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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 * add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
50 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
51 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
52 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
55 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
56 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
57 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
60 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
61 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
62 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
65 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
66 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
67 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
68 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
71 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
72 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
73 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
75 + update Ada95/configure.
76 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
77 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
78 of updating LIBS variable.
81 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
82 work with 64-bit compiles.
83 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
87 + regenerated html documentation.
88 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
90 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
91 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
92 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
93 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
96 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
97 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
99 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
100 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
101 build- and target-machines differ.
102 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
103 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
105 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
106 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
109 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
110 new EINTR feature is enabled.
111 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
112 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
113 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
114 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
115 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
116 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
117 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
118 with the standard builds of ncurses.
119 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
120 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
121 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
122 found in predefined libraries.
123 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
126 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
127 (patch by David Benjamin).
128 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
129 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
130 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
131 may be defined by that route.
134 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
135 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
136 the predefined include directories.
137 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
138 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
139 where older versions would produce an error.
142 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
143 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
144 terminfo to termcap strings
145 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
146 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
147 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
148 directory was already added.
149 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
150 directories (which will be ignored).
153 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
154 + discard motion events
155 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
156 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
157 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
158 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
161 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
162 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
163 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
164 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
165 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
166 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
167 extended-colors configuration.
168 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
169 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
170 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
173 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
175 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
176 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
177 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
179 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
180 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
181 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
184 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
185 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
189 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
190 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
191 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
192 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
193 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
194 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
195 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
196 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
197 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
201 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
202 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
203 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
204 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
207 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
209 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
210 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
211 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
214 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
215 making those separately distributable.
216 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
217 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
221 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
224 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
225 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
226 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
227 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
231 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
232 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
233 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
234 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
237 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
238 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
239 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
240 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
242 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
243 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
245 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
249 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
250 that line-drawing works.
251 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
252 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
253 capabilities can run.
254 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
258 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
259 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
260 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
261 before older in the list.
262 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
263 + minor documentation cleanup.
264 + update config.guess, config.sub from
265 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
266 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
269 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
270 most common case of SGR 0.
271 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
272 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
273 events remain, it will return ERR.
276 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
277 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
278 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
279 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
280 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
283 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
284 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
285 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
288 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
289 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
290 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
291 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
292 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
293 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
296 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
297 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
298 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
299 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
300 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
302 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
304 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
306 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
307 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
308 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
310 + update config.guess, config.sub from
311 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
314 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
315 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
317 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
318 writing terminfo entries.
319 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
320 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
321 by Nicholas Marriott).
324 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
326 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
327 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
331 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
332 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
333 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
334 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
335 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
339 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
340 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
341 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
342 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
345 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
346 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
347 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
348 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
349 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
350 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
351 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
354 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
355 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
356 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
357 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
358 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
359 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
360 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
361 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
362 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
363 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
364 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
367 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
368 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
369 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
370 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD bin/136223).
373 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
374 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
377 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
378 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
379 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
383 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
384 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
385 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
386 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
387 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
389 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
390 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
393 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
394 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
395 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
396 terminal-driver. That is used in mingw port, and (being somewhat
397 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
398 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
400 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
401 library (some work remains for forms library).
404 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
405 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
406 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
407 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
409 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
410 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
411 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
412 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
415 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
416 by sharing linedata.h functions):
420 test/test_add_wchstr.c
421 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
422 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
423 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
426 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
428 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
429 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
430 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
431 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
435 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
436 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
437 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
438 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
441 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
442 amd64 (Debian #542031).
443 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
446 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
449 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
450 broken in 20090509 merging.
451 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
452 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
453 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
454 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
455 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
456 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
457 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
458 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
460 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
463 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
464 implementation details of hash function.
467 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
468 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
469 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
472 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
473 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
474 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
476 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
477 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
480 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
481 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
485 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
488 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
490 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
491 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
492 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
493 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
494 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
496 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
497 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
498 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
501 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
502 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
503 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
506 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
507 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
509 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
512 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
513 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
515 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
516 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
520 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
521 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
522 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
525 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
528 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
531 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
532 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
533 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
534 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
537 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
540 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
541 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
542 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
543 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
547 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
550 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
551 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
554 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
557 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
561 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
564 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
565 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
566 part of the form library.
569 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
570 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
573 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
574 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
575 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
576 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
577 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
578 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
579 a temporary variable.
580 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
581 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
582 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
583 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
584 with Charles Wilson).
585 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
586 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
587 > patches by Charles Wilson:
588 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
589 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
590 digits, after the final '.').
591 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
592 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
593 using that in the libtool link-commands.
594 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
595 from 2009031 changes.
596 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
597 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
598 termlib) is to be linked.
599 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
600 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
603 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
604 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
605 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
606 (report by Charles Wilson).
607 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
608 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
609 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
610 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
611 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
614 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
615 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
616 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
617 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
618 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
620 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
621 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
622 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
623 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
624 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
625 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
626 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
627 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
630 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
631 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
632 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
635 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
638 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
640 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
641 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
642 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
643 some internals work is needed to complete these).
644 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
647 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
648 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
649 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
650 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
651 + make it work with $DESTDIR
652 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
655 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
656 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
658 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
659 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
660 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
663 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
664 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
665 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
666 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
667 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
668 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
669 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
670 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
671 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
674 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
675 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
677 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
679 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
680 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
683 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
685 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
686 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
687 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
688 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
691 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
692 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
693 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
695 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
696 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
699 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
700 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
701 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
702 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
703 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
704 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
706 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
707 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
709 + update config.guess, config.sub from
710 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
713 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
714 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
715 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
718 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
719 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
720 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
722 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
723 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
726 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
728 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
729 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
730 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
732 + fixes from NetBSD port at
733 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
734 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
735 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
736 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
737 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
739 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
740 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
743 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
744 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
745 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
746 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
747 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
748 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
749 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
750 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
751 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
752 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
753 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
756 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
757 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
758 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
759 passing color or video attributes.
760 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
761 display meta-characters.
762 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
763 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
764 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
765 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
769 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
770 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
771 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
773 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
776 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
778 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
779 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
781 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
784 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
785 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
786 does not work well on that platform).
787 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
790 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
791 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
792 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
794 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
795 --disable-database is used.
796 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
797 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
798 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
799 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
803 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
804 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
805 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
806 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
807 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
808 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
809 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
813 + regenerated html documentation.
814 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
815 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
816 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
817 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
818 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
819 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
820 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
821 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
824 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
825 works for C/C++ parts).
826 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
827 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
830 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
831 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
832 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
833 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
834 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
835 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
836 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
837 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
838 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
840 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
841 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
842 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
843 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
844 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
845 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
848 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
849 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
852 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
853 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
854 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
855 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
856 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
857 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
860 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
861 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
864 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
868 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
869 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
870 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
871 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
873 + update test/configure script.
874 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
875 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
876 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
877 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
878 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
881 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
882 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
884 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
886 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
887 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
888 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
889 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
890 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
891 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
892 + update config.guess, config.sub from
893 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
894 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
897 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
898 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
899 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
900 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
901 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
902 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
903 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
904 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
905 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
906 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
907 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
911 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
912 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
913 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
914 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
915 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
917 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
918 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
919 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
920 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
921 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
924 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
925 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
926 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
927 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
928 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
929 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
930 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
933 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
937 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
940 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
943 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
944 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
946 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
947 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
948 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
952 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
953 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
955 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
956 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
957 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
958 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
961 + regenerated html documentation.
962 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
963 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
964 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
965 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
966 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
969 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
970 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
971 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
975 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
976 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
977 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
978 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
979 window which is being used in a wgetch().
980 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
983 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
984 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
986 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
987 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
988 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
989 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
990 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
991 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
992 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
993 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
994 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
997 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
998 screen which must be updated.
999 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
1000 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
1001 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
1005 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
1006 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
1008 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
1009 Emanuele Giaquinta).
1010 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
1011 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1014 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
1015 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
1016 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
1018 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
1022 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
1023 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
1024 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
1027 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
1028 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
1029 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
1030 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
1033 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
1034 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
1036 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
1038 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
1041 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
1042 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
1043 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
1044 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
1045 python-dev2 mailing list).
1048 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
1049 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
1050 are not associated with a particular screen.
1051 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
1052 stdscr to the callback function.
1053 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
1054 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
1055 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
1056 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
1057 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
1058 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
1059 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
1063 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
1064 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
1065 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
1066 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
1068 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
1069 wide-characters with extended-colors.
1070 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
1071 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
1072 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
1075 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
1076 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
1077 that the 'F' accepts.
1078 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
1079 are working concurrently.
1080 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
1084 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
1085 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
1086 _nc_free_and_exit().
1089 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
1090 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
1093 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
1094 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
1097 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
1098 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
1099 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
1100 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
1103 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
1104 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
1105 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
1106 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
1107 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
1108 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
1110 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
1111 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
1115 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
1116 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
1117 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
1120 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
1121 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
1122 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
1125 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
1126 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
1127 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
1131 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
1132 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
1133 "link_test" builds properly.
1134 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
1135 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
1136 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
1137 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
1138 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
1139 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
1140 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
1142 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
1145 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
1149 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
1150 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
1153 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
1155 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
1156 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
1157 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
1160 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
1161 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
1162 pierre4d2 comments).
1163 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
1164 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
1165 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
1166 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
1170 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
1171 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
1172 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
1173 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
1174 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
1176 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
1177 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
1178 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
1182 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
1183 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
1186 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
1188 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
1190 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
1194 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
1195 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
1197 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
1198 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
1199 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla
1200 #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
1201 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
1203 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
1204 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
1207 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
1208 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
1209 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
1210 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1213 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
1214 calls within the ncurses library.
1215 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
1217 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
1218 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
1219 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
1221 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
1222 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
1223 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
1224 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
1225 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
1228 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
1229 for threaded library (incomplete).
1230 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
1231 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
1235 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
1236 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
1237 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
1238 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
1239 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
1240 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
1241 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
1242 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1243 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1246 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
1248 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
1249 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1252 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
1253 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
1254 "\0" followed by a digit.
1255 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
1256 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
1257 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
1258 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
1259 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
1260 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
1261 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
1262 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
1263 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
1266 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
1267 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
1268 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
1269 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
1270 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
1272 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
1273 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
1274 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
1278 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
1279 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
1280 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
1281 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
1282 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
1283 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
1284 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
1285 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
1286 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
1289 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
1290 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
1291 + add test/test_getstr.c
1292 + add test/test_inwstr.c
1293 + add test/test_instr.c
1296 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
1297 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
1298 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
1302 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
1303 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
1304 ".log" to the name and try again.
1305 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
1306 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
1307 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
1308 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
1309 --disable-echo option is used.
1310 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
1311 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
1312 + update config.guess, config.sub
1315 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
1316 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
1317 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
1321 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
1322 problems with multi-column characters.
1323 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
1324 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
1325 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
1326 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
1327 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
1328 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
1329 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
1332 + add test/demo_panels.c
1333 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
1336 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
1338 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
1339 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
1342 + add test/key_name.c
1343 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
1344 + update test/configure
1345 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
1346 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
1347 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
1351 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
1352 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
1353 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
1354 illustrate how to use mvcur().
