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31 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
32 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
34 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
35 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
37 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
38 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
39 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
41 A few contributors are given in this file by their initials.
42 They each account for one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
49 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
50 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
51 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
52 the in-tree build of sample programs.
53 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
54 needed for rpm script.
55 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
56 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
57 options if building a shared library with gnat.
60 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
61 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
62 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
64 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
65 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
66 which were added in 5.7 and later.
67 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
71 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
73 + regen Ada html documentation.
74 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
75 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
77 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
79 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
80 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
81 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
82 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
83 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
84 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
86 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
87 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
89 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
90 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
93 + regen Ada html documentation.
94 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
95 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
97 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
98 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
99 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
100 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
101 + modify configure script to add -g and/or -O3 to ADAFLAGS if the
102 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
103 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
104 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
105 thread in comp.lang.ada).
106 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
107 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
108 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
109 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
110 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
111 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
112 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
113 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
114 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
115 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
118 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
119 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
120 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
122 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
124 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
125 explain.txt is not found.
128 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
129 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
130 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
131 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
132 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
134 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
137 + update release notes, for 5.8.
138 + regenerated html manpages.
139 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
141 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
142 a new install of hashed database.
143 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
146 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
147 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
148 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
149 wide-character configuration.
150 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
151 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
154 + regenerated html manpages.
155 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
156 special case of trace configuration.
159 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
160 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
161 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
162 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
163 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
167 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
168 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
169 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
170 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
171 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
173 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
174 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
177 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
178 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
179 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
180 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
181 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
182 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
183 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
184 file configuration if that is used.
185 + update config.guess, config.sub
188 + regenerated html manpages.
189 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
191 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
192 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
195 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
196 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
199 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
200 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
201 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
204 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
206 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
207 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
208 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
209 wide-character configuration.
210 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
211 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
212 referred to quitting with 'q'.
215 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
216 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
217 version which works with termcap.
218 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
219 (request by Sven Joachim).
220 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
221 (report by Sven Joachim).
224 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
225 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
226 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
229 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
231 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
232 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
235 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
237 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
238 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
239 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
240 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
241 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
242 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
246 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
247 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
248 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
250 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
253 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
255 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
259 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
261 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
262 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
263 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
264 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
265 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
266 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
267 tree (report by Werner Fink).
268 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
269 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
270 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
271 (report by John P. Hartmann)
272 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
275 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
276 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
277 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
278 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
279 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
280 external package "cindent".
283 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
284 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
285 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
286 inconsistent printer-controls.
287 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
288 form is available -TD
289 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
291 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
293 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
294 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
295 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
296 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
297 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
299 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
300 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
304 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
305 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
306 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
307 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
308 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
310 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
313 + regenerated html manpages.
314 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
315 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
316 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
319 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
321 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
322 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
323 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
324 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
328 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
329 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
332 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
333 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
334 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
335 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
336 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
337 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
338 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
342 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
343 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
344 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
345 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
346 by Tim van der Molen).
347 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
348 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
349 library configuration.
350 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
351 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
352 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
355 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
357 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
358 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
359 e.g., for cross-compiling.
360 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
361 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
364 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
365 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
366 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
367 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
368 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
369 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
370 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
371 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
374 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
375 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
376 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
377 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
378 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
379 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
380 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
381 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
384 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
385 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
386 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
387 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
390 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
391 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
392 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
395 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
396 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
397 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
400 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
401 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
402 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
403 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
406 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
407 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
408 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
410 + update Ada95/configure.
411 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
412 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
413 of updating LIBS variable.
416 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
417 work with 64-bit compiles.
418 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
422 + regenerated html documentation.
423 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
425 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
426 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
427 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
428 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
431 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
432 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
434 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
435 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
436 build- and target-machines differ.
437 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
438 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
440 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
441 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
444 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
445 new EINTR feature is enabled.
446 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
447 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
448 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
449 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
450 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
451 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
452 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
453 with the standard builds of ncurses.
454 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
455 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
456 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
457 found in predefined libraries.
458 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
461 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
462 (patch by David Benjamin).
463 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
464 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
465 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
466 may be defined by that route.
469 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
470 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
471 the predefined include directories.
472 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
473 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
474 where older versions would produce an error.
477 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
478 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
479 terminfo to termcap strings
480 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
481 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
482 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
483 directory was already added.
484 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
485 directories (which will be ignored).
488 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
489 + discard motion events
490 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
491 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
492 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
493 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
496 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
497 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
498 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
499 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
500 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
501 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
502 extended-colors configuration.
503 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
504 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
505 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
508 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
510 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
511 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
512 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
514 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
515 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
516 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
519 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
520 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
524 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
525 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
526 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
527 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
528 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
529 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
530 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
531 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
532 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
536 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
537 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
538 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
539 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
542 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
544 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
545 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
546 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
549 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
550 making those separately distributable.
551 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
552 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
556 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
559 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
560 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
561 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
562 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
566 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
567 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
568 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
569 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
572 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
573 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
574 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
575 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
577 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
578 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
580 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
584 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
585 that line-drawing works.
586 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
587 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
588 capabilities can run.
589 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
593 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
594 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
595 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
596 before older in the list.
597 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
598 + minor documentation cleanup.
599 + update config.guess, config.sub from
600 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
601 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
604 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
605 most common case of SGR 0.
606 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
607 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
608 events remain, it will return ERR.
611 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
612 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
613 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
614 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
615 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
618 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
619 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
620 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
623 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
624 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
625 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
626 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
627 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
628 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
631 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
632 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
633 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
634 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
635 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
637 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
639 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
641 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
642 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
643 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
645 + update config.guess, config.sub from
646 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
649 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
650 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
652 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
653 writing terminfo entries.
654 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
655 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
656 by Nicholas Marriott).
659 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
661 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
662 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
666 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
667 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
668 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
669 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
670 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
674 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
675 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
676 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
677 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
680 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
681 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
682 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
683 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
684 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
685 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
686 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
689 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
690 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
691 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
692 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
693 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
694 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
695 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
696 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
697 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
698 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
699 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
702 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
703 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
704 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
705 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD bin/136223).
708 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
709 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
712 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
713 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
714 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
718 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
719 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
720 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
721 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
722 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
724 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
725 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
728 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
729 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
730 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
731 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
732 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
733 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
735 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
736 library (some work remains for forms library).
739 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
740 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
741 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
742 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
744 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
745 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
746 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
747 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
750 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
751 by sharing linedata.h functions):
755 test/test_add_wchstr.c
756 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
757 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
758 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
761 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
763 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
764 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
765 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
766 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
770 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
771 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
772 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
773 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
776 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
777 amd64 (Debian #542031).
778 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
781 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
784 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
785 broken in 20090509 merging.
786 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
787 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
788 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
789 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
790 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
791 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
792 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
793 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
795 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
798 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
799 implementation details of hash function.
802 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
803 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
804 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
807 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
808 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
809 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
811 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
812 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
815 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
816 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
820 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
823 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
825 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
826 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
827 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
828 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
829 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
831 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
832 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
833 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
836 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
837 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
838 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
841 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
842 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
844 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
847 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
848 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
850 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
851 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
855 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
856 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
857 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
860 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
863 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
866 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
867 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
868 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
869 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
872 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
875 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
876 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
877 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
878 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
882 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
885 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
886 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
889 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
892 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
896 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
899 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
900 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
901 part of the form library.
904 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
905 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
908 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
909 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
910 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
911 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
912 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
913 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
914 a temporary variable.
915 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
916 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
917 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
918 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
919 with Charles Wilson).
920 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
921 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
922 > patches by Charles Wilson:
923 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
924 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
925 digits, after the final '.').
926 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
927 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
928 using that in the libtool link-commands.
929 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
930 from 2009031 changes.
931 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
932 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
933 termlib) is to be linked.
934 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
935 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
938 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
939 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
940 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
941 (report by Charles Wilson).
942 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
943 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
944 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
945 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
946 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
949 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
950 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
951 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
952 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
953 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
955 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
956 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
957 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
958 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
959 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
960 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
961 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
962 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
965 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
966 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
967 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
970 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
973 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
975 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
976 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
977 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
978 some internals work is needed to complete these).
979 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
982 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
983 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
984 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
985 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
986 + make it work with $DESTDIR
987 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
990 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
991 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
993 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
994 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
995 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
998 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
999 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
1000 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
1001 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
1002 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
1003 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
1004 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
1005 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
1006 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
1009 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
1010 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
1012 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
1014 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
1015 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
1018 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
1020 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
1021 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
1022 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
1023 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1026 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
1027 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
1028 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
1030 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
1031 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
1034 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
1035 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
1036 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
1037 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
1038 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
1039 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
1041 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
1042 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
1044 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1045 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
1048 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
1049 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
1050 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
1053 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
1054 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
1055 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
1057 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
1058 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
1061 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
1063 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
1064 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
1065 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
1067 + fixes from NetBSD port at
1068 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
1069 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
1070 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
1071 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
1072 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
1074 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
1075 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
1078 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
1079 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
1080 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
1081 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
1082 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
1083 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
1084 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
1085 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
1086 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
1087 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
1088 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
1091 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
1092 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
1093 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
1094 passing color or video attributes.
1095 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
1096 display meta-characters.
1097 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
1098 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
1099 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
1100 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
1104 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
1105 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1106 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
1108 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
1111 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
1113 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
1114 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
1116 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1119 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
1120 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
1121 does not work well on that platform).
1122 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
1125 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
1126 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
1127 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
1129 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
1130 --disable-database is used.
1131 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
1132 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
1133 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
1134 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
1138 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
1139 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
1140 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
1141 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
1142 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
1143 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
1144 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
1148 + regenerated html documentation.
1149 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
1150 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
1151 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
1152 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
1153 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
1154 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
1155 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
1156 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
1159 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
1160 works for C/C++ parts).
1161 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
1162 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
1165 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
1166 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
1167 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
1168 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
1169 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
1170 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
1171 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
1172 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
1173 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
1175 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
1176 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1177 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
1178 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
1179 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
1180 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
1183 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
1184 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
1187 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
1188 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
1189 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
1190 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
1191 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
1192 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
1195 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
1196 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
1199 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
1203 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
1204 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
1205 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
1206 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
1208 + update test/configure script.
1209 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
1210 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
1211 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
1212 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
1213 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
1216 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
1217 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
1219 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
1221 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
1222 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
1223 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
1224 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
1225 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
1226 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
1227 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1228 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
1229 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
1232 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
1233 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
1234 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
1235 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
1236 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
1237 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
1238 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
1239 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
1240 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
1241 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
1242 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
1246 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
1247 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
1248 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
1249 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
1250 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
1252 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
1253 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
1254 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
1255 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
1256 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
1259 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
1260 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
1261 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
1262 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
1263 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
1264 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
1265 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
1268 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
1272 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
1275 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
1278 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
1279 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
1281 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
1282 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
1283 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
1287 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
1288 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
1290 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
1291 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
1292 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
1293 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
1296 + regenerated html documentation.
1297 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
1298 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
1299 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
1300 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
1301 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
1304 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
1305 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
1306 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
1310 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
1311 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
1312 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
1313 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
1314 window which is being used in a wgetch().
1315 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
1318 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
1319 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
1321 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
1322 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
1323 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
1324 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
1325 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
1326 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
1327 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
1328 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
1329 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
1332 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
1333 screen which must be updated.
1334 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
1335 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
1336 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
1340 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
1341 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
1343 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
1344 Emanuele Giaquinta).
1345 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
1346 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1349 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
1350 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
1351 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
1353 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
1357 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
1358 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
1359 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
1362 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
1363 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
1364 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
1365 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
1368 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
1369 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
1371 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
1373 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
1376 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
1377 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
1378 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
1379 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
1380 python-dev2 mailing list).
1383 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
1384 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
1385 are not associated with a particular screen.
1386 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
1387 stdscr to the callback function.
1388 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
1389 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
1390 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
1391 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
1392 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
1393 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
1394 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
1398 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
1399 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
1400 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
1401 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
1403 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
1404 wide-characters with extended-colors.
1405 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
1406 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
1407 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
1410 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
1411 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
1412 that the 'F' accepts.
1413 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
1414 are working concurrently.
1415 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
1419 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
1420 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
1421 _nc_free_and_exit().
1424 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
1425 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
1428 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
1429 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
1432 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
1433 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
1434 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
1435 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
1438 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
1439 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
1440 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
1441 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
1442 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
1443 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
1445 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
1446 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
1450 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
1451 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
1452 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
1455 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
1456 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
1457 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
1460 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
1461 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
1462 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
1466 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
1467 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
1468 "link_test" builds properly.
1469 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
1470 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
1471 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
1472 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
1473 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
1474 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
1475 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
1477 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
1480 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
1484 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
1485 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
1488 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
1490 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
1491 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
1492 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
1495 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
1496 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
1497 pierre4d2 comments).
1498 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
1499 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
1500 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
1501 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
1505 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
1506 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
1507 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
1508 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
1509 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
1511 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
1512 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
1513 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
1517 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
1518 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
1521 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
1523 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
1525 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
1529 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
1530 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
1532 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
1533 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
1534 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla
1535 #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
1536 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
1538 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
1539 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
1542 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
1543 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
1544 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
1545 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1548 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
1549 calls within the ncurses library.
