mention "ncurses" prefix in curses_version() manpage (report by
610 + improved test/test_tparm.c, by limiting the tests to capabilities
611 that might have parameters or padding, and combined with tputs test.
612 + improve discussion of padding versus tparm and tputs in
614 + update portability note for FreeBSD in man/tput.1
617 + modify tic/infocmp to eliminate unnecessary "\" to escape ":" in
619 + add check in tic for duplicate "use=" clauses.
622 + improve tic warning when oc/op do not mention SGR 39/49 for xterm
624 + revert change to lib_addch.c in waddch_literal() from 20210130, since
625 the followup fix in PutCharLR() actually corrects the problem while
626 this change causes too-early filling/wrapping (report by Johannes
628 + add/use vt220+pcedit and vt220+vtedit -TD
629 + add scrt/securecrt and absolute -TD
630 + add nel to xterm-new, though supported since X11R5 -TD
631 + add/use xterm+nofkeys -TD
632 + move use of ecma+italics from xterm-basic to xterm+nofkeys -TD
635 + add test/back_ground.c, to exercise the wide-character background
637 + add a check in _nc_build_wch() in case the background character is a
638 wide-character, rather than a new part of a multibyte character.
639 + improve tracemunch's coverage of form/menu/panel libraries.
640 + improve tracemunch's checking/reporting the type for the first
641 parameter, e.g., "WINDOW*" rather than "#1".
644 + provide for wide-characters as background character in wbkgrnd
645 (report/testcase by Anton Vidovic)
646 + add name for Fedora's pcre2 to configure check for "--with-pcre2"
647 option, from xterm #363 -TD
648 + modify adjustment in PutCharLR to restore the cursor position before
649 writing to the lower-right corner, rather than decrementing the
650 cursor column, in case it was a double-width character (cf: 20210130).
653 + correct an off-by-one in comparison in waddch_literal() which caused
654 scrolling when a double-cell character would not fit at the lower
655 right corner of the screen (report by Benno Schulenberg).
656 + split-out att610+cvis, vt220+cvis, vt220+cvis8 -TD
657 + add vt220-base, for terminal emulators which generally have not
658 supported att610's blinking cursor control -TD
659 + use vt220+cvis in vt220, etc -TD
660 + use att610+cvis, xterm+tmux and ansi+enq in kitty -TD
661 + use vt220+cvis in st, terminology, termite since they ignore
662 blinking-cursor detail in att610+cvis -TD
665 + modify package/config scripts to provide an explicit -L option for
666 cases when the loader search path has other directories preceding
667 the one in which ncurses is installed (report by Yuri Victorovich).
668 + minor build-fixes in configure script and makefiles to work around
672 + add comment for linux2.6 regarding CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS
673 (report by Patrick McDermott) -TD
674 + make opts extension for getcchar work as documented for ncurses 6.1,
675 adding "-g" flag to test/demo_new_pair to illustrate.
678 + fix errata in man/ncurses.3x from recent updates.
679 + improve quoting/escaping in configure script, uses some features of
680 autoconf 2.52.20210105
683 + update man/curs_memleaks.3x, to include <term.h> which declares
685 + clarify man/curs_terminfo.3x, to mention why the macro setterm is
686 defined in <curses.h>, and remove it from the list of prototypes
687 (prompted by patch by Graeme McCutcheon).
688 + amend man/curs_terminfo.3x, to note that <curses.h> is required
689 for certain functions, e.g., those using chtype or attr_t for
690 types, as well as mvcur (cf: 20201031).
691 + use parameter-names in prototypes in curs_sp_funcs.3x, for
692 consistency with other manpages.
695 + update terminology entry to 1.8.1 -TD
696 + fix some compiler-warnings which gcc8 reports incorrectly.
699 + suppress hyphenation in generated html for manpages, to address
700 regression in upgrade of groff 1.22.2 to 1.22.3.
701 + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages (report
705 + improve manual pages for form field-types.
708 + amend build-fixes for gnat 10 to work with certain systems lacking
709 gprbuild (cf: 20200627).
710 + eliminate an additional strlen and wsclen.
711 + eliminate an unnecessary strlen in waddnstr() (suggested by Benjamin
713 + modify inopts manpage, separating the items for nodelay and notimeout
714 (patch by Benno Schulenberg).
715 + correct mlterm3 kf1-kf4 (Debian #975322) -TD
716 + add flash to mlterm3 -TD
719 + add Smulx to alacritty (Christian Duerr).
720 + add rep to PuTTY -TD
721 + add putty+keypad -TD
722 + add another fflush(stdout) in _nc_flush() to handle time-delays in
723 the middle of strings such as flash when the application uses
724 low-level calls rather than curses (cf: 20161217).
725 + modify configure check for c89/c99 aliases of clang to use its
726 -std option instead, because some platforms, in particular macOS,
727 do not provide workable c89/c99 aliases.
730 + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver.
731 + add the definitions needed in recent configure-check for clang
732 (report by Steven Pitman).
735 + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver.
736 + modify a check for parameters in terminfo capabilities to handle the
737 special case where short extended capability strings were not
738 converted from terminfo to termcap format.
739 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro, adding darwin as special case
740 when cross-compiling (report by Eli Rykoff).
743 + update kitty+common -TD
744 + add putty+screen and putty-screen (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
745 + explain in ncurses.3x that functions in the tinfo library do not rely
746 upon wide-characters (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas).
749 + modify MKterm.h.in so that it is not necessary to include <curses.h>
750 before <term.h> (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas).
751 + review/improve synopsis for curs_sp_funcs.3x (prompted by discussion
753 + improve format of output in tic's check_infotocap() function, to
754 ensure that the messages contain only printable text.
755 + modify configure-check for clang to verify that -Qunused-arguments
756 is supported. IBM's xlclang does not support it (report by Steven
760 + provide workaround configure-check for bool when cross-compiling.
761 + fix a potential indexing error in _nc_parse_entry(), seen with
762 Herlim's test data using address-sanitizer.
763 + change a null-pointer check in set_curterm to a valid-string check,
764 needed in to tic's use-resolution when pad_char is cancelled
765 (report/testcase by Robert Sebastian Herlim)
766 + improve tic's -c option to validate the number and type of parameters
767 and compare against expected number/type before deciding which set of
768 parameter-lists to use in tparm calls (report/testcase by Robert
770 + fix a link for tabs.1 manpage in announce.html.in (report by Nick
771 Black), as well as some fixes via linklint.
774 + improve manpage typography.
775 + improve discussion in curs_addch.3x of the use of unctrl to display
776 nonprintable characters.
777 + add a note in terminfo.5 explaining that no-parameter strings such
778 as sgr0 or cnorm should not be used with tparm.
781 + correct sgr in aaa+rv (report by Florian Weimer) -TD
782 + fix some sgr inconsistencies in d230c, ibm6153, ibm6154,
784 + improve tic's check for errors detected in tparm (prompted by
785 discussion with Florian Weimer).
786 + set output-mode to binary in experimental Windows-10 driver (Juergen
790 + remove output-related checks for nl/nonl (report by Leon Winter).
791 + change tmux's kbs to ^? (report by Premysl Eric Janouch)
792 + simplify mlterm initialization with DECSTR -TD
793 + fix a typo in man/curs_terminfo.3 (Reuben Thomas).
794 + add tmux-direct (tmux #2370, Debian #895754)
795 + add user-defined capabilities from mintty to Caps-ncurses, for
796 checking consistency with tic.
799 + correct configure-check for gnurx library.
800 + regenerate llib-* files.
801 + modify tracemunch and the panel library to show readable traces for
802 panel- and user-pointers.
805 + update mlterm3 for 3.9.0 (report by Premysl Eric Janouch) -TD
808 + corrected condition for appending curses.events to the generated
809 curses.h (report by Sven Joachim, Debian #970545).
812 + add configure-check for systre/tre with mingw configuration, to get
813 the library-dependencies as seen in msys2 configuration for mingw64.
814 + build-fixes for the win32-driver configuration.
815 + use more defensive binary mode setting for Win32 (Juergen Pfeifer).
818 + fix regression in setupterm validating non-empty $TERM (report by
822 + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of
824 + correct description of vt330/vt340 (Ross Combs).
827 + build-fix for awk-scripts modified for win32-driver (report by Werner
831 + remove a redundant NCURSES_EXPORT as a build-fix for "Maarten
833 + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of
835 + modify configure script, moving gcc -Werror options to EXTRA_CFLAGS
836 to avoid breaking configure-checks (adapted from ongoing work on
838 > errata for terminfo.src (report by Florian Weimer):
839 + correct icl6404 csr
844 + improve version-number extraction in MKlib_gen.sh
845 + make the test-package for manpages installable by adjusting the
847 + correct an off-by-one loop-limit in convert_strings function
849 + add CF_SHARED_OPTS cases for HPE NonStop systems (Randall S Becker).
850 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS case for NetBSD to use the same "-shared"
851 option for the non-rpath case as for the rpath case, to allow gcc to
852 provide suitable runtime initialization (report by Rajeev V Pillai).
855 + reduce build-warnings by excluding ncurses-internals from deprecation
857 + mark wgetch-events feature as deprecated.
858 + add definition for $(LIBS) to ncurses/Makefile.in, to simplify builds
859 using the string-hacks option.
860 + prevent KEY_EVENT from appearing in curses.h unless the configure
861 option --enable-wgetch-events is used (report by Werner Fink).
864 + amend tic/infocmp check to allow for the respective tool's absence
865 (report by Steve Wills, cf: 20200808).
866 + improved some of the build-scripts with shellcheck
867 + filter out -MT/-MD/-MTd/-MDd options in script for Visual Studio C++
868 (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous").
871 + improve discussion of the system's tic utility when used as part
872 of cross-compiling (discussion with Keith Marshall).
873 + modify configuration checks for build-time tic/infocmp to use
874 AC_CHECK_TOOL. That can still be overridden by --with-tic-path and
875 --with-infocmp-path when fallbacks are used, but even if not using
876 fallbacks, the improved check may help with cross-compiling
877 (discussion with Keith Marshall).
878 + other build-fixes for Ada95 with MinGW.
879 + modify Ada95 source-generation utility to write to a file given as
880 parameter rather than to the standard output, allowing builds with
884 + remove remaining parts of checks for ISC Unix (cf: 20121006).
885 + add user32.lib to LDFLAGS for Visual Studio C++ configuration
886 (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous").
887 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to hide ncurses' definition of KEY_EVENTS to
888 reduce Visual Studio C++ redefinition warnings.
889 + improve/update checks for external functions in test/configure
892 + set LINK_TESTS in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msvc (patch by
894 + improved workaround for redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT.
895 + improve man/term.5 section on legacy storage format (report by
899 + reduce redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT when building with Visual
901 + define NCURSES_STATIC when compiling programs to link with static
902 libraries, to work with MinGW vs Visual Studio C++.
903 > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
904 (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
905 + modify c++/Makefile.in to set the current directory while compiling
906 the main program, so the linker can find related objects.
907 + several changes to allow the c++/demo program to compile/link.
908 + change an ifdef in test-directory, to use VC++ wide-character funcs.
911 + fix pound-sign mapping in acsc of linux2.6 entry (report by Ingo
913 + additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
914 (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
915 + build-improvements for Windows 10 and MinGW (patch by Juergen
917 + fix a typo in curs_printw.3x (patch by William Pursell).
918 + fix two errors in infotocap which allowed indexing outside the
919 buffer (report/testcases by Zhang Gan).
920 + update length of strings in infocmp's usage function to restore a
921 trailing null on the longest string (report/testcase by Zhang Gen).
924 + modify version-check with Ada generics to use the same pattern as in
925 the check for supported gnat versions (report by Pascal Pignard).
926 > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
927 (patches by "Maarten Anonymous"):
928 + adjust headers/declarations to provide for "dllimport" vs "dllexport"
929 declarations when constructing DLLs, to worko with Visual Studio C++.
932 + build-fixes for gnat 10.1.1, whose gnatmake drops integration with
934 + correct buffer-length in test/color_name.h
937 + update list of functions in ncurses.3x
938 + move dlclose() call from lib_mouse.c to delscreen() to avoid a case
939 in the former which could be called from SIGTSTP handler (Debian
943 + add xterm+256color2, xterm+88color2, to deprecate nonstandard usage
944 in xterm+256color, xterm+88color -TD
945 + add shifted Linux console keys in linux+sfkeys entry for
946 screen.linux (report by Alexandre Montaron).
947 + use vt100+enq in screen (report by Alexandre Montaron).
948 + add screen.linux-s alias (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
951 + correct configure version-check/warnng for g++ to allow for 10.x
952 + re-enable "bel" in konsole-base (report by Nia Huang)
953 + add linux-s entry (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
954 + drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl
955 + add test/test_tparm.c, for checking tparm changes.
956 + improve parameter-checking for tparm, adding function _nc_tiparm() to
957 handle the most-used case, which accepts only numeric parameters
958 (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
959 + use a more conservative estimate of the buffer-size in lib_tparm.c's
960 save_text() and save_number(), in case the sprintf() function
961 passes-through unexpected characters from a format specifier
962 (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
963 + add a check for end-of-string in cvtchar to handle a malformed
964 string in infotocap (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
967 + update version-check for gnat to allow for gnat 10.x to 99.x
968 + fix an uninitialized variable in lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20200502)
969 + add a check in EmitRange to guard against repeat_char emitting digits
970 which could be interpreted as BSD-style padding when --enable-bsdpad
971 is configured (report/patch by Hiltjo Posthuma).
972 + add --disable-pkg-ldflags to suppress EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the
973 generated pkg-config and ncurses*-config files, to simplify
974 configuring in the case where rpath is used but the packager wants
975 to hide the feature (report by Michael Stapelberg).
976 > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
977 "Maarten Anonymous"):
978 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS to generate a script which translates linker
979 options into Visual Studio's dialect.
980 + omit parentheses around function-names in generated lib_gen.c to
981 work around a Visual Studio C++ limitation.
984 + add notes on termcap.h header in curs_termcap.3x
985 + update notes on vscode / xterm.js -TD
988 + add "-r" option to the dots test-programs, to help with scripting
989 a performance comparison.
990 + build-fix test/move_field.c for NetBSD curses, whose form headers
991 use different names than SVr4 or ncurses.
994 + add details on the change to Linux SGR 21 in 2018 -TD
995 + add xterm-direct16 and xterm-direct256 -TD
996 + modify lib_mouse.c to check for out-of-range button numbers, convert
997 those to position reports.
1000 + use vt100+fnkeys in putty -TD
1001 + fix a typo in tput.1; "columns" should be "cols".
1004 + improve tracemunch logic for "RUN" compaction.
1005 + fix a special case in wresize() where copying the old text did not
1006 check if the last cell on a row was the beginning of a fullwidth
1007 character (adapted from patch by Benno Schulenberg).
1008 + use vt52+keypad in xterm-vt52, from xterm #354 -TD
1009 + improve see-also section of user_caps.5
1012 + fix find_pair(), overlooked when refactoring for _nc_reserve_pairs()
1013 (report/testcase by Brad Town, cf: 20170812).
1014 + add a trailing null for magic-string in putwin, flagged by gcc 10
1015 + update check for gcc version versus gnat to work with gcc 10.x
1018 + modify -fvisibility check to work with g++
1019 > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
1020 "Maarten Anonymous"):
1021 + add configure option and check for gcc -fvisibility=hidden feature
1022 + define NCURSES_NOMACROS in lib_gen.c to work around Visual Studio
1023 C++ preprocessor limitations.
1024 + modify some of the configure-macros, as well as mk-1st.awk to work
1025 with Visual Studio C++ default filenaming.
1028 + correct length of buffer copied in dup_field().
1029 + remove "$(srcdir)/" from path of library.gpr, needed for out-of-tree
1030 builds of Ada95 (patch by Adam Van Ymeren).
1033 + improve configure-checks to reduce warnings about unused variables.
1034 + improve description of error-returns in waddch and waddnstr manual
1035 pages (prompted by patch by Benno Schulenberg).
1036 + add test/move_field.c to demonstrate move_field(), and a stub for
1037 a corresponding demo of dup_field().
1040 + add history note to curs_scanw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
1041 + add history note to curs_printw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
1042 + add portability note to ncurses.3x regarding <stdarg.h>
1045 + update copyright notices in test-packages.
1046 + modify tracemunch to guard against errors in its known_p1 table.
1047 + add several --with-xxx-libname options, to help with pkgsrc (prompted
1048 by discussion with Thomas Klausner).
1051 + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to avoid storing a null in the
1052 background character, because it may be used in cases where the
1053 corresponding 0x80 is not treated as a null (report by Marc Rechte,
1057 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG to work around xcode's c99 "-W" option,
1058 which conflicts with conventional use for passing linker options.
1059 > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
1060 "Maarten Anonymous"):
1061 + check for pcre2posix.h instead of pcre2-posix.h
1062 + add case in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msys2 + msvc
1063 + add fallback definition for STDIN_FILENO in progs.priv.h
1064 + modify win_driver.c to use _alloca() rather than gcc's variable
1065 length array feature.
1066 + add NCURSES_IMPEXP to ncurses wrapped-variable declarations
1067 + remove NCURSES_IMPEXP from class variables in c++/cursslk.h
1068 + remove fallback prototype for exit() from c++/etip.h.in
1069 + use configured check for <sys/time.h> in a couple of places
1070 + conditionally include winsock.h in ncurses/win32con/gettimeofday.c,
1071 because Visual Studio needs this for the timestruct declaration.
1072 + adjust syntax in a couple of files using the NCURSES_API symbol.
1075 + expanded note in ncurses.3x regarding automatically-included headers
1076 + improve vt50h and vt52 based on DECScope manual -TD
1077 + add/use vt52+keypad and vt52-basic -TD
1078 + check/workaround for line-too-long in Ada95 generate utility when
1079 building out-of-tree.
1080 + improve/update HEADER_DEPS in */Makefile.in
1081 + add "check" rule to include/Makefile, to demonstrate that the headers
1082 include all of the required headers for the types used.
1085 + improve manual page for panel library, extending the portability
1086 section as well as documenting error-returns.
1087 + show tic's version when installing terminal database in run_tic.sh
1088 + correct check for gcc vs other compilers used in ncurses 6.0, from
1089 FreeBSD patch by Kyle Evans (cf: 20150725).
1090 + add notes for 6.2 to INSTALL.
1092 20200212 6.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1093 + update release notes
1094 + minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts
1097 + modify check for sizeof(wchar_t) to ensure it gives useful result
1098 when cross-compiling.
1099 + drop assumption in configure script that Cygwin's linker is broken.
1100 + define NCURSES_BROKEN_LINKER if the broken-linker feature is used,
1101 to simplify configure-checks for ncurses-examples.
1104 + reassert copyright on ncurses, per discussion in ncurses FAQ:
1105 https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#relicensed
1108 + modify comparison in make_hash.c to correct a special case in
1109 collision handling for Caps-hpux11
1110 + add testing utility report_hashing to check hash-tables used for
1111 terminfo and termcap names.
1112 + fix a missing prototype for _nc_free_and_exit().
1113 + update a few comments about tack 1.07
1114 + use an awk script to split too-long pathnames used in Ada95 sample
1115 programs for explain.txt
1118 + expanded description of XM in user_caps.5
1119 + improve xm example for xterm+x11mouse, xterm+sm+1006 -TD
1120 + add history section to curs_slk.3x and curs_terminfo.3x manpages.
1121 + update alacritty entries for 0.4.0 (prompted by patch by
1123 + correct spelling errors found with codespell.
1124 + fix for test/configure, from xterm #352.
1127 + improve configure macros which check for the X11/Intrinsic.h header,
1128 to accommodate recent MacOS changes.
1129 + suppress gcc's -Winline warning; it has not been useful for some time
1130 + update config.guess, config.sub
1133 + modify a couple of macros in aclocal.m4 to allow autoconf 2.69 to
1134 "work", to help illustrate discussion in
1135 https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/my-autoconf.html
1136 + fix some warnings from autoheader-252
1139 + in gen-pkgconfig.in, move the RPATH_LIST and PRIVATE_LIBS assignments
1140 past the various prefix/libdir assignments, to allow for using those
1141 symbols, e.g., as done via CF_SHARED_OPTS.
1142 + improve ncurses*-config and pc-files by filtering out linker-specs.
1143 + modify test-package to more closely match Fedora's configuration
1144 for PIE/PIC feature and debug-packages.
1147 + correct pathname used in Ada95 sample programs for explain.txt, to
1148 work with test-packages.
1149 + improve tracemunch:
1150 + keep track of TERMINAL* values
1151 + if tracing was first turned on after initialization, attempt to
1152 show distinct screen, window and terminal names anyway.
1153 + ensure that GCC_NORETURN is defined in term.h, because the prototype
1154 for exit_terminfo() uses it (report by Werner Fink).
1157 + add exit_curses() and exit_terminfo() to replace internal symbols for
1161 + fix a few warnings for test-package builds
1162 + add curses_trace(), to replace trace().
1165 + add portability section to curs_getcchar manpage (prompted by
1166 discussion with Nick Black).
1167 + improve portability discussion of ACS characters in curs_addch
1169 + improve typography for double-quotes in manpages.
1172 + fix typo for MinGW rpm test-package.
1173 + workaround in rpm specs for NFS problems in Fedora 31.
1176 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to fix a case where Debian/testing changes
1177 to the ld --as-needed configuration broke ncurses-examples test
1179 + drop library-dependency on psapi for MinGW port, since win_driver.c
1180 defines PSAPI_VERSION to 2, making it use GetProcessImageFileName
1181 from kernel32.dll (prompted by patch by Simon Sobish, cf: 20140503).
1184 + add warning-check in tic for terminals with parm_dch vs parm_ich.
1185 + drop ich1 from rxvt-basic, Eterm and mlterm to improve compatibility
1186 with old non-curses programs -TD
1187 + reviewed st 0.8.2, updated some details -TD
1188 + use ansi+rep several places -TD
1189 + corrected tic's check for ich1 (report by Sebastian J. Bronner,
1193 + check parameter of set_escdelay, return ERR if negative.
1194 + check parameter of set_tabsize, return ERR if not greater than zero
1195 (report/patch by Anthony Sottile).
1196 + revise CF_ADD_LIBS macro to prepend rather than append libraries.
1197 + add "xterm-mono" to help packagers (report by Sven Joachim) -TD
1200 + add a note in man/curs_add_wch.3x about Unicode terminology for the
1201 line-drawing characters (report by Nick Black).
1202 + improve comment in lib_tgoto.c regarding the use of \200 where a
1203 \0 would be intended by the caller (report by "64 bit", cf: 20000923).
1204 + modify linux-16color to accommodate Linux console driver change in
1205 early 2018 (report by Dino Petrucci).
1208 + modify make_hash to not require --disable-leaks, to simplify building
1209 with address-sanitizer.
1210 + modify tic to exit if it cannot remove a conflicting name, because
1211 treating that as a partial success can cause an infinite loop in
1212 use-resolution (report/testcase by Hongxu Chen, cf: 20111001).
1215 + improve buffer-checks in captoinfo.c, for some cases when the
1216 input string is shorter than expected.
1217 > fix two errata in tic (report/testcases by Hongxu Chen):
1218 + check for missing character after backslash in write_it
1219 + check for missing characters after "%>" when converting from termcap
1220 syntax (cf: 980530).
1223 + amend recent changes to ncurses*-config and pc-files to filter out
1224 Debian linker-flags (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150516).
1225 + clarify relationship between tic, infocmp and captoinfo in manpage.
1226 + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_type_entry and
1227 _nc_find_name_entry.
1228 > fix several errata in tic (reports/testcases by "zjuchenyuan"):
1229 + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_entry.
1230 + check for missing character after backslash in fmt_entry
1231 + check for acsc with odd length in dump_entry in check for one-one
1232 mapping (cf: 20060415);
1233 + check length when converting from old AIX box_chars_1 capability,
1234 overlooked in changes to eliminate strcpy (cf: 20001007).
1237 + modify the ncurse*-config and pc-files to more closely match for the
1241 + amend the ncurses*-config and pc-files to take into account the rpath
1242 hack which differed between those files.
1243 + improve -L option filtering in ncurses*-config
1244 + improve recovery from error when reading command-character in
1245 test/ncurses.c, showing the relevant error message and not exiting on
1246 EINTR (cf: 20180922)
1249 + add a note in resizeterm manpage about top-level windows which touch
1250 the screen's borders.
1251 + modify configure-checks for gnat to identify each of the tools path
1255 + build-fixes for Ada95 configure-script and corresponding test package
1258 + add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to
1259 allow renaming the "AdaCurses" library (prompted by proposed changes
1261 + modify configure script to distinguish gcc from icc and clang when
1262 the --enable-warnings option is not used, to avoid unnecessary
1263 warnings about unrecognized inline options (report by Sven Joachim).
1266 + build-fixes for configuration using --program-suffix with Ada95,
1267 noticed with MacOS but applicable to other platforms without
1271 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
1274 + amend 20181208 changes for wbkgd() and wbkgrnd(), fixing a few
1275 details where it still differed from SVr4.
1276 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
1279 + fix a few more coverity warnings.
1282 + improve loop limits in _nc_scroll_window() to handle a case where
1283 the scrolled data is a pad which is taller than the window (patch
1285 + amend the change to screen, because tmux relies upon that entry
1286 and does not support that feature (Debian #933572) -TD
1287 + updated ms-terminal entry & notes -TD
1288 + updated kitty entry & notes -TD
1289 + updated alacritty+common entry & notes -TD
1290 + use xterm+sl-twm for consistency -TD
1293 + fix a few more coverity warnings.
1294 + more documentation updates based on tctest.
1297 + fix a few coverity warnings.
1298 + documentation updates based on tctest.
1301 + fix a few warnings for gcc 4.x
1302 + add some portability/historical details to the tic, toe and infocmp
1304 + correct fix for broken link from terminfo(5) to tabs(1) manpage
1305 (report by Sven Joachim).
1308 + change reset's behavior for margins to simply clear soft-margins if
1309 possible, rather than clearing and then setting them according to the
1310 terminal's width (suggested by Thomas Wolff).
1311 + correct order of one wbkgd versus start_color call in test/padview.c
1315 + improve comments for recent changes, add alias xterm.js -TD
1318 + add --with-tic-path and --with-infocmp-path to work around problems
1319 building fallback source using pre-6.0 tic/infocmp.
1320 + add a check in tic for paired indn/rin
1321 + correct a buffer-limit in write_entry.c for systems that use caseless
1323 + add ms-terminal -TD
1324 + add vscode, vscode-direct -TD
1327 + improve the tabs.1 manual page to distinguish the PWB/Unix and 7th
1328 Edition versions of the tabs utility.
1329 + add configure check for getenv() to work around implementation shown
1330 in Emscripten #6766, use that to optionally suppress START_TRACE
1331 macro, whose call to getenv() may not work properly (report by Ilya
1333 + modify initialization functions to avoid relying upon persistent
1334 data for the result from getenv().
1335 + update config.guess, config.sub
1338 + expand the portability section of the man/tabs.1 manual page.
1339 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1342 + add mintty, mintty-direct (adapted from patch by Thomas Wolff).
1343 Some of the suggested user-defined capabilities are commented-out,
1344 to allow builds with ncurses 5.9 and 6.0
1345 + add Smol/Rmol for tmux, vte-2018 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1346 + add rs1 to konsole, mlterm -TD
1347 + modify _nc_merge_entry() to make a copy of the data which it merges,
1348 to avoid modifying the source-data when aligning extended names.
1351 + modify an internal call to vid_puts to pass extended color pairs
1352 e.g., from tty_update.c and lib_mvcur.c (report by Niegodziwy Beru).
1353 + improve manual page description of init_tabs capability and TABSIZE
1357 + modify reset_cmd.c to allow for tabstops at intervals other than 8
1358 (report by Vincent Huisman).
1361 + update xterm-new to xterm patch #345 -TD
1362 + add/use xterm+keypad in xterm-new (report by Alain D D Williams) -TD
1363 + update terminator entry -TD
1364 + remove hard-tabs from ti703 (report by Robert Clausecker)
1365 + mention meml/memu/box1 in user_caps manual page.
1366 + mention user_caps.5 in tic and infocmp manual pages.
1369 + fix a spurious blank line seen with "infocmp -1fx xterm+x11mouse"
1370 + add checks in repair_subwindows() to keep the current position and
1371 scroll-margins inside the resized subwindow.