1355 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
1356 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
1357 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
1358 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
1359 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
1362 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
1363 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
1364 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
1365 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
1366 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
1367 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
1370 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
1371 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
1373 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
1374 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
1375 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
1376 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
1379 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
1380 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
1381 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
1382 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
1384 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
1386 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
1387 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
1388 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
1389 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
1390 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
1393 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
1394 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
1396 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
1397 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
1398 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
1399 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
1400 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
1401 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
1402 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
1403 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
1404 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
1405 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
1406 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
1409 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
1410 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
1411 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
1412 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
1413 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
1414 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
1415 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
1418 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
1419 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
1420 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
1421 Ada95 tree is not built.
1424 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
1425 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
1426 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
1427 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
1428 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
1429 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
1431 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
1432 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
1433 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
1434 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
1435 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
1436 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
1437 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
1438 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1439 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
1440 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
1441 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
1442 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
1443 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
1444 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
1445 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
1446 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
1447 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
1448 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
1449 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
1451 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
1452 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
1453 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
1454 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
1455 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
1456 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
1457 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
1458 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
1459 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
1462 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
1463 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
1464 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
1465 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
1466 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
1467 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
1468 + improved install-sh's quoting.
1469 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
1473 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
1474 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
1475 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
1476 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
1477 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
1481 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
1482 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
1483 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
1484 in the configure script to an error.
1485 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
1486 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
1487 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
1488 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
1489 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
1491 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
1492 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
1495 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
1496 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1499 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
1500 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
1502 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
1503 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
1504 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
1505 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
1506 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
1507 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
1508 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
1509 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
1512 + regenerated html documentation.
1513 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
1514 opaque in selected configurations.
1515 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
1516 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
1517 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
1518 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1519 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
1520 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
1521 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
1522 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1523 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
1524 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
1525 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
1527 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
1528 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
1531 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
1532 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
1533 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
1534 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
1535 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1536 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
1537 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
1538 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
1539 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
1540 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
1541 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
1542 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
1545 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
1547 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
1548 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
1549 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
1551 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
1552 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1553 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
1554 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1555 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
1556 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1557 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
1558 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
1560 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
1561 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1564 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
1565 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
1567 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
1569 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
1570 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
1571 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
1574 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
1575 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
1576 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
1577 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
1579 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
1580 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
1581 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
1582 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
1583 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
1584 no longer relies on it.
1585 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
1586 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
1587 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
1590 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
1591 (report by Rong-En Fan).
1594 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
1595 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
1596 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
1597 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
1598 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
1599 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
1600 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
1601 its license consistent with ncurses.
1602 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
1603 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
1604 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
1607 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
1608 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
1609 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
1610 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
1614 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
1615 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
1616 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
1618 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
1619 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1622 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
1623 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
1624 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1627 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
1628 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
1629 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
1630 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
1631 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
1632 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
1633 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
1634 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
1635 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
1636 to manpages as needed.
1637 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
1638 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
1641 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
1642 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
1643 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
1644 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
1645 + update config.guess, config.sub
1647 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1650 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
1651 definitions in <wchar.h>.
1652 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
1653 correct nor portable.
1654 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
1656 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
1657 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
1661 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
1662 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
1663 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
1664 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
1665 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
1666 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
1669 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
1670 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
1671 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
1672 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
1674 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
1675 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
1676 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
1677 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
1678 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
1679 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
1680 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
1681 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
1684 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
1685 database configuration.
1686 + updates for test/configure script.
1687 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
1688 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
1690 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
1691 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
1692 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
1693 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
1695 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
1696 _nc_printf_string().
1697 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
1698 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
1701 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
1702 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
1704 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
1705 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
1709 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
1710 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
1713 + add test/echochar.c
1714 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
1715 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
1718 + add AUTHORS file -TD
1719 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
1720 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
1721 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
1724 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
1725 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
1726 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
1728 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
1729 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
1730 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
1731 for rpath support in versions past 3.
1732 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
1733 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
1734 Ralf S Engelschall).
1735 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
1736 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
1737 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
1738 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
1741 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
1742 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
1743 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
1746 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
1747 and status line (Alain Bench).
1748 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
1749 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
1750 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
1751 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
1754 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
1755 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
1756 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
1757 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
1758 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
1761 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
1762 + updated html documentation.
1763 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
1764 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
1767 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
1768 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
1769 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1770 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
1771 option (from lynx changes) -TD
1772 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
1773 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
1774 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
1775 by report by Christopher Parker).
1779 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
1780 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
1781 since it does not really do this -TD
1784 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
1785 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
1786 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
1787 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
1790 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
1791 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
1792 embedded into a termcap description.
1793 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
1794 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
1795 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
1796 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
1798 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
1801 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
1803 + add test/foldkeys.c
1806 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
1807 source output (Debian #378783).
1808 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
1809 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
1810 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
1811 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
1812 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
1813 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
1816 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
1817 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
1818 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
1821 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
1822 or as a text file if those are not available.
1823 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
1824 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
1825 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
1828 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
1829 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
1830 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
1831 + update config.guess, config.sub
1834 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
1835 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
1836 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
1838 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
1839 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
1841 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
1842 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
1843 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
1844 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
1845 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
1846 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
1848 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
1849 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
1850 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
1851 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1854 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
1855 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
1859 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
1860 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
1862 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
1863 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
1864 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
1865 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
1866 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
1867 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
1870 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
1871 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
1872 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
1873 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
1874 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
1875 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
1876 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
1877 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
1878 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
1879 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
1882 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
1883 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
1884 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
1885 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
1887 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
1890 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
1891 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
1892 + minor copyright fixes.
1893 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
1896 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
1897 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
1898 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
1899 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
1900 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
1901 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
1902 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
1903 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
1905 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
1906 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
1907 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
1908 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
1910 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
1913 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
1914 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
1916 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
1917 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
1918 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
1919 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
1921 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
1922 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
1923 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
1924 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
1927 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
1928 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
1929 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
1930 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
1931 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
1932 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
1933 + update config.guess, config.sub
1934 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
1935 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
1936 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
1937 function is broken in that implementation.
1940 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
1941 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
1944 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
1945 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
1947 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
1948 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
1950 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
1951 reported to implement this feature -TD
1954 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
1955 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1958 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
1959 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
1960 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
1961 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
1962 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
1963 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
1964 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
1965 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
1968 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
1969 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
1971 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
1972 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
1975 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
1976 (report by Alain Bench).
1977 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
1978 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
1979 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
1980 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
1982 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
1983 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
1984 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
1988 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
1989 and/or video attributes.
1990 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
1991 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
1994 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
1997 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
1998 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
1999 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
2000 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
2001 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
2002 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
2003 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
2004 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
2005 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
2008 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
2009 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
2010 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
2013 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
2014 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
2015 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
2016 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
2017 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
2018 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
2019 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
2020 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
2021 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
2022 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
2025 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
2026 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
2027 rather than delayed.
2028 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
2030 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
2031 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
2032 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
2035 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
2037 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
2038 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
2041 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
2042 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
2045 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
2046 + suppress line-drawing
2047 + implement max_attributes
2049 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
2050 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
2054 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
2055 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
2057 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
2059 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
2060 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
2061 etc., when allocating screens.
2064 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
2065 this in test/filter.c
2066 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
2070 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
2071 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
2072 + add extension nofilter().
2073 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
2074 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
2075 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
2076 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
2077 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2080 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
2081 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
2082 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
2083 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
2084 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
2085 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
2086 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
2087 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
2088 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
2090 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
2091 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
2092 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
2094 + update config.guess and config.sub
2097 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
2098 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
2099 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
2101 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
2102 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
2103 that was never built in that directory).
2104 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
2107 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
2109 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
2110 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
2114 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
2115 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
2116 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
2117 effect of the different functions.
2118 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
2122 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
2123 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
2125 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
2129 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
2130 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
2131 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
2133 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
2134 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
2138 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
2139 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
2140 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
2142 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
2143 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
2144 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
2147 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
2148 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
2149 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
2152 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
2153 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
2154 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
2156 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
2157 a derived window (Debian #316663).
2160 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
2161 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
2162 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
2163 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
2164 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
2165 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
2166 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
2169 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
2170 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
2171 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
2173 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
2174 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2175 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
2176 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
2177 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
2179 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2182 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
2185 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
2186 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
2190 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
2191 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2192 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
2193 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2194 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
2196 + update config.guess and config.sub from
2197 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
2200 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
2201 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
2202 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
2203 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
2204 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
2205 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
2206 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
2207 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
2208 default if it is used.
2209 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
2210 --with-abi-version option was used.
2211 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
2212 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
2213 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
2216 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
2217 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
2218 handlers (Debian #326709).
2221 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
2222 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
2224 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
2227 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
2228 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
2229 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
2230 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
2232 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
2233 (report by Frank van Vugt).
2236 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
2237 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
2238 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
2239 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
2240 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
2241 + update llib-l* files.
2244 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
2245 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
2246 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
2247 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
2251 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
2252 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
2253 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
2254 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
2255 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
2256 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
2257 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
2258 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
2259 Konstantin Andreev).
2262 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
2263 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
2264 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
2265 several related cases -TD
2266 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
2267 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
2269 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
2270 resets line-drawing.
2273 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
2275 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
2276 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
2277 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
2278 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
2279 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
2280 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
2283 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
2284 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
2285 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
2287 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
2288 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
2291 + update config.guess and config.sub from
2292 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
2293 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
2294 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
2295 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
2296 "make install.data" step.
2297 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
2298 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
2299 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
2300 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
2301 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
2302 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
2303 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
2304 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
2305 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
2306 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
2307 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
2308 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
2309 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
2310 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
2313 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2316 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
2317 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
2318 review of Debian package).
2319 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
2320 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
2321 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
2322 install using libtool 1.5.0):
2323 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
2325 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
2326 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
2327 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
2328 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
2329 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2332 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
2333 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
2334 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
2337 + fixes for termcap support:
2338 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
2339 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
2340 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
2341 extended names data will be freed consistently.
2342 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
2344 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
2345 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
2346 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
2347 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
2350 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
2351 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
2352 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
2353 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
2355 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
2359 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
2361 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
2362 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
2365 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
2366 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
2367 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
2368 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
2369 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
2370 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
2371 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
2375 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
2376 shift-, control-cursor keys.
2377 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
2378 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
2379 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
2380 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
2381 it will automatically be treated as a key.
2382 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
2383 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
2384 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
2388 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
2389 + add configure option --enable-largefile
2390 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
2394 + update config.guess, config.sub
2395 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
2396 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
2397 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
2398 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
2399 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
2401 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
2402 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
2403 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
2406 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
2407 position the mouse to a particular item.
2408 + implement test/demo_menus.c
2409 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
2410 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
2411 --enable-const option.
2414 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
2415 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
2416 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
2417 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
2418 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
2419 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
2420 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
2421 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
2422 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
2423 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
2424 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
2427 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
2429 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
2430 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
2433 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
2434 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
2435 anyone used that configuration.
2436 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
2438 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
2439 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
2442 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
2443 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
2444 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
2446 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
2447 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
2448 WenRui, Debian #300512).
2451 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
2452 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
2453 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
2457 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
2458 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
2459 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
2460 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
2461 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
2464 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
2466 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
2468 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
2469 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
2470 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
2473 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
2475 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
2476 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
2477 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
2478 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
2479 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
2480 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
2481 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
2482 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
2483 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
2484 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
2485 right (cf: 20040228).