1550 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
1552 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
1553 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
1554 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
1556 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
1557 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
1558 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
1559 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
1560 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
1563 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
1564 for threaded library (incomplete).
1565 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
1566 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
1570 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
1571 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
1572 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
1573 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
1574 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
1575 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
1576 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
1577 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1578 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1581 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
1583 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
1584 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1587 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
1588 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
1589 "\0" followed by a digit.
1590 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
1591 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
1592 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
1593 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
1594 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
1595 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
1596 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
1597 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
1598 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
1601 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
1602 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
1603 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
1604 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
1605 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
1607 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
1608 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
1609 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
1613 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
1614 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
1615 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
1616 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
1617 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
1618 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
1619 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
1620 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
1621 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
1624 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
1625 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
1626 + add test/test_getstr.c
1627 + add test/test_inwstr.c
1628 + add test/test_instr.c
1631 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
1632 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
1633 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
1637 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
1638 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
1639 ".log" to the name and try again.
1640 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
1641 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
1642 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
1643 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
1644 --disable-echo option is used.
1645 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
1646 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
1647 + update config.guess, config.sub
1650 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
1651 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
1652 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
1656 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
1657 problems with multi-column characters.
1658 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
1659 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
1660 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
1661 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
1662 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
1663 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
1664 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
1667 + add test/demo_panels.c
1668 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
1671 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
1673 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
1674 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
1677 + add test/key_name.c
1678 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
1679 + update test/configure
1680 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
1681 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
1682 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
1686 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
1687 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
1688 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
1689 illustrate how to use mvcur().
1690 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
1691 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
1692 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
1693 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
1694 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
1697 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
1698 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
1699 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
1700 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
1701 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
1702 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
1705 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
1706 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
1708 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
1709 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
1710 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
1711 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
1714 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
1715 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
1716 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
1717 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
1719 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
1721 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
1722 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
1723 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
1724 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
1725 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
1728 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
1729 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
1731 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
1732 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
1733 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
1734 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
1735 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
1736 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
1737 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
1738 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
1739 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
1740 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
1741 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
1744 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
1745 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
1746 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
1747 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
1748 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
1749 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
1750 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
1753 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
1754 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
1755 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
1756 Ada95 tree is not built.
1759 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
1760 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
1761 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
1762 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
1763 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
1764 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
1766 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
1767 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
1768 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
1769 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
1770 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
1771 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
1772 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
1773 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1774 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
1775 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
1776 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
1777 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
1778 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
1779 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
1780 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
1781 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
1782 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
1783 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
1784 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
1786 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
1787 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
1788 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
1789 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
1790 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
1791 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
1792 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
1793 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
1794 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
1797 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
1798 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
1799 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
1800 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
1801 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
1802 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
1803 + improved install-sh's quoting.
1804 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
1808 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
1809 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
1810 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
1811 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
1812 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
1816 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
1817 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
1818 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
1819 in the configure script to an error.
1820 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
1821 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
1822 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
1823 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
1824 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
1826 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
1827 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
1830 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
1831 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1834 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
1835 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
1837 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
1838 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
1839 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
1840 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
1841 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
1842 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
1843 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
1844 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
1847 + regenerated html documentation.
1848 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
1849 opaque in selected configurations.
1850 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
1851 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
1852 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
1853 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1854 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
1855 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
1856 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
1857 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1858 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
1859 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
1860 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
1862 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
1863 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
1866 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
1867 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
1868 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
1869 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
1870 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1871 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
1872 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
1873 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
1874 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
1875 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
1876 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
1877 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
1880 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
1882 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
1883 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
1884 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
1886 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
1887 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1888 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
1889 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1890 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
1891 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1892 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
1893 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
1895 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
1896 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1899 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
1900 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
1902 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
1904 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
1905 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
1906 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
1909 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
1910 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
1911 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
1912 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
1914 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
1915 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
1916 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
1917 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
1918 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
1919 no longer relies on it.
1920 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
1921 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
1922 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
1925 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
1926 (report by Rong-En Fan).
1929 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
1930 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
1931 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
1932 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
1933 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
1934 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
1935 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
1936 its license consistent with ncurses.
1937 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
1938 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
1939 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
1942 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
1943 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
1944 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
1945 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
1949 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
1950 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
1951 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
1953 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
1954 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1957 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
1958 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
1959 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1962 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
1963 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
1964 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
1965 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
1966 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
1967 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
1968 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
1969 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
1970 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
1971 to manpages as needed.
1972 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
1973 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
1976 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
1977 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
1978 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
1979 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
1980 + update config.guess, config.sub
1982 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1985 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
1986 definitions in <wchar.h>.
1987 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
1988 correct nor portable.
1989 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
1991 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
1992 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
1996 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
1997 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
1998 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
1999 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
2000 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
2001 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
2004 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
2005 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
2006 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
2007 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
2009 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
2010 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
2011 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
2012 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
2013 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
2014 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
2015 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
2016 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
2019 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
2020 database configuration.
2021 + updates for test/configure script.
2022 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
2023 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
2025 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
2026 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
2027 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
2028 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
2030 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
2031 _nc_printf_string().
2032 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
2033 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
2036 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
2037 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
2039 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
2040 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
2044 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
2045 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
2048 + add test/echochar.c
2049 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
2050 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
2053 + add AUTHORS file -TD
2054 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
2055 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
2056 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
2059 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
2060 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
2061 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
2063 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
2064 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
2065 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
2066 for rpath support in versions past 3.
2067 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
2068 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
2069 Ralf S Engelschall).
2070 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
2071 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
2072 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
2073 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
2076 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
2077 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
2078 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
2081 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
2082 and status line (Alain Bench).
2083 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
2084 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
2085 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
2086 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
2089 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
2090 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
2091 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
2092 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
2093 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
2096 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
2097 + updated html documentation.
2098 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
2099 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
2102 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
2103 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
2104 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2105 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
2106 option (from lynx changes) -TD
2107 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
2108 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
2109 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
2110 by report by Christopher Parker).
2114 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
2115 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
2116 since it does not really do this -TD
2119 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
2120 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
2121 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
2122 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
2125 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
2126 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
2127 embedded into a termcap description.
2128 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
2129 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
2130 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
2131 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
2133 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
2136 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
2138 + add test/foldkeys.c
2141 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
2142 source output (Debian #378783).
2143 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
2144 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
2145 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
2146 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
2147 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
2148 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
2151 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
2152 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
2153 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
2156 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
2157 or as a text file if those are not available.
2158 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
2159 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
2160 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
2163 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
2164 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
2165 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
2166 + update config.guess, config.sub
2169 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
2170 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
2171 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
2173 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
2174 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
2176 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
2177 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
2178 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
2179 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
2180 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
2181 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
2183 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
2184 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
2185 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
2186 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2189 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
2190 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
2194 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
2195 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
2197 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
2198 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
2199 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
2200 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
2201 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
2202 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
2205 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
2206 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
2207 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
2208 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
2209 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
2210 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
2211 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
2212 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
2213 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
2214 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
2217 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
2218 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
2219 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
2220 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
2222 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
2225 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
2226 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
2227 + minor copyright fixes.
2228 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
2231 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
2232 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
2233 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
2234 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
2235 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
2236 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
2237 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
2238 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
2240 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
2241 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
2242 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
2243 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
2245 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
2248 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
2249 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
2251 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
2252 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
2253 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
2254 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
2256 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
2257 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
2258 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
2259 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
2262 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
2263 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
2264 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
2265 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
2266 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
2267 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
2268 + update config.guess, config.sub
2269 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
2270 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
2271 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
2272 function is broken in that implementation.
2275 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
2276 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
2279 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
2280 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
2282 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
2283 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
2285 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
2286 reported to implement this feature -TD
2289 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
2290 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2293 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
2294 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
2295 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
2296 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
2297 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
2298 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
2299 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
2300 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
2303 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
2304 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
2306 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
2307 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
2310 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
2311 (report by Alain Bench).
2312 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
2313 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
2314 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
2315 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
2317 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
2318 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
2319 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
2323 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
2324 and/or video attributes.
2325 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
2326 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
2329 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
2332 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
2333 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
2334 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
2335 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
2336 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
2337 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
2338 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
2339 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
2340 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
2343 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
2344 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
2345 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
2348 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
2349 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
2350 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
2351 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
2352 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
2353 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
2354 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
2355 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
2356 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
2357 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
2360 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
2361 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
2362 rather than delayed.
2363 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
2365 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
2366 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
2367 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
2370 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
2372 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
2373 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
2376 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
2377 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
2380 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
2381 + suppress line-drawing
2382 + implement max_attributes
2384 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
2385 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
2389 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
2390 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
2392 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
2394 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
2395 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
2396 etc., when allocating screens.
2399 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
2400 this in test/filter.c
2401 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
2405 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
2406 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
2407 + add extension nofilter().
2408 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
2409 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
2410 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
2411 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
2412 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2415 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
2416 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
2417 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
2418 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
2419 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
2420 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
2421 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
2422 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
2423 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
2425 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
2426 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
2427 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
2429 + update config.guess and config.sub
2432 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
2433 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
2434 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
2436 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
2437 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
2438 that was never built in that directory).
2439 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
2442 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
2444 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
2445 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
2449 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
2450 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
2451 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
2452 effect of the different functions.
2453 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
2457 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
2458 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
2460 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
2464 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
2465 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
2466 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
2468 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
2469 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
2473 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
2474 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
2475 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
2477 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
2478 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
2479 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
2482 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
2483 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
2484 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
2487 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
2488 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
2489 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
2491 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
2492 a derived window (Debian #316663).
2495 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
2496 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
2497 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
2498 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
2499 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
2500 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
2501 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
2504 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
2505 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
2506 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
2508 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
2509 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2510 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
2511 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
2512 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
2514 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2517 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
2520 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
2521 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
2525 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
2526 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2527 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
2528 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2529 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
2531 + update config.guess and config.sub from
2532 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
2535 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
2536 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
2537 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
2538 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
2539 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
2540 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
2541 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
2542 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
2543 default if it is used.
2544 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
2545 --with-abi-version option was used.
2546 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
2547 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
2548 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
2551 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
2552 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
2553 handlers (Debian #326709).
2556 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
2557 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
2559 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
2562 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
2563 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
2564 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
2565 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
2567 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
2568 (report by Frank van Vugt).
2571 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
2572 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
2573 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
2574 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
2575 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
2576 + update llib-l* files.
2579 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
2580 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
2581 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
2582 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
2586 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
2587 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
2588 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
2589 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
2590 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
2591 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
2592 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
2593 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
2594 Konstantin Andreev).
2597 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
2598 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
2599 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
2600 several related cases -TD
2601 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
2602 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
2604 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
2605 resets line-drawing.
2608 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
2610 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
2611 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
2612 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
2613 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
2614 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
2615 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
2618 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
2619 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
2620 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
2622 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
2623 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
2626 + update config.guess and config.sub from
2627 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
2628 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
2629 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
2630 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
2631 "make install.data" step.
2632 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
2633 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
2634 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
2635 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
2636 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
2637 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
2638 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
2639 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
2640 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
2641 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
2642 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
2643 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
2644 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
2645 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
2648 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2651 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
2652 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
2653 review of Debian package).
2654 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
2655 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
2656 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
2657 install using libtool 1.5.0):
2658 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
2660 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
2661 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
2662 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
2663 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
2664 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2667 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
2668 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
2669 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
2672 + fixes for termcap support:
2673 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
2674 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
2675 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
2676 extended names data will be freed consistently.
2677 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
2679 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
2680 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
2681 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
2682 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
2685 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
2686 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
2687 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
2688 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
2690 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
2694 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
2696 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
2697 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
2700 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
2701 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
2702 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
2703 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
2704 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
2705 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
2706 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
2710 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
2711 shift-, control-cursor keys.
2712 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
2713 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
2714 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
2715 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
2716 it will automatically be treated as a key.
2717 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
2718 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
2719 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
2723 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
2724 + add configure option --enable-largefile
2725 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
2729 + update config.guess, config.sub
2730 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
2731 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
2732 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
2733 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
2734 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
2736 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
2737 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
2738 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
2741 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
2742 position the mouse to a particular item.
2743 + implement test/demo_menus.c
2744 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
2745 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
2746 --enable-const option.
2749 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
2750 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
2751 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
2752 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
2753 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
2754 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
2755 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
2756 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
2757 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
2758 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
2759 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
2762 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
2764 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
2765 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
2768 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
2769 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
2770 anyone used that configuration.
2771 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
2773 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
2774 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
2777 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
2778 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
2779 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
2781 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
2782 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
2783 WenRui, Debian #300512).
2786 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
2787 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
2788 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
2792 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
2793 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
2794 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
2795 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
2796 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
2799 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
2801 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
2803 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
2804 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
2805 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
2808 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
2810 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
2811 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
2812 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
2813 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
2814 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
2815 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
2816 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
2817 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
2818 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
2819 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
2820 right (cf: 20040228).
2821 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
2822 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
2825 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
2826 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
2827 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
2828 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
2829 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
2830 added (Debian #295083).
2831 + add traces to panel library.
2834 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
2835 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
2836 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
2837 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
2838 mouse events in this case.
2839 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
2840 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
2843 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
2844 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
2845 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
2846 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
2847 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
2848 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
2849 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
2850 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
2853 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
2854 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
2855 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
2856 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
2857 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
2858 already been started.