1372 + add a limit check in newline_forces_scroll() for the case where the
1373 row is inside scroll-margins, but not at the end (report by Toshio
1374 Kuratomi, cf: 20170729).
1375 + corrected a warning message in tic for extended capabilities versus
1376 number of parameters.
1379 + improve workaround for Solaris wcwidth versus line-drawing characters
1380 (report by Pavel Stehule).
1381 + add special case in tic to validate RGB string-capability extension.
1382 + corrected string/parameter-field for RGB in Caps-ncurses.
1385 + corrected problem in terminfo load/realignment which prevented
1386 infocmp from comparing extended capabilities with the same name
1387 but different types.
1390 + improve ifdef's for TABSIZE variable, to help with AIX/HPUX ports.
1393 + check for TABSIZE variable in test/configure script.
1394 + used test/test_arrays.c to improve Caps.aix1 and Caps.hpux11
1395 + corrected filtering of comments in MKparametrized.sh
1396 + reduce duplication across Caps* files by moving some parts which do
1397 not depend on order into Caps-ncurses.
1400 + modify MKcaptab.sh, MKkey_defs.sh, and MKhashsize.sh to handle
1401 split-up Caps-files.
1402 + build-fixes if extended-functions are disabled.
1405 + add "screen5", to mention italics (report by Stefan Assmann)
1406 + modify description of xterm+x11hilite to eliminate unused p5 -TD
1407 + add configure script checks to help with a port to Ultrix 3.1
1408 (report by Dennis Grevenstein).
1409 + check if "b" binary feature of fopen works
1410 + check for missing feature of locale.h
1411 + add fallback for strstr() in test-programs
1412 + add fallback for STDOUT_FILENO in test-programs
1413 + update config.guess, config.sub
1416 + move macro for is_linetouched() inside NCURSES_NOMACROS ifndef.
1417 + corrected prototypes in several manpages using script to extract
1418 those in compilable form.
1419 + use _nc_copy_termtype2() rather than direct assignment in setupterm,
1420 in case it is called repeatedly using fallback terminfo descriptions
1421 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
1424 + regenerate llib-* files.
1425 + modify tic to also use new function for user-defined capability info.
1426 + modify _nc_parse_entry() to check if a user-defined capability has
1427 an unexpected type; ignore it in that case.
1428 + fix a special case of link-anchors in generated Ada html files.
1429 + use newer rel=author tag in generated html rather than rev=made,
1430 which did not become accepted.
1433 + in-progress changes to add parameter-checking for common user-defined
1434 capabilities in tic.
1435 + update MKcodes.awk and MKnames.awk to ignore the new "userdef"
1436 data in Caps-ncurses (cf: 20190302).
1439 + corrected some of the undocumented terminfo names in Caps.hpux11
1440 + add "Caps-ncurses" file to help with checking inconsistencies in some
1441 user-defined capabilities.
1442 + amend check for repeat_char to handle a case where setlocale() was
1443 called after initscr() (report by "Ampera").
1446 + fix typo in adds200 -TD
1447 + add tic check for consistent alternate character set capabilities.
1448 + improve check in mvcur() to decide whether to use hard-tabs, using
1449 xt, tbc and hts as clues.
1450 + replace check in reset command for obsolete "pt" capability using
1451 tbc and hts capabilities as clues (report by Nicolas Marriott).
1454 + improve manual page description of TABSIZE.
1455 + add test/demo_tabs program.
1458 + add check in tic to provide warnings for mismatched number of
1459 parameters in the documented user-capability extensions.
1462 + modify rpm test-package ".spec" file to work around naming conflict
1463 with Redhat's package for ncurses6.
1464 + modify no-leaks code in test/picsmap to avoid non-standard tdestroy.
1465 + amend change to configure script which altered the top-level makefile
1466 to avoid attempting to install the terminfo database when it was not
1467 configured, to allow for installing the ".pc" files which are also
1468 in the misc directory (report by Steve Wills).
1471 + change some "%define" statements in test-packages for RPMs to
1472 "%global" to work around changes in rpm 4.14 from recent Redhat.
1473 + fixes for O_INPUT_FIELD extension (patch by Leon Winter).
1474 + eliminate fixed buffer-size when reading $TERMCAP variable.
1475 + correct logic in read_entry.c which prevented $TERMCAP variable from
1476 being interpreted as a fallback to terminfo entry (prompted by
1477 Savannah #54556, cf: 20110924).
1480 + add a check in test/configure to work around non-ncurses termcap.h
1482 + corrected flag for "seq" method of db 1.8.5 interface, needed by toe
1483 on some of the BSDs.
1484 + updated "string-hacks" feature.
1485 + minor improvements to manpage typography.
1486 + corrected conditionally-compiled limit on color pairs (report by
1488 + add -x option to test/pair_content, test/color_content for testing
1489 init_extended_pair, extended_pair_content, init_extended_color,
1490 extended_color_content
1491 + add -p option to test/pair_content, test/color_content to show the
1492 return values from the tested functions.
1493 + improve manual page curs_color.3x discussion of error returns and
1495 + add O_INPUT_FIELD extension to form library (patch by Leon Winter).
1496 + override/suppress --enable-db-install if --disable-database configure
1498 + change a too-large terminal entry in tic from a fatal error to a
1499 warning (prompted by discussion with Gabriele Balducci).
1502 + fix typo in term(5), improve explanation of format (report by Otto
1504 + add nsterm-direct -TD
1505 + use SGR 1006 mouse for konsole-base -TD
1506 + use SGR 1006 mouse for putty -TD
1507 + add ti703/ti707, ti703-w/ti707-w (Robert Clausecker)
1510 + add dummy "check" rule in top-level and test-Makefile to simply
1511 building test-packages for Arch.
1512 + modify configure script to avoid conflict with a non-POSIX feature
1513 that enables all parts of the system headers by default. Some
1514 packagers have come to rely upon this behavior (FreeBSD #234049).
1515 + update config.guess, config.sub
1518 + improve man/curs_mouse.3x with regard to xterm
1519 + modify tracemunch to accept filename parameters in addition to use
1521 + minor optimization to reduce calls to _nc_reserve_pairs (prompted by
1522 discussion with Bryan Christ).
1523 + add test/pair_content.c and test/color_content.c
1524 + modify infocmp to omit filtering of "OTxx" names which are used for
1525 obsolete capabilities, when the output is sorted by long-names.
1526 Doing this helps when making a table of the short/long capability
1530 + several fixes for gcc8 strict compiler warnings.
1531 + fix a typo in comments (Aaron Gyes).
1532 + add nsterm-build309 to replace nsterm-256color, assigning the latter
1533 as an alias of nsterm, to make mouse work with nsterm-256color -TD
1534 + base gnome-256color entry on "gnome", not "vte", for consistency -TD
1535 + updates for configure macros from work on tin and xterm:
1536 + CF_GNU_SOURCE, allow for Cygwin's newlib when checking for the
1537 _DEFAULT_SOURCE symbol.
1538 + CF_VA_COPY, add fallback check if neither va_copy/__va_copy is
1539 supported, to try copying the pointers for va_list, or as an array.
1540 Also add another fallback check, for __builtin_va_copy(), which
1541 could be used with AIX xlc in c89 mode.
1544 + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to improve compatibility with SVr4
1545 curses, changing the way the window rendition is updated when the
1546 background character is modified (report by Valery Ushakov).
1549 + add midnightbsd to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro (patch by Urs Jansen).
1550 + add "@" command to test/ncurses F-test, to allow rapid jump to
1551 different character pages.
1552 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1553 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1556 + build-fix (reports by Chih-Hsuan Yen, Sven Joachim).
1559 + check --with-fallbacks option to ensure there is a value, and add
1560 the fallback information to top-level Makefile summary.
1561 + add some traces in initialization to show whether a fallback entry is
1563 + build-fix for test/movewindow with ncurses-examples on Solaris.
1564 + add "-l" option to test/background, to dump screen contents in a form
1565 that lets different curses implementations be compared.
1566 + modify the initialization checks for mouse so that the xterm+sm+1006
1567 block will work with terminal descriptions not mentioning xterm
1568 (report by Tomas Janousek).
1571 + ignore the hex/b64 $TERMINFO in toe's listing.
1572 + correct a status-check in _nc_read_tic_entry() so that if reading
1573 a hex/b64 $TERMINFO, and the $TERM does not match, fall-through to
1574 the compiled-in search list.
1577 + several workarounds to ensure proper C compiler used in parts of
1579 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1580 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1583 + add OpenGL clients alacritty and kitty -TD
1584 + add Smulx for tmux, vte-2018 -Nicholas Marriott
1587 + ignore $TERMINFO as a default value in configure script if it came
1588 from the infocmp -Q option.
1589 + allow value for --with-versioned-syms to be a relative pathname
1590 + add a couple of broken-linker symbols to the list of versioned
1591 symbols to help with link-time optimization versus weak symbols.
1592 + apply shift/control/alt logic when decoding xterm's 1006 mode to
1593 wheel-mouse events (Redhat #1610681).
1596 + amend change from 20180818, which undid a fix for the $INSTALL value
1597 to make it an absolute path.
1600 + improve a configure check to work with newer optimizers (report by
1601 Denis Pronin, Gentoo #606142).
1602 + fix typo in tput.c (Sven Joachim, cf: 20180825).
1605 + fix typo in tvi955 -TD
1606 + corrected acsc for regent60 -TD
1607 + add alias n7900 -TD
1608 + corrected acsc for tvi950 -TD
1609 + remove bogus kf0 from tvi950 -TD
1610 + added function-key definitions to agree with Televideo 950 manual -TD
1611 + add bel to tvi950 -TD
1612 + add shifted function-keys to regent60 -TD
1613 + renumber regent40 function-keys to match manual -TD
1614 + add cd (clr_eos) to adds200 -TD
1617 + build-fix: remove a _tracef call which was used for debugging (report
1621 + ignore interrupted system-call in test/ncurses's command-line, e.g.,
1622 if the terminal were resized.
1623 + add shift/control/alt logic for decoding xterm's 1006 mode (Redhat
1624 #1610681, cf: 20141011).
1625 + modify rpm test-packages to not use --disable-relink with Redhat,
1626 since Fedora 28's tools do not work with that feature.
1629 + document --with-pcre2 configure option in INSTALL.
1630 + improve workaround for special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is
1631 marked as alternate-character set, to handle a case where the
1632 character in the cell does not correspond to any of the ASCII
1633 fallbacks (report by Leon Winter, cf: 20180505).
1634 + amend change to form library which attempted to avoid unnecessary
1635 update of cursor position in non-public fields, to simply disable
1636 output in this case (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20180414).
1637 + improve check for LINE_MAX runtime limit, to accommodate broken
1638 implementations of sysconf().
1641 + improve manual page for wgetnstr, giving background for the length
1643 + define a limit for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr when length is negative or
1645 + update configure script to autoconf 2.52.20180819 (Debian #887390).
1648 + add a section to tput manual page clarifying how it determines the
1649 terminal size (prompted by discussion with Grant Jenks).
1650 + add "--disable-relink" to rpm test-packages, for consistency with the
1652 + split spec-file into ncurses6.spec and ncursest6.spec to work around
1653 toolset breakage in Fedora 28.
1654 + drop mention of "--disable-touching", which was not in the final
1658 + build-fix for PDCurses with ncurses-examples.
1659 + improved CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS.
1660 + modify configure scripts to reduce relinking/ranlib during library
1661 install (Debian #903790):
1662 + use "install -p" when available, to avoid need for ranlib of
1664 + modify scripts which use "--disable-relink" to add a 1-second
1665 sleep to work around tools which use whole-second timestamps, e.g.,
1666 in utime() rather than the actual file system resolution.
1669 + improve logic for clear with E3 extension, in case the terminal
1670 scrolls content onto its saved-lines before actually clearing
1671 the display, by clearing the saved-lines after clearing the
1672 display (report/patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1675 + improve documentation regarding feature-test macros in curses.h
1676 + improve documentation regarding the virtual and physical screens.
1677 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
1680 + build-fixes for gcc8.
1681 + corrected acsc for wy50 -TD
1682 + add wy50 and wy60 shifted function-keys as kF1 to kF16 -TD
1683 + remove ansi+rep mis-added to interix in 2018-02-23 -TD
1686 + add enum, regex examples to test/demo_forms
1687 + add configure check for pcre-posix library to help with MinGW port.
1690 + build-fixes for gcc8.
1691 + correct order of WINDOW._ttytype versus WINDOW._windowlist in
1693 + fix a case where tiparm could return null if the format-string was
1694 empty (Debian #902630).
1697 + add acsc string to vi200 (Nibby Nebbulous)
1698 add right/down-arrow to vi200's acsc -TD
1699 + add "x" to tput's getopt string so that "tput -x clear" works
1700 (Nicholas Marriott).
1701 + minor fixes prompted by anonymous report on stack overflow:
1702 + correct order of checks in _nc_get_locale(), for systems lacking
1704 + add "#error" in a few places to flag unsupported configurations
1707 + use _WIN32/_WIN64 in preference to __MINGW32__/__MINGW64__ symbols
1708 to simplify building with MSVC, since the former are defined in both
1709 compiler configurations (report by Ali Abdulkadir).
1710 + further improvements to configure-checks from work on dialog, i.e.,
1711 updated CF_ADD_INCDIR, CF_FIND_LINKAGE, CF_GCC_WARNINGS,
1712 CF_GNU_SOURCE, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE, CF_SIZECHANGE, and
1713 CF_TRY_XOPEN_SOURCE.
1714 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1715 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1718 + build-fix for ncurses-examples related to gcc8-fixes (cf: 20180526).
1719 + reduce use of _GNU_SOURCE for current glibc where _DEFAULT_SOURCE
1720 combines with _XOPEN_SOURCE (Debian #900987).
1721 + change target configure level for _XOPEN_SOURCE to 600 to address
1722 use of vsscanf and setenv.
1723 + improved configure-checks CF_SIZECHANGE and CF_STRUCT_TERMIOS from
1727 + modify generated ncurses*config and ncurses.pc, ncursesw.pc, etc.,
1728 to list helper libraries such as gpm for static linking (Debian
1730 + marked vwprintw and vwscanw as deprecated; recommend using vw_printw
1731 and vw_scanw, respectively.
1734 + add RPM test-package "ncursest-examples".
1735 + modified RPM test-package to work with Mageia6.
1738 + add note in curs_util.3x about unctrl.h
1739 + review/improve header files to ensure that those include necessary
1740 files except for the previously-documented cases (report by Isaac
1742 + improved test-package scripts, adapted from byacc 1.9 20180525.
1743 + fix some gcc8 warnings seen in Redhat package build, but
1744 work around bug in gcc8 compiler warnings in comp_parse.c
1747 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
1748 + trim spurious whitespace from tmux in 2018-02-24 changes;
1749 fix some inconsistencies in/between tmux- and iterm2-entries for SGR
1750 (report by C Anthony Risinger)
1751 + improve iterm2 using some xterm features which it has adapted -TD
1752 + add check in pair_content() to handle the case where caller asks
1753 for an uninitialized pair (Debian #898658).
1756 + remove trailing ';' from GCC_DEPRECATED definition.
1757 + repair a change from 20110730 which left an error-check/warning dead.
1758 + fix several minor Coverity warnings.
1761 + add deprecation warnings for internal functions called by older
1763 + fix a special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is marked as
1764 alternate-character set, but the terminal does not actually support
1765 the given graphic character. This would happen in an older terminal
1766 such as vt52, which lacks most line-drawing capability.
1767 + use configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
1768 conflict with Debian packages versus test-packages.
1769 + update tracemunch to work with perl 5.26.2, which changed the rules
1770 for escaping regular expressions.
1773 + document new form-extension O_EDGE_INSERT_STAY (report by Leon
1775 + correct error-returns listed in manual pages for a few form functions
1776 (report by Leon Winter).
1777 + add a check in form-library for null-pointer dereference:
1778 unfocus_current_field (form);
1779 form_driver (form, REQ_VALIDATION);
1780 (patch by Leon Winter).
1783 + modify form library to optionally delay cursor movement on a field
1784 edge/boundary (patch by Leon Winter).
1785 + modify form library to avoid unnecessary update of cursor position in
1786 non-public fields (patch by Leon Winter).
1787 + remove unused _nc_import_termtype2() function.
1788 + also add/improve null-pointer checks in other places
1789 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_parse_entry to handle an error when
1790 a use-name is invalid syntax (report by Chung-Yi Lin).
1793 + clarify in manual pages that vwprintw and vwscanw are obsolete,
1794 not part of X/Open Curses since 2007.
1795 + use "const" in some prototypes rather than NCURSES_CONST where X/Open
1796 Curses was updated to do this, e.g., wscanw, newterm, the terminfo
1797 interface. Also use "const" for consistency in the termcap
1798 interface, which was withdrawn by X/Open Curses in Issue 5 (2007).
1799 As of Issue 7, X/Open Curses still lacks "const" for certain return
1800 values, e.g., keyname().
1803 + improve terminfo write/read by modifying the fourth item of the
1804 extended header to denote the number of valid strings in the extended
1805 string table (prompted by a comment in unibilium's sources).
1808 + amend Scaled256() macro in test/picsmap.c to cover the full range
1809 0..1000 (report by Roger Pau Monne).
1810 + add some checks in tracemunch for undefined variables.
1811 + trim some redundant capabilities from st-0.7 -TD
1812 + trim unnecessary setf/setb from interix -TD
1815 + fix a check in infotocap which may not have detected a problem when
1817 + add a check in tic for the case where setf/setb are given using
1818 different strings, but provide identical results to setaf/setab.
1819 + further improve fix for terminfo.5 (patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
1820 + reorder loop-limit checks in winsnstr() in case the string has no
1821 terminating null and only the number of characters is used (patch
1825 + modify TurnOn/TurnOff macros in lib_vidattr.c and lib_vid_attr.c to
1826 avoid expansion of "CUR" in trace.
1827 + improve a few lintian warnings in test-packages.
1828 + modify lib_setup to avoid calling pthread_self() without first
1829 verifying that the address is valid, i.e., for weak symbols
1830 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
1831 + modify generated terminfo.5 to not use "expand" and related width
1832 on the last column of tables, making layout on wide terminals look
1833 better (adapted from patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
1834 + add a category to report_offsets, e.g., "w" for wide-character, "t"
1835 for threads to make the report more readable. Reorganized the
1836 structures reported to make the categories more apparent.
1837 + simplify some ifdef's for extended-colors.
1838 + add NCURSES_GLOBALS and NCURSES_PRESCREEN to report_offsets, to show
1839 how similar the different tinfo configurations are.
1842 + modify _nc_resolve_uses2() to detect incompatible types when merging
1843 a "use=" clause of extended capabilities. The problem was seen in a
1844 defective terminfo integrated from simpleterm sources in 20171111,
1845 compounded by repair in 20180121.
1846 + correct Ss/Ms interchange in st-0.7 entry (tmux #1264) -TD
1847 + fix remaining flash capabilities with trailing mandatory delays -TD
1848 + correct cut/paste in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
1851 + remove incorrect free() from 20170617 changes (report by David Macek).
1852 + correct type for "U8" in user_caps.5; it is a number not boolean.
1853 + add a null-pointer check in safe_sprintf.c (report by Steven Noonan).
1854 + improve fix for Debian #882620 by reusing limit2 variable (report by
1855 Julien Cristau, Sven Joachim).
1858 + modify misc/Makefile.in to install/uninstall explicit list in case
1859 the build-directory happens to have no ".pc" files when an uninstall
1860 is performed (report by Jeffrey Walton).
1861 + deprecate safe-sprintf, since the vsnprintf function, which does what
1862 was needed, was standardized long ago.
1863 + add several development/experimental options to development packages.
1864 + minor reordering of options in configure script to make the threaded
1865 and reentrant options distinct from the other extensions which are
1869 + minor fixes to test/*.h to make them idempotent.
1870 + add/use test/parse_rgb.h to show how the "RGB" capability works.
1871 + add a clarification in user_caps.5 regarding "RGB" capability.
1872 + add extended_slk_color{,_sp} symbols to the appropriate
1873 package/*.{map,sym} files (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20170401).
1876 + update "VERSION" file, used in shared-library naming.
1878 20180127 6.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1881 + updated release notes
1882 + amend a warning message from tic which should have flagged misuse
1883 of "XT" capability in "screen" terminal description.
1885 + trim "XT" from screen entry, add comments to explain why it was
1887 + modify iterm to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
1888 + mark konsole-420pc, konsole-vt100, konsole-xf3x obsolete reflecting
1889 konsole's removal in 2008 -TD
1890 + expanded the history section of konsole to explain its flawed
1891 imitation of xterm's keyboard -TD
1892 + use xterm+x11mouse in screen.* entries because screen does not yet
1893 support xterm's 1006 mode -TD
1894 + add nsterm-build400 for macOS 10.13 -TD
1895 + add ansi+idc1, use that in ansi+idc adding dch for consistency -TD
1896 + update vte to vte-2017 -TD
1897 + add ecma+strikeout to vte-2017 -TD
1898 + add iterm2-direct -TD
1899 + updated teraterm, added teraterm-256color -TD
1900 + add mlterm-direct -TD
1901 + add descriptions for ANSI building-blocks -TD
1903 20180121 pre-release
1905 + add xterm+noalt, xterm+titlestack, xterm+alt1049, xterm+alt+title
1906 blocks from xterm #331 -TD
1907 + add xterm+direct, xterm+indirect, xterm-direct entries from xterm
1909 + modify xterm+256color and xterm+256setaf to use correct number of
1910 color pairs, for ncurses 6.1 -TD
1911 + add rs1 capability to xterm-256color -TD
1912 + modify xterm-r5, xterm-r6 and xterm-xf86-v32 to use xterm+kbs to
1913 match xterm #272, reflecting packager's changes -TD
1914 + remove "boolean" Se, Ss from st-0.7 -TD
1915 + add konsole-direct and st-direct -TD
1916 + remove unsupported "Tc" capability from st-0.7; use st-direct if
1917 direct-colors are wanted -TD
1918 + add vte-direct -TD
1919 + add XT, hpa, indn, and vpa to screen, and invis, E3 to tmux (patch by
1921 + use xterm+sm+1006 in xterm-new, vte-2014 -TD
1922 + use xterm+x11mouse in iterm, iterm2, mlterm3 because xterm's 1006
1923 mode does not work with those programs. konsole is debatable -TD
1924 + add "termite" entry (report by Markus Pfeiffer) -TD
1925 > merge branch begun April 2, 2017 which provides these features:
1926 + support read/write new binary-format for terminfo which stores
1927 numeric capabilities as a signed 32-bit integer. The test programs
1928 such as picsmap, ncurses were created or updated during 2017 to use
1930 + the new format is written by the wide-character configuration of
1931 tic when it finds a numeric capability larger than 32767.
1932 + other applications such as infocmp built with the wide-character
1933 ncurses library work as expected.
1934 + applications built with the "narrow" (8-bit) configuration will
1935 read the new format, but will limit those extended values to 32767.
1936 + in either wide/narrow configuration, the structure defined in
1937 term.h still uses signed 16-bit values.
1938 + because it is incompatible with the legacy (mid-1980s) binary format,
1939 a new magic value is provided for the "file" program.
1940 + the term.5 manual page is updated to describe this new format.
1941 + the limit on file-size for compiled terminfo is increased in the
1942 wide-character configuration to 32768.
1945 + build-fix in picsmap.c for stdint.h existence.
1946 + add --disable-stripping option to configure scripts.
1947 + modify ncurses-examples to install test-scripts in the data directory.
1948 + work around tool-breakage in Debian 9 and later by invoking
1949 gprconfig to specify the C compiler to be used by gnatmake,
1950 and conditionally suppressing Library_Options line for static
1952 + bump the compat level for test-packages to 7, i.e., Debian 5.
1955 + fixes for writing extended color pairs in putwin.
1956 + modify test/savescreen.c to add test patterns that exercise 88-,
1958 + modify configure option --with-build-cc, adding clang, c89 and c99
1959 as possible default values.
1960 + modify ncurses-examples configure script to use pkg-config for the
1961 extra form/menu/panel libraries, to be more consistent with the
1962 handling of the curses/ncurses library.
1963 + modify test-packages for mingw to supply "pc" files.
1964 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to list -lpthread as a private library when
1965 configured to access it via weak symbols.
1966 + simplify gen-pkgconfig.in, adding -ltinfo without the special linker
1967 checks because some versions of the linker simply hard-code the
1969 + update URLs for ncurses website to use https.
1970 + modify CF_CURSES_LIBS to fill in $cf_nculib_root in case the
1971 ncurses-examples are built with a system ncurses that lacks the
1972 standard "curses" symbolic link, as done by SuSE. The symbol is
1973 needed to make a followup check for the pthread library work, and
1974 would be set properly using the options "--with-screen", etc.
1975 + generate misc/*.pc with "all" rule, as done for "sources" rule
1976 (report by Jeffrey Walton).
1979 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with Fedora27, adding check for
1980 reset_color_pairs() -- not yet in Fedora's package.
1981 + consistently add $CFLAGS to $MK_SHARED_LIB symbol in configure
1982 script when the latter happens to use the C compiler rather than
1983 directly using the loader (report by Jeffrey Walton).
1984 + set ABI for upcoming 6.1 release in "*.map" files. While there are
1985 some remaining internals to apply, no ABI-related changes are
1987 + add configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
1988 conflict with Redhat packages versus test-packages.
1991 + modify ncurses-examples to quiet const-warnings when building with
1993 + modify toe to not exit if unable to read a terminal description,
1994 e.g., if there is a permission problem.
1995 + minor fix for progs/toe.c, using _nc_free_termtype2.
1996 + assign 0 to pointer in _nc_tgetent_leak() after freeing it. Also
1997 avoid reusing pointer from previous successful call to tgetent
1998 if the latest call is unsuccessful (patch by Michael Schroeder,
2000 + minor fix for test/tracemunch, initialize $awaiting variable.
2003 + repair template in test/package/ncurses-examples.spec (cf: 20171111).
2004 + improve tic's warning about the number of parameters tparm might use
2005 for u1-u9 by making a special case for u6.
2006 + improve curs_attr.3x discussion of color pairs.
2009 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to make output with --includedir
2010 consistent with --cflags, i.e., when --disable-overwrite option was
2011 configured the output should show the subdirectory where headers
2013 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to suppress macros when calling an "implemented"
2014 function in link_test.c
2015 + updated ftp-url used in test-packages, etc.
2016 + modify order of -pie/-shared options in configure script in case
2017 LDFLAGS uses "-pie", working around a defect or limitation in the GNU
2018 linker (prompted by patch by Yogesh Prasad, forwarded by Jay Shah).
2019 + add entry in man_db.renames for user_caps.5
2022 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid tracing result from getstr/getnstr
2024 + add "-a" aspect-ratio option to picsmap.
2025 + add configure check for default path of rgb.txt, used in picsmap.
2026 + modify _nc_write_entry() to truncate too-long filename (report by
2027 Hosein Askari, Debian #882620).
2028 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses:
2029 + it lacks the use_env() function.
2030 + it lacks libpanel; a recent change used the wrong ifdef symbol.
2031 + add a macro for is_linetouched() and adjust the function's return
2032 value to make it possible for most applications to check for an
2033 error-return (report by Midolikawa H).
2034 + additional manpage cleanup.
2035 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2036 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2039 + add a note to curs_addch.3x on portability.
2040 + add a note to curs_pad.3x on the origin and portability of pads.
2041 + improve manpage description of getattrs (report by Midolikawa H).
2042 + improve manpage macros (prompted by discussion in Debian #880551.
2043 + reviewed test-programs using KEY_RESIZE, made fixes to test/worm.c
2044 + add a "-d" option to picsmap for default-colors.
2045 + modify old terminology entry and a few other terminal emulators to
2047 + correct sgr string for tmux, which used screen's "standout" code
2048 rather than the standard code (patch by Roman Kagan)
2049 + correct sgr/sgr0 strings in a few other cases reported by tic, making
2050 those correspond to the non-sgr settings where they differ, but
2051 otherwise use ECMA-48 consistently:
2052 jaixterm, aixterm, att5420_2, att4424, att500, decansi, d410-7b,
2053 dm80, hpterm, emu-220, hp2, iTerm2.app, mterm-ansi, ncrvt100an,
2054 st-0.7, vi603, vwmterm -TD
2055 + build-fix for diagnostics warning in lib_mouse.c for pre-5.0 versions
2056 of gcc which did not recognize the diagnostic "push" pragma (patch by
2060 + add "op" to xterm+256setaf -TD
2061 + reviewed terminology 1.0.0 -TD
2062 + reviewed st 0.7 -TD
2063 + suppress debug-package for ncurses-examples rpm build.