2486 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
2487 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
2490 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
2491 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
2492 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
2493 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
2494 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
2495 added (Debian #295083).
2496 + add traces to panel library.
2499 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
2500 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
2501 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
2502 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
2503 mouse events in this case.
2504 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
2505 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
2508 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
2509 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
2510 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
2511 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
2512 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
2513 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
2514 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
2515 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
2518 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
2519 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
2520 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
2521 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
2522 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
2523 already been started.
2524 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
2525 pair_content() and color_content().
2526 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
2527 if it corresponds to the default-color.
2528 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
2529 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
2530 color pairs which are allowed.
2531 + add a top-level tags rule.
2534 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
2535 first calling initscr().
2536 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
2537 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
2538 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
2539 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
2540 that are curses-specific.
2541 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
2542 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
2543 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
2544 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
2548 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
2549 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
2550 for leading whitespace.
2551 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
2552 where a following line begins in column 1.
2553 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
2554 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
2557 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
2560 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
2561 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
2562 + update config.guess, config.sub
2563 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
2564 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
2565 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
2566 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
2567 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
2568 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
2569 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
2572 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
2574 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
2575 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
2578 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
2579 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
2580 and attr_set functions.
2583 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
2584 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
2585 forms-demo to be one character short.
2586 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
2587 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
2588 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
2589 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
2592 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
2593 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
2594 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
2595 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
2597 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
2598 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
2601 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
2602 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
2603 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
2604 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
2605 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
2606 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
2607 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
2609 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
2610 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2612 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
2613 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
2616 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
2617 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
2618 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
2619 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
2620 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
2621 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
2622 wide-character configuration.
2625 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
2626 or multicolumn characters.
2629 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
2630 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
2631 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
2632 use_default_colors() be called first.
2635 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
2636 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
2637 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
2638 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
2639 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
2640 must be wrapped to a new line.
2641 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
2642 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
2643 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
2644 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
2645 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
2649 + minor fixes for traces.
2650 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
2651 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
2652 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
2656 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
2657 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
2658 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
2659 and shift-out which seem to work.
2660 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
2661 at runtime (Debian #110586).
2664 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
2665 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2666 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
2667 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
2671 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
2672 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
2673 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
2674 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2677 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
2678 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
2679 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2680 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
2681 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2682 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
2683 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
2684 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
2685 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
2686 is no longer experimental.
2687 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
2688 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
2691 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
2694 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
2695 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
2696 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
2697 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
2698 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
2699 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
2700 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
2701 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
2704 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
2705 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
2706 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
2707 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
2708 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
2709 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
2710 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
2711 new ones do not require this change. -TD
2714 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
2715 and window managers (Debian #265631).
2716 > terminfo updates -TD
2717 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
2718 with the common usage of bce/ech
2719 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
2723 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
2724 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
2725 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
2726 a help window as well.
2727 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
2728 the -d option is set.
2729 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
2732 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
2734 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
2735 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
2739 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
2740 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
2741 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
2742 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
2743 patch by Hans de Goede)
2744 > terminfo updates -TD
2745 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
2746 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
2747 + add function-keys to decansi
2748 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
2749 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
2750 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
2753 > terminfo updates -TD
2754 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
2755 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
2757 + review/update konsole entries
2758 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
2759 + correct tsl string in kterm
2762 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
2765 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
2766 multibyte character.
2767 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
2769 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
2770 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
2771 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
2772 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
2773 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
2774 converting termcap to termcap format.
2775 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
2776 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
2777 > terminfo updates -TD
2778 + minor fixes for emu
2780 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
2785 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
2786 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
2787 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
2788 (report/patch by Tony Li).
2789 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
2790 > terminfo updates -TD
2791 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
2793 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
2794 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
2795 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
2798 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
2799 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
2801 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
2802 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
2803 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
2804 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
2805 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
2806 + update config.guess, config.sub
2807 > terminfo updates -TD
2809 + add xterm-xf86-v44
2810 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
2811 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
2816 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
2817 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
2818 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
2821 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
2822 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
2823 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
2825 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
2829 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
2830 field_buffer() results.
2831 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
2834 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
2836 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
2837 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
2838 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
2839 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
2840 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
2843 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
2844 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
2845 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
2849 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
2850 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
2852 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
2855 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
2856 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
2857 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
2858 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
2859 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
2860 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
2861 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
2862 information without an option.
2863 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
2864 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
2867 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
2870 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
2871 + free some memory leaks in tic.
2872 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
2873 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
2874 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
2875 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
2876 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
2878 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
2881 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
2882 to an unsigned char.
2883 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
2884 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
2887 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
2890 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
2891 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
2892 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
2893 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
2894 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
2895 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
2896 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
2897 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
2898 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
2899 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
2900 20030802 (Debian #237629).
2903 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
2904 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
2905 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
2906 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
2909 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
2911 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
2912 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
2915 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
2916 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
2917 mode is shown in that test.
2918 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
2919 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
2920 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
2923 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
2925 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
2926 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
2927 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
2928 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
2930 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
2931 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
2932 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
2933 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
2936 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
2937 (request by Mike Aubury).
2938 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
2940 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
2942 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
2945 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
2946 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
2947 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
2948 with Stanislav Ievlev).
2949 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
2950 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
2951 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
2952 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
2953 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
2954 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
2956 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2959 20040207 pre-release
2960 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
2961 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
2962 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
2963 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
2964 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
2966 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
2967 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
2968 verified by Scott Corscadden).
2970 20040131 pre-release
2971 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
2972 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
2973 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
2974 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
2975 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
2976 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
2977 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
2978 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
2979 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
2980 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
2981 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
2983 20040125 pre-release
2984 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
2985 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
2986 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
2987 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
2988 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
2989 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
2990 modifying the displayed value.
2992 20040124 pre-release
2993 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
2994 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
2995 that works better for cross-compiling.
2997 20040117 pre-release
2998 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
2999 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
3000 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
3001 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
3002 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
3003 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
3004 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
3006 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
3007 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
3009 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
3010 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
3011 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
3012 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
3013 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
3014 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
3015 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
3016 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
3017 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
3018 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
3019 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
3020 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
3022 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
3023 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
3024 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
3025 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
3026 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
3027 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
3028 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
3029 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
3031 20040110 pre-release
3032 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
3033 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
3035 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
3036 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
3038 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
3040 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
3041 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
3042 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
3043 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
3044 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
3047 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
3048 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
3049 + add pecho_wchar().
3050 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
3051 available) on older platforms.
3054 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
3055 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
3056 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
3057 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
3058 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
3059 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
3060 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
3061 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
3062 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
3065 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
3066 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
3067 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
3068 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
3069 work with Tru64 4.0d.
3070 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
3074 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
3075 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
3076 applications do not.
3077 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
3078 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
3079 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
3080 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
3081 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
3082 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
3086 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
3087 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
3088 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
3089 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
3090 <inger@altlinux.org>).
3091 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
3092 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
3093 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
3094 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
3095 awkward for some cases.
3096 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
3097 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
3099 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
3100 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
3101 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
3102 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
3103 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
3107 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
3108 values (Philippe Blain).
3109 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
3110 restarting (Philippe Blain).
3111 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
3115 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
3116 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
3117 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
3118 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
3119 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
3120 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
3124 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
3125 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
3126 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
3128 + update config.guess, config.sub
3131 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
3132 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
3133 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
3134 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
3135 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
3136 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
3137 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
3139 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
3140 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
3141 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
3142 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
3143 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
3146 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
3147 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
3148 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
3149 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
3150 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
3151 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
3152 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
3153 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
3155 + regenerated html documentation.
3156 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
3157 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
3158 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
3161 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
3162 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
3163 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
3164 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
3165 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
3166 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
3167 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
3168 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
3172 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
3173 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
3176 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
3177 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
3178 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
3179 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
3181 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
3182 (report by Philippe Blain).
3185 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
3186 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
3187 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
3188 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
3189 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
3190 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
3191 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3192 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
3193 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
3195 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
3197 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
3198 in the clr_bol logic.
3201 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3202 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
3203 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
3204 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
3205 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
3206 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
3207 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
3208 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
3209 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
3210 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
3211 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
3212 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
3215 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
3216 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
3217 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
3218 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
3221 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
3222 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
3223 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
3224 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
3225 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
3226 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
3227 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
3228 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
3229 --with-install-prefix is used.
3232 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3233 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
3234 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
3235 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
3238 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
3239 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
3240 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
3241 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
3242 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
3243 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
3244 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3245 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
3246 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
3249 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
3250 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
3251 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
3252 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
3253 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
3254 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
3255 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
3258 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
3260 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3261 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
3262 the size of the scroll-region.
3263 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
3266 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
3267 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
3268 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
3272 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
3273 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
3274 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
3275 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
3276 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
3278 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
3279 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
3280 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
3281 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
3282 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
3283 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
3284 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
3285 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
3286 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
3287 usage and to prevent circular links.
3288 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
3289 (rxvt-color): new alias
3290 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
3291 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
3292 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
3293 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
3294 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
3295 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
3297 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
3301 + update config.guess, config.sub
3302 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
3303 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
3306 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
3307 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
3308 would not accept gcc warning options.
3309 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
3310 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
3311 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
3312 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
3313 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
3314 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
3315 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
3317 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
3320 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
3321 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
3322 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
3323 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
3324 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
3325 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
3326 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
3327 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
3330 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
3332 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
3333 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
3334 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
3335 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
3338 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
3340 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
3341 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
3342 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
3343 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
3344 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
3345 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
3348 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
3349 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
3350 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
3351 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
3352 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
3353 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
3354 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
3355 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
3357 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
3358 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3359 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
3360 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3363 + regenerated html manpages.
3364 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
3365 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
3367 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
3368 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
3370 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
3371 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
3374 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
3375 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
3376 + add tkterm entry -TD
3377 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
3378 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
3379 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
3380 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
3382 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
3383 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
3384 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
3386 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
3387 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
3388 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
3391 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
3392 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
3393 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
3394 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
3396 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
3397 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
3398 current test programs.
3399 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
3400 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
3401 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
3402 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
3404 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
3405 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
3406 mentioned in the terminfo.
3407 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
3408 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
3411 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
3412 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
3413 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
3414 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
3415 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
3416 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
3417 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
3418 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
3421 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
3422 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
3423 the editing position before making modifications.
3424 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
3425 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
3426 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
3429 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
3430 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
3431 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
3432 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
3434 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
3435 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
3436 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
3437 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
3438 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
3439 terminfo as is done in "screen".
3442 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
3443 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
3444 code, from recent rewrite.
3445 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
3447 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
3448 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
3451 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
3452 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
3453 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
3454 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
3457 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
3458 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
3460 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
3463 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
3465 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
3466 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
3468 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
3469 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
3470 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
3473 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
3474 a file when ^W is given.
3475 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
3479 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
3480 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
3481 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
3482 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
3483 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
3484 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
3485 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
3486 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
3490 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
3491 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
3492 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
3495 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
3496 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
3497 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
3498 baudrate was not known.
3499 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
3500 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
3501 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
3502 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
3503 corresponding capability might be
3505 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
3506 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
3507 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
3508 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
3511 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
3512 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
3513 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
3514 apparently typedef'd.