2859 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
2860 pair_content() and color_content().
2861 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
2862 if it corresponds to the default-color.
2863 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
2864 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
2865 color pairs which are allowed.
2866 + add a top-level tags rule.
2869 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
2870 first calling initscr().
2871 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
2872 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
2873 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
2874 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
2875 that are curses-specific.
2876 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
2877 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
2878 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
2879 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
2883 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
2884 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
2885 for leading whitespace.
2886 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
2887 where a following line begins in column 1.
2888 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
2889 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
2892 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
2895 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
2896 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
2897 + update config.guess, config.sub
2898 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
2899 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
2900 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
2901 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
2902 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
2903 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
2904 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
2907 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
2909 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
2910 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
2913 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
2914 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
2915 and attr_set functions.
2918 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
2919 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
2920 forms-demo to be one character short.
2921 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
2922 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
2923 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
2924 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
2927 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
2928 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
2929 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
2930 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
2932 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
2933 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
2936 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
2937 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
2938 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
2939 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
2940 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
2941 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
2942 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
2944 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
2945 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2947 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
2948 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
2951 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
2952 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
2953 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
2954 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
2955 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
2956 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
2957 wide-character configuration.
2960 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
2961 or multicolumn characters.
2964 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
2965 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
2966 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
2967 use_default_colors() be called first.
2970 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
2971 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
2972 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
2973 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
2974 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
2975 must be wrapped to a new line.
2976 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
2977 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
2978 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
2979 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
2980 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
2984 + minor fixes for traces.
2985 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
2986 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
2987 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
2991 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
2992 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
2993 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
2994 and shift-out which seem to work.
2995 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
2996 at runtime (Debian #110586).
2999 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
3000 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
3001 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
3002 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
3006 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
3007 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
3008 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
3009 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
3012 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
3013 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
3014 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
3015 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
3016 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
3017 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
3018 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
3019 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
3020 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
3021 is no longer experimental.
3022 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
3023 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
3026 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
3029 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
3030 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
3031 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
3032 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
3033 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
3034 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
3035 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
3036 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
3039 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
3040 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
3041 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
3042 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
3043 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
3044 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
3045 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
3046 new ones do not require this change. -TD
3049 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
3050 and window managers (Debian #265631).
3051 > terminfo updates -TD
3052 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
3053 with the common usage of bce/ech
3054 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
3058 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
3059 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
3060 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
3061 a help window as well.
3062 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
3063 the -d option is set.
3064 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
3067 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
3069 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
3070 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
3074 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
3075 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
3076 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
3077 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
3078 patch by Hans de Goede)
3079 > terminfo updates -TD
3080 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
3081 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
3082 + add function-keys to decansi
3083 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
3084 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
3085 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
3088 > terminfo updates -TD
3089 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
3090 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
3092 + review/update konsole entries
3093 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
3094 + correct tsl string in kterm
3097 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
3100 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
3101 multibyte character.
3102 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
3104 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
3105 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
3106 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
3107 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
3108 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
3109 converting termcap to termcap format.
3110 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
3111 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
3112 > terminfo updates -TD
3113 + minor fixes for emu
3115 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
3120 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
3121 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
3122 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
3123 (report/patch by Tony Li).
3124 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
3125 > terminfo updates -TD
3126 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
3128 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
3129 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
3130 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
3133 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
3134 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
3136 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
3137 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
3138 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
3139 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
3140 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
3141 + update config.guess, config.sub
3142 > terminfo updates -TD
3144 + add xterm-xf86-v44
3145 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
3146 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
3151 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
3152 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
3153 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
3156 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
3157 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
3158 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
3160 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
3164 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
3165 field_buffer() results.
3166 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
3169 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
3171 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
3172 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
3173 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
3174 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
3175 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
3178 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
3179 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
3180 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
3184 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
3185 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
3187 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
3190 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
3191 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
3192 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
3193 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
3194 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
3195 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
3196 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
3197 information without an option.
3198 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
3199 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
3202 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
3205 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
3206 + free some memory leaks in tic.
3207 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
3208 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
3209 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
3210 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
3211 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
3213 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
3216 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
3217 to an unsigned char.
3218 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
3219 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
3222 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
3225 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
3226 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
3227 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
3228 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
3229 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
3230 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
3231 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
3232 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
3233 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
3234 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
3235 20030802 (Debian #237629).
3238 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
3239 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
3240 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
3241 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
3244 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
3246 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
3247 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
3250 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
3251 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
3252 mode is shown in that test.
3253 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
3254 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
3255 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
3258 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
3260 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
3261 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
3262 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
3263 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
3265 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
3266 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
3267 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
3268 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
3271 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
3272 (request by Mike Aubury).
3273 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
3275 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
3277 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
3280 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
3281 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
3282 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
3283 with Stanislav Ievlev).
3284 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
3285 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
3286 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
3287 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
3288 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
3289 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
3291 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3294 20040207 pre-release
3295 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
3296 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
3297 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
3298 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
3299 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
3301 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
3302 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
3303 verified by Scott Corscadden).
3305 20040131 pre-release
3306 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
3307 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
3308 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
3309 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
3310 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
3311 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
3312 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
3313 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
3314 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
3315 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
3316 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
3318 20040125 pre-release
3319 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
3320 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
3321 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
3322 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
3323 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
3324 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
3325 modifying the displayed value.
3327 20040124 pre-release
3328 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
3329 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
3330 that works better for cross-compiling.
3332 20040117 pre-release
3333 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
3334 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
3335 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
3336 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
3337 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
3338 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
3339 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
3341 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
3342 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
3344 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
3345 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
3346 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
3347 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
3348 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
3349 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
3350 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
3351 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
3352 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
3353 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
3354 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
3355 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
3357 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
3358 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
3359 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
3360 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
3361 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
3362 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
3363 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
3364 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
3366 20040110 pre-release
3367 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
3368 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
3370 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
3371 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
3373 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
3375 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
3376 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
3377 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
3378 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
3379 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
3382 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
3383 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
3384 + add pecho_wchar().
3385 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
3386 available) on older platforms.
3389 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
3390 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
3391 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
3392 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
3393 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
3394 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
3395 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
3396 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
3397 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
3400 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
3401 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
3402 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
3403 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
3404 work with Tru64 4.0d.
3405 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
3409 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
3410 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
3411 applications do not.
3412 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
3413 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
3414 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
3415 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
3416 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
3417 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
3421 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
3422 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
3423 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
3424 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
3425 <inger@altlinux.org>).
3426 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
3427 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
3428 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
3429 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
3430 awkward for some cases.
3431 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
3432 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
3434 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
3435 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
3436 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
3437 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
3438 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
3442 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
3443 values (Philippe Blain).
3444 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
3445 restarting (Philippe Blain).
3446 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
3450 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
3451 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
3452 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
3453 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
3454 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
3455 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
3459 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
3460 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
3461 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
3463 + update config.guess, config.sub
3466 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
3467 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
3468 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
3469 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
3470 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
3471 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
3472 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
3474 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
3475 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
3476 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
3477 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
3478 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
3481 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
3482 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
3483 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
3484 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
3485 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
3486 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
3487 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
3488 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
3490 + regenerated html documentation.
3491 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
3492 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
3493 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
3496 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
3497 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
3498 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
3499 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
3500 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
3501 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
3502 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
3503 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
3507 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
3508 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
3511 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
3512 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
3513 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
3514 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
3516 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
3517 (report by Philippe Blain).
3520 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
3521 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
3522 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
3523 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
3524 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
3525 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
3526 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3527 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
3528 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
3530 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
3532 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
3533 in the clr_bol logic.
3536 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3537 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
3538 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
3539 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
3540 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
3541 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
3542 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
3543 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
3544 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
3545 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
3546 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
3547 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
3550 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
3551 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
3552 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
3553 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
3556 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
3557 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
3558 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
3559 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
3560 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
3561 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
3562 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
3563 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
3564 --with-install-prefix is used.
3567 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3568 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
3569 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
3570 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
3573 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
3574 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
3575 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
3576 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
3577 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
3578 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
3579 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3580 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
3581 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
3584 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
3585 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
3586 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
3587 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
3588 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
3589 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
3590 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
3593 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
3595 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3596 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
3597 the size of the scroll-region.
3598 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
3601 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
3602 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
3603 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
3607 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
3608 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
3609 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
3610 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
3611 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
3613 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
3614 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
3615 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
3616 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
3617 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
3618 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
3619 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
3620 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
3621 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
3622 usage and to prevent circular links.
3623 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
3624 (rxvt-color): new alias
3625 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
3626 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
3627 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
3628 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
3629 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
3630 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
3632 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
3636 + update config.guess, config.sub
3637 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
3638 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
3641 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
3642 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
3643 would not accept gcc warning options.
3644 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
3645 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
3646 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
3647 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
3648 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
3649 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
3650 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
3652 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
3655 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
3656 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
3657 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
3658 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
3659 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
3660 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
3661 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
3662 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
3665 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
3667 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
3668 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
3669 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
3670 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
3673 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
3675 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
3676 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
3677 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
3678 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
3679 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
3680 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
3683 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
3684 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
3685 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
3686 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
3687 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
3688 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
3689 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
3690 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
3692 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
3693 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3694 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
3695 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3698 + regenerated html manpages.
3699 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
3700 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
3702 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
3703 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
3705 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
3706 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
3709 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
3710 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
3711 + add tkterm entry -TD
3712 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
3713 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
3714 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
3715 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
3717 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
3718 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
3719 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
3721 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
3722 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
3723 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
3726 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
3727 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
3728 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
3729 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
3731 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
3732 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
3733 current test programs.
3734 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
3735 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
3736 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
3737 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
3739 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
3740 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
3741 mentioned in the terminfo.
3742 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
3743 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
3746 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
3747 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
3748 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
3749 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
3750 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
3751 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
3752 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
3753 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
3756 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
3757 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
3758 the editing position before making modifications.
3759 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
3760 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
3761 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
3764 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
3765 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
3766 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
3767 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
3769 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
3770 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
3771 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
3772 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
3773 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
3774 terminfo as is done in "screen".
3777 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
3778 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
3779 code, from recent rewrite.
3780 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
3782 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
3783 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
3786 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
3787 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
3788 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
3789 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
3792 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
3793 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
3795 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
3798 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
3800 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
3801 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
3803 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
3804 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
3805 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
3808 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
3809 a file when ^W is given.
3810 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
3814 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
3815 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
3816 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
3817 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
3818 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
3819 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
3820 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
3821 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
3825 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
3826 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
3827 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
3830 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
3831 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
3832 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
3833 baudrate was not known.
3834 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
3835 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
3836 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
3837 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
3838 corresponding capability might be
3840 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
3841 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
3842 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
3843 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
3846 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
3847 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
3848 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
3849 apparently typedef'd.
3850 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
3851 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
3854 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
3855 + updated configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
3856 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
3857 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
3858 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
3859 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
3860 cached for reallocating.
3863 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
3864 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
3865 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
3867 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
3868 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
3869 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
3870 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
3871 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
3872 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
3873 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
3874 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
3877 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
3878 emx-base to the latter -TD
3879 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
3880 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
3883 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
3884 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
3885 attributes, e.g., reverse.
3886 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
3887 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
3890 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
3891 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
3892 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
3893 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
3894 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
3895 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
3896 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
3898 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
3899 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
3900 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
3901 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
3902 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
3905 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
3906 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
3907 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
3908 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
3909 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
3910 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
3912 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3913 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
3914 is indeed a "blank".
3915 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
3916 sections as small as one line.
3917 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
3919 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
3920 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
3921 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
3924 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
3925 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
3928 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
3929 (report by Philippe Blain).
3930 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
3931 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
3932 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
3933 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
3934 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
3936 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
3937 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
3938 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
3939 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3940 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
3941 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
3944 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
3945 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
3947 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
3948 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
3950 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
3951 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
3952 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
3953 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
3956 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
3957 overridden from the environment.
3958 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
3959 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
3960 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
3961 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
3962 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
3963 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
3964 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
3965 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
3966 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
3967 by Sam Varshavchik).
3968 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
3969 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
3970 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
3971 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
3973 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
3974 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
3975 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
3976 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
3977 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
3980 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
3981 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
3982 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
3983 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
3984 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
3985 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
3986 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
3987 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
3988 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
3989 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
3990 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
3991 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
3992 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
3993 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
3994 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
3995 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
3996 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
3997 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
3998 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
3999 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
4000 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
4001 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
4002 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
4005 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
4006 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
4007 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
4008 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
4009 winsch() internal function.
4010 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
4011 more than one spacing character.
4014 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
4015 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
4016 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
4017 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
4018 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
4019 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
4020 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
4021 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
4022 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
4023 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
4026 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
4027 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
4028 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
4029 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
4030 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
4031 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
4032 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
4035 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
4036 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
4037 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
4038 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
4040 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
4041 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
4042 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
4043 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
4044 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
4047 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
4048 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
4049 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
4050 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
4051 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
4052 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
4053 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
4054 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
4055 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
4056 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
4057 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
4058 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
4059 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
4060 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
4061 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
4062 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
4063 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
4066 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
4067 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
4068 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
4069 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
4070 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
4071 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
4072 Frederic L W Meunier).
4074 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4075 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
4076 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
4077 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
4078 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
4079 the debug trace in that case.