2066 + check for interrupt in color-pair initialization of dots_curses.c,
2068 + add z/Z zoom feature to test/ncurses.c C/c screens.
2069 + add '<' and '>' commands to test/ncurses.c S/s screens, to better
2070 test off-by-ones in the overlap/copywin functions.
2073 + improve man/curs_inwstr.3x, correct end-logic for lib_inwstr.c
2074 (report by Midolikawa H).
2075 + fix typo in a few places for "improvements" (patch by Sven Joachim).
2076 + clear the other half of a double-width character on which a line
2077 drawing character is drawn.
2078 + make test/ncurses.c "s" test easier to understand which subtests are
2079 available; add a "S" wide-character overlap test-screen.
2080 + modify test/ncurses.c C/c tests to allow for extended color pairs.
2081 + add endwin() call in error-returns from test/ncurses.c omitted in
2082 recent redesign of its menu (cf: 20170923).
2083 + improve install of hashed-db by removing the ".db" file as done for
2084 directory-tree terminal databases.
2085 + repair a few overlooked items in include/ncurses_defs from recent
2086 port/refactoring of test-programs (cf: 20170909).
2087 + add test/padview.c, to compare pads with direct updates in view.c
2090 + modify test/view.c to expand tabs using the ncurses library rather
2091 than in the test-program.
2092 + remove very old SIGWINCH example in test/view.c, just use KEY_RESIZE.
2093 + add -T, -e, -f -m options to "dots" test-programs.
2094 + fix a few typos in usage-messages for test-programs.
2097 + minor cleanup to test/view.c:
2098 + eliminate "-n" option by simply reading the whole file.
2099 + implement page up/down commands.
2100 + add check in tput for init/reset operands to ensure those use a
2102 + improve manual pages which discuss chtype, cchar_t types and the
2103 attribute values which can be stored in those types.
2104 + correct array-index when parsing "-T" command-line option in tabs
2106 + modify demo_new_pair.c to pass extended pairs to setcchar().
2107 + add test/dots_xcurses.c to illustrate a different approach used for
2108 extended colors which can be contrasted with dots_curses.c.
2109 + add a check in tic to note when a description uses non-mandatory
2110 delays without xon_xoff. This is not an error, but some descriptions
2111 for a terminal emulator may use the combination incorrectly.
2114 + modify "-T" option of clear and tput to call use_tioctl() to obtain
2115 the operating system's notion of the screensize if possible.
2116 + review/repair some exit-codes for tput, making usage-message exit
2117 with 2 rather than 1, and a failure to open terminal 4+errno.
2118 + amend check in tput, tabs and clear to allow those to use the
2119 database-only features in cron if a -T option gives a suitable
2120 terminal name (report by Lauri Tirkkonen).
2121 + correct an ifdef in test/ncurses.c for systems with soft-keys but
2123 + regenerate man-html documentation.
2126 + fix a symbol conflict that made ncurses.c C/c menu not work with
2127 Solaris xpg4 curses.
2128 + add refresh() call to dots_mvcur.c, needed to use mvcur() with
2129 Solaris xpg4 curses after calling newterm().
2130 + minor fixes for configure script from work on ncurses-examples and
2132 + improve animation in test/xmas.c by adding a time-delay in blinkit().
2133 + modify several test programs to reflect that ncurses honors existing
2134 signal handlers in initscr(), while other implementations do not.
2135 + modify bs.c to make it easier to quit.
2136 + change ncurses-examples to use attr_t vs chtype to follow X/Open
2137 documentation more closely since Solaris xpg4-curses uses different
2138 values for WA_xxx vs A_xxx that rely on attr_t being an unsigned
2139 short. Tru64 aka OSF1, HPUX, AIX did as ncurses does, equating the
2143 + modify menu for test/ncurses.c to fit on 24-line screen.
2144 + build-fix for configure --with-caps=uwin
2145 + add options to test_arrays.c, for selecting termcap vs terminfo, etc.
2148 + minor fix to test/filter.c to avoid clearing the command in one case.
2149 + modify filter() to discard clr_eos if back_color_erase is set.
2152 + improve wide-character implementation of myADDNSTR() in frm_driver.c,
2153 which was inconsistent with the normal implementation.
2154 + save/restore cursor position in Undo_Justification(), matching
2155 behavior of Buffer_To_Window() (report by Leon Winter).
2156 + modify test/knight to provide the "slow" solution for small screens
2157 using "R", noting that Warnsdorf's method is easily done with "a".
2158 + modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to
2159 consistently do this only if "-d" option is given.
2160 + additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses:
2161 + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absence of limit
2162 checks in some libraries.
2163 + fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does
2164 not return ERR on the lower-right corner.
2165 + add checks in test/configure for some functions not in 4.3BSD curses.
2166 + fix a regression in test/configure (cf: 20170826).
2169 + amend change for endwin-state for better consistency with the older
2170 logic (report/patch by Jeb Rosen, cf: 20170722).
2171 + modify check in fmt_entry() to handle a cancelled reset string
2172 (Debian #873746). Make similar fixes in other parts of dump_entry.c
2176 + fix a bug in repeat_char logic (cf: 20170729, report by Chris Clayton).
2179 + fixes for "iterm2" (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
2180 + corrected a warning from tic about keys which are the same, to skip
2181 over missing/cancelled values.
2182 + add check in tic for unnecessary use of "2" to denote a shifted
2184 + improve checks in trim_sgr0, comp_parse.c and parse_entry.c, for
2185 cancelled string capabilities.
2186 + add check in _nc_parse_entry() for invalid entry name, setting the
2187 name to "invalid" to avoid problems storing entries.
2188 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
2189 + add a check in comp_scan.c to handle the special case where a
2190 nontext file ending with a NUL rather than newline is given to tic
2191 as input (Redhat #1484274).
2192 + allow for cancelled capabilities in _nc_save_str (Redhat #1484276).
2193 + add validity checks for "use=" target in _nc_parse_entry (Redhat
2195 + check for invalid strings in postprocess_termcap (Redhat #1484285)
2196 + reset secondary pointers on EOF in next_char() (Redhat #1484287).
2197 + guard _nc_safe_strcpy() and _nc_safe_strcat() against calls using
2198 cancelled strings (Redhat #1484291).
2199 + correct typo in curs_memleaks.3x (Sven Joachim).
2200 + improve test/configure checks for some curses variants not based on
2202 + add options for test/configure to disable checks for form, menu and
2206 + update "iterm" entry -TD
2207 + add "iterm2" entry (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
2208 + regenerate llib-* files.
2209 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2210 + improve picsmap test-program:
2211 + reduce memory used for tsearch
2212 + add report in log file showing cumulative color coverage.
2213 + add -x option to clear/tput to make the E3 extension optional
2215 + add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput.
2216 + add usage message to clear command (Debian #371855).
2217 + improve usage messages for tset and tput.
2218 + minor fixes to "RGB" extension and reset_color_pairs().
2221 + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by
2223 + add reset_color_pairs() function.
2224 + add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used
2226 + improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure
2227 script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack.
2228 + modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in
2229 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
2230 + improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(),
2231 color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters.
2232 + minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the
2233 current screen is marked for clearing.
2234 + in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for
2235 loading image files.
2236 + modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow
2237 on demand up to the existing limit.
2238 + add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to
2239 improve color_content().
2240 + improve picsmap test-program:
2241 + if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM,
2242 checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat"
2243 suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g.,
2244 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
2245 + add "-l" option for logging
2246 + add "-d" option for debugging
2247 + add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images,
2249 + use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images.
2250 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2251 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2254 + update interix entry using tack and SFU on Windows 7 Ultimate -TD
2255 + use ^? for kdch1 in interix (reported by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard)
2256 + add "rep" to xterm-new, available since 1997/01/26 -TD
2257 + move SGR 24 and 27 from vte-2014 to vte-2012 (request by Alain
2259 + add a check in newline_forces_scroll() in case a program moves the
2260 cursor outside scrolling margins (report by Robert King).
2261 + improve _nc_tparm_analyze, using that to extend the checks made by
2262 tic for reporting inconsistencies between the expected number of
2263 parameters for a capability and the actual.
2264 + amend handling of repeat_char capability in EmitRange (adapted from
2265 report/patch by Dick Wesseling):
2266 + translate the character to the alternate character set when the
2267 alternate character set is enabled.
2268 + do not use repeat_char for characters past 255.
2269 + document "_nc_free_tinfo" in manual page, because it could be used in
2270 tack for memory-leak checking.
2271 + add "--without-tack" configure option to refine "--with-progs"
2272 configure option. Normally tack is no longer built in-tree, but
2273 a few packagers combine it during the build. If term_entry.h is
2274 installed, there is no advantage to in-tree builds.
2275 + adjust configure-script to define HAVE_CURSES_DATA_BOOLNAMES symbol
2276 needed for tack 1.08 when built in-tree. Rather than relying upon
2277 internal "_nc_" functions, tack now uses the boolean, number and
2278 string capability name-arrays provided by ncurses and SVr4 Unix
2279 curses. It still uses term_entry.h for the definitions of the
2280 extended capability arrays.
2281 + add an overlooked null-pointer check in mvcur changes from 20170722
2284 + improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian
2285 + modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where
2286 the screen was never initialized, using that to trigger a flush of
2287 ncurses' buffer for mvcur, e.g., in test/dots_mvcur.c for the
2288 term-driver configuration.
2289 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to a few other internal header
2290 files to allow each to be compiled separately.
2291 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program
2292 using tic-library will have to supply this file. Legacy tack
2293 versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the
2294 dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected.
2297 + modify command-line parameters for "convert" used in picsmap to work
2298 with ImageMagick 6.8 and newer.
2299 + fix build-problem with tack and ABI-5 (Debian #868328).
2300 + repair termcap-format from tic/infocmp broken in 20170701 fixes
2302 + reformat terminfo.src with 20170513 updates.
2303 + improve test-packages to address lintian warnings.
2306 + add a note to tic manual page about -W versus -f options.
2307 + correct a limit-check in fixes from 20170701 (report by Sven Joachim).
2310 + modify update_getenv() in db_iterator.c to ensure that environment
2311 variables which are not initially set will be checked later if an
2312 application happens to set them (patch by Guillaume Maudoux).
2313 + remove initialization-check for calling napms() in the term-driver
2314 configuration; none is needed.
2315 + add help-screen to test/test_getstr.c and test/test_get_wstr.c
2316 + improve compatibility between different configurations of new_prescr,
2317 fixing a case with threaded code and term-driver where c++/demo did
2318 not work (cf: 20160213).
2319 + the fixes for Redhat #1464685 obscured a problem subsequently
2320 reported in Redhat #1464687; the given test-case was no longer
2321 reproducible. Testing without the fixes for the earlier reports
2322 showed a problem with buffer overflow in dump_entry.c, which is
2323 addressed by reducing the use of a fixed-size buffer.
2324 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
2325 (Redhat #1464684, #1464685, #1464686, #1464691).
2326 + alloc_entry.c, add a check for a null-pointer.
2327 + parse_entry.c, add several checks for valid pointers as well as
2328 one check to ensure that a single character on a line is not
2329 treated as the 2-character termcap short-name.
2330 + fix a memory leak in delscreen() (report by Bai Junq).
2331 + improve tracemunch, showing thread identifiers as names.
2332 + fix a use-after-free in NCursesMenu::~NCursesMenu()
2333 + further amend incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
2334 (report by Allen Hewes).
2337 + modify c++/etip.h.in to accommodate deprecation of throw() and
2338 throws() in c++17 (prompted by patch by Romain Geissler).
2339 + remove some incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
2340 (report by Allen Hewes).
2341 + add test-programs for termattrs and term_attrs.
2342 + modify _nc_outc_wrapper to use the standard output if the screen was
2343 not initialized, rather than returning an error.
2344 + improve checks for low-level terminfo functions when the terminal
2345 has not been initialized (Redhat #1345963).
2346 + modify make_hash to allow building with address-sanitizer,
2347 assuming that --disable-leaks is configured.
2348 + amend changes for number_format() in 20170506 to avoid undefined
2349 behavior when shifting (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta).
2352 + fill in some places where TERMTYPE2 vs TERMTYPE was not used
2353 (report by Allen Hewes).
2354 + use ExitTerminfo() internally in error-exits for ncurses' setupterm
2355 to help with leak checking.
2356 + use ExitProgram() in error-exit from initscr() to help with leak
2358 + review test-programs, adding checks for cases where the terminal
2359 cannot be initialized.
2362 + add option "-xp" to picsmap.c, to use init_extended_pair().
2363 + make simple performance fixes for picsmap.c
2364 + improve aspect ratio of images read from "convert" in picsmap.c
2367 + add option to picsmap to use color-palette files, e.g., for mapping
2369 + move the data in SCREEN used for the alloc_pair() function to the
2370 end, to restore compatibility between ncurses/ncursesw libtinfo
2371 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2372 + add build-time utility "report_offsets" to help show when the various
2373 configurations of tinfo library are compatible or not.
2376 + improved test/picsmap.c:
2377 + lookup named colors for xpm files in rgb.txt
2378 + accept blanks in color-keys for xpm files.
2379 + if neither xbm/xpm work, try "convert", which may be available.
2382 + modify test/picsmap.c to read xpm files.
2383 + modify package/debian/* to create documentation packages, so the
2384 related files can be checked with lintian.
2385 + fix some typos in manpages (report/patch by Sven Joachim).
2388 + add test/picsmap.c to fill in some testing issues not met by dots.
2389 The initial version reads X bitmap (".xbm") files.
2390 + repair logic which forces a repaint where a color-pair's content is
2391 changed (cf: 20170311).
2392 + improve tracemunch, showing screenXX pointers as names.
2395 + modify tic/infocmp display of numeric values to use hexadecimal when
2396 they are "close" to a power of two, making the result more readable.
2397 + improve discussion of portability in curs_mouse.3x
2398 + change line-length for generated html/manpages to 78 columns from 65.
2399 + improve discussion of line-drawing characters in curs_add_wch.3x
2400 (prompted by discussion with Lorinczy Zsigmond).
2401 + cleanup formatting of hackguide.html and ncurses-intro.html
2402 + add examples for WACS_D_PLUS and WACS_T_PLUS to test/ncurses.c
2405 + corrected a case where $with_gpm was set to "maybe" after CF_WITH_GPM,
2406 overlooked in 20160528 fixes (report by Alexandre Bury).
2407 + improve a couple of test-program's help-messages.
2408 + corrected loop in rain.c from 20170415 changes.
2409 + modify winnstr and winchnstr to return error if the output pointer is
2410 null, as well as adding a null pointer check of the window pointer
2411 for better compatibility with other implementations.
2412 + improve discussion of NetBSD curses in scr_dump.5
2413 + modify LIMIT_TYPED macro in new_pair.h to avoid changing sign of the
2414 value to be limited (reports by Darby Payne, Rob Boudreau).
2415 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2416 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2419 + build-fix for termcap-configuration (report by Chi-Hsuan Yen).
2420 + improve terminfo manual page discussion of control- and graphics-
2422 + remove tic warning about "^?" in string capabilities, which was
2423 marked as an extension (cf: 20000610, 20110820); however all Unix
2424 implementations support this and X/Open Curses does not address it.
2425 On the other hand, termcap never did support this feature.
2426 + correct missing comma-separator between string capabilities in
2427 icl6402 and m2-nam -TD
2428 + restore rmir/smir in ansi+idc to better match original ansiterm+idc,
2429 add alias ansiterm (report by Robert King).
2430 + amend an old check for ambiguous use of "ma" in terminfo versus
2431 a termcap use, if the capability is cancelled to treat it as number.
2432 + correct a case in _nc_captoinfo() which read "%%" and emitted "%".
2433 + modify sscanf calls in _nc_infotocap() for patterns "%{number}%+%c"
2434 and "%'char'%+%c" to check that the final character is really 'c',
2435 avoiding a case in icl6404 which cannot be converted to termcap.
2436 + in _nc_infotocap(), add a check to ensure that terminfo "^?" is not
2437 written to termcap, because the BSDs did not implement that.
2438 + in _nc_tic_expand() and _nc_infotocap(), improve string-length check
2439 when deciding whether to use "^X" or "\xxx" format for control
2440 characters, to make the output of tic/infocmp more predictable.
2441 + limit termcap "%d" width to 2 digits on input, and use "%2" in
2442 preference to "%02" on output.
2443 + correct terminfo/termcap conversion of "%02" and "%03" into "%2" and
2444 "%3"; the result repeated the last character.
2445 + add man/scr_dump.5 to document screen-dump format.
2448 + modify several test programs to use new popup_msgs, adapted from
2449 help-screen used in test/edit_field.c
2450 + drop two symbols obsoleted in 2004: _nc_check_termtype, and
2452 + fix some old copyright dates (cf: 20031025).
2453 + build-fixes for test/savescreen.c to work with AIX and HPUX.
2454 + minor fix to configure script, adding a backslash/continuation.
2455 + extend TERMINAL structure for ABI 6 to store numbers internally as
2456 integers rather than short, by adding new data for this purpose.
2457 + more fixes for minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
2460 + change logic in wins_nwstr() to avoid addressing data past the output
2462 + correct a call to setcchar() in Data_Entry_w() from 20131207 changes.
2463 + fix minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
2464 + further improve ifdef in term_entry.h for internal definitions not
2468 + minor fixes for vt100+4bsd, e.g., delay in sgr for consistency -TD
2469 + add smso for env230, to match sgr -TD
2470 + remove p7/protect from sgr in fbterm -TD
2471 + drop setf/setb from fbterm; setaf/setab are enough -TD
2472 + make xterm-pcolor sgr consistent with other capabilities -TD
2473 + add rmxx/smxx ECMA-48 strikeout extension to tmux and xterm-basic
2474 (discussion with Nicholas Marriott)
2475 + add test-programs sp_tinfo and extended_color
2476 + modify no-leaks code for lib_cur_term.c to account for the tgetent()
2478 + modify setupterm() to save original tty-modes so that erasechar()
2479 works as expected. Also modify _nc_setupscreen() to avoid redundant
2480 calls to get original tty-modes.
2481 + modify set_curterm() to update ttytype[] data used by longname().
2482 + modify wattr_set() and wattr_get() to return ERR if win-parameter is
2483 null, as documented.
2484 + improve cast used for null-pointer checks in header macros, to
2485 reduce compiler warnings.
2486 + modify several functions, using the reserved "opts" parameter to pass
2487 color- and pair-values larger than 16-bits:
2488 + getcchar(), setcchar(), slk_attr_set(), vid_puts(), wattr_get(),
2489 wattr_set(), wchgat(), wcolor_set().
2490 + Other functions call these with the corresponding altered behavior,
2491 including chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat(), slk_color_on(),
2492 slk_color_off(), vid_attr().
2493 + add new functions for manipulating color- and pair-values larger
2494 than 16-bits. These are extended_color_content(),
2495 extended_pair_content(), extended_slk_color(), init_extended_color(),
2496 init_extended_pair(), and the corresponding sp-funcs.
2499 + fix a memory leak in the window-list when creating multiple screens
2500 (reports by Andres Martinelli, Debian #783486).
2501 + reviewed calls from link_test.c, added a few more null-pointer
2503 + add a null-pointer check in ungetmouse, in case mousemask was not
2504 called (report by "Kau").
2505 + updated curs_sp_funcs.3x for new functions.
2508 + change TERMINAL structure in term.h to make it opaque. Some
2509 applications misuse its members, e.g., directly modifying it
2510 rather than using def_prog_mode().
2511 + modify utility headers such as tic.h to make it clearer which are
2512 externals that are used by tack.
2513 + improve curs_slk.3x in particular its discussion of portability.
2514 + fix cut/paste in legacy_encoding.3x
2515 + add prototype for find_pair() to new_pair.3x (report by Branden
2517 + fix a couple of broken links in generated man-html documentation.
2518 + regenerate man-html documentation.
2521 + modify vt100 rs2 string to reset vt52 mode and scrolling regions
2522 (report/analysis by Robert King) -TD
2523 + add vt100+4bsd building block, use that for older terminals rather
2524 than "vt100" which is now mostly used as a building block for
2525 terminal emulators -TD
2526 + correct a few spelling errors in terminfo.src comments -TD
2528 + fix a typo in ncurses.c test_attr legend (patch by Petr Vanek).
2529 + changed internal colorpair_t to a struct, eliminating an internal
2530 8-bit limit on colors
2531 + add ncurses/new_pair.h
2532 + add ncurses/base/new_pair.c with alloc_pair(), find_pair() and
2533 free_pair() functions
2534 + add test/demo_new_pair.c
2537 + improve terminfo manual description of terminfo syntax.
2538 + clarify the use of wint_t vs wchar_t in curs_get_wstr.3x
2539 + improve description of endwin() in manual.
2540 + modify setcchar() and getcchar() to treat negative color-pair as an
2542 + fix a typo in include/hashed_db.h (Andre Sa).
2545 + fixes for CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS (report by Ross Burton).
2548 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
2549 + correct read of terminfo entry in which all strings are absent or
2550 explicitly cancelled. Before this fix, the result was that all were
2551 treated as only absent.
2552 + modify infocmp to suppress mixture of absent/cancelled capabilities
2553 that would only show as "NULL, NULL", unless the -q option is used,
2554 e.g., to show "-, @" or "@, -".
2557 + build-fixes for PGI compilers (report by Adam J. Stewart)
2558 + accept whitespace in sed expression for generating expanded.c
2559 + modify configure check that g++ compiler warnings are not used.
2560 + add configure check for -fPIC option needed for shared libraries.
2561 + let configure --disable-ext-funcs override the default for the
2562 --enable-sp-funcs option.
2563 + mark some structs in form/menu/panel libraries as potentially opaque
2564 without modifying API/ABI.
2565 + add configure option --enable-opaque-curses for ncurses library and
2566 similar options for the other libraries.
2569 + trim newlines, tabs and escaped newlines from terminfo "paths" passed
2571 + ignore zero-length files in db-iterator; these are useful for
2572 instance to suppress "$HOME/.terminfo" when not wanted.
2573 + amended "b64:" encoder to work with the terminfo reader.
2574 + modify terminfo reader to accept "b64:" format using RFC-3548 in
2575 as well as RFC-4648 url/filename-safe format.
2576 + modify terminfo reader to accept "hex:" format as generated by
2577 "infocmp -0qQ1" (cf: 20150905).
2578 + adjust authors comment to reflect drop below 1% for SV.
2581 + minor comment-fixes to help automate links to bug-urls -TD
2582 + add dvtm, dvtm-256color -TD
2583 + add settings corresponding to xterm-keys option to tmux entry to
2584 reflect upcoming change to make that option "on" by default
2585 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2586 + uncancel Ms in tmux entry (Harry Gindi, Nicholas Marriott).
2587 + add dumb-emacs-ansi -TD
2590 + improve discussion of early history of tput program.
2591 + incorporate A_COLOR mask into COLOR_PAIR(), in case user application
2592 provides an out-of-range pair number (report by Elijah Stone).
2593 + clarify description in tput manual page regarding support for
2594 termcap names (prompted by FreeBSD #214709).
2595 + remove a restriction in tput's support for termcap names which
2596 omitted capabilities normally not shown in termcap translations
2598 + modify configure script for clang as used on FreeBSD, to work around
2599 clang's differences in exit codes vs gcc.
2602 + improve discussion of early history of tset/reset programs.
2603 + clarify in manual pages that the optional verbose option level is
2604 available only when ncurses is configured for tracing.
2605 + amend change from 20161231 to avoid writing traces to the standard
2606 error after initializing the trace feature using the environment
2610 + amend changes for tput to reset tty modes to "sane" if the program
2611 is run as "reset", like tset. Likewise, ensure that tset sends
2612 either reset- or init-strings.
2613 + improve manual page descriptions of tput init/reset and tset/reset,
2614 to make it easier to see how they are similar and different.
2615 + move a static result from key_name() to _nc_globals
2616 + modify _nc_get_screensize to allow for use_env() and use_tioctl()
2617 state to be per-screen when sp-funcs are configured, better matching
2618 the behavior when using the term-driver configuration.
2619 + improve cross-references in manual pages for often used functions
2620 + move SCREEN field for use_tioctl() data before the ncursesw fields,
2621 and limit that to the sp-funcs configuration to improve termlib
2622 compatibility (cf: 20120714).
2623 + correct order of initialization for traces in use_env() and
2624 use_tioctl() versus first trace calls.
2627 + fix errata for ncurses-howto (report by Damien Ruscoe).
2628 + fix a few places in configure/build scripts where DESTDIR and rpath
2629 were combined (report by Thomas Klausner).
2630 + merge current st description (report by Harry Gindi) -TD
2631 + modify flash capability for linux and wyse entries to put the delay
2632 between the reverse/normal escapes rather than after -TD
2633 + modify program tabs to pass the actual tty file descriptor to
2634 setupterm rather than the standard output, making padding work
2636 + explain in clear's manual page that it writes to stdout.
2637 + add special case for verbose debugging traces of command-line
2638 utilities which write to stderr (cf: 20161126).
2639 + remove a trace with literal escapes from skip_DECSCNM(), added in
2641 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2642 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2645 + correct parameters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes()
2646 (patch by Leon Winter).
2647 + improve color-handling section in terminfo manual page (prompted by
2648 patch by Mihail Konev).
2649 + modify programs clear, tput and tset to pass the actual tty file
2650 descriptor to setupterm rather than the standard output, making
2654 + add tput-colorcube demo script.
2655 + add -r and -s options to tput-initc demo, to match usage in xterm.
2656 + flush the standard output in _nc_flush for the case where SP is zero,
2657 e.g., when called via putp. This fixes a scenario where "tput flash"
2658 did not work after changes in 20130112.
2661 + add configure script option --disable-wattr-macros for use in cases
2662 where one wants to use the same headers for ncurses5/ncurses6
2663 development, by suppressing the wattr* macros which differ due to
2664 the introduction of extended colors (prompted by comments in
2665 Debian #230990, Redhat #1270534).
2666 + add test/tput-initc to demonstrate tput used to initialize palette
2668 + modify test/xterm*.dat to use the newer color4/color12 values.
2671 + improve discussion of field validation in form_driver.3x manual page.
2672 + update curs_trace.3x manual page.
2675 + modify linux-16color to not mask dim, standout or reverse with the
2677 + add 0.1sec mandatory delay to flash capabilities using the VT100
2678 reverse-video control -TD
2679 + omit selection of ISO-8859-1 for G0 in enacs capability from linux2.6
2680 entry, to avoid conflict with the user-defined mapping. The reset
2681 feature will use ISO-8859-1 in any case (Mikulas Patocka).
2682 + improve check in tic for delays by also warning about beep/flash
2683 when a delay is not embedded, or if those use the VT100 reverse
2684 video escape without using a delay.
2685 + minor fix for syntax-check of delays from 20161119 changes.
2686 + modify trace() to avoid overwriting existing file (report by Maor
2690 + add check in tic for some syntax errors of delays, as well as use of
2691 proportional delays for non-line capabilities.
2692 + document history of the clear program and the E3 extension, prompted
2693 by various discussions including
2694 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87469/clearing-the-old-scrollback-buffer
2697 + improve -W option in tic/infocmp:
2698 + correct order of size-adjustments in wrapped lines
2699 + if -f option splits line, do not further split it with -W
2700 + begin a new line when adding "use=" after a wrapped line
2703 + fix typo in man/terminfo.tail (Alain Williams).
2704 + correct program-name in adacurses6-config.1 manual page.
2707 + add new function "unfocus_current_field" (Leon Winter)
2710 + modify tset -w (and tput reset) to update the program's copy of the
2711 screensize if it was already set in the system, to improve tabstop
2712 setting which relies upon knowing the actual screensize.
2713 + add functionality of tset -w to tput, like the "-c" feature this is
2714 not optional in tput.
2715 + add "clear" as a possible link/alias to tput.
2716 + improve tput's check for being called as "init" or "reset" to allow
2717 for transformed names.
2718 + split-out the "clear" function from progs/clear.c, share with
2719 tput to get the same behavior, e.g., the E3 extension.