3515 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
3516 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
3519 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
3520 + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
3521 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
3522 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
3523 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
3524 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
3525 cached for reallocating.
3528 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
3529 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
3530 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
3532 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
3533 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
3534 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
3535 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
3536 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
3537 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
3538 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
3539 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
3542 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
3543 emx-base to the latter -TD
3544 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
3545 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
3548 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
3549 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
3550 attributes, e.g., reverse.
3551 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
3552 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
3555 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
3556 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
3557 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
3558 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
3559 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
3560 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
3561 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
3563 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
3564 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
3565 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
3566 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
3567 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
3570 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
3571 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
3572 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
3573 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
3574 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
3575 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
3577 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3578 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
3579 is indeed a "blank".
3580 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
3581 sections as small as one line.
3582 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
3584 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
3585 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
3586 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
3589 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
3590 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
3593 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
3594 (report by Philippe Blain).
3595 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
3596 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
3597 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
3598 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
3599 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
3601 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
3602 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
3603 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
3604 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3605 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
3606 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
3609 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
3610 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
3612 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
3613 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
3615 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
3616 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
3617 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
3618 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
3621 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
3622 overridden from the environment.
3623 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
3624 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
3625 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
3626 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
3627 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
3628 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
3629 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
3630 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
3631 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
3632 by Sam Varshavchik).
3633 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
3634 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
3635 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
3636 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
3638 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
3639 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
3640 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
3641 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
3642 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
3645 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
3646 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
3647 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
3648 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
3649 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
3650 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
3651 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
3652 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
3653 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
3654 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
3655 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
3656 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
3657 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
3658 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
3659 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
3660 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
3661 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
3662 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
3663 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
3664 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
3665 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
3666 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
3667 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
3670 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
3671 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
3672 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
3673 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
3674 winsch() internal function.
3675 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
3676 more than one spacing character.
3679 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
3680 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
3681 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
3682 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
3683 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
3684 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
3685 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
3686 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
3687 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
3688 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
3691 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
3692 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
3693 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
3694 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
3695 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
3696 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
3697 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
3700 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
3701 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
3702 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
3703 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
3705 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
3706 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
3707 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
3708 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
3709 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
3712 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
3713 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
3714 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
3715 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
3716 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
3717 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
3718 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
3719 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
3720 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
3721 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
3722 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
3723 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
3724 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
3725 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
3726 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
3727 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
3728 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
3731 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
3732 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
3733 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
3734 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
3735 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
3736 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
3737 Frederic L W Meunier).
3739 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3740 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
3741 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
3742 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
3743 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
3744 the debug trace in that case.
3745 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
3746 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
3747 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
3748 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
3750 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
3751 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
3753 20021005 pre-release
3754 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
3755 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
3756 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
3757 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
3758 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
3759 formats such as "%.*s".
3760 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
3761 (report Floyd Davidson).
3762 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
3764 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
3765 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
3766 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
3768 20020928 pre-release
3769 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
3770 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
3771 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
3773 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
3774 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
3775 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
3776 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
3777 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
3778 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
3779 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
3780 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
3781 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
3782 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
3783 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
3784 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
3785 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
3786 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
3787 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
3788 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
3789 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
3790 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
3791 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
3793 20020921 pre-release
3794 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
3795 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
3796 result in core dump.
3797 + documented getbegx(), etc.
3798 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
3799 delimiter rather than '@'.
3800 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3801 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
3802 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
3803 to the lines given for the destination window.
3805 20020914 pre-release
3806 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
3807 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
3808 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
3809 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
3810 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
3811 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
3812 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
3813 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
3814 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3815 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
3816 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
3817 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
3819 20020907 pre-release
3820 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
3821 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
3822 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
3823 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
3824 html manpages on Debian.
3825 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
3826 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
3827 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
3828 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3829 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
3830 a variable from the stack.
3831 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
3833 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
3834 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
3835 _idcok window fields.
3836 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
3838 20020901 pre-release
3839 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
3840 + update config.guess, config.sub
3841 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
3842 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
3844 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
3845 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
3846 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
3847 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
3848 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
3849 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
3850 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
3851 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
3852 use in resizeterm().
3853 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
3854 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
3855 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
3856 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
3857 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3858 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
3859 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
3860 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
3861 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
3862 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
3863 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
3867 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
3868 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
3869 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
3870 + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
3871 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
3872 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
3875 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
3876 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
3877 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
3878 bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
3879 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
3880 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
3881 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
3882 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
3883 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
3885 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
3886 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
3890 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
3891 when translating to termcap.
3892 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
3893 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
3894 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
3896 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
3898 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
3899 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
3901 + document TABSIZE variable.
3902 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
3903 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
3904 assume_default_colors().
3905 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
3907 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
3908 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
3909 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
3910 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
3911 window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
3914 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
3916 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
3917 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
3919 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
3920 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
3921 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
3924 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
3926 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
3929 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
3930 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
3931 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
3932 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
3933 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
3934 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
3935 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
3936 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
3937 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
3938 configure definitions.
3939 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
3940 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
3941 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
3942 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
3943 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
3944 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
3945 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
3946 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
3947 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
3948 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
3949 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
3952 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
3953 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
3954 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
3955 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
3956 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
3957 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
3958 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
3960 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
3961 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
3962 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
3963 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3966 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
3967 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
3968 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
3969 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
3971 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
3972 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
3973 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
3976 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
3977 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
3979 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
3980 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
3981 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
3983 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
3984 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
3985 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
3986 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
3988 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
3989 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
3990 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
3991 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
3995 + add charset to generated html.
3996 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
3997 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
3998 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
3999 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
4000 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
4001 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
4005 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
4006 key code in get_wch().
4007 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
4008 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
4009 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
4010 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
4011 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
4012 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
4015 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
4016 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
4018 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
4019 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
4020 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
4021 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
4024 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
4025 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
4026 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
4027 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
4028 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
4029 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
4030 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
4031 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
4032 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
4033 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
4036 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
4040 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
4041 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
4042 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
4043 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
4044 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
4045 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
4046 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
4049 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
4050 character versions as well.
4051 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
4053 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
4055 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
4056 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
4057 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
4058 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
4059 if gettimeofday() is available.
4062 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
4063 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
4066 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
4068 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
4069 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
4070 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
4071 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
4072 + update config.guess, config.sub
4075 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
4076 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
4077 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
4078 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
4079 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
4080 alias for 'function'.
4083 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
4084 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
4088 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
4089 + implement wgetn_wstr().
4090 + implement win_wchnstr().
4091 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
4092 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
4095 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
4096 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
4099 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
4100 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
4103 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
4104 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
4105 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
4107 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
4108 + implement unget_wch().
4109 + implement wget_wch().
4112 + regenerated html manpages.
4113 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
4114 + implement wins_wch().
4115 + implement win_wch().
4116 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
4119 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
4120 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
4123 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
4124 + document wunctrl, key_name.
4125 + implement key_name().
4126 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
4128 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
4132 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
4133 in spurious symlinks on install.
4136 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
4137 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
4138 box() and box_set() functions.
4139 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
4140 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
4141 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
4142 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
4143 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
4144 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
4145 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
4147 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
4149 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
4150 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
4151 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
4152 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
4154 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
4155 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
4158 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
4159 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
4161 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
4165 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
4167 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
4168 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
4169 Albert Chin-A-Young).
4170 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
4171 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
4172 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4173 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
4174 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
4175 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
4176 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
4177 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
4178 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
4179 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
4180 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
4181 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
4184 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
4185 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
4188 + update config.guess, config.sub
4189 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
4190 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
4193 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
4194 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
4195 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
4197 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
4198 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
4200 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
4201 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
4202 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
4203 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
4206 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
4209 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
4210 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
4211 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
4212 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
4213 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
4214 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
4215 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
4216 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
4217 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
4219 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
4220 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
4221 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
4223 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
4225 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
4226 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
4227 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
4228 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
4229 work with SunOS nawk.
4230 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
4232 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
4233 case it uses multiple tokens.
4236 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
4237 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
4238 interrupted by that signal.
4239 + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
4240 not needed with autoconf 2.52
4241 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
4242 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
4244 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
4245 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
4246 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
4247 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
4248 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
4251 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
4253 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
4254 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
4255 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
4256 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
4257 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
4258 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
4259 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
4260 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
4263 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
4264 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
4265 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
4266 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
4267 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
4268 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
4269 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
4270 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
4271 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
4274 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
4275 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
4276 may have different keypad() settings.
4277 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
4278 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
4279 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
4280 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
4281 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
4282 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
4283 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
4284 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
4286 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
4287 + update config.guess, config.sub from
4288 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
4289 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
4293 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
4295 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
4296 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
4297 implementation in cygwin package).
4298 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
4299 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
4301 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
4302 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
4303 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
4304 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
4305 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
4306 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
4307 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
4308 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
4309 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
4311 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
4312 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
4313 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
4314 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
4315 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
4316 <jevans@apple.com>).
4317 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
4318 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
4319 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
4320 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
4321 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
4325 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
4326 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
4327 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
4328 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
4329 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
4330 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
4331 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
4332 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
4333 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
4334 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
4337 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
4340 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
4341 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
4342 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
4343 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
4344 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
4347 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
4348 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
4351 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
4352 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
4353 + implement wecho_wchar()
4354 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
4355 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
4356 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
4358 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
4359 in a trace by using curly braces.
4360 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
4361 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
4362 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
4363 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
4366 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
4367 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
4368 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
4369 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
4370 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
4374 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
4375 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
4376 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
4377 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
4378 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
4379 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
4380 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
4381 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
4385 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
4386 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
4387 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
4388 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
4389 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
4390 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
4391 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
4392 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
4393 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
4396 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
4397 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
4400 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
4401 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
4402 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
4403 <bbraun@synack.net>).
4404 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
4405 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
4407 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
4408 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
4410 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
4411 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
4414 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
4415 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
4416 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
4417 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
4418 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
4420 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
4421 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
4423 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
4424 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
4425 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
4426 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
4427 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
4430 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
4431 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
4433 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
4434 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
4435 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
4436 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
4439 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
4440 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
4441 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
4442 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
4443 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
4447 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
4448 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
4449 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
4451 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
4453 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
4455 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
4457 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
4458 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
4459 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
4460 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
4461 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
4462 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
4463 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
4464 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
4465 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
4469 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
4470 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
4471 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
4472 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
4473 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
4474 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
4475 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
4476 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
4477 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
4478 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
4480 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
4481 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
4482 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4483 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
4484 supports xterm mouse controls.
4485 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
4486 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
4487 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
4488 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
4489 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
4490 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
4491 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
4492 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
4493 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
4494 AX in a color xterm.
4495 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
4499 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
4500 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
4501 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
4502 + added llib-ncursesw.
4505 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
4506 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
4507 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
4508 header files (report by William P Setzer).
4509 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
4510 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
4511 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
4512 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4513 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
4514 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
4515 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
4516 Albert Chin-A-Young).
4517 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
4518 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4519 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
4520 obsolete with QNX RTP.
4521 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
4522 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
4523 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
4524 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
4527 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
4528 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
4529 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
4532 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
4533 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
4534 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
4535 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
4536 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
4537 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
4538 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
4539 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
4540 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
4541 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
4542 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
4543 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
4547 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
4548 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
4549 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
4550 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
4551 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
4552 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
4553 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4556 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
4557 new wide-character structures.