4080 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
4081 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
4082 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
4083 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
4085 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
4086 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
4088 20021005 pre-release
4089 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
4090 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
4091 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
4092 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
4093 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
4094 formats such as "%.*s".
4095 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
4096 (report Floyd Davidson).
4097 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
4099 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
4100 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
4101 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
4103 20020928 pre-release
4104 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
4105 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
4106 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
4108 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
4109 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
4110 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
4111 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
4112 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
4113 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
4114 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
4115 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
4116 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
4117 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
4118 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
4119 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
4120 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
4121 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
4122 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
4123 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
4124 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
4125 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
4126 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
4128 20020921 pre-release
4129 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
4130 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
4131 result in core dump.
4132 + documented getbegx(), etc.
4133 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
4134 delimiter rather than '@'.
4135 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4136 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
4137 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
4138 to the lines given for the destination window.
4140 20020914 pre-release
4141 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
4142 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
4143 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
4144 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
4145 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
4146 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
4147 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
4148 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
4149 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4150 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
4151 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
4152 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
4154 20020907 pre-release
4155 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
4156 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
4157 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
4158 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
4159 html manpages on Debian.
4160 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
4161 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
4162 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
4163 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4164 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
4165 a variable from the stack.
4166 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
4168 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
4169 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
4170 _idcok window fields.
4171 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
4173 20020901 pre-release
4174 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
4175 + update config.guess, config.sub
4176 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
4177 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
4179 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
4180 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
4181 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
4182 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
4183 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
4184 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
4185 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
4186 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
4187 use in resizeterm().
4188 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
4189 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
4190 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
4191 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
4192 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4193 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
4194 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
4195 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
4196 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
4197 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
4198 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
4202 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
4203 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
4204 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
4205 + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
4206 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
4207 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
4210 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
4211 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
4212 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
4213 bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
4214 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
4215 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
4216 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
4217 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
4218 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
4220 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
4221 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
4225 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
4226 when translating to termcap.
4227 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
4228 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
4229 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
4231 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
4233 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
4234 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
4236 + document TABSIZE variable.
4237 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
4238 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
4239 assume_default_colors().
4240 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
4242 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
4243 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
4244 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
4245 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
4246 window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
4249 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
4251 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
4252 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
4254 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
4255 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
4256 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
4259 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
4261 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
4264 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
4265 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
4266 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
4267 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
4268 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
4269 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
4270 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
4271 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
4272 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
4273 configure definitions.
4274 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
4275 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
4276 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
4277 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
4278 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
4279 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
4280 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
4281 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
4282 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
4283 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
4284 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
4287 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
4288 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
4289 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
4290 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
4291 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
4292 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
4293 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
4295 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
4296 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
4297 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
4298 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4301 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
4302 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
4303 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
4304 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
4306 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
4307 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
4308 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
4311 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
4312 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
4314 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
4315 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
4316 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
4318 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
4319 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
4320 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
4321 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
4323 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
4324 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
4325 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
4326 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
4330 + add charset to generated html.
4331 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
4332 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
4333 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
4334 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
4335 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
4336 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
4340 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
4341 key code in get_wch().
4342 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
4343 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
4344 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
4345 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
4346 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
4347 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
4350 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
4351 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
4353 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
4354 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
4355 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
4356 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
4359 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
4360 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
4361 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
4362 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
4363 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
4364 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
4365 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
4366 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
4367 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
4368 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
4371 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
4375 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
4376 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
4377 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
4378 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
4379 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
4380 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
4381 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
4384 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
4385 character versions as well.
4386 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
4388 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
4390 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
4391 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
4392 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
4393 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
4394 if gettimeofday() is available.
4397 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
4398 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
4401 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
4403 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
4404 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
4405 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
4406 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
4407 + update config.guess, config.sub
4410 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
4411 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
4412 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
4413 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
4414 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
4415 alias for 'function'.
4418 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
4419 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
4423 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
4424 + implement wgetn_wstr().
4425 + implement win_wchnstr().
4426 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
4427 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
4430 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
4431 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
4434 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
4435 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
4438 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
4439 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
4440 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
4442 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
4443 + implement unget_wch().
4444 + implement wget_wch().
4447 + regenerated html manpages.
4448 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
4449 + implement wins_wch().
4450 + implement win_wch().
4451 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
4454 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
4455 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
4458 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
4459 + document wunctrl, key_name.
4460 + implement key_name().
4461 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
4463 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
4467 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
4468 in spurious symlinks on install.
4471 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
4472 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
4473 box() and box_set() functions.
4474 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
4475 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
4476 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
4477 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
4478 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
4479 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
4480 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
4482 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
4484 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
4485 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
4486 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
4487 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
4489 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
4490 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
4493 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
4494 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
4496 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
4500 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
4502 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
4503 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
4504 Albert Chin-A-Young).
4505 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
4506 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
4507 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4508 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
4509 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
4510 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
4511 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
4512 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
4513 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
4514 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
4515 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
4516 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
4519 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
4520 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
4523 + update config.guess, config.sub
4524 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
4525 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
4528 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
4529 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
4530 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
4532 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
4533 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
4535 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
4536 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
4537 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
4538 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
4541 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
4544 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
4545 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
4546 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
4547 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
4548 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
4549 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
4550 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
4551 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
4552 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
4554 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
4555 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
4556 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
4558 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
4560 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
4561 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
4562 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
4563 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
4564 work with SunOS nawk.
4565 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
4567 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
4568 case it uses multiple tokens.
4571 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
4572 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
4573 interrupted by that signal.
4574 + updated configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
4575 not needed with autoconf 2.52
4576 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
4577 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
4579 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
4580 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
4581 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
4582 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
4583 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
4586 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
4588 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
4589 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
4590 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
4591 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
4592 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
4593 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
4594 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
4595 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
4598 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
4599 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
4600 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
4601 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
4602 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
4603 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
4604 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
4605 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
4606 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
4609 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
4610 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
4611 may have different keypad() settings.
4612 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
4613 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
4614 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
4615 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
4616 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
4617 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
4618 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
4619 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
4621 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
4622 + update config.guess, config.sub from
4623 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
4624 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
4628 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
4630 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
4631 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
4632 implementation in cygwin package).
4633 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
4634 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
4636 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
4637 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
4638 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
4639 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
4640 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
4641 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
4642 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
4643 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
4644 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
4646 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
4647 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
4648 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
4649 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
4650 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
4651 <jevans@apple.com>).
4652 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
4653 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
4654 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
4655 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
4656 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
4660 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
4661 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
4662 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
4663 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
4664 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
4665 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
4666 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
4667 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
4668 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
4669 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
4672 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
4675 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
4676 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
4677 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
4678 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
4679 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
4682 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
4683 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
4686 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
4687 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
4688 + implement wecho_wchar()
4689 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
4690 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
4691 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
4693 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
4694 in a trace by using curly braces.
4695 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
4696 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
4697 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
4698 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
4701 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
4702 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
4703 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
4704 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
4705 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
4709 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
4710 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
4711 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
4712 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
4713 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
4714 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
4715 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
4716 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
4720 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
4721 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
4722 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
4723 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
4724 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
4725 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
4726 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
4727 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
4728 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
4731 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
4732 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
4735 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
4736 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
4737 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
4738 <bbraun@synack.net>).
4739 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
4740 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
4742 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
4743 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
4745 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
4746 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
4749 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
4750 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
4751 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
4752 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
4753 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
4755 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
4756 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
4758 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
4759 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
4760 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
4761 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
4762 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
4765 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
4766 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
4768 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
4769 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
4770 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
4771 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
4774 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
4775 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
4776 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
4777 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
4778 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
4782 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
4783 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
4784 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
4786 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
4788 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
4790 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
4792 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
4793 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
4794 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
4795 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
4796 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
4797 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
4798 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
4799 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
4800 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
4804 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
4805 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
4806 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
4807 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
4808 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
4809 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
4810 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
4811 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
4812 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
4813 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
4815 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
4816 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
4817 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4818 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
4819 supports xterm mouse controls.
4820 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
4821 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
4822 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
4823 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
4824 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
4825 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
4826 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
4827 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
4828 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
4829 AX in a color xterm.
4830 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
4834 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
4835 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
4836 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
4837 + added llib-ncursesw.
4840 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
4841 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
4842 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
4843 header files (report by William P Setzer).
4844 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
4845 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
4846 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
4847 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4848 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
4849 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
4850 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
4851 Albert Chin-A-Young).
4852 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
4853 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4854 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
4855 obsolete with QNX RTP.
4856 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
4857 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
4858 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
4859 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
4862 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
4863 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
4864 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
4867 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
4868 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
4869 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
4870 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
4871 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
4872 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
4873 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
4874 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
4875 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
4876 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
4877 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
4878 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
4882 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
4883 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
4884 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
4885 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
4886 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
4887 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
4888 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4891 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
4892 new wide-character structures.
4893 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
4894 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
4895 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
4896 compiling for wide-character configuration.
4897 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
4901 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
4903 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
4904 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
4905 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
4907 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
4908 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
4909 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
4912 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
4913 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
4914 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
4917 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
4918 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
4919 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
4920 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
4921 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
4922 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
4923 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
4926 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
4927 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
4928 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
4929 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
4930 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
4931 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
4932 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
4933 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
4934 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
4937 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
4938 which may be in libutf8.
4939 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
4940 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
4941 links (Debian bug report #99550).
4942 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
4943 C++ vscan code (Debian bug report #97945).
4944 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
4945 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
4946 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
4947 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
4948 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
4949 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
4952 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
4953 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
4956 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
4957 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
4958 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
4959 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
4960 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
4962 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
4963 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
4964 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
4965 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
4966 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
4967 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
4968 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
4969 are used to manipulate attributes.
4970 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
4971 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
4972 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
4973 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
4974 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
4975 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
4977 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
4978 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
4979 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
4980 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
4981 we are using chtype data.
4982 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
4984 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
4986 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
4987 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
4988 where a pointer would be more useful.
4989 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
4990 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
4991 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
4992 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
4993 passing cchar_t's by address.
4994 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
4995 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
4996 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
4997 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
4998 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
4999 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
5000 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
5001 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
5004 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
5005 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
5006 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
5007 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
5008 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
5010 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
5011 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
5012 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
5015 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
5016 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
5017 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
5018 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
5019 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
5020 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
5021 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
5022 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
5023 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
5024 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
5025 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
5026 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
5029 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
5030 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
5031 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
5034 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
5035 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
5038 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
5039 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
5040 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
5041 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
5042 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
5045 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
5046 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
5047 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
5048 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
5049 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
5050 <bsittler@iname.com>).
5051 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
5052 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
5053 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
5054 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
5055 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
5058 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
5059 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
5060 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
5061 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
5062 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
5063 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
5064 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
5065 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
5066 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
5067 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
5068 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
5069 any shots there, but the computer did.
5070 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
5071 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
5075 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
5076 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
5077 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
5078 3.09.08 (Debian bug report #92215).
5079 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
5080 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5083 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
5084 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
5085 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
5086 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
5087 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
5089 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
5091 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
5092 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
5094 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
5096 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
5097 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian bug #89222).
5100 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
5101 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
5102 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
5103 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
5104 interface from C++ binding.
5105 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
5106 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
5107 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
5108 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
5110 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
5111 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
5112 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
5113 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
5116 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
5117 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
5118 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
5119 (patch by Todd C Miller).
5122 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
5125 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
5129 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
5130 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
5131 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
5132 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
5133 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
5134 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
5135 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
5136 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
5137 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
5138 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
5139 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
5140 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
5143 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
5144 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
5146 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
5147 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
5148 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
5149 did not do this already.
5150 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
5151 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5152 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
5153 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
5154 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
5155 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
5156 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
5157 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
5160 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
5161 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
5164 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
5165 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
5166 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
5167 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
5169 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
5171 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
5172 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
5174 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
5175 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
5176 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
5177 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
5178 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
5181 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
5182 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
5183 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
5184 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
5187 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
5188 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
5189 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
5192 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
5193 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
5194 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
5195 work with 'indent') -TD
5198 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
5199 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
5200 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5201 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
5202 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
5204 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
5205 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
5206 termcap and terminfo functions
5207 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
5211 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
5212 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
5213 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
5214 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
5215 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
5216 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
5218 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
5219 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
5220 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
5221 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
5222 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
5223 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
5224 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
5225 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
5228 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
5229 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
5230 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
5231 /usr rather than /usr/local.
5234 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
5235 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
5236 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
5237 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
5239 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
5240 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
5241 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
5242 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
5243 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
5244 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
5245 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
5246 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
5249 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
5250 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
5251 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
5252 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
5253 + change trace output to binary format.
5254 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
5255 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
5256 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
5257 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
5258 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
5259 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
5260 the overwrite logic.
5263 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
5264 + resync config.guess, config.sub
5265 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
5266 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
5267 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
5268 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
5270 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
5271 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
5274 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5275 + update generated html files from manpages.
5276 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
5278 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
5279 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
5280 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
5281 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
5282 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5283 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
5284 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
5285 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
5288 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
5289 wrapping at the right margin.
5290 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
5291 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
5292 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
5294 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
5295 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
5296 understands how to run tbl automatically.
5297 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
5298 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
5299 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
5300 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
5301 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
5302 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
5303 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
5304 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
5305 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
5306 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
5307 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
5308 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
5309 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
5310 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
5311 option --with-libtool.