2722 + amend internal use of tputs to consistently use the number of lines
2723 affected, e.g., for insert/delete character operations. While
2724 merging terminfo source early in 1995, several descriptions used the
2725 "*" proportional delay for these operations, prompting a change in
2727 + regenerate llib-* files.
2728 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2729 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
2732 + adjust size in infocmp/tic to work with strlcpy.
2733 + fix configure script to record when strlcat is found on OpenBSD.
2734 + build-fix for "recent" OpenBSD vs baudrate.
2737 + add -W option to tic/infocmp to force long strings to wrap. This is
2738 in addition to the -w option which attempts to fit capabilities into
2739 a given line-length.
2740 + add linux-m1 minitel entries (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
2741 + correct rs2 string for vt100-nam -TD
2744 + modify _nc_tic_expand to escape comma if it immediately follows a
2745 percent sign, to work with minitel change.
2746 + updated minitel and viewdata descriptions (Alexandre Montaron).
2749 + build-fix for gnat6, which unhelpfully attempts to compile C files.
2750 + fix typo in 20160910 changes (Debian #837892, patch by Sven Joachim).
2753 + trim dead code ifdef'd with HIDE_EINTR since 970830 (discussion with
2755 + trim some obsolete/incorrect wording about EINTR from wgetch manual
2756 page (patch by Leon Winter).
2757 + really correct 20100515 change (patch by Rich Coe).
2758 + add "--enable-string-hacks" option to test/configure
2759 + completed string-hacks for "sprintf", etc., including test-programs.
2760 + make "--enable-string-hacks" work with Debian by checking for the
2761 "bsd" library and its associated "<bsd/string.h>" header.
2764 + correct 20100515 change for weak signals versus sigprocmask (report
2766 + modify misc/Makefile.in to work around OpenBSD "make" which unlike
2767 all other versions of "make" does not recognize continuation lines
2769 + amend the last change to CF_C_ENV_FLAGS to move only the
2770 preprocessor, optimization and warning flags to CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS,
2771 leaving the residue in CC. That happens to work for gcc's various
2772 "model" options, but may require tuning for other compilers (report
2776 + add "v" menu entry to test/ncurses.c to show baudrate and other
2778 + add "newer" baudrate symbols from Linux and FreeBSD to progs/tset.c,
2780 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro:
2781 + add "uclinux" to case for "linux" (patch by Yann E. Morin)
2782 + modify _GNU_SOURCE for cygwin headers, tested with cygwin 2.3, 2.5
2783 (patch by Corinna Vinschen, from changes to tin).
2784 + improve CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS macro to allow for compiler wrappers such
2785 as "ccache" (report by Enrico Scholz).
2786 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2787 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2790 + update tput manual page to reflect changes to manipulate terminal
2791 modes by sharing functions with tset.
2792 + add the terminal-mode parts of "reset" (aka tset) to the "tput reset"
2793 command, making the two almost the same except for window-size.
2794 + adapt logic used in dialog "--keep-tite" option for test/filter.c as
2795 "-a" option. When set, test/filter attempts to suppress the
2797 + correct a typo in interix entry -TD
2800 + add a dependency upon generated-sources in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to
2801 handle a case of "configure && make install".
2802 + trim trailing blanks from include/Caps*, to work around a problem
2803 in sed (Debian #818067).
2806 + improve CF_GNU_SOURCE configure macro to optionally define
2807 _DEFAULT_SOURCE work around a nuisance in recent glibc releases.
2808 + move the terminfo-specific parts of tput's "reset" function into
2809 the shared reset_cmd.c, making the two forms of reset use the same
2811 + split-out the terminal initialization functions from tset as
2812 progs/reset_cmd.c, as part of changes to merge the reset-feature
2816 + change tset's initialization to allow it to get settings from the
2817 standard input as well as /dev/tty, to be more effective when
2818 output or error are redirected.
2819 + improve discussion of history and portability for tset/reset/tput
2823 + improve error message from tset/reset when both stderr/stdout are
2824 redirected to a file or pipe.
2825 + improve organization of curs_attr.3x, curs_color.3x
2828 + work around Debian's antique/unmaintained version of mawk when
2830 + improve test/list_keys.c, showing ncurses's convention of modifiers
2831 for special keys, based on xterm.
2834 + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters are given.
2837 + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule.
2838 + amend change to CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS in 20160521 to make multilib build
2839 work (report by Sven Joachim).
2842 + build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses.
2843 + improve test/list_keys.c, fixing column-widths and sorting the list
2844 to make it more readable.
2847 + revise fix for Debian #805618 (report by Vlado Potisk, cf: 20151128).
2848 + modify test/ncurses.c a/A screens to make exiting on an escape
2849 character depend on the start of keypad and timeout modes, to allow
2850 better testing of function-keys.
2851 + modify rs1 for xterm-16color, xterm-88color and xterm-256color to
2852 reset palette using "oc" string as in linux -TD
2853 + use ANSI reply for u8 in xterm-new, to reflect vt220-style responses
2854 that could be returned -TD
2855 + added a few capabilities fixed in recent vte -TD
2858 + correct logic for -f option in test/demo_terminfo.c
2859 + add test/list_keys.c
2862 + further workaround for PIE/PIC breakage which causes gpm to not link.
2863 + fix most cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library.
2866 + improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size.
2867 + fixes to work with a slightly broken compiler configuration which
2868 cannot compile "Hello World!" without adding compiler options
2869 (report by Ola x Nilsson):
2870 + pass appropriate compiler options to the CF_PROG_CC_C_O macro.
2871 + when separating compiler and options in CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, ensure
2872 that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS
2873 + restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared
2874 to be redundant. In fact, they are needed for a compiler that
2875 cannot combine -c and -o options.
2878 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2879 + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they
2880 might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426).
2881 + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD
2882 + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0
2883 entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD
2884 + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran).
2887 + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the
2888 special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,
2890 + modify test/ncurses.c:
2891 + check return-value of putwin
2892 + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes
2893 to keypad- and scroll-modes.
2894 + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).
2897 + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm
2898 color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE
2899 and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R.
2900 + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for
2904 + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs
2905 PIC builds documented in
2906 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
2907 + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages
2908 due to program-transformation configure options.
2909 + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset.
2912 + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when
2913 available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850.
2916 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2917 + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus
2921 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2922 + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers
2923 to switch the active menu. This requires a new extension option
2924 O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not
2925 apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application
2926 can handle the event.
2929 + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso).
2930 + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case
2931 that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for
2932 non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888).
2935 + modified test/filter.c to illustrate an alternative to getnstr, that
2936 polls for input while updating a clock on the right margin as well
2937 as responding to window size-changes.
2940 + omit a redefinition of "inline" when traces are enabled, since this
2941 does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912).
2944 + modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of
2945 ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g.,
2946 in case weak symbols are used.
2947 + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
2948 rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
2950 + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
2951 winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
2952 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2953 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2956 + amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work
2957 in threaded configuration.
2958 + move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h,
2959 since they are not part of the suggested ABI6.
2962 + define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN for MinGW port, making builds faster.
2963 + modify test/ditto.c to allow $XTERM_PROG environment variable to
2964 override "xterm" as the name of the program to run in the threaded
2968 + improve formatting of man/curs_refresh.3x and man/tset.1 manpages
2969 + regenerate HTML manpages using newer man2html to eliminate some
2970 unwanted blank lines.
2973 + ifdef'd header-file definition of mouse_trafo() with NCURSES_NOMACROS
2974 (report by Corey Minyard).
2975 + fix some strict compiler-warnings in traces.
2978 + tidy up comments about hardcoded 256color palette (report by
2979 Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
2980 + add putty-noapp entry, and amend putty entry to use application mode
2981 for better consistency with xterm (report by Leonardo Brondani
2983 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to trace wide-characters
2984 as a whole rather than their multibyte equivalents.
2985 + minor fix in wadd_wchnstr() to ensure that each cell has nonzero
2987 + move PUTC_INIT calls next to wcrtomb calls, to avoid carry-over of
2988 error status when processing Unicode values which are not mapped.
2991 + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
2992 screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
2993 + minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of
2994 SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.
2997 + add check in tic for use of bold, etc., video attributes in the
2998 color capabilities, accounting whether the feature is listed in ncv.
2999 + add check in tic for conflict between ritm, rmso, rmul versus sgr0.
3002 + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion
3003 with James Crippen).
3004 + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
3006 + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
3007 characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.
3010 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
3011 needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
3012 does not work. Also modified the test program to ensure that if
3013 building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
3014 normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
3015 + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
3016 in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
3017 drawing characters as double-width.
3020 + update form_cursor.3x, form_post.3x, menu_attributes.3x to list
3021 function names in NAME section (patch by Jason McIntyre).
3022 + minor fixes to manpage NAME/SYNOPSIS sections to consistently use
3023 rule that either all functions which are prototyped in SYNOPSIS are
3024 listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
3025 listed in the NAME section. The latter is used to reduce clutter,
3026 e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
3027 feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
3031 + add option to preserve leading whitespace in form fields (patch by
3033 + add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
3035 + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
3036 + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
3037 + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
3038 backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
3039 + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
3042 + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
3043 + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
3044 + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
3045 + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.
3048 + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
3049 which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
3050 name. That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
3051 tset from termcap to terminfo. The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
3052 this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
3054 + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
3055 are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
3056 + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
3057 renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
3058 normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).
3061 + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
3062 valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
3063 actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
3064 install time (cf: 20150822).
3065 + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
3066 clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
3067 empty "local" section.
3068 + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
3069 to incorrect attribute-masking.
3072 + modify MKexpanded.sh to update the expansion of a temporary filename
3073 to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
3074 + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
3075 annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
3076 did not display well.
3077 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
3078 + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
3079 + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
3080 the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
3081 Normand, Novell #946048).
3082 + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
3083 FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
3084 + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
3085 minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
3086 + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
3087 + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
3088 Internet Archive -TD
3089 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3090 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3093 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
3094 (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
3095 + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
3096 data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
3097 (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
3098 > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
3099 + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
3100 + support building with libtool on OS/2
3101 + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
3102 + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
3105 + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
3106 + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
3107 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
3108 + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
3110 + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
3111 fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
3112 (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
3115 + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
3117 + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
3118 + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
3121 + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
3123 + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
3124 read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
3125 + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
3126 configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
3129 + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
3131 + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
3132 solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
3133 of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
3134 + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
3135 "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
3136 + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
3138 + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS
3141 + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
3143 + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
3144 all comments from the "tic -I" output.
3145 + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
3147 + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
3148 form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.
3151 + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
3153 + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
3154 + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
3155 + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
3156 + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
3157 ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
3161 + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
3162 overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
3163 + update release notes in INSTALL.
3164 + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
3167 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
3168 releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
3169 https://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
3171 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3174 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
3175 + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
3176 + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
3177 more than 200 snapshots.
3178 + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
3182 + updated llib-* files.
3183 + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
3184 + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
3186 + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
3187 + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
3188 + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
3189 curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
3190 curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
3191 curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
3192 curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
3195 + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
3196 + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
3197 curs_initscr.3x page.
3198 + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
3199 of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
3200 in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
3202 + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
3203 e.g., ncursestw library.
3206 + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
3207 configuration of ncurses6.
3208 + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
3209 demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
3210 the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
3211 versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
3212 + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
3215 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
3216 + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
3217 (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
3220 + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
3222 + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
3223 map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
3224 suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
3225 + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
3226 from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
3227 + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
3228 databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
3229 + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
3230 setupterm and restartterm functions.
3231 + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
3232 of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
3233 it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
3237 + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
3238 + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
3239 the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
3240 files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
3241 corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
3242 configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
3243 discussion with Sven Joachim).
3244 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
3246 20150606 pre-release
3247 + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
3248 intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
3249 "--with-abi-version=5" option.
3250 + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
3251 + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
3252 + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
3253 Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
3254 + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
3255 ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
3256 lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
3257 + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
3258 "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
3259 + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
3260 CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
3263 + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
3264 mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
3265 + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
3266 + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
3267 + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
3268 have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
3269 + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
3270 cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
3273 + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
3274 + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
3275 by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
3276 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
3277 + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
3279 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
3280 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
3283 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
3284 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
3285 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
3286 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
3288 + regenerate html manpages.
3289 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
3290 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
3291 Stack Overflow forum):
3294 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
3295 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
3296 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
3297 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
3298 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
3302 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
3303 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
3304 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
3305 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
3306 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
3308 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
3309 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
3310 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
3311 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
3312 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
3313 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
3315 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
3316 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
3317 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
3318 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
3319 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
3320 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
3322 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
3323 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
3325 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
3326 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
3328 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
3329 the ncurses library aside from headers.
3330 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
3331 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
3332 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
3333 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
3334 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3335 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3338 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
3339 (report by Todd M Lewis).
3340 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
3341 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
3342 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
3343 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
3344 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
3345 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
3347 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
3348 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
3349 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
3350 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
3351 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
3352 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
3353 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
3356 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
3357 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
3358 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
3359 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
3360 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
3361 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
3362 with the shared libraries.
3363 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
3364 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
3365 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
3366 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
3367 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
3368 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
3369 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
3370 inherit into new windows.
3373 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
3374 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
3375 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
3376 readonly text segment.
3379 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
3380 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
3383 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
3384 the extended putwin/getwin.
3385 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
3387 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
3391 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
3392 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
3393 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
3394 for a magic code at the beginning:
3395 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
3398 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
3400 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
3401 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
3404 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
3405 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
3406 (report by Grady Martin).
3409 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
3410 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
3411 the wide-character libraries.
3412 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
3414 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
3415 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
3418 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
3419 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
3420 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
3424 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
3425 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
3428 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
3429 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
3430 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
3431 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
3432 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
3435 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
3436 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
3437 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
3440 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
3441 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
3442 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
3444 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
3445 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
3446 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
3447 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
3448 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
3449 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
3450 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
3451 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
3452 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
3453 (report by Pavel Balaev).
3456 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
3457 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
3458 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
3459 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
3460 variations in ABI 6.
3463 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
3464 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
3468 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
3472 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
3473 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
3474 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
3475 the ABI 5 libraries.
3476 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
3477 regenerate html-manpages.
3480 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
3481 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
3483 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
3484 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
3485 package for ncurses6.
3486 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
3487 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
3488 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
3489 in the corresponding ".map" files.
3490 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
3491 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
3495 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
3496 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
3497 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
3498 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
3499 gcc introduced here:
3500 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
3501 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
3502 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
3503 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
3506 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
3507 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
3508 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
3509 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
3510 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
3513 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
3514 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
3515 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
3516 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
3517 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
3518 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
3519 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
3523 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
3524 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
3528 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
3529 msys2 configuration.
3532 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
3533 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
3534 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
3535 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
3536 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
3538 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
3539 (report by Mike Gran).
3542 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
3543 demonstration of its limitations.
3544 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
3545 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
3546 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
3547 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
3548 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
3549 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
3550 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
3552 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
3553 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
3556 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
3557 + implement flash in win_driver.c
3558 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
3560 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
3561 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
3562 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
3563 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
3564 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
3565 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
3566 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
3567 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
3570 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
3571 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
3572 some older cross-compiler environments.
3573 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
3574 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
3575 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
3576 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
3577 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
3578 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
3579 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
3580 + update config.sub from
3581 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3584 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
3585 C++ cross-compilers.
3586 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
3589 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
3591 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
3594 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
3595 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
3596 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
3599 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
3600 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
3604 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
3605 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
3606 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
3609 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
3610 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
3611 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
3612 + regenerated html manpages.
3613 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
3614 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
3615 which reverses cause/effect.
3616 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
3617 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
3618 + fixes for win_driver.c:
3619 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
3624 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
3625 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
3626 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
3627 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
3629 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
3630 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
3631 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
3632 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
3636 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
3637 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
3638 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
3639 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
3640 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
3641 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
3642 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
3643 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
3644 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
3647 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
3648 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
3649 options, from xterm changes.
3652 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
3653 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
3657 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
3658 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
3661 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
3662 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
3663 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
3664 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
3665 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
3666 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
3667 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
3670 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
3671 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
3672 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
3673 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
3674 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
3675 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
3676 providing directly comparable screens.
3677 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
3680 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
3682 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
3683 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
3684 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
3685 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
3686 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
3687 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
3688 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
3691 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
3692 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
3693 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
3694 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
3695 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
3698 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
3699 overlap with sgr functionality.
3700 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
3701 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
3702 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
3703 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
3704 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
3705 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
3706 older ncurses than 20131207.
3707 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
3708 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
3709 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
3710 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
3711 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
3714 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
3715 environment variable.
3716 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
3717 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
3718 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
3719 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
3720 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
3721 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
3722 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
3723 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
3724 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
3725 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
3726 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
3727 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
3728 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
3729 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
3731 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
3733 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
3734 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
3735 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
3737 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
3738 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
3739 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
3740 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
3741 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
3742 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
3743 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
3745 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
3747 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
3748 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
3749 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
3750 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
3751 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
3752 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
3753 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
3754 to be consecutive anyway.
3755 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
3756 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
3757 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
3758 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
3761 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
3762 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
3763 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
3766 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
3767 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
3768 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
3769 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3772 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
3774 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
3775 simplify later merging:
3776 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
3777 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
3778 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
3779 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
3780 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
3784 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3785 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3788 + modify configure script:
3789 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
3790 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
3791 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
3792 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
3793 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
3794 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
3795 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
3796 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
3797 "#win32console", and
3798 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
3799 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
3802 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
3803 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
3804 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
3805 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
3806 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
3807 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
3811 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
3814 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
3815 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
3816 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
3817 + add terminology entry -TD
3818 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
3819 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
3822 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
3823 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
3824 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
3825 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
3826 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
3830 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
3831 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
3832 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
3833 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
3834 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
3837 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
3840 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
3841 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
3842 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
3846 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
3847 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
3848 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
3849 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
3850 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
3851 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
3853 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
3854 html emitted by docbook.
3857 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
3858 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
3859 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
3860 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
3863 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
3864 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
3865 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
3866 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
3867 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3868 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
3871 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
3872 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
3873 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
3874 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3877 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
3878 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
3881 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
3883 ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
3886 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
3887 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
3888 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
3889 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
3891 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
3893 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
3894 + updated llib-l* files.
3897 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
3898 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
3902 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
3903 recognized by clang.
3906 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
3907 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
3908 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
3909 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
3910 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
3911 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
3912 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
3913 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
3914 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
3915 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
3916 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
3917 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
3919 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
3921 + update config.sub from
3922 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3925 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
3928 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
3929 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
3930 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
3931 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
3933 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
3936 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
3937 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
3938 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
3939 them more consistent with other packages.
3942 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
3943 compiling ncurses-examples.
3944 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
3947 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
3950 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
3951 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
3952 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
3953 cross-compiles to MinGW.
3954 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
3958 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
3959 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
3963 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
3964 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
3966 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
3968 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
3969 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
3970 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
3971 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
3972 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
3975 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
3976 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
3977 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
3980 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
3982 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
3983 before/after Debian #700177.
3984 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
3985 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
3987 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
3988 of sort, improving portability.
3989 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
3990 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3991 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3994 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
3995 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
3997 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
3998 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
3999 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
4002 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
4003 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
4004 introduced by Debian #700177.
4005 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
4006 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
4009 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
4010 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
4012 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
4013 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
4014 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
4017 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
4018 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
4020 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
4021 cross-compile support packages.
4022 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
4025 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
4026 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
4027 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
4028 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
4029 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
4030 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
4031 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
4032 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
4033 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
4034 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
4035 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
4036 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
4039 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
4040 initialization of cur_term.
4043 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
4044 + minor compiler-warning fixes
4047 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
4048 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
4049 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
4050 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
4051 --enable-auto-import flag.
4052 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
4056 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
4057 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
4058 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
4059 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
4060 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
4062 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
4063 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
4064 (patch by Eric Raymond).
4067 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
4068 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
4069 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
4071 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
4072 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
4073 not printing the full pathname of the program.
4074 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
4075 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
4076 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
4079 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
4080 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
4082 + add test/dots_termcap.c
4083 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
4084 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
4085 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
4086 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
4087 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
4088 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
4089 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
4090 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
4091 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
4093 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
4094 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
4097 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
4098 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
4099 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
4100 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
4101 the left margin of the display.
4102 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
4103 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
4104 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
4105 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
4108 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
4109 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
4110 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
4111 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
4112 + regenerated html manpages.
4113 + update doctype used for html documentation.
4116 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
4117 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
4118 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
4119 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
4120 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
4121 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
4124 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
4125 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
4126 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
4127 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
4128 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
4131 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
4132 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
4135 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
4136 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
4137 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
4138 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
4139 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
4141 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
4142 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
4143 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
4144 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
4147 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
4148 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
4149 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
4150 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
4152 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
4154 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
4156 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
4159 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
4163 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
4164 (report by Christian Ebert).
4165 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
4166 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
4167 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
4170 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
4171 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
4172 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
4173 add bold for consistency with sgr,
4174 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
4175 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
4176 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
4177 by Benjamin Sittler)
4178 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
4179 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
4180 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
4181 line split after "%;".
4182 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
4183 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
4186 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
4187 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
4188 + regenerated html manpages.
4189 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
4190 + updated some autoconf macros:
4191 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
4192 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
4193 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
4194 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
4195 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
4196 configuration (Redhat #911540).
4197 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
4198 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
4201 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
4202 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
4204 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
4205 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
4207 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
4208 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
4209 of raw input in MinGW port.
4212 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
4213 + update config.guess, config.sub
4216 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
4218 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
4220 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
4221 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
4222 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
4223 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
4224 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
4225 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
4226 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
4228 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
4229 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
4232 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
4233 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
4235 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
4236 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
4237 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
4240 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
4241 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
4242 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
4245 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
4246 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
4247 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
4248 help reduce flicker.
4249 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
4250 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
4251 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
4252 by Dennis Grevenstein).
4253 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
4254 Dennis Grevenstein).
4255 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
4256 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
4257 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
4260 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
4261 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
4262 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
4263 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
4264 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
4265 + improve error-checking in copywin
4266 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
4267 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
4268 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
4269 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
4270 matching capability names.
4271 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
4272 applications as well as to improve compatibility with BSD 4.2
4273 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
4276 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
4277 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
4278 are unused in the current driver model.
4279 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
4281 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
4282 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
4283 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
4284 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
4287 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
4288 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
4290 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
4291 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
4292 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
4293 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
4294 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
4297 + fix Coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
4298 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
4299 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
4303 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
4305 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
4306 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
4308 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
4309 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
4310 wide-character which can be used.
4313 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
4314 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
4315 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
4316 by Erwin Waterlander).
4317 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
4318 > fixes based on Coverity report:
4319 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
4320 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
4321 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
4322 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
4326 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
4327 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
4328 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
4329 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
4330 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
4331 > fixes based on Coverity report:
4332 + remove a few redundant checks.
4333 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
4335 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
4336 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
4337 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
4338 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
4340 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
4341 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
4342 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
4346 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
4347 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
4348 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
4352 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
4353 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
4354 > fixes based on Coverity report:
4355 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
4358 > fixes based on Coverity report:
4359 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
4360 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
4361 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
4362 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
4363 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
4364 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
4365 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
4367 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
4368 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
4369 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
4370 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
4373 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
4374 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
4375 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
4377 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
4378 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
4379 libraries or executables.
4382 + realign these related pages:
4387 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
4388 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
4389 (report by Reuben Thomas).
4390 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
4391 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
4392 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
4393 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
4394 based on testing with tack -TD
4395 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
4396 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
4399 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
4401 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
4402 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
4403 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
4406 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
4410 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
4411 (patch by Christian Persch).
4414 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
4416 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
4417 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
4418 has used that for a while.
4419 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
4420 for experimental use.
4421 + remove unused configure macros.
4422 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
4423 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
4424 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
4425 + update config.guess, config.sub
4428 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
4429 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
4430 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
4431 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
4432 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
4433 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
4434 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
4437 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
4438 to help with MinGW port.
4441 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
4443 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
4446 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
4449 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
4450 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
4451 might not be allocated.
4452 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
4455 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
4456 initial screen-sizes.
4457 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
4458 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
4462 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
4463 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
4467 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
4468 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
4469 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
4471 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
4472 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
4475 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
4476 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
4477 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
4478 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
4479 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
4480 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
4481 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
4485 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
4486 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
4487 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
4488 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
4489 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
4490 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
4491 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
4492 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
4496 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
4497 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
4498 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
4499 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
4500 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
4501 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
4504 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
4508 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
4510 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
4512 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
4513 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
4514 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
4515 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
4516 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
4517 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
4520 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
4522 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
4523 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
4524 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
4526 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
4527 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
4530 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
4531 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
4532 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
4535 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
4536 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
4538 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
4539 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
4541 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
4542 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
4545 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
4547 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
4548 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
4549 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
4550 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
4551 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
4552 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
4555 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
4556 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
4557 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
4558 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
4559 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
4560 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
4561 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
4562 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
4563 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
4565 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
4566 analysis by Martin Husemann).
4567 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
4568 Onno van der Linden).
4571 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
4573 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
4575 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
4576 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
4579 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
4580 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
4581 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
4582 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
4583 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
4584 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
4585 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
4588 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
4589 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
4590 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
4591 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
4592 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
4593 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
4594 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
4595 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
4596 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
4597 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
4598 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
4599 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
4600 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
4601 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
4602 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
4605 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
4606 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
4607 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
4608 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
4609 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
4610 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
4611 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
4612 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
4613 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
4614 are interpreted as key definitions.
4615 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
4616 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
4620 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
4621 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
4622 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
4623 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
4624 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
4625 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
4626 as building-blocks -TD
4627 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
4630 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
4631 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
4632 title is a status-line. -TD
4633 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
4634 of ordering and overrides -TD
4635 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
4636 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
4637 used in that file -TD
4640 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
4641 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
4642 definable capabilities.
4643 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
4644 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
4645 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
4646 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
4647 embedded in the description.
4648 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
4649 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
4650 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
4651 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
4652 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
4653 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
4656 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
4657 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
4658 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
4659 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
4660 Nicolas Boulenguez).
4661 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
4662 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
4663 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
4666 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
4667 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
4668 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
4669 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
4670 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
4671 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
4674 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
4675 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
4676 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
4678 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
4679 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
4680 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
4681 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
4684 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
4685 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
4686 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
4689 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
4690 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
4691 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
4693 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
4694 calls to setupterm().
4695 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
4697 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
4698 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
4699 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
4701 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
4705 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
4708 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
4710 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
4711 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
4712 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
4713 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
4714 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
4715 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
4717 + update config.guess, config.sub
4720 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
4721 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
4722 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
4723 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
4724 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
4725 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
4726 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
4727 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
4728 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
4731 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
4732 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
4733 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
4734 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
4735 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
4736 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
4737 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
4738 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
4739 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
4740 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
4741 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
4742 Linux versus most other systems.
4745 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
4749 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
4750 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
4751 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
4752 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
4753 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
4754 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
4755 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
4756 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
4757 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
4758 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
4759 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
4760 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
4761 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
4762 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
4765 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
4767 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
4769 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
4770 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
4771 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
4772 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).
4775 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
4777 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
4778 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
4779 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
4780 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
4781 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
4783 + regenerated html manpages.
4786 + various improvements for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
4787 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
4788 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
4789 + change recommended regular expression library.
4790 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuration.
4791 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
4794 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
4795 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
4796 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
4797 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
4798 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
4799 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
4800 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
4804 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
4805 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
4807 + add putty-sco entry -TD
4810 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
4812 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
4814 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
4815 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
4816 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
4818 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
4820 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
4823 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
4824 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
4825 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
4826 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
4828 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
4829 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
4830 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
4833 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
4834 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
4836 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
4839 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
4841 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
4843 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
4845 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
4846 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
4847 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
4848 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
4849 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
4850 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
4851 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
4854 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
4855 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
4857 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
4858 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
4859 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
4860 database (cf: 20111001).
4863 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
4864 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
4865 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
4867 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
4868 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
4870 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
4871 in older FreeBSD machines.
4872 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
4873 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
4874 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
4877 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
4878 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
4879 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
4880 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
4881 root's home directory.
4882 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
4883 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
4884 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
4885 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
4886 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
4888 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
4889 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
4890 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
4891 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
4892 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
4893 (report by Peter Kruse).