4558 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
4559 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
4560 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
4561 compiling for wide-character configuration.
4562 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
4566 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
4568 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
4569 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
4570 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
4572 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
4573 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
4574 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
4577 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
4578 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
4579 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
4582 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
4583 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
4584 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
4585 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
4586 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
4587 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
4588 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
4591 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
4592 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
4593 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
4594 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
4595 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
4596 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
4597 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
4598 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
4599 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
4602 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
4603 which may be in libutf8.
4604 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
4605 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
4606 links (Debian bug report #99550).
4607 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
4608 C++ vscan code (Debian bug report #97945).
4609 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
4610 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
4611 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
4612 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
4613 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
4614 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
4617 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
4618 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
4621 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
4622 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
4623 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
4624 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
4625 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
4627 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
4628 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
4629 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
4630 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
4631 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
4632 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
4633 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
4634 are used to manipulate attributes.
4635 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
4636 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
4637 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
4638 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
4639 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
4640 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
4642 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
4643 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
4644 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
4645 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
4646 we are using chtype data.
4647 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
4649 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
4651 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
4652 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
4653 where a pointer would be more useful.
4654 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
4655 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
4656 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
4657 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
4658 passing cchar_t's by address.
4659 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
4660 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
4661 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
4662 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
4663 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
4664 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
4665 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
4666 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
4669 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
4670 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
4671 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
4672 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
4673 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
4675 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
4676 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
4677 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
4680 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
4681 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
4682 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
4683 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
4684 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
4685 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
4686 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
4687 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
4688 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
4689 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
4690 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
4691 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
4694 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
4695 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
4696 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
4699 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
4700 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
4703 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
4704 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
4705 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
4706 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
4707 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
4710 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
4711 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
4712 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
4713 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
4714 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
4715 <bsittler@iname.com>).
4716 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
4717 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
4718 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
4719 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
4720 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
4723 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
4724 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
4725 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
4726 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
4727 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
4728 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
4729 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
4730 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
4731 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
4732 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
4733 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
4734 any shots there, but the computer did.
4735 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
4736 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
4740 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
4741 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
4742 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
4743 3.09.08 (Debian bug report #92215).
4744 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
4745 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4748 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
4749 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
4750 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
4751 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
4752 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
4754 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
4756 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
4757 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
4759 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
4761 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
4762 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian bug #89222).
4765 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
4766 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
4767 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
4768 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
4769 interface from C++ binding.
4770 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
4771 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
4772 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
4773 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
4775 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
4776 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
4777 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
4778 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
4781 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
4782 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
4783 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
4784 (patch by Todd C Miller).
4787 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
4790 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
4794 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
4795 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
4796 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
4797 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
4798 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
4799 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
4800 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
4801 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
4802 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
4803 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
4804 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
4805 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
4808 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
4809 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
4811 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
4812 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
4813 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
4814 did not do this already.
4815 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
4816 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4817 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
4818 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
4819 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
4820 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
4821 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
4822 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
4825 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
4826 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
4829 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
4830 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
4831 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
4832 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
4834 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
4836 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
4837 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
4839 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
4840 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
4841 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
4842 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
4843 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
4846 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
4847 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
4848 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
4849 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
4852 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
4853 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
4854 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
4857 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
4858 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
4859 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
4860 work with 'indent') -TD
4863 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
4864 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
4865 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4866 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
4867 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
4869 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
4870 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
4871 termcap and terminfo functions
4872 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
4876 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
4877 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
4878 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
4879 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
4880 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
4881 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
4883 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
4884 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
4885 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
4886 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
4887 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
4888 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
4889 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
4890 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
4893 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
4894 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
4895 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
4896 /usr rather than /usr/local.
4899 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
4900 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
4901 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
4902 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
4904 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
4905 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
4906 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
4907 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
4908 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
4909 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
4910 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
4911 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
4914 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
4915 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
4916 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
4917 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
4918 + change trace output to binary format.
4919 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
4920 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
4921 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
4922 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
4923 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
4924 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
4925 the overwrite logic.
4928 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
4929 + resync config.guess, config.sub
4930 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
4931 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
4932 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
4933 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
4935 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
4936 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
4939 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4940 + update generated html files from manpages.
4941 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
4943 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
4944 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
4945 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
4946 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
4947 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4948 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
4949 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
4950 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
4953 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
4954 wrapping at the right margin.
4955 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
4956 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
4957 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
4959 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
4960 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
4961 understands how to run tbl automatically.
4962 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
4963 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
4964 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
4965 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
4966 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
4967 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
4968 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
4969 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
4970 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
4971 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
4972 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
4973 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
4974 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
4975 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
4976 option --with-libtool.
4977 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
4978 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
4979 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
4980 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
4981 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
4984 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
4985 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
4986 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
4987 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
4988 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
4989 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
4990 > patch by Todd C Miller:
4991 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
4992 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
4993 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
4994 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
4995 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
4996 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
4997 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
4998 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
4999 to set up a 3-button mouse.
5000 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
5001 replace select() call.
5004 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
5005 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
5006 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
5007 Albert Chin-A-Young).
5008 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
5009 cursor report before decoding.
5010 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
5011 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
5012 (see assume_default_colors()).
5013 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
5014 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
5016 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
5017 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
5018 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
5020 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
5021 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
5022 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
5023 for that capability.
5024 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
5025 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
5026 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
5027 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
5028 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
5029 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
5032 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
5033 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
5034 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
5035 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
5036 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
5037 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
5038 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
5039 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
5040 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
5042 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
5043 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
5044 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
5045 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
5046 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
5047 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
5048 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5051 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
5052 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
5053 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
5054 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
5055 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
5057 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
5058 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
5059 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
5060 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
5061 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
5062 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
5063 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
5064 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
5065 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
5066 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
5067 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
5068 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
5069 the expected number of parameters.
5070 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
5071 the option value is indeed a number.
5072 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
5073 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
5074 from the other signals.
5077 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
5078 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
5079 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
5082 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
5083 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
5085 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
5086 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
5087 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
5089 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
5090 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
5091 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
5092 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
5093 character set attribute from the displayed text.
5094 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
5095 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
5096 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
5097 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
5098 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
5099 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5102 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
5103 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
5104 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
5105 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
5106 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
5107 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
5108 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5109 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
5110 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
5111 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
5113 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
5114 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
5116 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
5117 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
5118 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
5119 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
5120 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
5121 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
5124 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
5125 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
5126 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
5127 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
5128 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
5129 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
5130 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
5131 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
5132 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
5133 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5134 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
5135 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
5136 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
5137 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
5138 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
5140 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
5141 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
5142 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
5145 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
5146 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
5147 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
5148 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
5150 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
5151 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
5152 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
5153 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
5154 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
5155 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
5156 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
5158 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
5159 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
5160 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
5161 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
5162 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
5163 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
5164 a default program-prefix.
5165 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
5166 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
5169 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
5170 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
5171 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
5172 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
5173 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
5174 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
5175 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
5176 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
5177 although the name is misleading).
5178 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
5179 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
5180 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
5181 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
5184 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
5185 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
5186 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
5188 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
5189 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
5191 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
5192 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
5193 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
5195 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
5196 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
5197 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
5198 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
5199 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
5200 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
5201 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
5202 test/configure script.
5203 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
5204 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
5205 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
5208 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
5211 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
5212 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
5213 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
5214 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
5215 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
5217 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
5218 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
5219 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
5221 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
5222 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
5225 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
5226 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5227 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
5228 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
5229 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
5230 there's still the explicit configure option).
5231 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
5232 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
5233 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
5234 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
5235 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
5236 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
5237 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
5238 simplify working around implementations that define random
5239 combinations of the related macros to zero.
5240 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
5241 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
5242 > patches by Bruno Haible:
5243 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
5244 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
5245 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
5246 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
5250 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
5251 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5252 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
5253 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
5254 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
5255 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
5256 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
5257 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
5258 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
5259 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
5260 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
5261 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
5262 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
5263 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
5266 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5267 + document configure options in INSTALL.
5268 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
5269 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
5270 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
5271 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
5272 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
5273 list of generated functions.
5274 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
5275 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
5276 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
5278 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
5279 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
5280 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
5281 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
5282 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
5284 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
5285 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
5286 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
5287 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
5288 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
5289 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
5290 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
5291 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
5292 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
5293 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
5294 examples cited in announce.html
5295 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
5296 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
5297 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
5298 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
5299 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
5300 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
5301 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
5302 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
5305 20000701 pre-release
5306 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
5307 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
5308 $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
5309 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
5310 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
5311 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
5313 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
5315 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
5317 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
5318 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
5319 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
5320 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
5321 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
5323 20000624 pre-release
5324 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
5325 that happen to render the same display colors.
5326 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
5327 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
5328 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
5329 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
5330 normalized value for cursor_address.
5331 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
5334 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
5335 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
5336 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
5337 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
5338 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
5339 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
5340 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
5341 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
5342 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
5343 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
5344 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
5345 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
5346 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
5350 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
5351 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
5352 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
5353 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
5354 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
5355 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
5356 allows larger symbol tables.
5357 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
5358 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
5359 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
5360 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
5364 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
5365 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
5366 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
5367 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
5368 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
5369 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
5370 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
5371 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
5372 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
5373 + add a "make libs" rule.
5374 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
5375 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
5376 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
5377 with existing ncurses libraries.
5380 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
5381 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
5382 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
5383 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
5384 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
5385 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
5386 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
5387 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
5388 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
5389 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
5390 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
5391 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
5392 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
5393 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
5396 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
5397 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
5398 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
5399 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
5403 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
5404 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
5406 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
5407 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
5408 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
5411 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
5412 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
5413 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
5414 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
5415 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
5417 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
5418 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
5419 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
5420 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
5421 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
5422 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
5423 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
5424 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
5427 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
5429 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
5430 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
5431 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
5432 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
5433 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
5434 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
5435 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
5436 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
5437 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
5438 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
5439 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
5440 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
5443 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
5444 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
5445 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
5446 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
5447 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5448 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
5449 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
5450 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
5451 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
5452 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
5453 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
5454 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
5455 means that it will not recur for that special case.
5456 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
5457 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
5458 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
5459 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5462 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
5463 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
5464 bg300-rv in esr's version.
5465 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
5466 (fixes Debian bug report #61088).
5467 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
5468 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
5469 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
5472 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
5473 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
5474 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
5475 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
5476 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
5479 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
5480 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
5481 improvement in setting default colors.
5482 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
5483 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
5484 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
5486 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
5487 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
5488 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
5489 check for buffer overflow.
5490 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
5491 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
5492 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
5493 such as "infocmp -Fa".
5496 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
5497 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
5498 is not permitted in termcap.
5499 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
5500 integrating 20000318.
5503 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
5504 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
5505 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
5506 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
5508 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
5509 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
5510 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
5511 result for OS/2 EMX.
5512 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
5513 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
5514 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
5515 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
5516 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
5517 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
5520 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
5521 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
5522 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
5524 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
5525 displaying string capabilities.