5312 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
5313 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
5314 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
5315 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
5316 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
5319 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
5320 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
5321 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
5322 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
5323 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
5324 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
5325 > patch by Todd C Miller:
5326 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
5327 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
5328 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
5329 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
5330 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
5331 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
5332 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
5333 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
5334 to set up a 3-button mouse.
5335 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
5336 replace select() call.
5339 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
5340 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
5341 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
5342 Albert Chin-A-Young).
5343 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
5344 cursor report before decoding.
5345 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
5346 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
5347 (see assume_default_colors()).
5348 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
5349 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
5351 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
5352 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
5353 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
5355 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
5356 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
5357 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
5358 for that capability.
5359 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
5360 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
5361 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
5362 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
5363 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
5364 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
5367 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
5368 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
5369 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
5370 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
5371 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
5372 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
5373 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
5374 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
5375 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
5377 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
5378 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
5379 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
5380 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
5381 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
5382 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
5383 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5386 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
5387 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
5388 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
5389 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
5390 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
5392 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
5393 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
5394 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
5395 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
5396 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
5397 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
5398 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
5399 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
5400 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
5401 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
5402 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
5403 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
5404 the expected number of parameters.
5405 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
5406 the option value is indeed a number.
5407 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
5408 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
5409 from the other signals.
5412 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
5413 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
5414 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
5417 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
5418 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
5420 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
5421 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
5422 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
5424 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
5425 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
5426 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
5427 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
5428 character set attribute from the displayed text.
5429 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
5430 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
5431 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
5432 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
5433 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
5434 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5437 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
5438 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
5439 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
5440 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
5441 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
5442 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
5443 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5444 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
5445 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
5446 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
5448 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
5449 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
5451 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
5452 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
5453 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
5454 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
5455 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
5456 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
5459 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
5460 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
5461 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
5462 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
5463 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
5464 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
5465 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
5466 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
5467 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
5468 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5469 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
5470 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
5471 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
5472 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
5473 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
5475 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
5476 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
5477 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
5480 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
5481 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
5482 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
5483 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
5485 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
5486 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
5487 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
5488 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
5489 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
5490 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
5491 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
5493 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
5494 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
5495 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
5496 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
5497 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
5498 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
5499 a default program-prefix.
5500 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
5501 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
5504 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
5505 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
5506 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
5507 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
5508 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
5509 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
5510 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
5511 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
5512 although the name is misleading).
5513 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
5514 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
5515 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
5516 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
5519 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
5520 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
5521 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
5523 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
5524 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
5526 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
5527 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
5528 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
5530 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
5531 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
5532 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
5533 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
5534 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
5535 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
5536 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
5537 test/configure script.
5538 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
5539 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
5540 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
5543 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
5546 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
5547 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
5548 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
5549 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
5550 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
5552 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
5553 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
5554 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
5556 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
5557 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
5560 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
5561 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5562 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
5563 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
5564 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
5565 there's still the explicit configure option).
5566 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
5567 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
5568 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
5569 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
5570 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
5571 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
5572 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
5573 simplify working around implementations that define random
5574 combinations of the related macros to zero.
5575 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
5576 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
5577 > patches by Bruno Haible:
5578 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
5579 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
5580 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
5581 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
5585 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
5586 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5587 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
5588 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
5589 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
5590 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
5591 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
5592 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
5593 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
5594 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
5595 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
5596 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
5597 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
5598 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
5601 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5602 + document configure options in INSTALL.
5603 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
5604 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
5605 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
5606 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
5607 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
5608 list of generated functions.
5609 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
5610 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
5611 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
5613 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
5614 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
5615 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
5616 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
5617 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
5619 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
5620 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
5621 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
5622 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
5623 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
5624 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
5625 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
5626 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
5627 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
5628 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
5629 examples cited in announce.html
5630 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
5631 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
5632 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
5633 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
5634 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
5635 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
5636 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
5637 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
5640 20000701 pre-release
5641 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
5642 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
5643 $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
5644 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
5645 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
5646 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
5648 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
5650 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
5652 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
5653 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
5654 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
5655 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
5656 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
5658 20000624 pre-release
5659 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
5660 that happen to render the same display colors.
5661 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
5662 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
5663 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
5664 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
5665 normalized value for cursor_address.
5666 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
5669 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
5670 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
5671 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
5672 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
5673 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
5674 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
5675 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
5676 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
5677 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
5678 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
5679 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
5680 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
5681 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
5685 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
5686 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
5687 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
5688 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
5689 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
5690 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
5691 allows larger symbol tables.
5692 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
5693 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
5694 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
5695 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
5699 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
5700 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
5701 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
5702 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
5703 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
5704 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
5705 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
5706 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
5707 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
5708 + add a "make libs" rule.
5709 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
5710 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
5711 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
5712 with existing ncurses libraries.
5715 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
5716 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
5717 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
5718 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
5719 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
5720 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
5721 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
5722 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
5723 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
5724 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
5725 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
5726 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
5727 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
5728 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
5731 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
5732 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
5733 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
5734 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
5738 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
5739 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
5741 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
5742 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
5743 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
5746 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
5747 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
5748 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
5749 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
5750 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
5752 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
5753 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
5754 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
5755 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
5756 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
5757 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
5758 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
5759 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
5762 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
5764 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
5765 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
5766 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
5767 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
5768 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
5769 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
5770 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
5771 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
5772 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
5773 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
5774 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
5775 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
5778 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
5779 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
5780 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
5781 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
5782 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5783 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
5784 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
5785 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
5786 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
5787 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
5788 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
5789 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
5790 means that it will not recur for that special case.
5791 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
5792 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
5793 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
5794 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5797 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
5798 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
5799 bg300-rv in esr's version.
5800 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
5801 (fixes Debian bug report #61088).
5802 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
5803 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
5804 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
5807 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
5808 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
5809 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
5810 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
5811 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
5814 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
5815 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
5816 improvement in setting default colors.
5817 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
5818 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
5819 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
5821 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
5822 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
5823 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
5824 check for buffer overflow.
5825 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
5826 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
5827 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
5828 such as "infocmp -Fa".
5831 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
5832 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
5833 is not permitted in termcap.
5834 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
5835 integrating 20000318.
5838 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
5839 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
5840 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
5841 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
5843 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
5844 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
5845 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
5846 result for OS/2 EMX.
5847 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
5848 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
5849 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
5850 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
5851 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
5852 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
5855 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
5856 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
5857 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
5859 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
5860 displaying string capabilities.
5861 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
5862 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
5863 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
5864 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
5865 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
5866 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
5868 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
5869 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
5871 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
5872 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
5873 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
5874 may not produce the same result as before.
5875 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
5877 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
5878 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
5880 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
5881 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
5883 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
5884 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5885 + drop support for gnat 3.10
5886 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
5887 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
5890 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
5891 made it check only one entry at a time.
5892 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
5894 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
5895 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
5896 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
5897 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
5898 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
5899 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
5900 address out of bounds.
5901 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
5902 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
5903 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
5904 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
5906 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
5907 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
5908 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
5910 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
5913 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
5914 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
5915 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
5916 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
5918 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
5919 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
5920 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
5921 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
5922 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
5923 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
5925 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
5926 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
5927 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
5928 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
5929 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
5930 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
5931 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
5932 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
5935 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
5936 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5937 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
5938 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
5939 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
5940 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
5944 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
5945 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
5946 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
5947 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
5948 colors are white on black.
5949 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
5950 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
5951 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
5952 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
5953 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
5956 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
5957 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
5958 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
5959 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
5960 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
5961 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
5962 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
5963 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
5964 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
5965 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
5966 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
5969 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
5970 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
5971 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
5972 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
5973 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
5974 to wait indefinitely.
5977 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
5978 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
5979 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
5980 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
5981 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
5982 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
5983 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
5984 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
5985 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
5986 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5987 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
5988 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
5992 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
5993 programs build with c++/g++.
5994 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
5995 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
5996 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
5997 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
5998 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
5999 + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and
6000 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
6001 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
6004 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
6006 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
6007 terminfo entries -TD
6008 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
6009 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
6010 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
6011 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
6013 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
6014 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
6016 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
6018 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
6019 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
6020 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
6021 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
6022 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
6023 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
6024 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
6025 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
6026 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
6030 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
6031 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
6032 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
6033 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
6034 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
6035 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
6036 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
6037 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
6038 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
6039 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
6040 use_extended_names().
6043 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
6044 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
6045 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
6046 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
6047 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
6048 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
6049 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
6050 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
6051 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
6052 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
6053 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
6054 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
6055 + add manpage for infotocap
6058 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
6059 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
6060 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
6061 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
6063 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
6064 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
6065 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
6066 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
6067 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
6068 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
6069 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
6070 initc for xterm-88color.
6071 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
6075 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
6076 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
6078 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
6079 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
6080 SP, since it is part of that struct.
6081 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
6083 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
6084 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
6085 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
6086 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
6087 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
6088 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
6089 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
6090 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
6091 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
6093 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
6094 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
6095 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6096 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
6098 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
6101 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
6102 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
6103 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
6104 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
6105 over the use of default colors.
6106 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
6107 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
6108 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
6109 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
6110 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
6111 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
6112 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
6113 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
6116 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
6117 <robert@progplus.com>)
6118 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
6119 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
6120 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
6123 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
6124 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
6125 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
6127 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
6128 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
6129 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
6130 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
6131 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
6132 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
6133 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
6134 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
6135 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
6136 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
6137 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
6138 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
6140 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
6141 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
6144 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
6145 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
6147 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
6148 (request by Bob van der Poel).
6149 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
6150 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
6151 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
6152 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
6153 libraries by default.
6154 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
6156 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
6157 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
6159 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
6160 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
6161 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
6162 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
6163 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
6164 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
6165 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
6167 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
6169 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
6170 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
6171 advice from Bela Lubkin).
6172 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
6173 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6174 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
6175 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
6176 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
6177 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
6180 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
6183 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
6184 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
6185 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
6186 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
6187 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
6188 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
6189 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
6190 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
6191 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
6192 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
6195 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
6196 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
6197 Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6198 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
6199 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
6200 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
6202 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
6203 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
6204 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
6205 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
6206 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
6207 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
6208 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
6209 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
6210 is used), and in color.
6211 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
6212 shared library rules.
6215 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
6216 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
6217 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
6218 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
6219 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
6220 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
6221 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
6222 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
6223 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
6224 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
6225 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
6226 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
6227 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
6228 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
6229 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
6230 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
6231 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6234 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
6235 <j@interface-business.de>).
6236 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
6237 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
6238 that hard-links work on Unix again.
6239 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
6240 Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
6241 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
6244 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
6245 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
6246 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
6247 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
6248 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
6249 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
6250 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
6251 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
6252 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
6253 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
6254 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
6255 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
6256 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
6259 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
6260 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
6261 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
6262 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
6263 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
6264 in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
6265 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
6266 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
6267 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
6268 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
6269 function works only for sockets.
6270 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
6271 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
6272 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
6273 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
6274 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
6275 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
6276 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
6277 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
6278 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
6279 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
6282 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
6283 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
6284 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
6285 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
6286 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
6287 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
6288 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
6291 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
6292 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
6293 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
6295 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
6296 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
6297 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
6298 nonfunctional link().
6299 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
6300 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
6303 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
6304 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
6305 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
6308 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
6309 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
6310 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
6311 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
6312 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
6313 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
6314 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6315 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
6316 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
6317 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
6318 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
6319 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
6320 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
6321 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
6322 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
6323 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
6324 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
6325 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
6326 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
6327 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
6330 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
6331 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
6332 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
6333 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
6334 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
6335 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
6336 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
6337 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
6338 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
6339 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
6340 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
6341 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
6342 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
6343 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
6344 short-circuit expression evaluation.
6345 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
6346 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
6348 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
6349 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
6350 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
6351 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
6352 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
6356 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
6357 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
6359 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
6360 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
6361 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
6364 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
6365 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
6366 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
6367 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
6368 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
6369 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
6370 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
6371 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
6373 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
6374 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
6375 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6378 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
6379 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
6380 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
6381 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
6382 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
6383 --with-rcs-ids option.
6386 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
6387 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
6389 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
6390 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
6391 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
6395 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
6396 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
6397 BeOS predefines a bool type.
6398 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
6399 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
6400 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
6401 option to infocmp -TD
6402 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6403 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
6404 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
6405 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
6406 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
6407 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
6408 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
6411 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6412 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
6413 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
6414 + change interface version-number to 1.0
6415 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
6418 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
6419 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
6420 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
6421 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
6422 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
6423 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
6424 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
6425 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
6426 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
6427 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
6429 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
6430 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (prompted by
6431 discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
6434 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
6435 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
6436 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
6438 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
6439 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
6442 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
6443 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6444 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
6445 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
6446 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
6449 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
6453 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
6454 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
6455 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
6456 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
6457 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
6459 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
6460 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
6461 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
6462 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
6465 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
6466 fields, and showing forms within panels.
6467 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
6468 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
6469 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
6470 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
6471 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
6472 ownership may change).