4896 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
4897 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
4899 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
4901 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
4902 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
4903 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
4906 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
4907 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
4908 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
4909 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
4910 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
4911 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
4914 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
4915 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
4916 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
4917 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
4918 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
4921 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
4922 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
4923 input and output of termcap source.
4924 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
4925 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
4926 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
4927 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
4928 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
4929 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
4930 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
4931 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
4932 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
4935 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
4938 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
4940 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
4941 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
4942 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
4943 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
4945 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
4948 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
4949 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
4951 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
4952 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
4955 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
4956 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
4958 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
4959 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
4961 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
4962 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
4963 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
4964 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
4966 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
4967 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
4968 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
4969 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
4971 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
4972 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
4975 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
4976 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
4977 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
4978 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
4981 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
4982 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
4983 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
4984 + add terminator entry -TD
4985 + add simpleterm entry -TD
4986 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
4987 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
4991 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
4992 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
4993 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
4994 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
4995 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
4996 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
4997 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
4998 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
4999 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
5000 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
5004 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
5005 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
5006 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
5007 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
5008 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
5009 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
5011 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
5012 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
5013 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
5015 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
5018 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
5019 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
5020 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
5021 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
5023 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
5024 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
5026 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
5027 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
5028 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
5029 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
5030 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
5031 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
5032 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
5033 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
5035 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
5036 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
5038 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
5039 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
5040 tctest (cf: 19991211).
5041 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
5042 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
5043 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
5044 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
5045 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
5046 translating to termcap.
5047 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
5048 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
5051 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
5052 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
5053 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
5054 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
5055 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
5056 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
5058 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
5059 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
5060 regarding Schilling's test program):
5061 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
5062 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
5063 + use \040 rather than \s
5064 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
5065 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
5068 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
5069 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
5070 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
5071 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
5072 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
5073 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
5074 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
5075 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
5076 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
5077 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
5078 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
5079 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
5082 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
5083 are not used in the $CC variable.
5084 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
5085 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
5086 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
5087 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
5088 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
5089 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
5092 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
5093 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
5097 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
5098 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
5099 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
5100 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
5101 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
5103 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
5104 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
5106 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
5109 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
5110 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
5113 + fixes for MirBSD port:
5114 + set default prefix to /usr.
5115 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
5116 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
5117 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
5118 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
5121 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
5122 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
5123 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
5124 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
5126 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
5127 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
5131 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
5134 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
5135 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
5136 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
5138 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
5139 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
5140 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
5141 help work around weak-symbol issues.
5144 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
5145 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
5146 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
5147 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
5148 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
5149 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
5150 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
5151 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
5152 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
5153 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
5154 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
5157 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
5158 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
5160 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
5161 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
5162 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
5163 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
5166 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
5167 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
5168 as different types on some Unix systems.
5169 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
5170 function pointer passed to tputs().
5171 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
5172 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
5173 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
5174 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
5177 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
5178 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
5179 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
5180 + update config.guess, config.sub
5183 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
5185 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
5186 some ncurses packages.
5187 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
5188 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
5189 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
5191 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5194 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
5195 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
5196 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
5197 the in-tree build of sample programs.
5198 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
5199 needed for rpm script.
5200 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
5201 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
5202 options if building a shared library with gnat.
5205 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
5206 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
5207 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
5208 that sample program.
5209 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
5210 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
5211 which were added in 5.7 and later.
5212 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
5216 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
5218 + regen Ada html documentation.
5219 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
5220 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
5222 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
5224 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
5225 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
5226 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
5227 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
5228 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
5229 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
5231 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
5232 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
5234 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
5235 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
5238 + regen Ada html documentation.
5239 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
5240 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
5242 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
5243 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
5244 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
5245 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
5246 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
5247 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
5248 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
5249 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
5250 thread in comp.lang.ada).
5251 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
5252 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
5253 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
5254 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
5255 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
5256 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
5257 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
5258 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
5259 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
5260 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
5263 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
5264 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
5265 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
5267 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
5269 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
5270 explain.txt is not found.
5273 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
5274 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
5275 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
5276 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
5277 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
5279 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5282 + update release notes, for 5.8.
5283 + regenerated html manpages.
5284 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
5286 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
5287 a new install of hashed database.
5288 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
5291 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
5292 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
5293 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
5294 wide-character configuration.
5295 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
5296 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
5299 + regenerated html manpages.
5300 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
5301 special case of trace configuration.
5304 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
5305 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
5306 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
5307 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
5308 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
5312 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
5313 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
5314 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
5315 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
5316 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
5318 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
5319 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
5322 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
5323 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
5324 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
5325 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
5326 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
5327 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
5328 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
5329 file configuration if that is used.
5330 + update config.guess, config.sub
5333 + regenerated html manpages.
5334 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
5336 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
5337 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
5340 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
5341 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
5344 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
5345 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
5346 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
5349 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
5351 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
5352 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
5353 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
5354 wide-character configuration.
5355 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
5356 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
5357 referred to quitting with 'q'.
5360 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
5361 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
5362 version which works with termcap.
5363 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
5364 (request by Sven Joachim).
5365 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
5366 (report by Sven Joachim).
5369 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
5370 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
5371 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
5374 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
5376 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
5377 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
5380 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
5382 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
5383 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
5384 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
5385 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
5386 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
5387 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
5391 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
5392 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
5393 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
5395 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
5398 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
5400 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
5404 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
5406 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
5407 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
5408 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
5409 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
5410 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additional
5411 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
5412 tree (report by Werner Fink).
5413 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
5414 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
5415 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
5416 (report by John P. Hartmann)
5417 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
5420 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
5421 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
5422 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
5423 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
5424 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
5425 external package "cindent".
5428 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
5429 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
5430 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
5431 inconsistent printer-controls.
5432 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
5433 form is available -TD
5434 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
5436 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
5438 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
5439 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5440 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
5441 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
5442 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
5444 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
5445 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
5449 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
5450 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
5451 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
5452 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5453 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
5455 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
5458 + regenerated html manpages.
5459 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
5460 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
5461 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
5464 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
5466 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
5467 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
5468 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
5469 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
5473 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
5474 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
5477 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
5478 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
5479 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
5480 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
5481 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
5482 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
5483 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
5487 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
5488 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
5489 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
5490 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
5491 by Tim van der Molen).
5492 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
5493 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
5494 library configuration.
5495 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
5496 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
5497 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
5500 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
5502 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
5503 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
5504 e.g., for cross-compiling.
5505 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
5506 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
5509 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
5510 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
5511 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
5512 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
5513 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
5514 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
5515 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
5516 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
5519 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
5520 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
5521 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
5522 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
5523 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
5524 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
5525 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
5526 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
5529 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
5530 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
5531 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
5532 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
5535 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
5536 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
5537 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
5540 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
5541 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
5542 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
5545 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
5546 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
5547 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
5548 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
5551 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
5552 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
5553 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
5555 + update Ada95/configure.
5556 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
5557 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
5558 of updating LIBS variable.
5561 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
5562 work with 64-bit compiles.
5563 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
5567 + regenerated html documentation.
5568 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
5570 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
5571 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
5572 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
5573 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
5576 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
5577 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
5579 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
5580 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
5581 build- and target-machines differ.
5582 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
5583 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
5585 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
5586 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
5589 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
5590 new EINTR feature is enabled.
5591 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
5592 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
5593 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
5594 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
5595 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
5596 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
5597 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
5598 with the standard builds of ncurses.
5599 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
5600 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
5601 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
5602 found in predefined libraries.
5603 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
5606 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
5607 (patch by David Benjamin).
5608 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
5609 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
5610 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
5611 may be defined by that route.
5614 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
5615 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
5616 the predefined include directories.
5617 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
5618 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
5619 where older versions would produce an error.
5622 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
5623 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
5624 terminfo to termcap strings
5625 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
5626 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
5627 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
5628 directory was already added.
5629 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
5630 directories (which will be ignored).
5633 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
5634 + discard motion events
5635 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
5636 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
5637 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
5638 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
5641 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
5642 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
5643 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
5644 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
5645 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
5646 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
5647 extended-colors configuration.
5648 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
5649 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
5650 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
5653 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
5655 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
5656 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
5657 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
5659 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
5660 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
5661 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
5664 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
5665 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
5669 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
5670 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
5671 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
5672 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
5673 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
5674 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
5675 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
5676 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
5677 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
5681 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
5682 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
5683 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
5684 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
5687 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
5689 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
5690 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
5691 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
5694 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
5695 making those separately distributable.
5696 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
5697 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
5701 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
5704 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
5705 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
5706 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
5707 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
5711 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
5712 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
5713 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
5714 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
5717 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
5718 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
5719 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
5720 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
5722 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
5723 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
5724 by Miroslav Lichvar)
5725 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
5729 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
5730 that line-drawing works.
5731 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
5732 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
5733 capabilities can run.
5734 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
5738 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
5739 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
5740 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
5741 before older in the list.
5742 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
5743 + minor documentation cleanup.
5744 + update config.guess, config.sub from
5745 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
5746 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
5749 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
5750 most common case of SGR 0.
5751 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
5752 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
5753 events remain, it will return ERR.
5756 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
5757 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
5758 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
5759 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
5760 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
5763 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
5764 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
5765 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
5768 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
5769 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
5770 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
5771 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
5772 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
5773 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
5776 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
5777 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
5778 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
5779 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
5780 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
5782 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
5784 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
5786 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
5787 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
5788 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
5790 + update config.guess, config.sub from
5791 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
5794 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
5795 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
5797 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
5798 writing terminfo entries.
5799 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
5800 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
5801 by Nicholas Marriott).
5804 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
5806 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
5807 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
5811 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
5812 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
5813 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
5814 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
5815 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
5818 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
5819 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
5820 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
5821 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
5824 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
5825 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
5826 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
5827 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
5828 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5829 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
5830 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
5833 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
5834 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
5835 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
5836 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
5837 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
5838 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
5839 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
5840 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
5841 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
5842 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
5843 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
5846 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
5847 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
5848 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
5849 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
5852 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
5853 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
5856 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
5857 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
5858 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
5862 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
5863 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
5864 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
5865 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
5866 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
5868 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
5869 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
5872 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
5873 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
5874 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
5875 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
5876 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
5877 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
5879 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
5880 library (some work remains for forms library).
5883 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
5884 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
5885 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
5886 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
5888 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
5889 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
5890 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
5891 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
5894 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
5895 by sharing linedata.h functions):
5898 test/test_addchstr.c
5899 test/test_add_wchstr.c
5900 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
5901 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
5902 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
5905 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
5907 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
5908 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
5909 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
5910 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
5914 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
5915 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
5916 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
5917 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5920 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
5921 amd64 (Debian #542031).
5922 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
5925 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5928 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
5929 broken in 20090510 merging.
5930 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
5931 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
5932 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
5933 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
5934 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
5935 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
5936 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
5937 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
5939 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
5942 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
5943 implementation details of hash function.
5946 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
5947 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
5948 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
5951 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
5952 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
5953 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
5954 test/demo_terminfo.c
5955 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5956 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
5959 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
5960 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
5964 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5967 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
5969 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
5970 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
5971 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
5972 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
5973 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
5975 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
5976 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
5977 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
5980 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
5981 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
5982 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
5985 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
5986 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
5988 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5991 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
5992 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
5994 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
5995 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
5999 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
6000 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
6001 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6004 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
6007 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6010 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
6011 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
6012 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
6013 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6016 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6019 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
6020 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
6021 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
6022 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
6026 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6029 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6030 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
6033 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6036 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
6040 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6043 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6044 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
6045 part of the form library.
6048 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
6049 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
6052 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
6053 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
6054 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
6055 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
6056 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
6057 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
6058 a temporary variable.
6059 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
6060 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
6061 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
6062 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
6063 with Charles Wilson).
6064 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
6065 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
6066 > patches by Charles Wilson:
6067 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
6068 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
6069 digits, after the final '.').
6070 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
6071 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
6072 using that in the libtool link-commands.
6073 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
6074 from 20090321 changes.
6075 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
6076 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
6077 termlib) is to be linked.
6078 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
6079 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
6082 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
6083 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
6084 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
6085 (report by Charles Wilson).
6086 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
6087 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
6088 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
6089 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
6090 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
6093 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
6094 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
6095 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
6096 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
6097 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
6099 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
6100 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
6101 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
6102 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
6103 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
6104 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
6105 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
6106 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
6109 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6110 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
6111 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
6114 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6117 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
6119 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6120 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
6121 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
6122 some internals work is needed to complete these).
6123 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
6126 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
6127 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
6128 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
6129 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
6130 + make it work with $DESTDIR
6131 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
6134 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
6135 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
6137 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
6138 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
6139 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
6142 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
6143 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
6144 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
6145 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
6146 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
6147 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
6148 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
6149 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
6150 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
6153 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
6154 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
6156 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
6158 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
6159 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
6162 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
6164 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
6165 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
6166 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
6167 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
6170 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
6171 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
6172 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
6174 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
6175 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
6178 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
6179 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
6180 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
6181 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
6182 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
6183 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
6185 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
6186 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
6188 + update config.guess, config.sub from
6189 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
6192 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
6193 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
6194 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
6197 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
6198 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
6199 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
6201 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
6202 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
6205 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
6207 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
6208 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
6209 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
6211 + fixes from NetBSD port at
6212 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
6213 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
6214 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
6215 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
6216 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
6218 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
6219 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
6222 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
6223 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
6224 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
6225 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
6226 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
6227 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
6228 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
6229 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
6230 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
6231 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
6232 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
6235 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
6236 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
6237 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
6238 passing color or video attributes.
6239 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
6240 display meta-characters.
6241 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
6242 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
6243 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
6244 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
6248 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
6249 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6250 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
6252 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
6255 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
6257 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
6258 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
6260 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
6263 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
6264 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
6265 does not work well on that platform).
6266 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
6269 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
6270 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
6271 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
6273 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
6274 --disable-database is used.
6275 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
6276 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
6277 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
6278 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
6282 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
6283 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
6284 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
6285 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
6286 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
6287 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
6288 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
6292 + regenerated html documentation.
6293 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
6294 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
6295 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
6296 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
6297 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
6298 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
6299 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
6300 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
6303 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
6304 works for C/C++ parts).
6305 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
6306 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
6309 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
6310 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
6311 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
6312 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
6313 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
6314 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
6315 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
6316 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
6317 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
6319 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
6320 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6321 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
6322 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
6323 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
6324 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
6327 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
6328 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
6331 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
6332 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
6333 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
6334 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
6335 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
6336 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
6339 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
6340 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
6343 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
6347 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
6348 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
6349 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
6350 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
6352 + update test/configure script.
6353 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
6354 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
6355 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
6356 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
6357 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
6360 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
6361 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
6363 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
6365 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
6366 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
6367 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
6368 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
6369 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
6370 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
6371 + update config.guess, config.sub from
6372 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
6373 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
6376 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
6377 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
6378 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
6379 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
6380 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
6381 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
6382 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
6383 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
6384 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
6385 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
6386 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
6390 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
6391 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
6392 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
6393 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
6394 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
6396 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
6397 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
6398 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
6399 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
6400 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
6403 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
6404 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
6405 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
6406 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
6407 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
6408 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
6409 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
6412 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
6416 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
6419 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
6422 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
6423 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
6425 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
6426 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
6427 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
6431 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
6432 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
6434 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
6435 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
6436 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
6437 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
6440 + regenerated html documentation.
6441 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
6442 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
6443 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
6444 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
6445 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
6448 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
6449 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
6450 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
6454 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
6455 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
6456 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
6457 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
6458 window which is being used in a wgetch().
6459 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
6462 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
6463 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
6465 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
6466 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
6467 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
6468 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
6469 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
6470 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
6471 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
6472 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
6473 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
6476 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
6477 screen which must be updated.
6478 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
6479 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
6480 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
6484 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
6485 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
6487 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
6488 Emanuele Giaquinta).
6489 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
6490 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
6493 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
6494 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
6495 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
6497 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
6501 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
6502 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
6503 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
6506 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
6507 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
6508 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
6509 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
6512 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
6513 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
6515 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
6517 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
6520 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
6521 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
6522 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
6523 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
6524 python-dev2 mailing list).
6527 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
6528 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
6529 are not associated with a particular screen.
6530 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
6531 stdscr to the callback function.
6532 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
6533 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
6534 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
6535 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
6536 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
6537 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
6538 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
6542 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
6543 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
6544 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
6545 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
6547 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
6548 wide-characters with extended-colors.
6549 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
6550 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
6551 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
6554 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
6555 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
6556 that the 'F' accepts.
6557 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
6558 are working concurrently.
6559 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
6563 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
6564 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
6565 _nc_free_and_exit().
6568 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
6569 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
6572 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
6573 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
6576 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
6577 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open Curses
6578 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
6579 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
6582 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
6583 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
6584 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
6585 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
6586 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
6587 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
6589 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
6590 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
6594 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
6595 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
6596 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
6599 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
6600 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
6601 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
6604 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
6605 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
6606 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
6610 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
6611 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
6612 "link_test" builds properly.
6613 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
6614 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
6615 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
6616 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
6617 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
6618 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
6619 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
6621 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
6624 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
6628 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
6629 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
6632 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
6634 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
6635 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
6636 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
6639 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
6640 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
6641 pierre4d2 comments).
6642 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
6643 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
6644 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
6645 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
6649 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
6650 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
6651 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
6652 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
6653 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
6655 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
6656 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
6657 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
6661 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
6662 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
6665 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
6667 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
6669 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
6673 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
6674 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
6676 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
6677 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
6678 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
6679 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
6680 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
6682 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
6683 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
6686 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
6687 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
6688 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
6689 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
6692 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
6693 calls within the ncurses library.
6694 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
6696 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
6697 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
6698 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
6700 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
6701 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
6702 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
6703 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
6704 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
6707 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
6708 for threaded library (incomplete).
6709 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
6710 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
6714 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
6715 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
6716 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
6717 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
6718 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
6719 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
6720 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
6721 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
6722 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
6725 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
6727 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
6728 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
6731 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
6732 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
6733 "\0" followed by a digit.
6734 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
6735 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
6736 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
6737 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
6738 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
6739 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
6740 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
6741 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
6742 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
6745 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
6746 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
6747 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
6748 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
6749 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
6751 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
6752 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
6753 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
6757 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
6758 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
6759 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
6760 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
6761 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
6762 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
6763 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
6764 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
6765 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
6768 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
6769 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
6770 + add test/test_getstr.c
6771 + add test/test_inwstr.c
6772 + add test/test_instr.c
6775 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
6776 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
6777 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
6781 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
6782 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
6783 ".log" to the name and try again.
6784 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
6785 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
6786 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
6787 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
6788 --disable-echo option is used.
6789 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
6790 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
6791 + update config.guess, config.sub
6794 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
6795 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
6796 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
6800 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
6801 problems with multi-column characters.
6802 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
6803 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
6804 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
6805 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
6806 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
6807 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
6808 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
6811 + add test/demo_panels.c
6812 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
6815 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
6817 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
6818 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
6821 + add test/key_name.c
6822 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
6823 + update test/configure
6824 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
6825 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
6826 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
6830 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
6831 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
6832 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
6833 illustrate how to use mvcur().
6834 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
6835 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
6836 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
6837 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
6838 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
6841 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
6842 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
6843 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
6844 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
6845 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
6846 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
6849 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
6850 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
6852 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
6853 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
6854 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
6855 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
6858 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
6859 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
6860 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
6861 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
6863 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
6865 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
6866 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
6867 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
6868 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
6869 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
6872 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
6873 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
6875 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
6876 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
6877 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
6878 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
6879 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
6880 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
6881 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
6882 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
6883 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
6884 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
6885 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
6888 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
6889 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
6890 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
6891 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
6892 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
6893 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
6894 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
6897 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
6898 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
6899 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
6900 Ada95 tree is not built.
6903 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
6904 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
6905 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
6906 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
6907 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
6908 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
6910 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
6911 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
6912 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
6913 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
6914 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
6915 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
6916 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
6917 > fixes based on Coverity report:
6918 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
6919 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
6920 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
6921 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
6922 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
6923 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
6924 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
6925 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
6926 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
6927 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
6928 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
6930 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
6931 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
6932 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
6933 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
6934 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
6935 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
6936 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
6937 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
6938 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
6941 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
6942 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
6943 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
6944 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
6945 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
6946 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
6947 + improved install-sh's quoting.
6948 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
6952 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
6953 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
6954 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
6955 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
6956 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
6960 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
6961 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
6962 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
6963 in the configure script to an error.
6964 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
6965 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
6966 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
6967 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
6968 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
6970 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
6971 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
6974 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
6975 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
6978 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
6979 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
6981 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
6982 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
6983 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
6984 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
6985 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
6986 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
6987 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
6988 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
6991 + regenerated html documentation.
6992 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
6993 opaque in selected configurations.
6994 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
6995 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
6996 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
6997 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
6998 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
6999 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
7000 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
7001 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
7002 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
7003 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
7004 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
7006 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
7007 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
7010 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
7011 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
7012 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
7013 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
7014 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
7015 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
7016 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
7017 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
7018 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
7019 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
7020 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
7021 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
7024 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
7026 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
7027 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
7028 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
7030 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
7031 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
7032 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
7033 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
7034 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
7035 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
7036 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
7037 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
7039 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
7040 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
7043 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
7044 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
7046 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
7048 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
7049 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
7050 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
7053 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
7054 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
7055 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
7056 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
7058 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
7059 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
7060 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
7061 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
7062 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
7063 no longer relies on it.
7064 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
7065 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
7066 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
7069 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
7070 (report by Rong-En Fan).
7073 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
7074 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
7075 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
7076 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
7077 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
7078 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
7079 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
7080 its license consistent with ncurses.
7081 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
7082 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
7083 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
7086 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
7087 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
7088 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
7089 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
7093 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
7094 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
7095 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
7097 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
7098 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
7101 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
7102 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
7103 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
7106 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
7107 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
7108 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
7109 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
7110 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
7111 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
7112 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
7113 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
7114 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
7115 to manpages as needed.
7116 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
7117 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
7120 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
7121 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
7122 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
7123 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
7124 + update config.guess, config.sub
7126 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7129 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
7130 definitions in <wchar.h>.
7131 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
7132 correct nor portable.
7133 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
7135 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
7136 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
7140 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
7141 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
7142 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
7143 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
7144 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
7145 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
7148 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
7149 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
7150 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
7151 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
7153 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
7154 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
7155 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
7156 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
7157 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
7158 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
7159 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
7160 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
7163 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
7164 database configuration.
7165 + updates for test/configure script.
7166 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
7167 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
7169 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
7170 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
7171 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
7172 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
7174 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
7175 _nc_printf_string().
7176 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
7177 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
7180 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
7181 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
7183 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
7184 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
7188 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
7189 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
7192 + add test/echochar.c
7193 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
7194 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
7197 + add AUTHORS file -TD
7198 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
7199 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
7200 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
7203 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
7204 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
7205 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
7207 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
7208 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
7209 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
7210 for rpath support in versions past 3.
7211 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
7212 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
7213 Ralf S Engelschall).
7214 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
7215 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
7216 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
7217 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
7220 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
7221 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
7222 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
7225 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
7226 and status line (Alain Bench).
7227 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
7228 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
7229 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
7230 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
7233 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
7234 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
7235 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
7236 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvements to "-f" option.
7237 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
7240 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
7241 + updated html documentation.
7242 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
7243 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
7246 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
7247 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
7248 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
7249 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
7250 option (from lynx changes) -TD
7251 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
7252 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
7253 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
7254 by report by Christopher Parker).
7258 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
7259 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
7260 since it does not really do this -TD
7263 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
7264 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
7265 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
7266 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
7269 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
7270 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
7271 embedded into a termcap description.
7272 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
7273 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
7274 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
7275 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
7276 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
7279 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
7281 + add test/foldkeys.c
7284 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
7285 source output (Debian #378783).
7286 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
7287 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
7288 variable is also used (Redhat #199369).
7289 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
7290 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
7291 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
7294 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
7295 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
7296 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
7299 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
7300 or as a text file if those are not available.
7301 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
7302 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
7303 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
7306 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
7307 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
7308 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
7309 + update config.guess, config.sub
7312 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
7313 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
7314 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
7316 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
7317 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
7319 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
7320 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
7321 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
7322 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
7323 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
7324 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
7326 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
7327 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
7328 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
7329 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
7332 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
7333 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
7337 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
7338 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
7340 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
7341 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
7342 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
7343 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
7344 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
7345 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
7348 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
7349 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
7350 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
7351 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
7352 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
7353 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
7354 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
7355 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
7356 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
7357 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
7360 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
7361 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
7362 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
7363 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
7365 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
7368 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
7369 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
7370 + minor copyright fixes.
7371 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
7374 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
7375 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
7376 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
7377 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
7378 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
7379 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
7380 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
7381 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
7383 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
7384 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
7385 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
7386 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
7388 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
7391 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
7392 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
7394 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
7395 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
7396 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
7397 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
7399 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
7400 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
7401 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
7402 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
7405 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
7406 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
7407 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
7408 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
7409 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
7410 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
7411 + update config.guess, config.sub
7412 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
7413 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
7414 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
7415 function is broken in that implementation.
7418 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
7419 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
7422 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
7423 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
7425 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
7426 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
7428 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
7429 reported to implement this feature -TD
7432 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
7433 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
7436 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
7437 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
7438 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
7439 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
7440 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
7441 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
7442 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
7443 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
7446 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
7447 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
7449 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
7450 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
7453 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
7454 (report by Alain Bench).
7455 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
7456 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
7457 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
7458 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
7460 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
7461 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
7462 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
7466 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
7467 and/or video attributes.
7468 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
7469 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
7472 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
7475 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
7476 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
7477 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
7478 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
7479 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
7480 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
7481 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
7482 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
7483 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
7486 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
7487 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
7488 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
7491 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
7492 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
7493 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
7494 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
7495 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
7496 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
7497 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
7498 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
7499 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
7500 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
7503 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
7504 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
7505 rather than delayed.
7506 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
7508 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
7509 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
7510 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
7513 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
7515 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
7516 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
7519 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
7520 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
7523 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
7524 + suppress line-drawing
7525 + implement max_attributes
7527 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
7528 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
7532 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
7533 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
7535 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
7537 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
7538 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
7539 etc., when allocating screens.
7542 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
7543 this in test/filter.c
7544 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
7548 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
7549 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
7550 + add extension nofilter().
7551 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
7552 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
7553 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
7554 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
7555 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
7558 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
7559 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
7560 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
7561 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
7562 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
7563 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
7564 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
7565 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
7566 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
7568 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
7569 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
7570 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
7572 + update config.guess and config.sub
7575 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
7576 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
7577 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
7579 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
7580 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
7581 that was never built in that directory).
7582 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
7585 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
7587 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
7588 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
7592 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
7593 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
7594 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
7595 effect of the different functions.
7596 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
7600 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
7601 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
7603 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
7607 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
7608 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
7609 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
7611 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
7612 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
7616 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
7617 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
7618 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
7620 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
7621 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
7622 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
7625 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
7626 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
7627 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
7630 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
7631 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
7632 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
7634 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
7635 a derived window (Debian #316663).
7638 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
7639 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
7640 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
7641 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
7642 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
7643 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
7644 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
7647 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
7648 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
7649 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
7651 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
7652 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7653 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
7654 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
7655 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
7657 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7660 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
7663 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
7664 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
7668 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
7669 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7670 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
7671 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7672 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
7674 + update config.guess and config.sub from
7675 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
7678 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
7679 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
7680 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
7681 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
7682 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
7683 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
7684 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
7685 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
7686 default if it is used.
7687 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
7688 --with-abi-version option was used.
7689 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
7690 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
7691 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
7694 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
7695 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
7696 handlers (Debian #326709).
7699 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
7700 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
7702 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
7705 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
7706 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
7707 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
7708 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
7710 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
7711 (report by Frank van Vugt).
7714 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
7715 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
7716 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
7717 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
7718 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
7719 + update llib-l* files.
7722 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
7723 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
7724 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
7725 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
7729 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
7730 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
7731 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
7732 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
7733 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
7734 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
7735 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
7736 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
7737 Konstantin Andreev).
7740 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
7741 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
7742 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
7743 several related cases -TD
7744 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
7745 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
7747 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
7748 resets line-drawing.
7751 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
7753 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
7754 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
7755 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
7756 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
7757 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
7758 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
7761 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
7762 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
7763 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
7765 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
7766 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
7769 + update config.guess and config.sub from
7770 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
7771 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
7772 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
7773 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
7774 "make install.data" step.