5526 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
5527 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
5528 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
5529 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
5530 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
5531 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
5533 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
5534 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
5536 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
5537 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
5538 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
5539 may not produce the same result as before.
5540 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
5542 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
5543 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
5545 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
5546 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
5548 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
5549 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5550 + drop support for gnat 3.10
5551 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
5552 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
5555 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
5556 made it check only one entry at a time.
5557 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
5559 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
5560 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
5561 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
5562 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
5563 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
5564 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
5565 address out of bounds.
5566 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
5567 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
5568 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
5569 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
5571 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
5572 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
5573 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
5575 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
5578 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
5579 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
5580 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
5581 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
5583 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
5584 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
5585 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
5586 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
5587 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
5588 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
5590 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
5591 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
5592 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
5593 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
5594 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
5595 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
5596 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
5597 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
5600 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
5601 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5602 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
5603 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
5604 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
5605 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
5609 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
5610 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
5611 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
5612 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
5613 colors are white on black.
5614 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
5615 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
5616 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
5617 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
5618 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
5621 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
5622 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
5623 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
5624 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
5625 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
5626 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
5627 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
5628 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
5629 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
5630 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
5631 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
5634 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
5635 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
5636 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
5637 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
5638 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
5639 to wait indefinitely.
5642 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
5643 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
5644 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
5645 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
5646 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
5647 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
5648 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
5649 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
5650 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
5651 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5652 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
5653 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
5657 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
5658 programs build with c++/g++.
5659 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
5660 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
5661 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
5662 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
5663 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
5664 + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and
5665 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
5666 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
5669 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
5671 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
5672 terminfo entries -TD
5673 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
5674 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
5675 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
5676 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
5678 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
5679 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
5681 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
5683 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
5684 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
5685 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
5686 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
5687 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
5688 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
5689 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
5690 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
5691 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
5695 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
5696 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
5697 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
5698 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
5699 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
5700 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
5701 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
5702 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
5703 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
5704 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
5705 use_extended_names().
5708 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
5709 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
5710 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
5711 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
5712 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
5713 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
5714 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
5715 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
5716 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
5717 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
5718 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
5719 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
5720 + add manpage for infotocap
5723 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
5724 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
5725 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
5726 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
5728 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
5729 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
5730 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
5731 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
5732 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
5733 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
5734 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
5735 initc for xterm-88color.
5736 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
5740 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
5741 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
5743 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
5744 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
5745 SP, since it is part of that struct.
5746 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
5748 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
5749 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
5750 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
5751 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
5752 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
5753 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
5754 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
5755 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
5756 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
5758 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
5759 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
5760 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5761 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
5763 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
5766 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
5767 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
5768 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
5769 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
5770 over the use of default colors.
5771 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
5772 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
5773 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
5774 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
5775 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
5776 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
5777 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
5778 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
5781 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
5782 <robert@progplus.com>)
5783 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
5784 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
5785 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
5788 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
5789 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
5790 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
5792 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
5793 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
5794 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
5795 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
5796 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
5797 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
5798 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
5799 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
5800 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
5801 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
5802 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
5803 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
5805 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
5806 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
5809 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5810 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
5812 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
5813 (request by Bob van der Poel).
5814 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
5815 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
5816 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
5817 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
5818 libraries by default.
5819 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
5821 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
5822 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
5824 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
5825 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
5826 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
5827 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
5828 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
5829 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
5830 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
5832 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
5834 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
5835 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
5836 advice from Bela Lubkin).
5837 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
5838 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5839 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
5840 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
5841 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
5842 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
5845 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
5848 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
5849 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
5850 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
5851 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
5852 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
5853 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
5854 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
5855 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
5856 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
5857 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
5860 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
5861 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
5862 Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5863 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
5864 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
5865 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
5867 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
5868 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
5869 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
5870 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
5871 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
5872 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
5873 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
5874 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
5875 is used), and in color.
5876 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
5877 shared library rules.
5880 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
5881 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
5882 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
5883 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
5884 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
5885 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
5886 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
5887 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
5888 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
5889 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
5890 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
5891 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
5892 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
5893 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
5894 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
5895 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
5896 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5899 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
5900 <j@interface-business.de>).
5901 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
5902 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
5903 that hard-links work on Unix again.
5904 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
5905 Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
5906 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
5909 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
5910 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
5911 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
5912 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
5913 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
5914 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
5915 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
5916 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
5917 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
5918 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
5919 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
5920 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
5921 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
5924 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
5925 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
5926 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
5927 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
5928 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
5929 in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
5930 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
5931 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
5932 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
5933 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
5934 function works only for sockets.
5935 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
5936 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
5937 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
5938 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
5939 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
5940 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
5941 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
5942 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
5943 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
5944 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
5947 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
5948 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
5949 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
5950 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
5951 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
5952 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
5953 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
5956 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
5957 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
5958 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
5960 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
5961 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
5962 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
5963 nonfunctional link().
5964 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
5965 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
5968 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
5969 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
5970 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
5973 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
5974 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
5975 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
5976 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
5977 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
5978 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
5979 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
5980 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
5981 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
5982 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
5983 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
5984 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
5985 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
5986 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
5987 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
5988 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
5989 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
5990 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
5991 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
5992 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
5995 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
5996 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
5997 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
5998 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
5999 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
6000 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
6001 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
6002 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
6003 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
6004 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
6005 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
6006 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
6007 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
6008 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
6009 short-circuit expression evaluation.
6010 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
6011 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
6013 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
6014 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
6015 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
6016 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
6017 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
6021 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
6022 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
6024 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
6025 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
6026 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
6029 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
6030 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
6031 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
6032 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
6033 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
6034 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
6035 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
6036 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
6038 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
6039 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
6040 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6043 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
6044 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
6045 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
6046 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
6047 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
6048 --with-rcs-ids option.
6051 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
6052 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
6054 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
6055 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
6056 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
6060 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
6061 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
6062 BeOS predefines a bool type.
6063 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
6064 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
6065 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
6066 option to infocmp -TD
6067 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6068 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
6069 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
6070 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
6071 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
6072 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
6073 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
6076 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6077 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
6078 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
6079 + change interface version-number to 1.0
6080 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
6083 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
6084 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
6085 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
6086 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
6087 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
6088 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
6089 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
6090 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
6091 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
6092 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
6094 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
6095 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (prompted by
6096 discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
6099 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
6100 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
6101 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
6103 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
6104 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
6107 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
6108 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6109 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
6110 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
6111 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
6114 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
6118 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
6119 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
6120 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
6121 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
6122 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
6124 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
6125 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
6126 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
6127 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
6130 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
6131 fields, and showing forms within panels.
6132 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
6133 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
6134 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
6135 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
6136 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
6137 ownership may change).
6140 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
6142 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
6143 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
6144 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6145 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
6146 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
6147 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
6148 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
6150 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
6151 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
6152 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
6153 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
6154 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
6155 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
6158 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
6159 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
6161 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
6162 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
6163 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
6164 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6167 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
6168 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
6169 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
6170 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
6171 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
6172 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
6176 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
6177 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6178 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
6179 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
6180 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
6181 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
6182 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
6183 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
6186 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
6187 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
6188 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
6189 Alexander V Lukyanov).
6192 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
6193 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
6196 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the -g option.
6197 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
6198 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
6199 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
6200 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6201 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
6202 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
6203 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
6204 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
6205 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
6206 reset for the next newterm.
6207 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
6208 terminal has true SLKs.
6209 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
6212 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
6213 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
6214 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
6215 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
6216 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
6217 read of the extended capabilities.
6218 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
6219 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
6220 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
6221 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
6222 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
6223 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
6224 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
6225 throughout ncurses library.
6226 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
6227 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
6229 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
6230 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
6231 + regenerate some of the html documentation
6232 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
6235 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
6236 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
6237 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
6238 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD
6239 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
6241 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
6243 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
6244 defined for a keycode.
6245 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
6246 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
6247 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
6248 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
6249 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
6251 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6252 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
6253 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
6254 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
6256 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
6257 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
6259 + modify configuration scripts to
6260 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
6261 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
6262 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
6263 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
6264 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
6265 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
6266 + rename ada_include directory to src.
6269 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
6270 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
6271 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
6275 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
6276 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
6277 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
6278 though the problem is more general.
6279 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
6280 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
6281 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
6282 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
6284 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
6285 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
6286 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
6289 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
6290 Alexander V Lukyanov).
6291 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
6292 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
6293 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
6294 operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6295 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
6296 be any substring rather than the prefix.
6297 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
6298 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
6299 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
6300 has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
6301 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
6302 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
6303 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
6304 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
6305 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
6306 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
6307 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
6308 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
6309 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
6310 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
6311 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
6312 --with-shlib-version option.
6315 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
6316 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
6317 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
6318 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
6319 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
6320 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
6321 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
6322 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
6323 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
6324 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
6325 intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
6326 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
6327 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
6328 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
6329 source distribution.
6332 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
6333 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
6334 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
6336 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
6337 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
6338 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
6339 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
6340 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
6343 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
6346 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
6347 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
6348 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
6349 Alexander V Lukyanov).
6350 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
6351 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
6352 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
6353 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
6354 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6355 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
6356 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
6357 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
6358 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
6359 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
6361 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
6362 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
6363 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
6364 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
6367 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
6369 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
6370 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
6371 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
6372 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
6373 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
6374 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
6375 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
6376 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
6377 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
6378 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
6379 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
6380 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
6381 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
6382 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
6383 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
6384 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
6385 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
6389 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
6390 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
6391 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
6392 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
6393 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
6394 running screen built with ncurses.
6395 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
6396 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
6397 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
6400 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
6403 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
6404 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
6405 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
6406 by a Debian bug report).
6407 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
6408 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
6410 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
6411 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
6412 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
6413 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
6417 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
6418 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
6419 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
6420 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
6421 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
6422 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
6423 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
6424 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
6425 (reported by H.J.Lu).
6428 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
6429 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
6430 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
6431 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
6432 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
6433 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
6434 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
6435 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
6436 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
6437 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
6438 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6439 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
6441 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
6442 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
6444 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
6446 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
6448 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
6449 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
6453 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
6454 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
6455 address rather than its length.
6456 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
6457 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
6458 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
6459 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
6460 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
6461 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
6462 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
6463 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
6464 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
6465 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
6468 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
6469 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
6471 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
6472 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
6473 for an older version of ncurses.
6474 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
6475 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
6476 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
6477 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
6478 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
6479 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
6480 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
6481 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
6482 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6483 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
6484 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
6485 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
6487 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
6488 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
6491 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
6492 (request by Larry Virden).
6493 > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
6494 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
6495 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
6496 changes to ncurses library.
6497 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
6498 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
6499 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
6500 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6501 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
6502 + some Ada95 cosmetics
6503 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
6504 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
6505 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
6508 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
6509 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
6510 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
6511 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
6512 proposed changes to ncurses library.
6513 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
6514 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
6515 broken configure scripts.
6518 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
6520 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
6521 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
6522 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
6524 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
6525 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
6529 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
6530 with --srcdir option.
6531 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
6532 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
6533 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
6534 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
6535 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
6536 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6539 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
6540 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
6541 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
6543 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
6544 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
6545 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
6546 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
6547 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
6548 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
6549 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
6550 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
6553 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
6554 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6557 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
6558 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
6559 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
6560 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
6561 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
6562 some older entries - TD
6563 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
6564 since that is a little more efficient.