6475 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
6477 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
6478 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
6479 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6480 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
6481 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
6482 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
6483 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
6485 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
6486 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
6487 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
6488 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
6489 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
6490 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
6493 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
6494 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
6496 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
6497 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
6498 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
6499 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6502 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
6503 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
6504 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
6505 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
6506 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
6507 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
6511 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
6512 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6513 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
6514 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
6515 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
6516 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
6517 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
6518 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
6521 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
6522 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
6523 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
6524 Alexander V Lukyanov).
6527 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
6528 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
6531 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the -g option.
6532 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
6533 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
6534 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
6535 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6536 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
6537 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
6538 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
6539 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
6540 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
6541 reset for the next newterm.
6542 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
6543 terminal has true SLKs.
6544 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
6547 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
6548 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
6549 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
6550 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
6551 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
6552 read of the extended capabilities.
6553 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
6554 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
6555 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
6556 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
6557 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
6558 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
6559 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
6560 throughout ncurses library.
6561 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
6562 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
6564 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
6565 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
6566 + regenerate some of the html documentation
6567 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
6570 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
6571 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
6572 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
6573 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD
6574 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
6576 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
6578 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
6579 defined for a keycode.
6580 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
6581 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
6582 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
6583 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
6584 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
6586 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6587 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
6588 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
6589 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
6591 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
6592 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
6594 + modify configuration scripts to
6595 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
6596 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
6597 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
6598 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
6599 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
6600 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
6601 + rename ada_include directory to src.
6604 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
6605 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
6606 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
6610 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
6611 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
6612 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
6613 though the problem is more general.
6614 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
6615 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
6616 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
6617 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
6619 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
6620 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
6621 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
6624 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
6625 Alexander V Lukyanov).
6626 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
6627 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
6628 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
6629 operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6630 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
6631 be any substring rather than the prefix.
6632 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
6633 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
6634 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
6635 has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
6636 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
6637 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
6638 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
6639 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
6640 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
6641 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
6642 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
6643 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
6644 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
6645 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
6646 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
6647 --with-shlib-version option.
6650 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
6651 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
6652 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
6653 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
6654 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
6655 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
6656 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
6657 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
6658 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
6659 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
6660 intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
6661 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
6662 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
6663 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
6664 source distribution.
6667 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
6668 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
6669 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
6671 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
6672 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
6673 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
6674 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
6675 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
6678 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
6681 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
6682 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
6683 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
6684 Alexander V Lukyanov).
6685 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
6686 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
6687 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
6688 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
6689 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6690 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
6691 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
6692 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
6693 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
6694 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
6696 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
6697 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
6698 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
6699 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
6702 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
6704 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
6705 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
6706 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
6707 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
6708 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
6709 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
6710 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
6711 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
6712 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
6713 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
6714 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
6715 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
6716 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
6717 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
6718 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
6719 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
6720 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
6724 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
6725 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
6726 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
6727 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
6728 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
6729 running screen built with ncurses.
6730 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
6731 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
6732 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
6735 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
6738 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
6739 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
6740 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
6741 by a Debian bug report).
6742 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
6743 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
6745 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
6746 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
6747 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
6748 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
6752 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
6753 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
6754 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
6755 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
6756 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
6757 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
6758 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
6759 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
6760 (reported by H.J.Lu).
6763 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
6764 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
6765 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
6766 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
6767 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
6768 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
6769 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
6770 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
6771 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
6772 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
6773 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6774 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
6776 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
6777 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
6779 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
6781 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
6783 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
6784 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
6788 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
6789 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
6790 address rather than its length.
6791 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
6792 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
6793 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
6794 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
6795 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
6796 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
6797 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
6798 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
6799 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
6800 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
6803 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
6804 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
6806 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
6807 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
6808 for an older version of ncurses.
6809 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
6810 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
6811 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
6812 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
6813 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
6814 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
6815 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
6816 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
6817 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6818 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
6819 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
6820 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
6822 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
6823 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
6826 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
6827 (request by Larry Virden).
6828 > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
6829 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
6830 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
6831 changes to ncurses library.
6832 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
6833 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
6834 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
6835 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6836 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
6837 + some Ada95 cosmetics
6838 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
6839 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
6840 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
6843 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
6844 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
6845 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
6846 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
6847 proposed changes to ncurses library.
6848 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
6849 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
6850 broken configure scripts.
6853 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
6855 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
6856 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
6857 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
6859 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
6860 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
6864 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
6865 with --srcdir option.
6866 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
6867 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
6868 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
6869 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
6870 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
6871 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6874 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
6875 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
6876 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
6878 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
6879 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
6880 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
6881 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
6882 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
6883 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
6884 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
6885 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
6888 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
6889 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6892 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
6893 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
6894 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
6895 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
6896 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
6897 some older entries - TD
6898 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
6899 since that is a little more efficient.
6900 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
6901 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
6902 + add -g option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
6903 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
6904 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
6905 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
6907 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
6909 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
6910 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
6912 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
6913 + use format string for printing strings.
6914 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
6917 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
6918 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
6919 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
6920 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
6921 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
6922 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
6923 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
6924 > patches by Todd C Miller:
6925 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
6926 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
6927 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
6928 dealing with env variables again.
6929 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
6930 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
6931 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
6932 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
6933 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
6934 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
6935 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
6936 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
6937 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
6938 newhash data to SP struct.
6939 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
6940 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
6941 function's parameter which is deleted.
6942 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
6943 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
6944 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
6945 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
6949 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
6950 consistent treatment.
6951 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
6952 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
6953 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
6954 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
6957 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
6958 capability name, as in SVr4.
6959 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
6960 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
6961 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
6964 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
6965 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
6966 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
6967 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
6968 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
6969 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
6970 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
6971 > from esr's terminfo version:
6972 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
6973 + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
6974 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
6977 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
6978 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
6979 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
6980 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
6981 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
6982 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
6983 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
6984 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
6985 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
6986 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
6990 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
6991 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
6992 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
6993 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
6994 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
6997 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
6998 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
7002 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
7003 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
7004 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
7005 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
7006 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
7007 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
7008 as obtained via ioctl.
7011 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
7012 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
7013 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
7014 turning attributes off.
7015 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
7016 initializing multiple screens.
7017 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
7018 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
7019 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
7022 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
7023 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
7024 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
7025 with Solaris curses).
7026 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
7027 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
7028 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
7029 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
7030 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
7031 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
7032 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
7033 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
7036 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
7037 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
7038 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
7039 (request by QingLong).
7040 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
7041 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
7042 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
7043 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
7045 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
7046 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
7047 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
7048 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
7049 otherwise simply exit with an error.
7052 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
7053 "_g" for a debug build).
7054 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
7055 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
7056 compile/link working Ada95 program.
7057 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
7058 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
7059 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
7060 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
7061 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
7062 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
7066 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
7067 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
7068 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
7069 corresponds to vt100.
7070 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
7071 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
7074 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
7075 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
7076 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
7077 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
7078 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
7079 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
7080 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
7081 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
7082 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
7083 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7086 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
7087 several minor errors/omissions.
7088 + implement tparm %l format.
7089 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
7091 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
7094 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
7095 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
7096 to be written to large screens.
7097 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
7098 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
7099 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
7100 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
7101 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
7103 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
7104 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7105 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
7106 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
7109 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
7111 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
7113 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
7114 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
7115 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
7116 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
7117 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
7118 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
7119 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
7121 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
7122 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
7124 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
7127 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
7128 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
7129 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
7130 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
7131 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
7132 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
7133 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
7134 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
7135 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
7136 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
7139 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
7140 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7141 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty
7142 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
7143 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
7144 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
7145 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
7146 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
7147 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
7148 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
7149 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
7150 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
7151 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
7154 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
7155 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
7156 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
7157 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
7158 which contains a colon in the description field.
7159 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
7160 from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
7161 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
7163 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
7164 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
7167 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
7168 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
7170 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
7171 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
7172 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
7173 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
7174 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
7175 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
7176 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
7177 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
7178 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
7179 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
7180 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
7181 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
7182 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
7183 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
7184 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
7185 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
7186 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
7187 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
7188 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
7189 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
7190 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
7191 comparisons out of inner loop.
7194 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
7195 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
7196 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
7197 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
7198 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
7199 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
7200 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
7201 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
7202 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
7204 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
7205 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
7206 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
7209 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
7210 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
7211 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
7212 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
7213 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
7214 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
7215 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
7216 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
7217 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
7218 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
7221 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
7222 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
7223 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
7224 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
7226 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
7227 avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
7228 by Juergen Pfeifer).
7231 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
7232 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
7235 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
7236 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
7237 uses them when they are available.
7238 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
7239 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
7240 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
7241 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
7243 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
7246 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
7247 declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
7248 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
7249 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
7251 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7252 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
7253 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
7254 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
7255 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
7256 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
7257 use --disable-overwrite).
7258 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
7259 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
7260 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
7261 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
7262 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
7263 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
7264 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
7265 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
7266 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
7270 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
7271 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7272 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
7273 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
7274 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
7275 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
7276 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
7277 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
7279 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
7280 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
7281 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
7282 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
7284 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
7285 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
7286 parameter according to XSI.
7287 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
7288 reflect above enhancements.
7291 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
7292 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
7293 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
7294 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
7296 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
7298 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
7300 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
7301 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
7302 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
7305 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
7306 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
7307 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7308 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
7309 <claesg@algonet.se>).
7310 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
7311 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
7314 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
7315 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
7316 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
7318 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
7319 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
7320 by Florian La Roche).
7321 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
7322 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
7323 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
7324 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7327 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
7328 distributions, though it is retained in development.
7329 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
7331 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
7332 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
7333 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
7334 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
7335 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
7338 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
7340 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
7341 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
7342 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
7343 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
7344 This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
7345 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
7347 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
7348 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
7349 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
7351 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
7352 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
7353 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
7356 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
7357 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
7359 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
7360 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
7362 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
7364 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
7366 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
7368 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
7369 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
7370 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
7371 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
7372 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
7374 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
7375 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
7377 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
7378 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
7379 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
7380 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
7381 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
7382 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
7383 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
7384 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
7385 turn off attributes inconsistently.
7388 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
7389 test for no_color_video.
7390 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
7392 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
7393 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
7394 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
7396 > from reports by Fred Fish:
7397 + add configure-test for isascii
7398 + add configure-test for -lm library.
7399 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
7400 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
7401 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
7402 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
7403 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
7404 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
7405 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
7407 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
7408 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
7410 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
7411 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
7412 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
7413 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
7414 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
7417 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
7418 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
7420 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
7422 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
7423 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
7424 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
7426 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
7427 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
7429 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
7431 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
7432 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
7433 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
7434 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7435 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
7436 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
7437 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7438 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
7439 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
7440 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
7441 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
7442 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
7443 fields are also always inactive.
7444 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
7445 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
7448 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
7449 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
7450 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
7451 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
7452 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
7453 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
7454 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
7455 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
7456 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
7459 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
7460 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
7461 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
7462 defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
7463 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
7465 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
7466 Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
7467 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
7468 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
7469 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
7470 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
7471 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
7472 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
7473 cross-platform compatibility.
7474 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
7475 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
7476 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7477 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
7479 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
7483 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
7484 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
7485 EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
7486 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
7487 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
7488 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
7489 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
7490 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
7491 that simply cannot scroll.
7492 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
7493 embedded \200 characters are matched.
7494 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
7498 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
7499 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
7500 functions from the build.
7501 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
7502 functions as a separate library.
7503 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
7504 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
7505 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
7506 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
7507 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
7508 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
7509 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
7510 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
7511 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
7513 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7514 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
7515 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
7518 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
7519 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
7521 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
7522 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
7523 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
7524 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
7527 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
7528 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
7529 + add configure check for 'tack'.
7530 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
7531 for Debian configuration.
7532 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
7534 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
7535 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
7537 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
7538 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
7539 case of wide characters in chtype.
7540 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
7541 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
7542 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
7545 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
7546 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
7547 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
7548 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
7549 have set root's umask to 077.
7550 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
7551 end of output when they had embedded comments.
7552 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
7553 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
7554 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
7555 correct logic for handling backslashes.
7556 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
7557 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
7558 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
7559 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
7560 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
7561 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
7563 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7564 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
7566 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
7567 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
7569 + resync of the html version of the manpages
7572 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
7573 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
7575 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
7576 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
7577 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
7578 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
7579 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7580 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
7581 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
7582 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
7586 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
7588 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
7589 comments from Daniel Weaver.
7590 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
7591 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
7592 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
7593 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
7595 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
7596 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
7597 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
7599 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
7600 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
7603 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
7607 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
7608 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
7609 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
7610 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
7611 in call to delay_output().
7612 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
7613 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
7614 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
7615 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
7616 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
7618 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
7619 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
7620 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
7621 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
7622 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
7623 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
7624 so that will work on NeXT.
7625 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
7626 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
7629 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
7631 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
7633 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
7634 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
7635 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
7636 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
7637 when that feature is not configured.
7638 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
7639 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
7640 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
7641 (this dates back to 951102, in 1.9.7a).
7642 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
7643 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
7644 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
7645 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
7648 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
7650 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
7651 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
7653 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
7655 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
7656 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
7659 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
7660 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
7661 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
7662 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
7663 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
7664 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
7665 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
7666 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
7667 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
7669 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
7670 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
7671 tputs() if called from that function.
7672 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
7673 tputs works when SP is not set.