7775 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
7776 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
7777 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
7778 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
7779 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
7780 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
7781 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
7782 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
7783 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
7784 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
7785 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
7786 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
7787 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
7788 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
7791 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7794 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
7795 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
7796 review of Debian package).
7797 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
7798 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
7799 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
7800 install using libtool 1.5.0):
7801 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
7803 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
7804 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
7805 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
7806 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
7807 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7810 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
7811 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
7812 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
7815 + fixes for termcap support:
7816 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
7817 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
7818 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
7819 extended names data will be freed consistently.
7820 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
7822 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
7823 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
7824 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
7825 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
7828 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
7829 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
7830 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
7831 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
7833 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
7837 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
7839 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
7840 see ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
7843 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
7844 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
7845 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
7846 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
7847 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
7848 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
7849 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
7853 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
7854 shift-, control-cursor keys.
7855 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
7856 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
7857 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
7858 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
7859 it will automatically be treated as a key.
7860 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
7861 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
7862 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
7866 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
7867 + add configure option --enable-largefile
7868 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
7872 + update config.guess, config.sub
7873 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
7874 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
7875 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
7876 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
7877 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
7879 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
7880 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
7881 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
7884 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
7885 position the mouse to a particular item.
7886 + implement test/demo_menus.c
7887 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
7888 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
7889 --enable-const option.
7892 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
7893 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
7894 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
7895 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
7896 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
7897 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
7898 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
7899 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
7900 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
7901 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
7902 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
7905 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
7907 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
7908 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
7911 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
7912 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
7913 anyone used that configuration.
7914 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
7916 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
7917 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
7920 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
7921 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
7922 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
7924 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
7925 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
7926 WenRui, Debian #300512).
7929 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
7930 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
7931 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
7935 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
7936 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
7937 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
7938 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
7939 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
7942 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
7944 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
7946 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
7947 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
7948 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
7951 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
7953 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
7954 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
7955 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
7956 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
7957 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
7958 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
7959 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
7960 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
7961 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
7962 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
7963 right (cf: 20040228).
7964 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
7965 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
7968 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
7969 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
7970 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
7971 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
7972 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
7973 added (Debian #295083).
7974 + add traces to panel library.
7977 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
7978 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
7979 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
7980 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
7981 mouse events in this case.
7982 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
7983 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
7986 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
7987 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
7988 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
7989 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
7990 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
7991 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
7992 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
7993 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
7996 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
7997 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
7998 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
7999 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
8000 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
8001 already been started.
8002 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
8003 pair_content() and color_content().
8004 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
8005 if it corresponds to the default-color.
8006 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
8007 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
8008 color pairs which are allowed.
8009 + add a top-level tags rule.
8012 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
8013 first calling initscr().
8014 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
8015 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
8016 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
8017 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
8018 that are curses-specific.
8019 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
8020 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
8021 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
8022 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
8026 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
8027 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
8028 for leading whitespace.
8029 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
8030 where a following line begins in column 1.
8031 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
8032 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
8035 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
8038 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
8039 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
8040 + update config.guess, config.sub
8041 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
8042 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
8043 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
8044 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
8045 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
8046 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
8047 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
8050 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
8052 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
8053 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
8056 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
8057 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
8058 and attr_set functions.
8061 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
8062 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
8063 forms-demo to be one character short.
8064 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
8065 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
8066 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
8067 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
8070 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
8071 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
8072 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
8073 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
8075 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
8076 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
8079 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
8080 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
8081 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
8082 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
8083 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat #140326).
8084 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
8085 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
8087 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
8088 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
8090 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
8091 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
8094 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
8095 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
8096 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
8097 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
8098 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
8099 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
8100 wide-character configuration.
8103 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
8104 or multicolumn characters.
8107 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
8108 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
8109 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
8110 use_default_colors() be called first.
8113 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
8114 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
8115 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
8116 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
8117 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
8118 must be wrapped to a new line.
8119 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
8120 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
8121 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
8122 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
8123 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
8127 + minor fixes for traces.
8128 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
8129 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
8130 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
8134 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
8135 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
8136 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
8137 and shift-out which seem to work.
8138 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
8139 at runtime (Debian #110586).
8142 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
8143 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
8144 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
8145 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
8149 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
8150 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
8151 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
8152 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
8155 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
8156 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
8157 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
8158 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
8159 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
8160 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
8161 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
8162 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
8163 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
8164 is no longer experimental.
8165 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
8166 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
8169 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
8172 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
8173 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
8174 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
8175 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
8176 using "tic -C" (Redhat #130921).
8177 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
8178 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
8179 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
8182 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
8183 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
8184 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
8185 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
8186 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
8187 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637).
8188 The xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and
8189 the new ones do not require this change. -TD
8192 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
8193 and window managers (Debian #265631).
8194 > terminfo updates -TD
8195 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
8196 with the common usage of bce/ech
8197 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
8201 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
8202 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
8203 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
8204 a help window as well.
8205 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
8206 the -d option is set.
8207 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
8210 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
8212 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
8213 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
8217 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
8218 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
8219 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
8220 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat #122815, patch by
8222 > terminfo updates -TD
8223 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
8224 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
8225 + add function-keys to decansi
8226 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
8227 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
8228 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
8231 > terminfo updates -TD
8232 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
8233 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
8235 + review/update konsole entries
8236 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
8237 + correct tsl string in kterm
8240 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
8243 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
8244 multibyte character.
8245 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
8247 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
8248 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
8249 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
8250 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
8251 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
8252 converting termcap to termcap format.
8253 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
8254 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
8255 > terminfo updates -TD
8256 + minor fixes for emu
8258 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
8263 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
8264 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
8265 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
8266 (report/patch by Tony Li).
8267 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
8268 > terminfo updates -TD
8269 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
8271 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
8272 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
8273 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
8276 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
8277 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
8279 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
8280 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
8281 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
8282 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
8283 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
8284 + update config.guess, config.sub
8285 > terminfo updates -TD
8287 + add xterm-xf86-v44
8288 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
8289 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
8294 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
8295 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
8296 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
8299 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
8300 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
8301 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
8303 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
8307 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
8308 field_buffer() results.
8309 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
8312 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
8314 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
8315 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
8316 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
8317 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
8318 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
8321 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
8322 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
8323 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
8327 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
8328 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
8330 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
8333 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
8334 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
8335 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
8336 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
8337 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
8338 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
8339 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
8340 information without an option.
8341 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
8342 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
8345 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
8348 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
8349 + free some memory leaks in tic.
8350 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
8351 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
8352 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
8353 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
8354 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
8356 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
8359 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
8360 to an unsigned char.
8361 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
8362 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
8365 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
8368 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
8369 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
8370 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
8371 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
8372 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
8373 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
8374 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
8375 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
8376 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
8377 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
8378 20030802 (Debian #237629).
8381 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
8382 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
8383 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
8384 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
8387 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
8389 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
8390 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
8393 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
8394 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
8395 mode is shown in that test.
8396 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
8397 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
8398 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
8401 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
8403 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
8404 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
8405 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
8406 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
8408 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
8409 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
8410 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
8411 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
8414 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
8415 (request by Mike Aubury).
8416 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
8418 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
8420 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
8423 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
8424 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
8425 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
8426 with Stanislav Ievlev).
8427 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
8428 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
8429 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
8430 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
8431 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
8432 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
8434 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
8437 20040207 pre-release
8438 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
8439 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
8440 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
8441 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
8442 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
8444 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
8445 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
8446 verified by Scott Corscadden).
8448 20040131 pre-release
8449 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
8450 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
8451 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
8452 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
8453 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
8454 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
8455 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
8456 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
8457 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
8458 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
8459 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
8461 20040125 pre-release
8462 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
8463 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
8464 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
8465 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
8466 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
8467 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
8468 modifying the displayed value.
8470 20040124 pre-release
8471 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
8472 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
8473 that works better for cross-compiling.
8475 20040117 pre-release
8476 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
8477 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
8478 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
8479 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
8480 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
8481 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
8482 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
8484 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
8485 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
8487 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
8488 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
8489 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
8490 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
8491 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
8492 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
8493 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
8494 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
8495 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
8496 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
8497 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
8498 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
8500 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
8501 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
8502 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
8503 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
8504 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
8505 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
8506 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
8507 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
8509 20040110 pre-release
8510 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
8511 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
8513 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
8514 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
8516 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
8518 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
8519 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
8520 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
8521 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
8522 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
8525 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
8526 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
8527 + add pecho_wchar().
8528 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
8529 available) on older platforms.
8532 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
8533 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
8534 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
8535 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
8536 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
8537 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
8538 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
8539 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
8540 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
8543 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
8544 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
8545 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
8546 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
8547 work with Tru64 4.0d.
8548 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
8552 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
8553 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
8554 applications do not.
8555 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
8556 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
8557 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
8558 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
8559 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
8560 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
8564 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
8565 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
8566 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
8567 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
8568 <inger@altlinux.org>).
8569 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
8570 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
8571 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
8572 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
8573 awkward for some cases.
8574 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
8575 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
8577 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
8578 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
8579 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
8580 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
8581 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
8585 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
8586 values (Philippe Blain).
8587 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
8588 restarting (Philippe Blain).
8589 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
8593 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
8594 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
8595 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
8596 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
8597 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
8598 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
8602 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
8603 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
8604 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
8606 + update config.guess, config.sub
8609 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
8610 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
8611 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
8612 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
8613 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
8614 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
8615 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
8617 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
8618 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
8619 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
8620 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
8621 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
8624 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
8625 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
8626 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
8627 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
8628 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
8629 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
8630 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
8631 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
8633 + regenerated html documentation.
8634 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
8635 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
8636 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
8639 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
8640 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
8641 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
8642 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
8643 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
8644 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
8645 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
8646 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
8650 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
8651 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
8654 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
8655 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
8656 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
8657 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
8659 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
8660 (report by Philippe Blain).
8663 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
8664 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
8665 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
8666 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
8667 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
8668 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
8669 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8670 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
8671 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
8673 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
8675 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
8676 in the clr_bol logic.
8679 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8680 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
8681 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
8682 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
8683 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
8684 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
8685 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
8686 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
8687 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
8688 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
8689 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
8690 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
8693 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
8694 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
8695 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
8696 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
8699 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
8700 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
8701 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
8702 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
8703 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
8704 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
8705 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
8706 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
8707 --with-install-prefix is used.
8710 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8711 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
8712 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
8713 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
8716 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
8717 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
8718 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
8719 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
8720 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
8721 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
8722 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8723 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
8724 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
8727 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
8728 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
8729 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
8730 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
8731 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
8732 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
8733 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
8736 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
8738 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8739 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
8740 the size of the scroll-region.
8741 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
8744 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
8745 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
8746 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
8750 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
8751 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
8752 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
8753 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
8754 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
8756 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
8757 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
8758 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
8759 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
8760 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
8761 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
8762 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
8763 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
8764 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
8765 usage and to prevent circular links.
8766 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
8767 (rxvt-color): new alias
8768 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
8769 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
8770 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
8771 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
8772 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
8773 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
8775 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
8779 + update config.guess, config.sub
8780 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
8781 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
8784 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
8785 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
8786 would not accept gcc warning options.
8787 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
8788 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
8789 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
8790 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
8791 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
8792 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
8793 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
8795 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
8798 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
8799 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
8800 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
8801 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
8802 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
8803 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
8804 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
8805 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
8808 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
8810 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
8811 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
8812 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
8813 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
8816 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
8818 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
8819 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
8820 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
8821 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
8822 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
8823 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
8826 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
8827 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
8828 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
8829 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
8830 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
8831 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
8832 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
8833 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
8835 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
8836 Albert Chin-A-Young).
8837 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
8838 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8841 + regenerated html manpages.
8842 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
8843 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
8845 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
8846 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
8848 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
8849 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
8852 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
8853 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
8854 + add tkterm entry -TD
8855 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
8856 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
8857 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
8858 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
8860 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
8861 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
8862 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
8864 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
8865 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
8866 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
8869 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
8870 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
8871 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
8872 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
8874 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
8875 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
8876 current test programs.
8877 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
8878 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
8879 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
8880 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
8882 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
8883 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
8884 mentioned in the terminfo.
8885 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
8886 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
8889 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
8890 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
8891 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
8892 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
8893 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
8894 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
8895 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
8896 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
8899 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
8900 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
8901 the editing position before making modifications.
8902 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
8903 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
8904 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
8907 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
8908 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
8909 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
8910 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
8912 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
8913 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
8914 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
8915 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
8916 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
8917 terminfo as is done in "screen".
8920 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
8921 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
8922 code, from recent rewrite.
8923 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
8925 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
8926 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
8929 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
8930 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
8931 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
8932 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
8935 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
8936 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
8938 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
8941 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
8943 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
8944 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
8946 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
8947 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
8948 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
8951 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
8952 a file when ^W is given.
8953 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
8957 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
8958 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
8959 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
8960 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
8961 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
8962 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
8963 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
8964 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
8968 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
8969 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
8970 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
8973 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
8974 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
8975 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
8976 baudrate was not known.
8977 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
8978 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
8979 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
8980 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
8981 corresponding capability might be
8983 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
8984 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
8985 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
8986 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
8989 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
8990 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
8991 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
8992 apparently typedef'd.
8993 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
8994 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
8997 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
8998 + updated configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
8999 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
9000 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
9001 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
9002 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
9003 cached for reallocating.
9006 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
9007 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
9008 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
9010 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
9011 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
9012 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
9013 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
9014 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
9015 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
9016 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
9017 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
9020 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
9021 emx-base to the latter -TD
9022 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
9023 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
9026 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
9027 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
9028 attributes, e.g., reverse.
9029 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
9030 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
9033 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
9034 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
9035 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
9036 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
9037 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
9038 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
9039 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
9041 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
9042 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
9043 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
9044 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
9045 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
9048 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
9049 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
9050 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
9051 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
9052 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
9053 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
9055 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9056 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
9057 is indeed a "blank".
9058 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
9059 sections as small as one line.
9060 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
9062 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
9063 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
9064 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
9067 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
9068 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
9071 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
9072 (report by Philippe Blain).
9073 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
9074 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
9075 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
9076 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
9077 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
9079 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
9080 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
9081 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
9082 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9083 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
9084 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
9087 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
9088 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
9090 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
9091 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
9093 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
9094 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
9095 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
9096 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
9099 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
9100 overridden from the environment.
9101 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
9102 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
9103 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
9104 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
9105 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
9106 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
9107 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
9108 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
9109 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
9110 by Sam Varshavchik).
9111 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
9112 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
9113 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
9114 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
9116 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
9117 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
9118 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
9119 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
9120 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
9123 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
9124 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
9125 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
9126 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
9127 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
9128 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
9129 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
9130 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
9131 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
9132 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
9133 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
9134 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
9135 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
9136 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
9137 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
9138 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
9139 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
9140 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
9141 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
9142 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
9143 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
9144 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
9145 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
9148 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
9149 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
9150 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
9151 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
9152 winsch() internal function.
9153 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
9154 more than one spacing character.
9157 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
9158 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
9159 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
9160 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
9161 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
9162 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
9163 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
9164 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
9165 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
9166 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
9169 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
9170 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
9171 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
9172 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
9173 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
9174 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
9175 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
9178 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
9179 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
9180 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
9181 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
9183 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
9184 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
9185 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
9186 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
9187 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
9190 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
9191 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
9192 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
9193 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
9194 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
9195 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
9196 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
9197 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
9198 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
9199 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
9200 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
9201 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
9202 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
9203 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
9204 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
9205 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
9206 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
9209 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
9210 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
9211 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
9212 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
9213 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
9214 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
9215 Frederic L W Meunier).
9217 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
9218 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
9219 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
9220 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
9221 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
9222 the debug trace in that case.
9223 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
9224 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
9225 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
9226 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
9228 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
9229 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
9231 20021005 pre-release
9232 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
9233 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
9234 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
9235 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
9236 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
9237 formats such as "%.*s".
9238 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
9239 (report Floyd Davidson).
9240 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
9242 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
9243 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
9244 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
9246 20020928 pre-release
9247 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
9248 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
9249 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
9251 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
9252 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
9253 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
9254 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
9255 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
9256 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
9257 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
9258 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
9259 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
9260 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
9261 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
9262 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
9263 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
9264 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
9265 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
9266 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
9267 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
9268 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
9269 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
9271 20020921 pre-release
9272 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
9273 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
9274 result in core dump.
9275 + documented getbegx(), etc.
9276 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
9277 delimiter rather than '@'.
9278 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9279 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
9280 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
9281 to the lines given for the destination window.
9283 20020914 pre-release
9284 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
9285 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
9286 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
9287 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
9288 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
9289 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
9290 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
9291 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
9292 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9293 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
9294 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
9295 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
9297 20020907 pre-release
9298 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
9299 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
9300 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
9301 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
9302 html manpages on Debian.
9303 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
9304 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
9305 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
9306 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9307 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
9308 a variable from the stack.
9309 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
9311 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
9312 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
9313 _idcok window fields.
9314 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
9316 20020901 pre-release
9317 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
9318 + update config.guess, config.sub
9319 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
9320 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
9322 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
9323 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
9324 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
9325 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
9326 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
9327 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
9328 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
9329 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
9330 use in resizeterm().
9331 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
9332 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
9333 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
9334 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
9335 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9336 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
9337 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
9338 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
9339 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
9340 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
9341 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
9345 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
9346 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
9347 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
9348 + fix an overlooked case for Redhat #68199 (Philippe Blain).
9349 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
9350 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
9353 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
9354 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
9355 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
9357 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
9358 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
9359 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
9360 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
9361 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
9363 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
9364 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
9368 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
9369 when translating to termcap.
9370 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
9371 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
9372 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
9374 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
9376 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
9377 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
9379 + document TABSIZE variable.
9380 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
9381 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
9382 assume_default_colors().
9383 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
9385 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
9386 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
9387 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
9388 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
9389 window (completes Debian #87678, Debian #101699)
9392 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
9394 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
9395 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
9397 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
9398 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
9399 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
9402 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
9404 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
9407 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
9408 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
9409 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
9410 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
9411 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
9412 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
9413 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
9414 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
9415 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
9416 configure definitions.
9417 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
9418 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
9419 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
9420 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
9421 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
9422 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
9423 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
9424 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
9425 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
9426 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
9427 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
9430 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
9431 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
9432 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
9433 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
9434 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
9435 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
9436 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
9438 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
9439 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
9440 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
9441 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9444 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
9445 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
9446 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
9447 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
9449 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
9450 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
9451 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
9454 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
9455 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
9457 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
9458 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
9459 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
9461 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
9462 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
9463 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
9464 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
9466 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
9467 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
9468 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
9469 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
9473 + add charset to generated html.
9474 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
9475 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
9476 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
9477 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
9478 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
9479 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
9483 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
9484 key code in get_wch().
9485 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
9486 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
9487 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
9488 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
9489 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
9490 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
9493 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
9494 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
9496 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
9497 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
9498 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
9499 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
9502 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
9503 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
9504 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
9505 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
9506 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
9507 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
9508 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
9509 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
9510 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
9511 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
9514 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
9518 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
9519 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
9520 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
9521 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
9522 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
9523 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
9524 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
9527 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
9528 character versions as well.
9529 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
9531 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
9533 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
9534 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
9535 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
9536 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
9537 if gettimeofday() is available.
9540 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
9541 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
9544 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
9546 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
9547 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
9548 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
9549 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
9550 + update config.guess, config.sub
9553 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
9554 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
9555 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
9556 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
9557 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
9558 alias for 'function'.
9561 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
9562 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
9566 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
9567 + implement wgetn_wstr().
9568 + implement win_wchnstr().
9569 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
9570 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
9573 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
9574 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
9577 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
9578 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
9581 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
9582 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
9583 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
9585 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
9586 + implement unget_wch().
9587 + implement wget_wch().
9590 + regenerated html manpages.
9591 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
9592 + implement wins_wch().
9593 + implement win_wch().
9594 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
9597 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
9598 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
9601 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
9602 + document wunctrl, key_name.
9603 + implement key_name().
9604 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
9606 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
9610 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
9611 in spurious symlinks on install.
9614 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
9615 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
9616 box() and box_set() functions.
9617 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
9618 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
9619 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
9620 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
9621 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
9622 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
9623 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
9625 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
9627 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
9628 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
9629 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
9630 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
9632 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
9633 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
9636 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
9637 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
9639 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
9643 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
9645 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
9646 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
9647 Albert Chin-A-Young).
9648 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
9649 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
9650 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
9651 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
9652 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
9653 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
9654 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
9655 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
9656 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
9657 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
9658 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
9659 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
9662 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
9663 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
9666 + update config.guess, config.sub
9667 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
9668 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
9671 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
9672 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
9673 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
9675 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
9676 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
9678 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
9679 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
9680 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
9681 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
9684 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
9687 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
9688 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
9689 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
9690 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
9691 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
9692 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
9693 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
9694 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
9695 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
9697 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
9698 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
9699 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
9701 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
9703 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
9704 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
9705 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
9706 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
9707 work with SunOS nawk.
9708 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
9710 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
9711 case it uses multiple tokens.
9714 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
9715 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
9716 interrupted by that signal.
9717 + updated configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
9718 not needed with autoconf 2.52
9719 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
9720 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
9722 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
9723 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
9724 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
9725 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
9726 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
9729 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
9731 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
9732 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
9733 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
9734 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
9735 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
9736 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
9737 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
9738 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
9741 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
9742 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
9743 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
9744 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
9745 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
9746 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
9747 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
9748 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
9749 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
9752 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
9753 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
9754 may have different keypad() settings.
9755 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
9756 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
9757 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
9758 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
9759 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
9760 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
9761 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
9762 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
9764 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
9765 + update config.guess, config.sub from
9766 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
9767 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
9771 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
9773 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
9774 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
9775 implementation in cygwin package).
9776 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
9777 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
9779 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
9780 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
9781 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
9782 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
9783 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
9784 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
9785 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
9786 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
9787 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
9789 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
9790 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
9791 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
9792 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
9793 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
9794 <jevans@apple.com>).
9795 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
9796 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
9797 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
9798 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
9799 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
9803 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
9804 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
9805 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
9806 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
9807 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
9808 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
9809 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
9810 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
9811 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
9812 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
9815 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
9818 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
9819 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
9820 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
9821 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
9822 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
9825 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
9826 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
9829 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
9830 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
9831 + implement wecho_wchar()
9832 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
9833 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
9834 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
9836 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
9837 in a trace by using curly braces.
9838 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
9839 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
9840 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
9841 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
9844 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
9845 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
9846 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
9847 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
9848 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
9852 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
9853 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
9854 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
9855 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
9856 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
9857 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
9858 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
9859 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
9863 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
9864 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
9865 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
9866 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
9867 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
9868 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
9869 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
9870 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
9871 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
9874 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
9875 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
9878 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
9879 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
9880 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
9881 <bbraun@synack.net>).
9882 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
9883 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
9885 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
9886 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
9888 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
9889 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
9892 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
9893 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
9894 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
9895 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
9896 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
9898 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
9899 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
9901 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
9902 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
9903 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
9904 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
9905 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
9908 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
9909 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
9911 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
9912 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
9913 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
9914 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
9917 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
9918 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
9919 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
9920 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
9921 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
9925 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
9926 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
9927 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
9929 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
9931 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
9933 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
9935 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
9936 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
9937 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
9938 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
9939 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
9940 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
9941 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
9942 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
9943 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
9947 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
9948 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
9949 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
9950 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
9951 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
9952 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
9953 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
9954 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
9955 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
9956 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
9958 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
9959 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
9960 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
9961 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
9962 supports xterm mouse controls.
9963 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
9964 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
9965 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
9966 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
9967 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
9968 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
9969 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
9970 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
9971 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
9972 AX in a color xterm.
9973 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
9977 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
9978 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
9979 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
9980 + added llib-ncursesw.
9983 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
9984 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
9985 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
9986 header files (report by William P Setzer).
9987 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
9988 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
9989 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
9990 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
9991 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
9992 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
9993 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
9994 Albert Chin-A-Young).
9995 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
9996 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
9997 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
9998 obsolete with QNX RTP.
9999 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
10000 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
10001 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
10002 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
10005 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
10006 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
10007 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
10010 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
10011 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
10012 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
10013 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
10014 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
10015 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
10016 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
10017 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
10018 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
10019 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
10020 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
10021 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
10025 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
10026 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
10027 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
10028 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
10029 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
10030 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
10031 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10034 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
10035 new wide-character structures.
10036 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
10037 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
10038 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
10039 compiling for wide-character configuration.
10040 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
10044 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
10046 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
10047 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
10048 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
10050 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
10051 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
10052 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
10055 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
10056 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
10057 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
10060 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
10061 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
10062 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
10063 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
10064 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
10065 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
10066 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
10069 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
10070 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
10071 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
10072 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
10073 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
10074 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
10075 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
10076 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
10077 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
10080 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
10081 which may be in libutf8.
10082 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
10083 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
10084 links (Debian #99550).
10085 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
10086 C++ vscan code (Debian #97945).
10087 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
10088 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
10089 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
10090 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
10091 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
10092 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
10095 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
10096 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
10099 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
10100 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
10101 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
10102 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
10103 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
10105 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
10106 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
10107 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
10108 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
10109 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
10110 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
10111 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
10112 are used to manipulate attributes.
10113 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
10114 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
10115 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
10116 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
10117 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
10118 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
10120 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
10121 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
10122 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
10123 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
10124 we are using chtype data.
10125 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
10127 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
10129 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
10130 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
10131 where a pointer would be more useful.
10132 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
10133 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
10134 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
10135 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
10136 passing cchar_t's by address.
10137 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
10138 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
10139 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
10140 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
10141 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
10142 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
10143 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
10144 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
10147 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
10148 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
10149 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
10150 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
10151 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
10153 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
10154 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
10155 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
10158 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
10159 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
10160 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
10161 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
10162 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
10163 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
10164 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
10165 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
10166 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
10167 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
10168 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
10169 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
10172 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
10173 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
10174 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
10177 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
10178 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
10181 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
10182 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
10183 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
10184 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
10185 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
10188 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
10189 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
10190 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
10191 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
10192 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
10193 <bsittler@iname.com>).
10194 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
10195 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
10196 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
10197 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
10198 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
10201 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
10202 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
10203 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
10204 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
10205 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
10206 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
10207 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
10208 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
10209 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
10210 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
10211 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
10212 any shots there, but the computer did.
10213 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
10214 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
10218 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
10219 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
10220 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
10221 3.09.08 (Debian #92215).
10222 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
10223 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10226 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
10227 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
10228 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
10229 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
10230 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
10232 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
10234 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
10235 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
10237 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
10239 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
10240 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian #89222).
10243 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
10244 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
10245 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
10246 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
10247 interface from C++ binding.
10248 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
10249 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
10250 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
10251 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
10253 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
10254 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
10255 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
10256 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
10259 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
10260 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
10261 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
10262 (patch by Todd C Miller).
10265 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
10268 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
10272 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
10273 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
10274 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
10275 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
10276 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
10277 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
10278 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
10279 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
10280 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
10281 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
10282 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
10283 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
10286 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
10287 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
10289 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
10290 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
10291 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
10292 did not do this already.
10293 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
10294 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10295 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
10296 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
10297 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
10298 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
10299 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
10300 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
10303 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
10304 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
10307 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
10308 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
10309 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
10310 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
10312 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
10314 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
10315 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
10317 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
10318 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
10319 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
10320 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
10321 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
10324 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
10325 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
10326 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
10327 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
10330 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
10331 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
10332 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
10335 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
10336 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
10337 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
10338 work with 'indent') -TD
10341 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
10342 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
10343 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10344 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
10345 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
10347 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
10348 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
10349 termcap and terminfo functions
10350 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
10354 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
10355 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
10356 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
10357 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
10358 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
10359 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
10361 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
10362 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
10363 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
10364 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
10365 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
10366 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
10367 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
10368 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
10371 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
10372 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
10373 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
10374 /usr rather than /usr/local.
10377 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
10378 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
10379 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
10380 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
10381 <solar@false.com>).
10382 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
10383 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
10384 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
10385 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
10386 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
10387 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
10388 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
10389 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
10392 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
10393 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
10394 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
10395 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
10396 + change trace output to binary format.
10397 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
10398 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
10399 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
10400 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
10401 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
10402 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
10403 the overwrite logic.