6565 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
6566 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
6567 + add -g option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
6568 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
6569 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
6570 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
6572 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
6574 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
6575 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
6577 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
6578 + use format string for printing strings.
6579 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
6582 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
6583 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
6584 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
6585 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
6586 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
6587 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
6588 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
6589 > patches by Todd C Miller:
6590 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
6591 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
6592 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
6593 dealing with env variables again.
6594 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
6595 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
6596 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
6597 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
6598 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
6599 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
6600 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
6601 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
6602 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
6603 newhash data to SP struct.
6604 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
6605 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
6606 function's parameter which is deleted.
6607 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
6608 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
6609 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
6610 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
6614 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
6615 consistent treatment.
6616 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
6617 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
6618 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
6619 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
6622 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
6623 capability name, as in SVr4.
6624 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
6625 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
6626 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
6629 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
6630 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
6631 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
6632 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
6633 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
6634 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
6635 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
6636 > from esr's terminfo version:
6637 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
6638 + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
6639 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
6642 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
6643 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
6644 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
6645 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
6646 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
6647 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
6648 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
6649 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
6650 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
6651 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
6655 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
6656 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
6657 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
6658 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
6659 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
6662 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
6663 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
6667 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
6668 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
6669 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
6670 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
6671 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
6672 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
6673 as obtained via ioctl.
6676 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
6677 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
6678 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
6679 turning attributes off.
6680 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
6681 initializing multiple screens.
6682 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
6683 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
6684 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
6687 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
6688 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
6689 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
6690 with Solaris curses).
6691 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
6692 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
6693 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
6694 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
6695 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
6696 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
6697 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
6698 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
6701 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
6702 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
6703 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
6704 (request by QingLong).
6705 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
6706 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
6707 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
6708 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
6710 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
6711 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
6712 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
6713 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
6714 otherwise simply exit with an error.
6717 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
6718 "_g" for a debug build).
6719 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
6720 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
6721 compile/link working Ada95 program.
6722 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
6723 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
6724 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
6725 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
6726 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
6727 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
6731 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
6732 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
6733 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
6734 corresponds to vt100.
6735 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
6736 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
6739 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
6740 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
6741 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
6742 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
6743 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
6744 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
6745 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
6746 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
6747 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
6748 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6751 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
6752 several minor errors/omissions.
6753 + implement tparm %l format.
6754 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
6756 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
6759 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
6760 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
6761 to be written to large screens.
6762 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
6763 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
6764 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
6765 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
6766 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
6768 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
6769 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6770 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
6771 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
6774 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
6776 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
6778 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
6779 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
6780 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
6781 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
6782 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
6783 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
6784 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
6786 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
6787 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
6789 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
6792 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
6793 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
6794 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
6795 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
6796 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
6797 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
6798 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
6799 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
6800 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
6801 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
6804 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
6805 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6806 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty
6807 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
6808 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
6809 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
6810 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
6811 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
6812 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
6813 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
6814 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
6815 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
6816 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
6819 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
6820 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
6821 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
6822 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
6823 which contains a colon in the description field.
6824 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
6825 from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
6826 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
6828 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
6829 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
6832 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
6833 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
6835 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
6836 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
6837 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
6838 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
6839 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
6840 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
6841 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
6842 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
6843 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
6844 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
6845 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
6846 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
6847 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
6848 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
6849 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
6850 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
6851 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
6852 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
6853 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
6854 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
6855 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
6856 comparisons out of inner loop.
6859 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
6860 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
6861 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
6862 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
6863 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
6864 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
6865 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
6866 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
6867 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
6869 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
6870 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
6871 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
6874 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
6875 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
6876 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
6877 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
6878 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
6879 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
6880 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
6881 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
6882 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
6883 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
6886 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
6887 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
6888 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
6889 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
6891 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
6892 avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
6893 by Juergen Pfeifer).
6896 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
6897 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
6900 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
6901 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
6902 uses them when they are available.
6903 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
6904 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
6905 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
6906 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
6908 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
6911 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
6912 declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
6913 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
6914 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
6916 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6917 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
6918 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
6919 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
6920 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
6921 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
6922 use --disable-overwrite).
6923 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
6924 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
6925 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
6926 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
6927 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
6928 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
6929 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
6930 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
6931 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
6935 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
6936 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6937 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
6938 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
6939 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
6940 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
6941 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
6942 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
6944 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
6945 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
6946 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
6947 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
6949 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
6950 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
6951 parameter according to XSI.
6952 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
6953 reflect above enhancements.
6956 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
6957 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
6958 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
6959 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
6961 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
6963 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
6965 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
6966 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
6967 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
6970 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
6971 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
6972 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6973 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
6974 <claesg@algonet.se>).
6975 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
6976 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
6979 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
6980 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
6981 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
6983 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
6984 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
6985 by Florian La Roche).
6986 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
6987 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
6988 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
6989 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6992 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
6993 distributions, though it is retained in development.
6994 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
6996 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
6997 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
6998 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
6999 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
7000 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
7003 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
7005 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
7006 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
7007 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
7008 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
7009 This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
7010 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
7012 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
7013 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
7014 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
7016 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
7017 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
7018 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
7021 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
7022 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
7024 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
7025 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
7027 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
7029 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
7031 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
7033 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
7034 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
7035 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
7036 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
7037 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
7039 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
7040 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
7042 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
7043 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
7044 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
7045 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
7046 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
7047 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
7048 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
7049 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
7050 turn off attributes inconsistently.
7053 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
7054 test for no_color_video.
7055 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
7057 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
7058 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
7059 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
7061 > from reports by Fred Fish:
7062 + add configure-test for isascii
7063 + add configure-test for -lm library.
7064 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
7065 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
7066 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
7067 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
7068 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
7069 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
7070 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
7072 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
7073 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
7075 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
7076 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
7077 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
7078 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
7079 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
7082 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
7083 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
7085 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
7087 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
7088 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
7089 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
7091 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
7092 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
7094 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
7096 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
7097 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
7098 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
7099 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7100 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
7101 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
7102 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7103 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
7104 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
7105 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
7106 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
7107 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
7108 fields are also always inactive.
7109 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
7110 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
7113 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
7114 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
7115 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
7116 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
7117 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
7118 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
7119 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
7120 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
7121 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
7124 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
7125 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
7126 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
7127 defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
7128 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
7130 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
7131 Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
7132 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
7133 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
7134 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
7135 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
7136 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
7137 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
7138 cross-platform compatibility.
7139 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
7140 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
7141 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7142 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
7144 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
7148 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
7149 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
7150 EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
7151 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
7152 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
7153 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
7154 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
7155 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
7156 that simply cannot scroll.
7157 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
7158 embedded \200 characters are matched.
7159 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
7163 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
7164 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
7165 functions from the build.
7166 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
7167 functions as a separate library.
7168 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
7169 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
7170 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
7171 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
7172 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
7173 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
7174 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
7175 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
7176 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
7178 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7179 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
7180 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
7183 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
7184 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
7186 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
7187 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
7188 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
7189 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
7192 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
7193 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
7194 + add configure check for 'tack'.
7195 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
7196 for Debian configuration.
7197 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
7199 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
7200 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
7202 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
7203 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
7204 case of wide characters in chtype.
7205 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
7206 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
7207 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
7210 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
7211 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
7212 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
7213 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
7214 have set root's umask to 077.
7215 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
7216 end of output when they had embedded comments.
7217 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
7218 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
7219 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
7220 correct logic for handling backslashes.
7221 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
7222 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
7223 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
7224 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
7225 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
7226 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
7228 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7229 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
7231 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
7232 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
7234 + resync of the html version of the manpages
7237 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
7238 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
7240 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
7241 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
7242 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
7243 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
7244 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7245 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
7246 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
7247 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
7251 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
7253 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
7254 comments from Daniel Weaver.
7255 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
7256 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
7257 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
7258 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
7260 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
7261 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
7262 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
7264 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
7265 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
7268 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
7272 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
7273 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
7274 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
7275 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
7276 in call to delay_output().
7277 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
7278 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
7279 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
7280 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
7281 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
7283 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
7284 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
7285 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
7286 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
7287 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
7288 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
7289 so that will work on NeXT.
7290 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
7291 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
7294 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
7296 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
7298 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
7299 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
7300 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
7301 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
7302 when that feature is not configured.
7303 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
7304 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
7305 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
7306 (this dates back to 951102, in 1.9.7a).
7307 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
7308 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
7309 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
7310 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
7313 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
7315 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
7316 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
7318 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
7320 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
7321 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
7324 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
7325 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
7326 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
7327 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
7328 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
7329 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
7330 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
7331 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
7332 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
7334 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
7335 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
7336 tputs() if called from that function.
7337 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
7338 tputs works when SP is not set.
7339 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7340 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
7341 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
7342 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation
7343 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
7344 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
7347 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
7348 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
7349 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
7350 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
7351 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
7352 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
7353 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
7354 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
7355 _nc_update_screensize().
7356 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
7358 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
7359 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
7360 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
7361 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7362 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
7363 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7364 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
7365 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
7366 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
7367 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
7369 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
7373 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
7374 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
7375 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
7377 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
7378 click-interval without modifying it.
7379 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
7380 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
7382 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
7383 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
7384 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
7385 other ncurses headers.
7386 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
7387 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
7388 (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
7389 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
7390 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
7391 characters output in delay_output().
7392 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
7393 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
7394 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
7395 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7396 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
7398 + typo in configure --help.
7399 > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
7400 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
7401 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
7402 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
7405 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7406 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
7409 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
7410 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
7411 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
7412 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
7413 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
7415 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
7416 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
7417 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
7418 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
7419 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
7420 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
7421 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
7422 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
7423 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
7424 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
7425 form (sorted, unique mapping).
7426 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
7427 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
7428 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7429 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
7430 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7431 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7432 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
7433 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
7434 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
7435 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
7436 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
7437 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
7438 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7439 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
7441 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
7442 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
7443 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
7444 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
7445 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
7446 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
7450 + add 'deinstall' rules.
7451 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
7452 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
7453 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
7454 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
7455 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
7456 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
7458 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
7459 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7460 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
7462 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
7463 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
7464 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
7465 scripts are also provided.
7468 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
7470 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
7471 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
7472 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
7473 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
7474 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
7475 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
7476 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
7477 generating lint library.
7478 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
7480 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
7481 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
7482 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
7483 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
7484 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
7485 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
7486 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
7487 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
7488 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
7489 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
7491 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7492 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
7494 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
7496 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
7497 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
7498 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
7499 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
7500 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
7501 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
7502 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7503 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
7504 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
7508 + modify rain.c to use color.
7509 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
7510 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
7511 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
7512 of configure cache variables in 970906.
7513 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
7514 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
7515 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
7516 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
7517 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
7518 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
7519 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
7520 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
7521 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
7522 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7523 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
7525 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
7526 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
7527 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
7528 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
7530 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
7531 NCursesWindow class.
7532 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
7533 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
7534 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
7535 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
7537 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
7538 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
7539 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
7540 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
7541 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
7542 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
7544 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
7545 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
7546 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
7547 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
7548 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
7549 already disconnected.
7550 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
7551 navigation requests.