7674 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7675 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
7676 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
7677 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation
7678 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
7679 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
7682 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
7683 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
7684 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
7685 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
7686 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
7687 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
7688 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
7689 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
7690 _nc_update_screensize().
7691 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
7693 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
7694 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
7695 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
7696 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7697 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
7698 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7699 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
7700 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
7701 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
7702 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
7704 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
7708 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
7709 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
7710 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
7712 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
7713 click-interval without modifying it.
7714 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
7715 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
7717 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
7718 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
7719 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
7720 other ncurses headers.
7721 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
7722 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
7723 (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
7724 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
7725 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
7726 characters output in delay_output().
7727 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
7728 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
7729 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
7730 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7731 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
7733 + typo in configure --help.
7734 > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
7735 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
7736 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
7737 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
7740 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7741 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
7744 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
7745 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
7746 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
7747 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
7748 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
7750 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
7751 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
7752 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
7753 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
7754 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
7755 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
7756 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
7757 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
7758 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
7759 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
7760 form (sorted, unique mapping).
7761 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
7762 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
7763 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7764 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
7765 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7766 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7767 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
7768 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
7769 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
7770 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
7771 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
7772 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
7773 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7774 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
7776 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
7777 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
7778 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
7779 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
7780 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
7781 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
7785 + add 'deinstall' rules.
7786 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
7787 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
7788 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
7789 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
7790 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
7791 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
7793 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
7794 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7795 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
7797 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
7798 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
7799 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
7800 scripts are also provided.
7803 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
7805 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
7806 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
7807 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
7808 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
7809 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
7810 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
7811 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
7812 generating lint library.
7813 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
7815 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
7816 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
7817 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
7818 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
7819 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
7820 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
7821 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
7822 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
7823 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
7824 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
7826 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7827 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
7829 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
7831 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
7832 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
7833 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
7834 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
7835 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
7836 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
7837 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7838 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
7839 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
7843 + modify rain.c to use color.
7844 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
7845 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
7846 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
7847 of configure cache variables in 970906.
7848 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
7849 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
7850 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
7851 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
7852 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
7853 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
7854 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
7855 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
7856 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
7857 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7858 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
7860 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
7861 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
7862 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
7863 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
7865 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
7866 NCursesWindow class.
7867 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
7868 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
7869 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
7870 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
7872 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
7873 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
7874 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
7875 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
7876 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
7877 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
7879 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
7880 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
7881 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
7882 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
7883 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
7884 already disconnected.
7885 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
7886 navigation requests.
7887 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
7888 case-insensitiva comparision routine.
7889 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
7890 forms field by index.
7891 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
7893 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
7894 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
7895 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
7896 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
7897 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
7898 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
7899 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
7900 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
7901 move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
7903 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
7904 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
7905 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
7907 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
7908 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7909 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
7910 know that auto_right_margin is true.
7911 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
7912 shifting character to LR corner.
7913 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
7914 terminal right margin mode is known.
7915 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
7916 _nc_scroll_window().
7917 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
7918 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
7920 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
7921 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
7922 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
7923 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
7925 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
7926 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
7927 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
7928 the terminal window is resized.
7931 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
7932 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
7933 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
7934 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
7935 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
7936 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
7937 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
7938 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
7939 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7940 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
7941 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
7943 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
7944 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
7945 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
7947 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
7948 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
7950 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
7954 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
7955 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
7956 lib_printw.c functions.
7957 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
7958 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
7959 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
7960 force the screen to scroll.
7963 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
7965 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
7967 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
7968 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
7970 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
7971 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
7972 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7973 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
7974 was in the wrong order.
7975 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
7977 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
7979 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
7980 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
7981 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
7982 invoke wechochar() instead.
7983 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
7986 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
7987 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
7988 work properly when we add calls to that function.
7989 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
7990 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
7991 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7992 + several fixes to getch:
7993 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
7994 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
7995 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
7996 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
7998 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
7999 6. correctly handle the case of receiption of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
8000 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
8001 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
8002 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
8004 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
8005 line-breakout optimization
8006 + improve hashmap.c by
8007 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
8008 2. not marking lines with offset 0
8009 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
8010 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
8011 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
8012 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
8014 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
8015 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
8016 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
8017 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
8019 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
8021 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
8022 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
8023 stored/retrieved via set_term().
8024 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
8028 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
8029 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
8030 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
8032 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
8033 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
8034 before looking for (n)curses library.
8035 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
8036 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
8037 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
8038 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
8039 include ncurses_cfg.h
8040 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
8041 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
8042 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
8043 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
8045 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
8046 common subexpressions.
8047 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
8048 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
8049 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
8050 against the background character.
8051 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
8052 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
8053 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
8054 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
8055 > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
8056 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
8057 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
8058 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
8059 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
8062 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
8063 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
8064 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
8065 terminal type ncr7900).
8066 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
8067 package is built with an install-prefix.
8068 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
8069 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
8070 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
8071 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
8072 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
8073 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
8074 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
8075 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
8076 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
8077 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8078 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
8079 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
8080 by Juergen Pfeifer).
8083 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
8084 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
8085 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
8086 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
8087 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
8088 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
8089 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
8090 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
8091 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
8092 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
8093 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
8096 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
8097 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
8098 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
8099 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
8100 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
8101 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
8102 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
8103 configuration of wide-characters.
8104 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
8105 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
8106 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
8107 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
8108 does not have getttynam().
8109 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
8110 + add table entries for 230400 and 460800 bd to baudrate() function.
8111 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
8112 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8113 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
8114 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8115 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
8116 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
8117 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
8118 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
8119 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
8123 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
8124 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8125 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
8126 options should be accompanied by a message.
8127 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
8128 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
8130 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
8132 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
8133 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
8134 better when csr is not available.
8135 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
8136 after failure to scroll one.
8137 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
8138 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
8139 case and wrong string in TRACE.
8140 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8141 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
8145 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
8146 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
8148 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
8149 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
8150 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
8151 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
8152 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
8155 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
8156 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
8157 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
8159 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
8162 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
8163 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
8164 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
8165 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
8166 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
8167 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
8168 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
8169 (reported by Larry Virden).
8170 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
8171 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
8173 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8174 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
8175 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
8176 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
8180 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
8181 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
8182 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
8183 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
8184 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
8186 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
8187 terminfo description to the stored strings.
8188 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
8189 terminfo descriptions.
8190 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
8191 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
8192 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
8193 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
8194 option is a stopgap.
8195 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
8196 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
8199 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
8200 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
8201 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
8202 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
8203 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
8204 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
8208 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
8209 lines in curscr that are shifted.
8210 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
8211 than a series of function calls.
8212 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
8213 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
8214 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
8215 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
8216 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
8217 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
8218 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
8219 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8220 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8223 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
8224 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
8225 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
8226 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
8227 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
8228 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
8229 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
8230 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
8231 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
8232 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
8233 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
8234 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
8235 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
8236 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
8237 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8238 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
8239 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8240 + improve threshhold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
8241 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8244 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
8245 use only the fallback data.
8246 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
8247 terminal descriptions.
8248 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
8249 still assume there's an ncurses.h
8250 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
8251 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
8252 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
8253 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
8254 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
8255 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
8257 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
8258 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
8259 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
8260 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
8261 <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
8262 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
8263 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
8265 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
8267 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
8268 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
8270 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
8272 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
8273 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
8274 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
8275 original implementation (1.9.6).
8276 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
8277 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
8278 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
8279 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
8281 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
8282 SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
8283 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
8284 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
8285 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
8286 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8287 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
8288 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
8290 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
8291 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
8292 field is not possible.
8293 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
8294 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
8295 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
8296 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
8298 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
8299 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
8300 in forms/menus libraries.
8303 + add description of xterm-16color.
8304 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
8305 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
8307 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
8308 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
8309 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
8310 works properly w/o first doing "make".
8311 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
8312 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
8314 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
8315 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
8316 bounding box without tidying up).
8317 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
8318 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
8319 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
8321 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
8322 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8323 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
8324 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
8325 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8328 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
8329 option is specified.
8330 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
8331 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
8333 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
8334 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
8335 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
8336 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
8337 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
8338 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
8339 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
8340 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
8341 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
8342 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
8343 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
8344 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
8345 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
8346 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
8348 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
8349 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
8350 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8351 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
8352 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
8353 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8354 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
8355 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
8356 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8357 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
8358 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
8360 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
8362 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
8364 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
8365 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
8368 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
8369 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
8370 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
8371 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
8373 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
8374 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
8375 during a call to newwin.
8376 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
8377 is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
8378 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
8379 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
8380 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
8381 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8382 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
8383 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
8386 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
8387 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
8388 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
8389 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
8391 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
8394 970505 4.1 pre-release
8395 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
8397 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
8398 unnecessary recompiles.
8399 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
8400 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
8401 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
8402 overwrite of symbolic links.
8403 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
8404 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
8405 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
8406 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
8407 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
8408 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
8409 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
8410 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
8411 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
8412 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
8413 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
8414 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
8415 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
8416 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
8420 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
8421 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
8422 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
8424 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
8425 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
8426 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
8427 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
8428 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
8429 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
8430 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
8431 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
8432 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
8434 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
8435 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
8436 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
8437 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
8439 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
8440 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
8441 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8442 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
8443 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8444 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
8445 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8446 + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
8447 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
8448 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
8449 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8452 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
8453 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
8454 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
8455 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
8456 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
8457 original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
8458 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
8459 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
8460 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
8461 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
8462 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
8463 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
8464 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
8465 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
8466 or redefinition within an acsc string.
8467 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
8468 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
8470 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
8471 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
8474 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
8475 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
8476 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
8477 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
8478 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
8479 match SVr4 documentation.
8480 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
8481 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
8482 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
8485 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
8486 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
8487 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
8488 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
8489 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
8490 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
8491 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
8492 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
8495 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
8496 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
8497 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
8499 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
8500 --enable/--with values.
8501 + add configure option --enable-big-core
8502 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
8503 + check for C++ builtin.h header
8504 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
8505 parameter from the expression.
8506 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
8507 ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted from diffs by
8509 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
8510 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
8511 was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
8512 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
8513 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
8514 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
8517 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
8518 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
8519 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
8520 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
8521 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
8524 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
8525 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
8526 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
8527 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
8528 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
8529 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
8530 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
8531 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
8532 (reported by Ward Horner).
8533 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
8534 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
8537 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
8538 even if "make all" is not done first.
8539 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
8540 expanded functions with ATAC.
8541 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
8542 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
8546 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
8548 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
8550 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
8553 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
8554 addressing request by Ward Horner.
8555 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
8556 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
8557 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
8558 a pointer-increment.
8559 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
8563 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
8564 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
8566 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
8567 (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
8568 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
8569 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
8570 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
8571 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
8572 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
8573 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
8575 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
8576 (reported by Ward Horner)
8577 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
8578 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
8579 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
8580 (reported by Gary Johnson).
8581 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
8582 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
8583 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
8584 wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
8585 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
8586 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
8587 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
8588 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
8592 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
8593 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
8594 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
8595 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
8596 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
8597 (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8598 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
8599 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
8600 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
8601 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
8604 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
8606 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
8607 the returned buffer.
8608 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
8609 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
8610 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
8611 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
8613 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
8614 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
8617 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
8618 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
8619 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
8620 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
8622 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
8623 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
8626 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
8627 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
8629 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
8631 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
8632 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
8633 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
8634 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
8636 + modify _tracedump() to pad pad colors & attrs lines to match change
8637 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
8638 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
8639 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
8642 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
8643 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
8644 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
8645 that machine - T.Dickey.
8646 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
8647 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
8648 linking against static libraries.
8649 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
8651 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
8652 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
8653 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
8654 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
8656 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
8657 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
8658 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
8659 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
8660 Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
8663 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
8664 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
8665 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
8667 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
8668 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
8669 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
8670 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
8671 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
8672 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
8675 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
8677 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
8678 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
8679 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
8680 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
8681 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
8682 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
8683 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
8684 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
8685 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
8686 insert/delete line method.
8687 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
8688 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
8689 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
8690 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
8692 961229 (internal alpha)
8693 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
8694 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
8695 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
8696 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
8697 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
8698 there is data on stdin.
8699 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
8700 descriptors, needed for GPM.
8701 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
8702 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
8703 prevented patch from working properly -TD
8704 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
8705 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
8706 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
8707 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
8710 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
8711 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
8713 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
8716 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
8717 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
8718 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
8719 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
8721 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
8722 solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
8723 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
8724 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
8725 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
8726 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
8728 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
8729 i.e., set current directory before linking.
8730 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
8731 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
8732 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
8733 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
8734 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
8735 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
8736 Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
8737 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
8740 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
8741 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
8742 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
8743 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
8744 Solaris curses, which does this.
8747 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
8748 work with wider range of screen sizes.
8749 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
8750 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
8751 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
8753 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
8754 resize between endwin/refresh.
8755 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
8756 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
8757 terminal modes in 960907.
8758 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
8759 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
8761 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
8762 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
8763 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
8764 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
8765 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
8766 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
8767 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
8768 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
8769 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
8771 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
8772 (requested by Florian La Roche).
8773 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
8774 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
8775 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
8776 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
8777 by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8780 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
8783 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
8784 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
8785 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
8786 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
8787 data used in ncurses library.
8788 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
8789 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
8790 Alexander V Lukyanov).
8791 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
8792 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
8793 beta may not be interchangeable).