10406 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
10407 + resync config.guess, config.sub
10408 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
10409 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
10410 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
10411 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
10413 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
10414 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
10417 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
10418 + update generated html files from manpages.
10419 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
10421 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
10422 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
10423 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
10424 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
10425 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10426 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
10427 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
10428 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
10431 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
10432 wrapping at the right margin.
10433 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
10434 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
10435 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
10437 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
10438 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
10439 understands how to run tbl automatically.
10440 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
10441 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
10442 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
10443 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
10444 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
10445 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
10446 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
10447 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
10448 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
10449 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
10450 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
10451 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
10452 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
10453 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
10454 option --with-libtool.
10455 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
10456 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
10457 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
10458 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
10459 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
10462 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
10463 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
10464 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
10465 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
10466 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
10467 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
10468 > patch by Todd C Miller:
10469 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
10470 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
10471 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
10472 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
10473 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
10474 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
10475 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
10476 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
10477 to set up a 3-button mouse.
10478 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
10479 replace select() call.
10482 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
10483 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
10484 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
10485 Albert Chin-A-Young).
10486 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
10487 cursor report before decoding.
10488 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
10489 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
10490 (see assume_default_colors()).
10491 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
10492 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
10494 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
10495 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
10496 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
10498 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
10499 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
10500 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
10501 for that capability.
10502 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
10503 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
10504 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
10505 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
10506 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
10507 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
10510 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
10511 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
10512 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
10513 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
10514 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
10515 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
10516 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
10517 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
10518 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
10520 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
10521 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
10522 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
10523 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
10524 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
10525 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
10526 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10529 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
10530 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
10531 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
10532 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
10533 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
10535 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
10536 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
10537 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
10538 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
10539 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
10540 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
10541 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
10542 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
10543 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
10544 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
10545 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
10546 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
10547 the expected number of parameters.
10548 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
10549 the option value is indeed a number.
10550 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
10551 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
10552 from the other signals.
10555 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
10556 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
10557 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
10560 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
10561 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
10563 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
10564 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
10565 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
10567 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
10568 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
10569 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
10570 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
10571 character set attribute from the displayed text.
10572 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
10573 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
10574 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
10575 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
10576 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
10577 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10580 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
10581 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
10582 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
10583 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
10584 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
10585 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
10586 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10587 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
10588 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
10589 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
10591 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
10592 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
10594 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
10595 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
10596 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
10597 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
10598 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
10599 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
10602 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
10603 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
10604 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
10605 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
10606 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
10607 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
10608 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
10609 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
10610 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
10611 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10612 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
10613 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
10614 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
10615 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
10616 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
10618 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
10619 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
10620 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
10623 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
10624 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
10625 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
10626 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
10628 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
10629 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
10630 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
10631 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
10632 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
10633 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
10634 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
10635 rules in makefiles.
10636 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
10637 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
10638 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
10639 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
10640 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
10641 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
10642 a default program-prefix.
10643 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
10644 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
10647 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
10648 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
10649 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
10650 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
10651 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
10652 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
10653 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
10654 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
10655 although the name is misleading).
10656 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
10657 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
10658 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
10659 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
10662 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
10663 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
10664 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
10666 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
10667 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
10669 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
10670 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
10671 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
10673 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
10674 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
10675 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
10676 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
10677 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
10678 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
10679 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
10680 test/configure script.
10681 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
10682 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
10683 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
10686 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
10689 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
10690 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
10691 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
10692 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
10693 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
10695 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
10696 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
10697 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
10699 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
10700 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
10703 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
10704 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10705 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
10706 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
10707 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
10708 there's still the explicit configure option).
10709 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
10710 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
10711 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
10712 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
10713 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
10714 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
10715 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
10716 simplify working around implementations that define random
10717 combinations of the related macros to zero.
10718 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
10719 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
10720 > patches by Bruno Haible:
10721 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
10722 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
10723 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
10724 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
10725 out-of-range value.
10728 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
10729 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10730 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
10731 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
10732 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
10733 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
10734 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
10735 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
10736 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
10737 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
10738 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
10739 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
10740 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
10741 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
10744 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
10745 + document configure options in INSTALL.
10746 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
10747 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
10748 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
10749 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
10750 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
10751 list of generated functions.
10752 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
10753 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
10754 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
10756 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
10757 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
10758 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
10759 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
10760 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
10762 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
10763 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
10764 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
10765 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
10766 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
10767 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
10768 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
10769 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
10770 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
10771 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
10772 examples cited in announce.html
10773 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
10774 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
10775 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
10776 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
10777 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
10778 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
10779 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
10780 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
10783 20000701 pre-release
10784 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
10785 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
10786 $COLORFGBG variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
10787 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
10788 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
10789 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
10791 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
10793 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
10795 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
10796 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
10797 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
10798 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
10799 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
10801 20000624 pre-release
10802 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
10803 that happen to render the same display colors.
10804 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
10805 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
10806 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
10807 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
10808 normalized value for cursor_address.
10809 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
10812 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
10813 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
10814 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
10815 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
10816 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
10817 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
10818 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
10819 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
10820 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
10821 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
10822 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
10823 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
10824 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
10828 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
10829 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
10830 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
10831 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
10832 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
10833 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
10834 allows larger symbol tables.
10835 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
10836 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
10837 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
10838 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
10842 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
10843 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
10844 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
10845 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
10846 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
10847 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
10848 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
10849 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
10850 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
10851 + add a "make libs" rule.
10852 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
10853 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
10854 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
10855 with existing ncurses libraries.
10858 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
10859 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
10860 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
10861 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
10862 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
10863 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
10864 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
10865 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
10866 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
10867 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
10868 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
10869 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
10870 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
10871 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
10874 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
10875 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
10876 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
10877 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
10881 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
10882 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
10883 <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>).
10884 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
10885 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
10886 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
10889 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
10890 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
10891 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
10892 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
10893 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
10895 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
10896 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
10897 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
10898 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
10899 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
10900 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
10901 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
10902 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
10905 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
10906 aixterm entries -TD
10907 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
10908 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
10909 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
10910 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
10911 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
10912 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
10913 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
10914 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
10915 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
10916 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
10917 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
10918 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
10921 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
10922 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
10923 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
10924 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
10925 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10926 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
10927 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
10928 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
10929 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
10930 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
10931 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
10932 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
10933 means that it will not recur for that special case.
10934 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
10935 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
10936 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
10937 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10940 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
10941 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
10942 bg300-rv in esr's version.
10943 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
10944 (fixes Debian #61088).
10945 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
10946 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
10947 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
10950 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
10951 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
10952 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
10953 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
10954 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
10957 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
10958 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
10959 improvement in setting default colors.
10960 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
10961 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
10962 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
10964 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
10965 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
10966 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
10967 check for buffer overflow.
10968 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
10969 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
10970 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
10971 such as "infocmp -Fa".
10974 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
10975 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
10976 is not permitted in termcap.
10977 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
10978 integrating 20000318.
10981 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
10982 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
10983 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
10984 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
10986 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
10987 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
10988 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
10989 result for OS/2 EMX.
10990 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
10991 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
10992 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
10993 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
10994 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
10995 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
10998 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
10999 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
11000 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
11002 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
11003 displaying string capabilities.
11004 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
11005 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
11006 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
11007 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
11008 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
11009 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
11011 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
11012 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
11014 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
11015 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
11016 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
11017 may not produce the same result as before.
11018 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
11019 _nc_resolve_uses().
11020 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
11021 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
11023 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
11024 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
11026 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
11027 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11028 + drop support for gnat 3.10
11029 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
11030 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
11033 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
11034 made it check only one entry at a time.
11035 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
11037 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
11038 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
11039 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
11040 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
11041 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
11042 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
11043 address out of bounds.
11044 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
11045 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
11046 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
11047 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
11049 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
11050 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
11051 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
11053 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
11056 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
11057 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
11058 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
11059 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
11061 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
11062 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
11063 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
11064 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
11065 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
11066 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
11068 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
11069 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
11070 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
11071 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
11072 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
11073 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
11074 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
11075 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
11078 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
11079 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11080 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
11081 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
11082 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
11083 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
11087 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
11088 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
11089 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
11090 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
11091 colors are white on black.
11092 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
11093 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
11094 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
11095 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
11096 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
11099 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
11100 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
11101 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
11102 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
11103 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
11104 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
11105 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
11106 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
11107 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
11108 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
11109 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
11112 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
11113 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
11114 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
11115 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
11116 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
11117 to wait indefinitely.
11120 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
11121 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
11122 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
11123 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
11124 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
11125 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
11126 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
11127 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
11128 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
11129 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11130 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
11131 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
11135 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
11136 programs build with c++/g++.
11137 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
11138 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
11139 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
11140 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
11141 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
11142 + document a special case of incompatibility between ncurses 4.2 and
11143 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
11144 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
11147 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
11148 for ncurses 5.0 -TD
11149 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
11150 terminfo entries -TD
11151 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
11152 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
11153 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
11154 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
11156 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
11157 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
11159 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
11161 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
11162 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
11163 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
11164 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
11165 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
11166 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
11167 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
11168 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
11169 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
11173 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
11174 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
11175 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
11176 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
11177 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
11178 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
11179 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
11180 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
11181 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
11182 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
11183 use_extended_names().
11186 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
11187 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
11188 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
11189 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
11190 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
11191 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
11192 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
11193 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
11194 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
11195 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
11196 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
11197 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
11198 + add manpage for infotocap
11201 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
11202 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
11203 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
11204 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
11205 than terminfo only.
11206 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
11207 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
11208 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
11209 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
11210 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
11211 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
11212 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
11213 initc for xterm-88color.
11214 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
11218 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
11219 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
11221 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
11222 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
11223 SP, since it is part of that struct.
11224 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
11226 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
11227 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
11228 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
11229 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
11230 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
11231 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
11232 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
11233 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
11234 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
11236 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
11237 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
11238 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11239 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
11241 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
11244 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
11245 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
11246 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
11247 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
11248 over the use of default colors.
11249 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
11250 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
11251 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
11252 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
11253 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
11254 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
11255 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
11256 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
11259 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
11260 <robert@progplus.com>)
11261 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
11262 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
11263 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
11266 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
11267 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
11268 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
11270 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
11271 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
11272 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
11273 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
11274 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
11275 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
11276 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
11277 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
11278 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
11279 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
11280 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
11281 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
11283 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
11284 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
11287 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
11288 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
11290 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
11291 (request by Bob van der Poel).
11292 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
11293 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
11294 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
11295 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
11296 libraries by default.
11297 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
11299 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
11300 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
11302 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
11303 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
11304 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
11305 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
11306 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
11307 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
11308 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
11310 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
11312 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
11313 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
11314 advice from Bela Lubkin).
11315 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
11316 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11317 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
11318 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
11319 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
11320 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
11323 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
11326 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
11327 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
11328 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
11329 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
11330 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
11331 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
11332 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
11333 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
11334 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
11335 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
11338 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
11339 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
11340 Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11341 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
11342 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
11343 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
11344 <bledp@voila.fr>)).
11345 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
11346 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
11347 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
11348 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
11349 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
11350 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
11351 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
11352 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
11353 is used), and in color.
11354 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
11355 shared library rules.
11358 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
11359 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
11360 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
11361 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
11362 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
11363 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
11364 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
11365 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
11366 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
11367 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
11368 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
11369 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
11370 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
11371 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
11372 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
11373 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
11374 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11377 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
11378 <j@interface-business.de>).
11379 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
11380 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
11381 that hard-links work on Unix again.
11382 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
11383 Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
11384 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
11387 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
11388 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
11389 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
11390 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
11391 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
11392 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
11393 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
11394 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
11395 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
11396 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
11397 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
11398 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
11399 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
11402 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
11403 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
11404 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
11405 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
11406 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
11407 in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
11408 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
11409 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
11410 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
11411 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
11412 function works only for sockets.
11413 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
11414 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
11415 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
11416 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
11417 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
11418 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
11419 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
11420 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
11421 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
11422 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
11425 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
11426 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
11427 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
11428 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
11429 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
11430 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
11431 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
11434 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
11435 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
11436 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
11438 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
11439 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
11440 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
11441 nonfunctional link().
11442 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
11443 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
11446 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
11447 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
11448 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
11451 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
11452 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
11453 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
11454 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
11455 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
11456 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
11457 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11458 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
11459 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
11460 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
11461 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
11462 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
11463 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
11464 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
11465 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
11466 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
11467 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
11468 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
11469 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
11470 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
11473 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
11474 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
11475 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
11476 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
11477 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
11478 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
11479 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
11480 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
11481 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
11482 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
11483 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
11484 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
11485 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
11486 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
11487 short-circuit expression evaluation.
11488 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
11489 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
11491 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
11492 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
11493 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
11494 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
11495 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
11499 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
11500 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
11502 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
11503 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
11504 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
11507 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
11508 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
11509 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
11510 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
11511 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
11512 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
11513 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
11514 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
11516 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
11517 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
11518 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11521 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
11522 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
11523 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
11524 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
11525 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
11526 --with-rcs-ids option.
11529 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
11530 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
11532 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
11533 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
11534 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
11538 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
11539 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
11540 BeOS predefines a bool type.
11541 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
11542 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
11543 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
11544 option to infocmp -TD
11545 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11546 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
11547 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
11548 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
11549 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
11550 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
11551 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
11554 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11555 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
11556 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
11557 + change interface version-number to 1.0
11558 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
11561 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
11562 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
11563 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
11564 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
11565 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
11566 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
11567 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
11568 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
11569 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
11570 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
11572 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
11573 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (prompted by
11574 discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
11577 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
11578 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
11579 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
11581 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
11582 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
11585 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
11586 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11587 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
11588 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
11589 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
11592 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
11596 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
11597 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
11598 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
11599 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
11600 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
11602 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
11603 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
11604 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
11605 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
11608 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
11609 fields, and showing forms within panels.
11610 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
11611 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
11612 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
11613 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
11614 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
11615 ownership may change).
11618 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
11620 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
11621 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
11622 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11623 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
11624 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
11625 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
11626 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
11628 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
11629 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
11630 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
11631 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
11632 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
11633 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
11636 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
11637 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
11639 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
11640 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
11641 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
11642 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11645 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
11646 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
11647 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
11648 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
11649 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
11650 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
11654 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
11655 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11656 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
11657 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
11658 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
11659 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
11660 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
11661 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
11664 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
11665 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
11666 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
11667 Alexander V Lukyanov).
11670 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
11671 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
11674 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the "-g" option.
11675 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
11676 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
11677 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
11678 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11679 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
11680 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
11681 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
11682 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
11683 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
11684 reset for the next newterm.
11685 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
11686 terminal has true SLKs.
11687 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
11690 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
11691 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
11692 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
11693 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
11694 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
11695 read of the extended capabilities.
11696 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
11697 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
11698 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
11699 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
11700 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
11701 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
11702 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
11703 throughout ncurses library.
11704 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
11705 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
11707 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
11708 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
11709 + regenerate some of the html documentation
11710 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
11713 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
11714 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
11715 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
11716 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatibility - TD
11717 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
11719 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
11721 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
11722 defined for a keycode.
11723 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
11724 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
11725 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
11726 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
11727 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
11729 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11730 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
11731 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
11732 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
11733 no longer required.
11734 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
11735 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
11737 + modify configuration scripts to
11738 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
11739 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
11740 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
11741 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
11742 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
11743 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
11744 + rename ada_include directory to src.
11747 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
11748 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
11749 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
11753 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
11754 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
11755 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
11756 though the problem is more general.
11757 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
11758 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
11759 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
11760 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
11762 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
11763 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
11764 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
11767 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
11768 Alexander V Lukyanov).
11769 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
11770 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
11771 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
11772 operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11773 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
11774 be any substring rather than the prefix.
11775 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
11776 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
11777 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
11778 has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
11779 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
11780 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
11781 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
11782 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
11783 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
11784 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
11785 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
11786 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
11787 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
11788 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
11789 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
11790 --with-shlib-version option.
11793 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
11794 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
11795 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
11796 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
11797 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
11798 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
11799 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
11800 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
11801 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
11802 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
11803 intended for compatibility upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
11804 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
11805 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
11806 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
11807 source distribution.
11810 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
11811 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
11812 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
11814 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
11815 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
11816 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
11817 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
11818 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
11821 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
11824 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
11825 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
11826 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
11827 Alexander V Lukyanov).
11828 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
11829 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
11830 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
11831 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
11832 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11833 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
11834 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
11835 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
11836 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
11837 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
11839 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
11840 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
11841 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
11842 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
11845 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
11847 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
11848 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
11849 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
11850 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
11851 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
11852 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
11853 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
11854 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
11855 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
11856 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
11857 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
11858 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
11859 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
11860 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
11861 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
11862 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
11863 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
11867 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
11868 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
11869 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
11870 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
11871 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
11872 running screen built with ncurses.
11873 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
11874 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
11875 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
11878 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
11881 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
11882 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
11883 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
11884 by a Debian bug report).
11885 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
11886 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
11888 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
11889 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
11890 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
11891 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
11895 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
11896 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
11897 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
11898 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
11899 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
11900 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
11901 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
11902 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
11903 (reported by H.J.Lu).
11906 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
11907 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
11908 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
11909 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
11910 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
11911 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
11912 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
11913 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
11914 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
11915 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
11916 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11917 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
11919 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
11920 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
11922 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
11924 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
11926 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
11927 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
11931 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
11932 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
11933 address rather than its length.
11934 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
11935 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
11936 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
11937 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
11938 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
11939 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
11940 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
11941 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
11942 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
11943 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
11946 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
11947 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
11949 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
11950 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
11951 for an older version of ncurses.
11952 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
11953 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
11954 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
11955 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
11956 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
11957 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
11958 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
11959 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
11960 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11961 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
11962 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
11963 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
11965 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
11966 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
11969 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
11970 (request by Larry Virden).
11971 > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
11972 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
11973 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
11974 changes to ncurses library.
11975 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
11976 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
11977 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
11978 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11979 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
11980 + some Ada95 cosmetics
11981 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
11982 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
11983 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
11986 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
11987 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
11988 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
11989 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
11990 proposed changes to ncurses library.
11991 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
11992 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
11993 broken configure scripts.
11996 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
11998 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
11999 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
12000 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
12002 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
12003 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
12007 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
12008 with --srcdir option.
12009 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
12010 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
12011 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
12012 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
12013 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
12014 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12017 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
12018 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
12019 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
12021 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
12022 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
12023 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
12024 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
12025 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
12026 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
12027 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
12028 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
12031 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
12032 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12035 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
12036 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
12037 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
12038 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
12039 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
12040 some older entries - TD
12041 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
12042 since that is a little more efficient.
12043 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
12044 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
12045 + add "-g" option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
12046 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
12047 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
12048 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
12050 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
12052 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
12053 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
12055 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
12056 + use format string for printing strings.
12057 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
12060 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
12061 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
12062 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
12063 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
12064 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
12065 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
12066 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
12067 > patches by Todd C Miller:
12068 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
12069 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
12070 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
12071 dealing with env variables again.
12072 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
12073 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
12074 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
12075 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
12076 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
12077 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
12078 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
12079 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
12080 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
12081 newhash data to SP struct.
12082 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
12083 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
12084 function's parameter which is deleted.
12085 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
12086 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
12087 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
12088 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
12092 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
12093 consistent treatment.
12094 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
12095 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
12096 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
12097 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
12100 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
12101 capability name, as in SVr4.
12102 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
12103 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
12104 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
12107 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
12108 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
12109 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
12110 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
12111 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
12112 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
12113 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
12114 > from esr's terminfo version:
12115 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
12116 + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
12117 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
12120 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
12121 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
12122 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
12123 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
12124 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
12125 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
12126 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
12127 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
12128 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
12129 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
12133 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
12134 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
12135 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
12136 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
12137 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
12140 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
12141 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
12145 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
12146 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
12147 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
12148 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
12149 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
12150 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
12151 as obtained via ioctl.
12154 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
12155 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
12156 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
12157 turning attributes off.
12158 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
12159 initializing multiple screens.
12160 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
12161 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
12162 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
12165 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
12166 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
12167 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
12168 with Solaris curses).
12169 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
12170 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
12171 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
12172 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
12173 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
12174 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
12175 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
12176 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
12179 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
12180 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
12181 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
12182 (request by QingLong).
12183 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
12184 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
12185 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
12186 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
12188 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
12189 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
12190 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
12191 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
12192 otherwise simply exit with an error.
12195 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
12196 "_g" for a debug build).
12197 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
12198 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
12199 compile/link working Ada95 program.
12200 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
12201 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
12202 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
12203 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
12204 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
12205 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
12209 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
12210 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
12211 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
12212 corresponds to vt100.
12213 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
12214 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
12217 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
12218 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
12219 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
12220 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
12221 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
12222 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
12223 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
12224 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
12225 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
12226 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12229 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
12230 several minor errors/omissions.
12231 + implement tparm %l format.
12232 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
12234 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
12237 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
12238 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
12239 to be written to large screens.
12240 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
12241 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
12242 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
12243 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
12244 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
12246 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
12247 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12248 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
12249 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
12252 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
12254 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
12256 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
12257 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
12258 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
12259 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
12260 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
12261 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
12262 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
12264 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
12265 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
12267 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
12270 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
12271 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
12272 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
12273 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
12274 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
12275 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
12276 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
12277 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
12278 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
12279 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
12282 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
12283 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12284 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibility
12285 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
12286 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
12287 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
12288 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
12289 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
12290 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
12291 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
12292 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
12293 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
12294 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
12297 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
12298 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
12299 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
12300 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
12301 which contains a colon in the description field.
12302 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
12303 from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
12304 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
12306 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
12307 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
12310 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
12311 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
12312 color pair numbers.
12313 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
12314 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
12315 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
12316 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
12317 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
12318 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
12319 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
12320 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
12321 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
12322 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
12323 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
12324 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
12325 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
12326 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
12327 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
12328 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
12329 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
12330 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
12331 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
12332 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
12333 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
12334 comparisons out of inner loop.
12337 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
12338 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
12339 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
12340 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
12341 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
12342 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
12343 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
12344 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
12345 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
12347 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
12348 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
12349 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
12352 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
12353 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
12354 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
12355 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
12356 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
12357 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
12358 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
12359 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
12360 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
12361 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
12364 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
12365 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
12366 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
12367 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
12369 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
12370 avoid ambiguous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
12371 by Juergen Pfeifer).
12374 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
12375 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
12378 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
12379 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
12380 uses them when they are available.
12381 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
12382 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
12383 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
12384 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
12386 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
12389 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
12390 declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
12391 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
12392 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
12394 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12395 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
12396 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
12397 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
12398 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
12399 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
12400 use --disable-overwrite).
12401 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
12402 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
12403 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
12404 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
12405 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
12406 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
12407 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
12408 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
12409 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
12413 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
12414 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12415 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
12416 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
12417 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
12418 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
12419 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
12420 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
12422 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
12423 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
12424 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
12425 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
12427 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
12428 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
12429 parameter according to XSI.
12430 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
12431 reflect above enhancements.
12434 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
12435 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
12436 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
12437 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
12439 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
12441 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
12443 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
12444 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
12445 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
12448 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
12449 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
12450 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
12451 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
12452 <claesg@algonet.se>).
12453 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
12454 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
12457 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
12458 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
12459 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
12461 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
12462 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
12463 by Florian La Roche).
12464 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
12465 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
12466 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
12467 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
12470 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
12471 distributions, though it is retained in development.
12472 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
12474 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
12475 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
12476 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
12477 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
12478 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
12481 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
12483 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
12484 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
12485 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
12486 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
12487 This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
12488 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
12490 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
12491 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
12492 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
12494 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
12495 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
12496 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
12499 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
12500 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
12502 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
12503 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
12505 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
12507 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
12509 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
12511 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
12512 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
12513 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
12514 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
12515 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
12517 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
12518 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
12520 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
12521 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
12522 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
12523 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
12524 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
12525 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
12526 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
12527 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
12528 turn off attributes inconsistently.
12531 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
12532 test for no_color_video.
12533 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
12535 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
12536 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
12537 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
12538 <brett@xylan.com>).
12539 > from reports by Fred Fish:
12540 + add configure-test for isascii
12541 + add configure-test for -lm library.
12542 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
12543 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
12544 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
12545 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
12546 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
12547 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
12548 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
12550 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
12551 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
12553 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
12554 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
12555 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
12556 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
12557 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
12560 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
12561 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
12563 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
12565 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
12566 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
12567 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
12569 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
12570 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
12572 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
12574 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
12575 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
12576 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
12577 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12578 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
12579 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
12580 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
12581 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
12582 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
12583 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
12584 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
12585 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
12586 fields are also always inactive.
12587 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
12588 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
12591 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
12592 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
12593 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
12594 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
12595 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
12596 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
12597 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
12598 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
12599 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
12602 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
12603 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
12604 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
12605 defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
12606 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
12608 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
12609 Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
12610 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
12611 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
12612 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
12613 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
12614 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
12615 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
12616 cross-platform compatibility.
12617 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
12618 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
12619 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12620 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
12622 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
12626 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
12627 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
12628 EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
12629 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
12630 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
12631 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
12632 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
12633 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
12634 that simply cannot scroll.
12635 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
12636 embedded \200 characters are matched.
12637 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
12641 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
12642 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
12643 functions from the build.
12644 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
12645 functions as a separate library.
12646 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
12647 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
12648 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
12649 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
12650 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
12651 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
12652 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
12653 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
12654 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
12656 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12657 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
12658 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
12661 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
12662 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
12664 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
12665 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
12666 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
12667 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
12670 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
12671 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
12672 + add configure check for 'tack'.
12673 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
12674 for Debian configuration.
12675 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
12677 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
12678 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
12680 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
12681 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
12682 case of wide characters in chtype.
12683 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
12684 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
12685 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
12688 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
12689 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
12690 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
12691 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
12692 have set root's umask to 077.
12693 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
12694 end of output when they had embedded comments.
12695 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
12696 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
12697 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
12698 correct logic for handling backslashes.
12699 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
12700 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
12701 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
12702 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
12703 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
12704 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
12706 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12707 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
12709 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
12710 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
12712 + resync of the html version of the manpages
12715 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
12716 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
12718 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
12719 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
12720 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
12721 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
12722 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12723 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
12724 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
12725 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
12729 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
12731 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
12732 comments from Daniel Weaver.
12733 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
12734 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
12735 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
12736 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
12738 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
12739 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
12740 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
12742 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
12743 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
12746 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
12750 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
12751 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
12752 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
12753 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
12754 in call to delay_output().
12755 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
12756 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
12757 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
12758 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
12759 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
12761 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
12762 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
12763 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
12764 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
12765 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
12766 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
12767 so that will work on NeXT.
12768 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
12769 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
12772 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
12774 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
12776 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
12777 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
12778 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
12779 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
12780 when that feature is not configured.
12781 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
12782 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
12783 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
12784 (this dates back to 951102 in 1.9.7a).
12785 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
12786 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
12787 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
12788 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
12791 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
12793 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
12794 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
12796 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
12798 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
12799 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
12802 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
12803 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
12804 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
12805 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
12806 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
12807 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
12808 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
12809 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
12810 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
12812 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
12813 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
12814 tputs() if called from that function.
12815 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
12816 tputs works when SP is not set.
12817 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12818 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
12819 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
12820 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implementation
12821 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
12822 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
12825 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
12826 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
12827 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
12828 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
12829 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
12830 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
12831 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
12832 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
12833 _nc_update_screensize().
12834 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
12836 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
12837 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
12838 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
12839 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
12840 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
12841 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12842 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
12843 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
12844 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
12845 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
12847 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
12851 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
12852 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
12853 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
12855 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
12856 click-interval without modifying it.
12857 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
12858 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
12860 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
12861 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
12862 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
12863 other ncurses headers.
12864 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
12865 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
12866 (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
12867 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
12868 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
12869 characters output in delay_output().
12870 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
12871 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
12872 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
12873 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
12874 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
12876 + typo in configure --help.
12877 > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
12878 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
12879 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
12880 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
12883 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12884 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
12887 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
12888 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
12889 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
12890 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
12891 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
12893 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
12894 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
12895 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
12896 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
12897 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
12898 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
12899 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
12900 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
12901 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
12902 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
12903 form (sorted, unique mapping).
12904 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
12905 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
12906 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12907 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
12908 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12909 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
12910 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
12911 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
12912 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
12913 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
12914 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
12915 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
12916 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
12917 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
12918 NCursesPanel class.
12919 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
12920 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
12921 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
12922 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
12923 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
12924 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
12928 + add 'deinstall' rules.