8794 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
8796 961130 1.9.9g release
8797 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
8801 > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
8802 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
8803 to avoid warning messages.
8804 + the panel overlap detection was broken
8805 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
8807 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
8811 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8812 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
8813 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
8814 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
8815 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
8818 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
8819 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
8820 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
8825 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
8827 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
8829 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
8832 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
8833 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
8834 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
8835 + add entry for color_xterm
8838 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
8839 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
8840 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
8841 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
8842 CANCELLED_STRING values.
8843 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
8844 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
8845 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
8846 delays when in autoplay mode.
8847 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
8848 Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
8850 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
8853 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
8854 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
8855 a spurious clear-screen.
8856 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
8857 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
8859 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
8860 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
8861 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
8865 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
8866 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
8867 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
8868 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
8869 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
8870 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
8872 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
8873 distribution, as stated)
8874 + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
8875 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
8876 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
8877 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
8878 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
8879 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
8880 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
8882 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
8883 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
8887 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
8888 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
8889 file (lib_screen.c).
8890 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
8891 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
8892 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
8893 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
8894 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
8895 rendered as octal constants.
8896 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
8897 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
8898 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
8899 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
8900 in the top-level command-parser.
8901 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
8902 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
8904 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
8905 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
8906 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
8909 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
8910 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
8911 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
8912 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
8913 (reported by Tim Mooney).
8914 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
8916 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
8920 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
8922 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
8926 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
8927 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
8929 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
8930 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
8931 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
8932 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
8933 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
8934 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
8935 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
8936 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
8937 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
8938 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
8940 + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
8941 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
8943 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
8944 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
8945 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
8946 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
8949 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
8950 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
8951 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
8952 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
8953 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
8955 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
8956 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
8957 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
8958 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
8959 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
8960 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
8961 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
8962 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
8963 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
8964 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
8965 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
8966 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
8967 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
8970 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
8971 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
8972 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
8974 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
8975 Michael Elkins) - untested
8977 + correction to #317.
8979 + re-add _nc_hash_map
8980 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design.
8981 + add hashtest.c, program to time the hashmap optimization.
8983 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
8985 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
8987 + merged Alexander V Lukyanov's patch to use ech and rep - untested
8989 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
8990 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
8991 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
8992 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
8995 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
8997 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
8998 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
8999 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
9000 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
9001 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
9003 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
9006 + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
9007 (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9008 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
9009 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9010 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
9011 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
9014 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
9015 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
9016 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
9017 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
9018 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
9019 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
9020 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
9021 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
9022 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
9023 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
9024 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
9025 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
9026 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
9027 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
9028 + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
9032 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9033 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
9034 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
9035 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
9037 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
9038 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
9039 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
9042 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
9043 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
9044 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
9047 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
9048 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9049 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
9050 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9053 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
9054 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
9055 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
9056 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
9057 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
9059 + add dtterm description
9060 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop vscanf subtest)
9063 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
9064 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
9065 + refine configure-test for -g option (Tim Mooney).
9066 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
9067 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
9070 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
9072 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
9074 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch.
9077 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
9078 (reported by William P Setzer)
9079 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
9080 (reported by Tim Mooney).
9082 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
9083 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
9084 + updated qnx terminfo entry (by Michael Hunter)
9087 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
9089 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
9093 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
9094 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
9096 + terminfo changes (9.3.10), from BRL
9097 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
9098 + add more symbols to infocmp.
9101 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
9102 Juergen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
9103 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
9105 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
9106 null), and tests that use it.
9107 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
9108 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
9109 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
9111 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
9113 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
9114 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
9117 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
9118 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
9119 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
9120 by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
9121 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
9122 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
9123 + terminfo patches #306/307 (ESR).
9124 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
9125 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
9128 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
9129 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
9130 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
9132 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
9133 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
9134 Philippe De Muyter).
9137 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
9138 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
9140 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes (ESR).
9141 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
9143 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
9144 (reported by David MacKenzie).
9145 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
9146 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
9147 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
9148 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
9149 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
9150 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
9151 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
9155 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
9156 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
9157 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
9158 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
9159 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
9160 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
9161 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
9162 than function keys in 'g' test.
9163 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
9164 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
9165 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
9166 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
9168 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
9170 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
9171 msgwin needed scrollok set.
9172 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
9173 between PutRange and InsStr
9174 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
9175 MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
9177 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
9180 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
9181 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
9182 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
9184 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
9185 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
9186 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
9187 _yoffset to WINDOW).
9188 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
9189 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
9190 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
9191 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
9192 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
9193 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
9194 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
9195 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
9196 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
9199 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
9200 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
9201 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
9202 first entry in a list).
9203 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
9204 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
9207 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
9208 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
9209 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
9210 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
9211 with a shared-library configuration.
9212 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
9213 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
9214 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
9215 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
9216 builders to install into staging locations (requested by
9217 Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
9218 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
9220 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
9221 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
9222 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
9223 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
9224 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
9226 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
9227 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
9228 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
9229 invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9231 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
9232 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
9233 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
9237 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
9238 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
9239 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
9240 + added rules for lintlib, lint
9241 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
9242 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
9243 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
9244 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
9245 checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
9246 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
9247 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
9248 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
9249 + typos, don't use inline with -g (Philippe De Muyter)
9250 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
9253 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
9254 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
9255 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
9256 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
9257 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
9258 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
9260 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
9261 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
9262 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
9263 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
9266 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
9267 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
9268 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
9269 <lav@yars.free.net>).
9270 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
9271 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
9272 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
9273 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
9275 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
9277 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
9278 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
9279 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
9280 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
9283 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
9287 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
9288 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
9289 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
9290 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
9291 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
9292 > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
9293 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
9294 + added TRACE_IEVENT
9295 + removed boolean version of 'getm'
9296 + added lib_print.c (for Rick Marshall)
9298 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
9299 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
9300 + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
9301 is not part of X/Open Curses).
9302 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
9305 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
9306 + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
9307 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
9308 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
9309 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
9310 "#include" if needed.
9313 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
9314 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
9317 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
9318 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
9319 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
9323 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
9324 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
9325 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
9326 > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
9327 + new "-e" option of tic.
9328 + fix for "infocmp -e".
9329 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c
9330 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
9331 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
9335 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
9336 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
9337 K&R-style substitution)
9338 > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
9339 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode
9340 + corrected askuser() logic in tset
9341 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing
9342 + added trace support for TTY flags
9345 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
9346 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
9347 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
9348 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
9349 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
9351 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
9352 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
9354 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
9356 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
9357 copy-changed-lines behavior.
9358 * added and documented wresize() function.
9359 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
9360 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
9361 emitted before the first check.
9362 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
9363 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
9364 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
9365 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
9366 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
9367 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
9369 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
9370 * support for ESCDELAY.
9371 * small fixes for menu/form code.
9372 * the test directory has its own configure.
9373 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
9374 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
9375 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
9378 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
9380 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
9381 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
9382 * support infocmp -RBSD.
9383 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
9384 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
9385 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
9386 catastrophies or acts of God.
9387 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
9389 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
9390 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
9393 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
9395 * corrected return values of setupterm()
9396 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
9397 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
9398 one `use' capability.
9399 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
9400 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
9401 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
9402 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
9403 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
9404 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
9405 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
9406 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
9407 * added -h option to toe(1).
9408 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
9409 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
9410 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
9411 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
9413 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
9415 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
9416 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
9418 * mouse support for xterm.
9419 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
9420 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initally off.
9421 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
9422 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
9423 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
9424 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
9425 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
9426 * infocmp -T option added.
9427 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
9429 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
9431 * menus library is now included with documentation.
9432 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
9433 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
9434 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
9435 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
9436 * tweaks for compiling in seperate directories.
9437 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
9438 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
9439 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
9441 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
9443 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
9444 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
9445 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
9446 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
9448 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
9450 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
9451 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
9452 * added tracemunch to the test tools
9453 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
9455 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
9457 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
9458 profile and shared object models.
9460 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
9462 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
9463 * panels support added
9464 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
9465 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
9467 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
9469 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
9470 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
9471 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
9472 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
9474 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
9475 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
9476 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
9477 are consistent (they weren't).
9478 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
9479 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
9480 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
9481 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
9483 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
9484 * more spelling fixes
9485 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
9486 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
9487 core in init_acs()).
9488 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
9491 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
9493 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
9494 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
9495 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
9497 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
9498 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
9499 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
9500 resolution of traces.
9501 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
9502 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
9503 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
9504 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
9505 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
9507 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
9508 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
9509 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
9510 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
9512 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
9513 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
9514 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
9515 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
9516 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
9517 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This wil mostly happen if
9518 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
9519 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
9520 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
9521 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
9522 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
9523 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
9524 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
9525 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
9526 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
9527 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
9529 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
9530 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
9531 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
9532 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
9533 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
9534 the correct alternate character set.
9535 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
9536 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
9537 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
9538 a terminal is undefined.
9539 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
9540 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
9541 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
9542 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
9543 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
9544 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
9546 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
9547 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
9548 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
9549 if other attributes are turned off.
9550 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
9551 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
9552 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
9554 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
9555 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
9556 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
9559 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
9560 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
9561 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
9562 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
9564 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
9565 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
9567 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
9569 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
9570 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
9571 break operation with any emulators.
9572 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
9573 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
9574 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
9575 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
9576 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
9577 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
9578 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
9579 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
9581 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
9582 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
9584 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
9585 unpredictable results.
9586 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
9588 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
9589 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
9590 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
9591 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
9592 take note of the terminfo directory.
9593 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
9594 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
9597 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
9598 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
9599 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
9600 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
9601 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
9602 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
9603 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
9604 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
9605 performs more testing.
9606 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
9607 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
9609 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
9610 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
9612 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
9613 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
9614 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
9616 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
9618 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
9619 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
9620 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
9621 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
9622 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
9623 will probably continue to work ok.
9625 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
9626 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
9627 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
9628 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
9629 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
9631 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
9632 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
9633 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
9635 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
9636 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
9637 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
9638 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
9639 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
9640 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
9641 changed accordingly.
9642 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
9643 bottom-right corner.
9644 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
9645 pads I'd love a copy.
9646 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
9647 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
9648 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
9649 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
9650 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
9651 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
9652 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
9654 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
9655 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
9656 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
9658 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
9659 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
9660 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
9661 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
9662 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
9663 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
9664 * See src/README for porting notes.
9665 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
9666 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
9667 rows instead of lines, etc.)
9668 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
9669 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
9670 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
9671 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
9672 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
9673 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
9674 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
9676 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
9677 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
9678 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
9679 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
9680 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
9681 fact was exposed by hanoi.
9682 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
9683 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
9684 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
9685 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
9686 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
9687 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
9689 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
9691 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
9692 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
9693 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
9694 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
9695 Config.* files through an awk script.
9696 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
9697 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
9698 * a few minor cleanups.
9699 * added more prototypes in curses.h
9701 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
9703 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
9704 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
9705 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
9706 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
9707 * a couple of bug fixes.
9708 * a few code cleanups.
9710 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
9712 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
9713 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
9714 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
9715 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
9716 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
9717 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
9719 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
9720 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
9722 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
9723 (doesn't work on Linux)
9724 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
9725 screen before working.
9726 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
9727 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
9729 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
9730 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
9731 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
9732 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
9733 * several minor bug fixes.
9735 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
9737 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
9738 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
9739 * changes related to Config
9741 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
9743 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
9744 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
9745 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
9746 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
9747 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
9748 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
9749 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
9751 * fixed problems with asc_init()
9752 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
9753 * cleaned up vidputs()
9754 * general cleanup of the code
9755 * more attention to portability to other systems
9756 * added terminfos for hp70092 (wont work until changes to lib_update.c are
9757 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
9759 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
9760 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
9762 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
9763 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
9764 the rationale drop me a line.
9766 Included are several test programs in test/.
9767 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
9768 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
9770 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
9772 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
9773 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
9774 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
9775 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
9776 * keyname() is added.
9777 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
9778 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
9779 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
9780 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
9781 * included fixes from 0.6.1
9782 * added a few more missing functions.
9783 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
9784 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
9787 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
9789 1) Included the missing data/console.
9791 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
9793 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
9795 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
9796 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
9797 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
9799 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
9800 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
9801 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
9802 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
9803 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
9804 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
9805 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
9806 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
9807 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
9808 * added notimeout().
9809 * added timeout() define in curses.h
9810 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
9812 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
9813 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
9814 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
9815 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
9816 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
9817 * added slk_* support.
9818 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
9819 * added PANEL library.
9820 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
9821 * terminfo.h is really term.h
9823 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
9824 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
9825 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
9826 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
9827 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
9828 another key is pressed.
9829 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
9830 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
9831 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
9833 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
9834 * fixed bug in wvline().
9836 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
9837 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
9839 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
9840 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
9841 * Addition of function prototypes.
9842 * Addition of several missing functions.
9843 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
9844 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
9845 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
9846 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
9847 * New scrolling code.
9848 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
9850 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
9851 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
9852 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
9853 * more fixes for updates.
9854 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
9855 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
9856 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
9857 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
9859 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
9860 * support for color.
9861 * support for PC graphic characters.
9862 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
9863 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
9865 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
9866 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
9867 * ANSIfication of some functions.
9868 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
9869 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.
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