12929 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
12930 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
12931 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
12932 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
12933 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
12934 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
12936 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
12937 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
12938 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
12940 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
12941 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
12942 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
12943 scripts are also provided.
12946 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
12948 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
12949 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
12950 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
12951 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
12952 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
12953 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
12954 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
12955 generating lint library.
12956 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
12958 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
12959 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
12960 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
12961 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
12962 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
12963 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
12964 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
12965 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
12966 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
12967 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
12969 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
12970 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
12972 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
12974 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
12975 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
12976 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
12977 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
12978 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
12979 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
12980 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
12981 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
12982 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
12986 + modify rain.c to use color.
12987 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
12988 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
12989 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
12990 of configure cache variables in 970906.
12991 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
12992 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
12993 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
12994 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
12995 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
12996 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
12997 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
12998 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
12999 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
13000 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
13001 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
13003 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
13004 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
13005 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
13006 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
13007 NCursesPanel class.
13008 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
13009 NCursesWindow class.
13010 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
13011 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
13012 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
13013 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
13015 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
13016 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
13017 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
13018 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
13019 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
13020 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
13022 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
13023 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
13024 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
13025 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
13026 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
13027 already disconnected.
13028 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
13029 navigation requests.
13030 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
13031 case-insensitiva comparison routine.
13032 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
13033 forms field by index.
13034 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
13036 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
13037 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
13038 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
13039 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
13040 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
13041 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
13042 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
13043 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
13044 move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
13046 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
13047 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
13048 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
13050 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
13051 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13052 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
13053 know that auto_right_margin is true.
13054 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
13055 shifting character to LR corner.
13056 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
13057 terminal right margin mode is known.
13058 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
13059 _nc_scroll_window().
13060 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
13061 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
13063 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
13064 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
13065 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
13066 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
13068 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
13069 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
13070 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
13071 the terminal window is resized.
13074 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
13075 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
13076 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
13077 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
13078 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
13079 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
13080 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
13081 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
13082 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13083 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
13084 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
13086 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
13087 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
13088 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
13090 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
13091 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
13093 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
13097 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
13098 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
13099 lib_printw.c functions.
13100 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
13101 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
13102 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
13103 force the screen to scroll.
13106 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
13108 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
13110 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
13111 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
13113 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
13114 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
13115 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13116 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
13117 was in the wrong order.
13118 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
13120 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
13122 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
13123 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
13124 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
13125 invoke wechochar() instead.
13126 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
13129 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
13130 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
13131 work properly when we add calls to that function.
13132 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
13133 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
13134 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13135 + several fixes to getch:
13136 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
13137 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
13138 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
13139 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
13141 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
13142 6. correctly handle the case of reception of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
13143 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
13144 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
13145 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
13147 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
13148 line-breakout optimization
13149 + improve hashmap.c by
13150 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
13151 2. not marking lines with offset 0
13152 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
13153 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
13154 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
13155 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
13157 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
13158 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
13159 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
13160 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
13162 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
13164 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
13165 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
13166 stored/retrieved via set_term().
13167 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
13171 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
13172 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
13173 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
13175 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
13176 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
13177 before looking for (n)curses library.
13178 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
13179 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
13180 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
13181 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
13182 include ncurses_cfg.h
13183 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
13184 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
13185 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13186 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
13187 example firstlast.c
13188 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
13189 common subexpressions.
13190 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
13191 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
13192 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
13193 against the background character.
13194 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
13195 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
13196 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
13197 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
13198 > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
13199 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
13200 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
13201 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
13202 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
13205 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
13206 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
13207 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
13208 terminal type ncr7900).
13209 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
13210 package is built with an install-prefix.
13211 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
13212 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
13213 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
13214 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
13215 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
13216 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
13217 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
13218 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
13219 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
13220 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13221 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
13222 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
13223 by Juergen Pfeifer).
13226 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
13227 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
13228 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
13229 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
13230 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
13231 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
13232 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
13233 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
13234 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
13235 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
13236 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
13239 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
13240 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
13241 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
13242 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
13243 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
13244 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
13245 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
13246 configuration of wide-characters.
13247 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
13248 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
13249 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
13250 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
13251 does not have getttynam().
13252 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
13253 + add table entries for B230400 and B460800 to baudrate() function.
13254 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
13255 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13256 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
13257 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13258 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
13259 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
13260 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
13261 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
13262 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
13266 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
13267 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13268 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
13269 options should be accompanied by a message.
13270 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
13271 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
13273 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
13275 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13276 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
13277 better when csr is not available.
13278 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
13279 after failure to scroll one.
13280 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
13281 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
13282 case and wrong string in TRACE.
13283 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
13284 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
13288 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
13289 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
13291 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
13292 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
13293 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
13294 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
13295 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
13298 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
13299 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
13300 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
13302 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
13305 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
13306 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
13307 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
13308 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
13309 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
13310 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
13311 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
13312 (reported by Larry Virden).
13313 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
13314 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
13316 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
13317 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
13318 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
13319 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
13323 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
13324 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
13325 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
13326 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
13327 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
13329 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
13330 terminfo description to the stored strings.
13331 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
13332 terminfo descriptions.
13333 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
13334 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
13335 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
13336 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
13337 option is a stopgap.
13338 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
13339 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
13342 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
13343 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
13344 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
13345 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
13346 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
13347 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
13351 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
13352 lines in curscr that are shifted.
13353 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
13354 than a series of function calls.
13355 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
13356 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
13357 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
13358 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
13359 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
13360 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
13361 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
13362 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
13363 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
13366 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
13367 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
13368 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
13369 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
13370 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
13371 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
13372 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
13373 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
13374 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
13375 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
13376 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
13377 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
13378 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
13379 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
13380 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13381 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
13382 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
13383 + improve threshold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
13384 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13387 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
13388 use only the fallback data.
13389 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
13390 terminal descriptions.
13391 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
13392 still assume there's an ncurses.h
13393 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
13394 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
13395 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
13396 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
13397 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
13398 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
13400 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
13401 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
13402 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
13403 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
13404 <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
13405 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
13406 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
13408 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
13410 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
13411 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
13413 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
13415 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
13416 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
13417 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
13418 original implementation (1.9.6).
13419 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
13420 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
13421 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
13422 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
13424 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
13425 SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
13426 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
13427 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
13428 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
13429 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13430 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
13431 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
13433 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
13434 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
13435 field is not possible.
13436 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
13437 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
13438 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
13439 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
13441 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
13442 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
13443 in forms/menus libraries.
13446 + add description of xterm-16color.
13447 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
13448 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
13450 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
13451 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
13452 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
13453 works properly w/o first doing "make".
13454 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
13455 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
13457 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
13458 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
13459 bounding box without tidying up).
13460 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
13461 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
13462 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
13464 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
13465 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
13466 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
13467 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
13468 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13471 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
13472 option is specified.
13473 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
13474 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
13476 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
13477 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
13478 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
13479 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
13480 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
13481 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
13482 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
13483 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
13484 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
13485 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
13486 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
13487 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
13488 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
13489 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
13491 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
13492 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
13493 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13494 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
13495 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
13496 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13497 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
13498 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
13499 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13500 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
13501 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
13503 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
13505 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
13507 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
13508 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
13511 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
13512 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
13513 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
13514 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
13516 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
13517 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
13518 during a call to newwin.
13519 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
13520 is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
13521 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
13522 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
13523 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
13524 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13525 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
13526 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
13529 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
13530 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
13531 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
13532 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
13534 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
13537 970505 4.1 pre-release
13538 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
13540 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
13541 unnecessary recompiles.
13542 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
13543 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
13544 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
13545 overwrite of symbolic links.
13546 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
13547 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
13548 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
13549 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
13550 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
13551 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
13552 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
13553 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
13554 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
13555 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
13556 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
13557 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
13558 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
13559 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
13563 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
13564 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
13565 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
13567 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
13568 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
13569 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
13570 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
13571 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
13572 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
13573 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
13574 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
13575 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
13577 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
13578 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
13579 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
13580 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
13582 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
13583 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
13584 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13585 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
13586 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13587 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
13588 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13589 + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
13590 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
13591 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
13592 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
13595 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
13596 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
13597 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
13598 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
13599 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
13600 original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
13601 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
13602 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
13603 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
13604 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
13605 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
13606 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
13607 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
13608 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
13609 or redefinition within an acsc string.
13610 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
13611 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
13612 regression testing.
13613 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
13614 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
13617 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
13618 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
13619 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
13620 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
13621 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
13622 match SVr4 documentation.
13623 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
13624 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
13625 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
13628 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
13629 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
13630 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
13631 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
13632 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
13633 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
13634 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
13635 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
13638 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
13639 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
13640 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
13642 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
13643 --enable/--with values.
13644 + add configure option --enable-big-core
13645 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
13646 + check for C++ builtin.h header
13647 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
13648 parameter from the expression.
13649 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
13650 ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted from diffs by
13652 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
13653 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
13654 was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
13655 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
13656 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
13657 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
13660 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
13661 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
13662 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
13663 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
13664 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
13667 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
13668 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
13669 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
13670 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
13671 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
13672 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
13673 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
13674 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
13675 (reported by Ward Horner).
13676 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
13677 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
13680 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
13681 even if "make all" is not done first.
13682 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
13683 expanded functions with ATAC.
13684 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
13685 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
13689 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
13691 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
13693 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
13696 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
13697 addressing request by Ward Horner.
13698 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
13699 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
13700 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
13701 a pointer-increment.
13702 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
13706 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
13707 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
13709 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
13710 (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
13711 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
13712 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
13713 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
13714 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
13715 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
13716 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
13718 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
13719 (reported by Ward Horner)
13720 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
13721 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
13722 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
13723 (reported by Gary Johnson).
13724 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
13725 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
13726 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
13727 wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
13728 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
13729 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
13730 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
13731 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
13735 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
13736 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
13737 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
13738 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
13739 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
13740 (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
13741 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
13742 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
13743 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
13744 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
13747 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
13749 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
13750 the returned buffer.
13751 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
13752 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
13753 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
13754 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
13756 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
13757 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
13760 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
13761 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
13762 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
13763 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
13765 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
13766 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
13769 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
13770 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
13772 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
13774 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
13775 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
13776 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
13777 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
13779 + modify _tracedump() to pad colors & attrs lines to match change
13780 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
13781 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
13782 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
13785 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
13786 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
13787 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
13788 that machine - T.Dickey.
13789 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
13790 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
13791 linking against static libraries.
13792 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
13794 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
13795 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
13796 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
13797 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
13799 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
13800 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
13801 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
13802 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
13803 Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
13806 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
13807 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
13808 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
13810 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
13811 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
13812 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
13813 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
13814 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
13815 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
13818 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
13820 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
13821 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
13822 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
13823 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
13824 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
13825 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
13826 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
13827 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
13828 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
13829 insert/delete line method.
13830 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
13831 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
13832 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
13833 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
13835 961229 (internal alpha)
13836 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
13837 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
13838 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
13839 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
13840 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
13841 there is data on stdin.
13842 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
13843 descriptors, needed for GPM.
13844 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
13845 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
13846 prevented patch from working properly -TD
13847 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
13848 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
13849 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
13850 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
13853 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
13854 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
13856 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
13859 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
13860 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
13861 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
13862 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
13864 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
13865 solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
13866 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
13867 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
13868 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
13869 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
13871 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
13872 i.e., set current directory before linking.
13873 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
13874 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
13875 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
13876 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
13877 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
13878 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
13879 Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
13880 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
13883 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
13884 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
13885 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
13886 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
13887 Solaris curses, which does this.
13890 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
13891 work with wider range of screen sizes.
13892 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
13893 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
13894 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
13896 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
13897 resize between endwin/refresh.
13898 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
13899 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
13900 terminal modes in 960907.
13901 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
13902 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
13904 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
13905 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
13906 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
13907 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
13908 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
13909 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
13910 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
13911 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
13912 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
13914 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
13915 (requested by Florian La Roche).
13916 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
13917 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
13918 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
13919 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
13920 by Alexander V Lukyanov).
13923 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
13926 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
13927 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
13928 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
13929 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
13930 data used in ncurses library.
13931 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
13932 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
13933 Alexander V Lukyanov).
13934 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
13935 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
13936 beta may not be interchangeable).
13937 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
13939 961130 1.9.9g release
13940 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
13944 > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
13945 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
13946 to avoid warning messages.
13947 + the panel overlap detection was broken
13948 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
13950 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
13954 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
13955 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
13956 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
13957 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
13958 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
13961 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
13962 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
13963 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
13967 + change ABI to 3.4
13968 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
13970 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
13972 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
13974 > patch #324 (ESR):
13975 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
13976 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
13977 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
13978 + add entry for color_xterm
13981 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
13982 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
13983 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
13984 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
13985 CANCELLED_STRING values.
13986 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
13987 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
13988 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
13989 delays when in autoplay mode.
13990 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
13991 Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
13992 > patch #322 (ESR):
13993 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
13996 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
13997 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
13998 a spurious clear-screen.
13999 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
14000 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
14002 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
14003 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
14004 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
14005 <perf@efd.lth.se>).
14008 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
14009 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
14010 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
14011 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
14012 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
14013 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
14015 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
14016 distribution, as stated)
14017 + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
14018 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
14019 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
14020 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
14021 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
14022 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
14023 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
14025 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
14026 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
14030 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
14031 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
14032 file (lib_screen.c).
14033 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
14034 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
14035 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
14036 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
14037 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
14038 rendered as octal constants.
14039 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
14040 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
14041 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
14042 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
14043 in the top-level command-parser.
14044 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
14045 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
14047 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
14048 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
14049 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
14052 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
14053 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
14054 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
14055 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
14056 (reported by Tim Mooney).
14057 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
14059 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
14063 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
14064 that are available.
14065 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
14066 the pointer was -1.
14069 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
14070 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
14071 lower-right corner.
14072 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
14073 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
14074 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
14075 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
14076 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
14077 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
14078 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
14079 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
14080 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
14081 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
14083 + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
14084 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
14085 > patch #321 (ESR):
14086 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
14087 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
14088 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
14089 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
14092 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
14093 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
14094 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
14095 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
14096 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
14098 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
14099 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
14100 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
14101 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
14102 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
14103 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
14104 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
14105 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
14106 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
14107 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
14108 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
14109 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
14110 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
14112 + change ABI to 3.3
14113 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
14114 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
14115 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
14117 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
14118 Michael Elkins) - untested
14120 + correction to #317.
14122 + re-add _nc_hash_map
14123 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design
14124 (patch by A. Lukyanov).
14125 + modify test/ncurses.c and tputs, etc., to allow trace counting
14127 + add hashtest.c program to time the hashmap optimization.
14129 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
14131 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
14133 + merge changes to lib_doupdate.c to use ech and rep - untested
14134 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
14135 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
14136 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
14137 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
14138 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
14141 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
14143 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
14144 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
14145 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
14146 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
14147 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
14149 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
14152 + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
14153 (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
14154 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
14155 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
14156 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
14157 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
14160 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
14161 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
14162 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
14163 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
14164 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
14165 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
14166 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
14167 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
14168 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
14169 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
14170 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
14171 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
14172 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
14173 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
14174 + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
14178 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
14179 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
14180 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
14181 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
14183 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
14184 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
14185 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
14188 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
14189 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
14190 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
14193 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
14194 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
14195 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
14196 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
14199 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
14200 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
14201 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
14202 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
14203 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
14205 + add dtterm description
14206 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop mvwscanw subtest)
14209 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
14210 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
14211 + refine configure-test for "-g" option (Tim Mooney).
14212 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
14213 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
14216 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
14218 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
14220 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch (report
14224 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
14225 (reported by William P Setzer)
14226 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
14227 (reported by Tim Mooney).
14229 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
14230 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
14231 + updated qnx terminfo entry (patch by Michael Hunter)
14234 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
14236 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
14240 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
14241 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
14243 + terminfo changes (9.3.9), from BRL
14244 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
14245 + add more symbols to infocmp.
14248 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
14249 Juergen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
14250 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
14252 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
14253 null), and tests that use it.
14254 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
14255 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
14256 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
14258 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
14260 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
14261 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
14262 + fix option-processing bug in toe.
14265 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
14266 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
14267 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
14268 by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
14269 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
14270 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
14272 + enable more translations of nonstandard caps, and document them.
14273 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.8
14275 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
14276 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
14277 + cosmetic fixes to test/ncurses.c
14278 + modify open() call in ncurses/read_entry.c to use O_RDONLY symbol
14279 rather than constant (report by mib).
14280 + misc/terminfo.src sgr0 and acsc changes (report by Philippe De
14282 + modify ncurses/comp_parse.c so that entries containing a "+" can
14283 have missing rmcup vs smcup.
14286 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
14287 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
14288 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
14290 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
14291 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
14292 Philippe De Muyter).
14295 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
14296 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
14298 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
14299 (reported by Zeyd).
14300 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
14301 (reported by David MacKenzie).
14302 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
14303 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
14304 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
14305 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
14306 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
14307 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
14308 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
14311 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes.
14312 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.7 (report by A. Lukyanov).
14313 + modify man/Makefile.in to make terminfo.5 during normal build.
14315 + corrected allocation-length for $HOME/.terminfo path.
14318 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
14319 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
14320 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
14321 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
14322 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
14323 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
14324 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
14325 than function keys in 'g' test.
14326 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
14327 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
14328 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
14329 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
14331 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
14333 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
14334 msgwin needed scrollok set.
14335 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
14336 between PutRange and InsStr
14337 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
14338 MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
14340 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
14343 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
14344 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
14345 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
14347 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
14348 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
14349 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
14350 _yoffset to WINDOW).
14351 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
14352 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
14353 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
14354 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
14355 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
14356 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
14357 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
14358 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
14359 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
14362 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
14363 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
14364 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
14365 first entry in a list).
14366 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
14367 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
14370 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
14371 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
14372 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
14373 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
14374 with a shared-library configuration.
14375 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
14376 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
14377 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
14378 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
14379 builders to install into staging locations (requested by
14380 Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
14381 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
14383 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
14384 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
14385 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
14386 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
14387 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
14389 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
14390 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
14391 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
14392 invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
14394 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
14395 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
14396 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
14398 + misc/ncurses-intro.html syntax fix (Kajiyama Tamito).
14401 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
14402 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
14403 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
14404 + added rules for lintlib, lint
14405 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
14406 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
14407 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
14408 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
14409 checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
14410 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
14411 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
14412 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
14413 + typos, don't use inline with "-g" (Philippe De Muyter)
14414 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
14417 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
14418 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
14419 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
14420 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
14421 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
14422 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
14424 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
14425 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
14426 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
14427 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
14429 + improve hash function (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
14430 + 9.13.4 update for terminfo.src
14433 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
14434 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
14435 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
14436 <lav@yars.free.net>).
14437 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
14438 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
14439 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
14440 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
14442 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
14443 + html fixes (Phillippe de Muyter).
14444 + fix typo in ncurses-intro.html (report by Fabrizio Polacco).
14446 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
14447 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
14448 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
14449 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
14452 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
14456 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
14457 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
14458 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
14459 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
14460 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
14461 > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
14462 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
14463 + added TRACE_IEVENT
14464 + fix REQ_TOGGLE_ITEM in menu/menu_driver.c; it could select but not
14466 + added lib_print.c (request by Rick Marshall).
14467 + added has_key() (request by Juergen Pfeifer).
14468 + do not issue clrtoeol or clrtobot if the relevant portion of the line
14469 is already blank (analysis by Keith Bostic).
14470 + add parentheses for parameters of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER macros
14471 (analysis by Jurgen Eidt).
14472 + update screen's notion of cursor position in endwin() (analysis by
14473 Alexander Lukyanov).
14474 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
14475 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
14476 + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
14477 is not part of X/Open Curses).
14478 + removed boolean version of 'getm'.
14479 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
14482 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
14483 + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
14484 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
14485 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
14486 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
14487 "#include" if needed.
14490 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
14491 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
14494 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
14495 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
14496 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
14500 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
14501 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
14502 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
14503 > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
14504 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
14505 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
14506 + new "-e" and "-h" options of tic (request by Tony Nugent).
14507 + fix bug in mandatory-delay logic in lib_tputs.c (report by Sven
14509 + fix for "infocmp -e" to emit correct initializers (reported by Manual
14511 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c (report by Kayvan
14513 + use "-h" option on Solaris when generating shared libraries on
14514 Solaris 2.5 to record the library name in the file, for assisting
14515 the loader (patch by Scott Kramer).
14516 + undo patch #294 changes to form and menu libraries (request by
14521 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
14522 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
14523 K&R-style substitution)
14524 > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
14525 + rewrite wsyncup(), wsyncdown(), as well as small fixes to form and
14526 menu libraries to fix echo-breakage introduced by 1.8.9, 1.9.9e
14527 changes (patches by Juergen Pfeifer).
14528 + fix compile under QNX 4.2 by defining ONLCR in lib_raw.c when
14529 __QNX__ is defined (patch by Michael Hunter).
14530 + modify setupterm() to match documentation for its return value, fix
14531 newterm to work with this change (report by Emmet Lazich).
14532 + add checks in getch() for error, return ERR as appropriate (report by
14534 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode (report by Pete Seebach).
14535 + corrected askuser() logic in tset (patch by Remco Treffkorn).
14536 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing (report by
14538 + added trace support for TTY flags
14539 + update terminfo.src to 9.13.1
14540 + FreeBSD console entries (patch by Andrew Chernov).
14543 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
14544 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
14545 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
14546 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
14547 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
14549 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
14550 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
14552 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
14554 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
14555 copy-changed-lines behavior.
14556 * added and documented wresize() function.
14557 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
14558 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
14559 emitted before the first check.
14560 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
14561 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
14562 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
14563 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
14564 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
14565 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
14567 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
14568 * support for ESCDELAY.
14569 * small fixes for menu/form code.
14570 * the test directory has its own configure.
14571 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
14572 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
14573 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
14576 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
14578 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
14579 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
14580 * support infocmp -RBSD.
14581 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
14582 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
14583 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
14584 catastrophies or acts of God.
14585 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
14587 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
14588 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
14591 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
14593 * corrected return values of setupterm()
14594 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
14595 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
14596 one `use' capability.
14597 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
14598 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
14599 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
14600 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
14601 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
14602 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
14603 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
14604 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
14605 * added -h option to toe(1).
14606 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
14607 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
14608 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
14609 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
14611 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
14613 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
14614 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
14616 * mouse support for xterm.
14617 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
14618 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initially off.
14619 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
14620 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
14621 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
14622 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
14623 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
14624 * infocmp -T option added.
14625 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
14627 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
14629 * menus library is now included with documentation.
14630 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
14631 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
14632 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
14633 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
14634 * tweaks for compiling in separate directories.
14635 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
14636 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
14637 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
14639 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
14641 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
14642 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
14643 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
14644 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
14646 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
14648 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
14649 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
14650 * added tracemunch to the test tools
14651 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
14653 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
14655 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
14656 profile and shared object models.
14658 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
14660 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
14661 * panels support added
14662 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
14663 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
14665 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
14667 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
14668 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
14669 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
14670 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
14672 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
14673 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
14674 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
14675 are consistent (they weren't).
14676 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
14677 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
14678 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
14679 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
14680 warnings from gcc).
14681 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
14682 * more spelling fixes
14683 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
14684 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
14685 core in init_acs()).
14686 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
14689 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
14691 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
14692 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
14693 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
14695 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
14696 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
14697 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
14698 resolution of traces.
14699 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
14700 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
14701 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
14702 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
14703 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
14704 is much less flaky.
14705 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
14706 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
14707 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
14708 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
14710 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
14711 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
14712 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
14713 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
14714 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
14715 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This will mostly happen if
14716 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
14717 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
14718 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
14719 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
14720 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
14721 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
14722 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
14723 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
14724 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
14725 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
14727 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
14728 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
14729 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
14730 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
14731 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
14732 the correct alternate character set.
14733 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
14734 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
14735 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
14736 a terminal is undefined.
14737 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
14738 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
14739 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
14740 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
14741 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
14742 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
14744 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
14745 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
14746 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
14747 if other attributes are turned off.
14748 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
14749 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
14750 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
14752 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
14753 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
14754 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
14757 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
14758 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
14759 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
14760 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
14762 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
14763 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
14765 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
14767 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
14768 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
14769 break operation with any emulators.
14770 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
14771 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
14772 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
14773 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
14774 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
14775 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
14776 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
14777 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
14779 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
14780 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
14782 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
14783 unpredictable results.
14784 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
14786 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
14787 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
14788 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
14789 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
14790 take note of the terminfo directory.
14791 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
14792 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
14795 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
14796 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
14797 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
14798 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
14799 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
14800 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
14801 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
14802 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
14803 performs more testing.
14804 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
14805 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
14807 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
14808 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
14810 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
14811 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
14812 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
14814 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
14816 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
14817 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
14818 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
14819 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
14820 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
14821 will probably continue to work ok.
14823 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
14824 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
14825 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
14826 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
14827 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
14829 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
14830 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
14831 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
14833 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
14834 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
14835 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
14836 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
14837 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
14838 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
14839 changed accordingly.
14840 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
14841 bottom-right corner.
14842 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
14843 pads I'd love a copy.
14844 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
14845 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
14846 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
14847 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
14848 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
14849 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
14850 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
14852 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
14853 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
14854 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
14856 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
14857 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
14858 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
14859 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
14860 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
14861 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
14862 * See src/README for porting notes.
14863 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
14864 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
14865 rows instead of lines, etc.)
14866 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
14867 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
14868 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
14869 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
14870 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
14871 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
14872 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
14874 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
14875 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
14876 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
14877 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
14878 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
14879 fact was exposed by hanoi.
14880 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
14881 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
14882 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
14883 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
14884 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
14885 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
14887 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
14889 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
14890 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
14891 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
14892 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
14893 Config.* files through an awk script.
14894 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
14895 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
14896 * a few minor cleanups.
14897 * added more prototypes in curses.h
14899 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
14901 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
14902 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
14903 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
14904 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
14905 * a couple of bug fixes.
14906 * a few code cleanups.
14908 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
14910 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
14911 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
14912 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
14913 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
14914 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
14915 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
14916 * Cleaner Makefile.
14917 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
14918 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
14920 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
14921 (doesn't work on Linux)
14922 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
14923 screen before working.
14924 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
14925 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
14927 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
14928 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
14929 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
14930 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
14931 * several minor bug fixes.
14933 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
14935 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
14936 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
14937 * changes related to Config
14939 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
14941 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
14942 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
14943 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
14944 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
14945 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
14946 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
14947 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
14948 * added halfdelay()
14949 * fixed problems with asc_init()
14950 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
14951 * cleaned up vidputs()
14952 * general cleanup of the code
14953 * more attention to portability to other systems
14954 * added terminfos for hp70092 (won't work until changes to lib_update.c are
14955 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
14957 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
14958 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
14960 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
14961 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
14962 the rationale drop me a line.
14964 Included are several test programs in test/.
14965 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
14966 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
14968 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
14970 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
14971 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
14972 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
14973 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
14974 * keyname() is added.
14975 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
14976 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
14977 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
14978 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
14979 * included fixes from 0.6.1
14980 * added a few more missing functions.
14981 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
14982 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
14985 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
14987 1) Included the missing data/console.
14989 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
14991 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
14993 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
14994 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
14995 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
14997 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
14998 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
14999 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
15000 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
15001 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
15002 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
15003 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
15004 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
15005 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
15006 * added notimeout().
15007 * added timeout() define in curses.h
15008 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
15010 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
15011 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
15012 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
15013 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
15014 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
15015 * added slk_* support.
15016 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
15017 * added PANEL library.
15018 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
15019 * terminfo.h is really term.h
15021 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
15022 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
15023 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
15024 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
15025 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
15026 another key is pressed.
15027 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
15028 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
15029 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
15031 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
15032 * fixed bug in wvline().
15033 * added curs_set().
15034 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
15035 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
15037 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
15038 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
15039 * Addition of function prototypes.
15040 * Addition of several missing functions.
15041 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
15042 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
15043 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
15044 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
15045 * New scrolling code.
15046 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
15048 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
15049 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
15050 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
15051 * more fixes for updates.
15052 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
15053 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
15054 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
15055 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
15057 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
15058 * support for color.
15059 * support for PC graphic characters.
15060 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
15061 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
15063 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
15064 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
15065 * ANSIfication of some functions.
15066 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
15067 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.
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