7552 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
7553 case-insensitiva comparision routine.
7554 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
7555 forms field by index.
7556 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
7558 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
7559 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
7560 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
7561 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
7562 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
7563 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
7564 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
7565 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
7566 move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
7568 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
7569 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
7570 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
7572 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
7573 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7574 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
7575 know that auto_right_margin is true.
7576 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
7577 shifting character to LR corner.
7578 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
7579 terminal right margin mode is known.
7580 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
7581 _nc_scroll_window().
7582 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
7583 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
7585 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
7586 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
7587 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
7588 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
7590 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
7591 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
7592 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
7593 the terminal window is resized.
7596 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
7597 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
7598 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
7599 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
7600 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
7601 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
7602 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
7603 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
7604 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7605 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
7606 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
7608 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
7609 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
7610 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
7612 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
7613 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
7615 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
7619 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
7620 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
7621 lib_printw.c functions.
7622 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
7623 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
7624 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
7625 force the screen to scroll.
7628 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
7630 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
7632 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
7633 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
7635 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
7636 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
7637 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7638 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
7639 was in the wrong order.
7640 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
7642 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
7644 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
7645 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
7646 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
7647 invoke wechochar() instead.
7648 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
7651 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
7652 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
7653 work properly when we add calls to that function.
7654 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
7655 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
7656 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7657 + several fixes to getch:
7658 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
7659 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
7660 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
7661 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
7663 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
7664 6. correctly handle the case of receiption of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
7665 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
7666 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
7667 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
7669 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
7670 line-breakout optimization
7671 + improve hashmap.c by
7672 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
7673 2. not marking lines with offset 0
7674 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
7675 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
7676 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
7677 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
7679 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
7680 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
7681 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
7682 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
7684 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
7686 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
7687 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
7688 stored/retrieved via set_term().
7689 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
7693 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
7694 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
7695 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
7697 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
7698 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
7699 before looking for (n)curses library.
7700 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
7701 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
7702 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
7703 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
7704 include ncurses_cfg.h
7705 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
7706 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
7707 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7708 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
7710 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
7711 common subexpressions.
7712 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
7713 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
7714 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
7715 against the background character.
7716 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
7717 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
7718 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
7719 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
7720 > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
7721 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
7722 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
7723 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
7724 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
7727 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
7728 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
7729 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
7730 terminal type ncr7900).
7731 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
7732 package is built with an install-prefix.
7733 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
7734 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
7735 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
7736 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
7737 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
7738 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
7739 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
7740 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
7741 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
7742 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7743 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
7744 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
7745 by Juergen Pfeifer).
7748 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
7749 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
7750 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
7751 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
7752 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
7753 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
7754 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
7755 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
7756 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
7757 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
7758 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
7761 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
7762 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
7763 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
7764 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
7765 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
7766 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
7767 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
7768 configuration of wide-characters.
7769 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
7770 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
7771 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
7772 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
7773 does not have getttynam().
7774 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
7775 + add table entries for 230400 and 460800 bd to baudrate() function.
7776 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
7777 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7778 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
7779 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7780 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
7781 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
7782 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
7783 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
7784 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
7788 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
7789 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7790 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
7791 options should be accompanied by a message.
7792 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
7793 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
7795 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
7797 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7798 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
7799 better when csr is not available.
7800 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
7801 after failure to scroll one.
7802 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
7803 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
7804 case and wrong string in TRACE.
7805 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7806 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
7810 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
7811 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
7813 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
7814 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
7815 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
7816 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
7817 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
7820 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
7821 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
7822 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
7824 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
7827 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
7828 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
7829 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
7830 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
7831 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
7832 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
7833 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
7834 (reported by Larry Virden).
7835 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
7836 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
7838 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7839 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
7840 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
7841 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
7845 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
7846 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
7847 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
7848 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
7849 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
7851 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
7852 terminfo description to the stored strings.
7853 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
7854 terminfo descriptions.
7855 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
7856 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
7857 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
7858 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
7859 option is a stopgap.
7860 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
7861 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
7864 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
7865 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
7866 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
7867 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
7868 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
7869 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
7873 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
7874 lines in curscr that are shifted.
7875 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
7876 than a series of function calls.
7877 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
7878 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
7879 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
7880 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
7881 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
7882 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
7883 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
7884 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7885 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7888 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
7889 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
7890 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
7891 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
7892 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
7893 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
7894 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
7895 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
7896 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
7897 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
7898 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
7899 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
7900 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
7901 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
7902 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7903 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
7904 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7905 + improve threshhold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
7906 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7909 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
7910 use only the fallback data.
7911 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
7912 terminal descriptions.
7913 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
7914 still assume there's an ncurses.h
7915 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
7916 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
7917 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
7918 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
7919 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
7920 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
7922 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
7923 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
7924 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
7925 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
7926 <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
7927 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
7928 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
7930 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
7932 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
7933 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
7935 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
7937 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
7938 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
7939 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
7940 original implementation (1.9.6).
7941 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
7942 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
7943 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
7944 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
7946 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
7947 SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
7948 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
7949 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
7950 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
7951 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7952 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
7953 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
7955 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
7956 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
7957 field is not possible.
7958 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
7959 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
7960 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
7961 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
7963 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
7964 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
7965 in forms/menus libraries.
7968 + add description of xterm-16color.
7969 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
7970 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
7972 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
7973 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
7974 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
7975 works properly w/o first doing "make".
7976 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
7977 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
7979 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
7980 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
7981 bounding box without tidying up).
7982 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
7983 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
7984 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
7986 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
7987 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7988 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
7989 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
7990 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7993 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
7994 option is specified.
7995 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
7996 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
7998 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
7999 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
8000 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
8001 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
8002 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
8003 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
8004 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
8005 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
8006 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
8007 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
8008 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
8009 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
8010 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
8011 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
8013 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
8014 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
8015 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8016 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
8017 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
8018 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8019 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
8020 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
8021 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8022 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
8023 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
8025 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
8027 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
8029 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
8030 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
8033 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
8034 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
8035 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
8036 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
8038 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
8039 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
8040 during a call to newwin.
8041 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
8042 is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
8043 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
8044 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
8045 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
8046 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8047 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
8048 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
8051 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
8052 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
8053 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
8054 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
8056 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
8059 970505 4.1 pre-release
8060 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
8062 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
8063 unnecessary recompiles.
8064 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
8065 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
8066 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
8067 overwrite of symbolic links.
8068 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
8069 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
8070 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
8071 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
8072 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
8073 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
8074 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
8075 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
8076 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
8077 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
8078 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
8079 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
8080 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
8081 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
8085 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
8086 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
8087 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
8089 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
8090 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
8091 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
8092 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
8093 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
8094 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
8095 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
8096 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
8097 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
8099 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
8100 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
8101 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
8102 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
8104 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
8105 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
8106 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8107 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
8108 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8109 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
8110 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8111 + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
8112 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
8113 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
8114 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8117 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
8118 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
8119 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
8120 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
8121 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
8122 original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
8123 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
8124 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
8125 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
8126 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
8127 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
8128 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
8129 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
8130 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
8131 or redefinition within an acsc string.
8132 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
8133 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
8135 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
8136 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
8139 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
8140 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
8141 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
8142 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
8143 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
8144 match SVr4 documentation.
8145 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
8146 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
8147 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
8150 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
8151 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
8152 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
8153 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
8154 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
8155 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
8156 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
8157 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
8160 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
8161 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
8162 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
8164 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
8165 --enable/--with values.
8166 + add configure option --enable-big-core
8167 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
8168 + check for C++ builtin.h header
8169 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
8170 parameter from the expression.
8171 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
8172 ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted from diffs by
8174 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
8175 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
8176 was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
8177 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
8178 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
8179 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
8182 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
8183 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
8184 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
8185 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
8186 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
8189 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
8190 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
8191 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
8192 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
8193 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
8194 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
8195 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
8196 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
8197 (reported by Ward Horner).
8198 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
8199 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
8202 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
8203 even if "make all" is not done first.
8204 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
8205 expanded functions with ATAC.
8206 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
8207 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
8211 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
8213 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
8215 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
8218 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
8219 addressing request by Ward Horner.
8220 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
8221 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
8222 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
8223 a pointer-increment.
8224 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
8228 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
8229 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
8231 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
8232 (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
8233 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
8234 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
8235 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
8236 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
8237 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
8238 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
8240 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
8241 (reported by Ward Horner)
8242 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
8243 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
8244 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
8245 (reported by Gary Johnson).
8246 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
8247 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
8248 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
8249 wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
8250 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
8251 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
8252 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
8253 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
8257 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
8258 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
8259 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
8260 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
8261 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
8262 (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8263 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
8264 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
8265 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
8266 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
8269 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
8271 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
8272 the returned buffer.
8273 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
8274 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
8275 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
8276 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
8278 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
8279 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
8282 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
8283 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
8284 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
8285 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
8287 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
8288 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
8291 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
8292 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
8294 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
8296 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
8297 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
8298 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
8299 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
8301 + modify _tracedump() to pad pad colors & attrs lines to match change
8302 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
8303 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
8304 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
8307 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
8308 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
8309 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
8310 that machine - T.Dickey.
8311 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
8312 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
8313 linking against static libraries.
8314 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
8316 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
8317 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
8318 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
8319 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
8321 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
8322 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
8323 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
8324 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
8325 Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
8328 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
8329 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
8330 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
8332 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
8333 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
8334 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
8335 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
8336 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
8337 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
8340 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
8342 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
8343 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
8344 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
8345 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
8346 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
8347 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
8348 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
8349 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
8350 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
8351 insert/delete line method.
8352 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
8353 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
8354 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
8355 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
8357 961229 (internal alpha)
8358 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
8359 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
8360 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
8361 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
8362 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
8363 there is data on stdin.
8364 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
8365 descriptors, needed for GPM.
8366 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
8367 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
8368 prevented patch from working properly -TD
8369 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
8370 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
8371 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
8372 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
8375 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
8376 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
8378 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
8381 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
8382 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
8383 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
8384 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
8386 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
8387 solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
8388 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
8389 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
8390 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
8391 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
8393 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
8394 i.e., set current directory before linking.
8395 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
8396 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
8397 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
8398 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
8399 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
8400 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
8401 Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
8402 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
8405 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
8406 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
8407 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
8408 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
8409 Solaris curses, which does this.
8412 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
8413 work with wider range of screen sizes.
8414 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
8415 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
8416 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
8418 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
8419 resize between endwin/refresh.
8420 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
8421 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
8422 terminal modes in 960907.
8423 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
8424 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
8426 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
8427 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
8428 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
8429 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
8430 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
8431 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
8432 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
8433 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
8434 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
8436 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
8437 (requested by Florian La Roche).
8438 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
8439 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
8440 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
8441 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
8442 by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8445 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
8448 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
8449 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
8450 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
8451 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
8452 data used in ncurses library.
8453 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
8454 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
8455 Alexander V Lukyanov).
8456 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
8457 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
8458 beta may not be interchangeable).
8459 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
8461 961130 1.9.9g release
8462 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
8466 > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
8467 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
8468 to avoid warning messages.
8469 + the panel overlap detection was broken
8470 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
8472 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
8476 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8477 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
8478 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
8479 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
8480 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
8483 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
8484 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
8485 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
8490 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
8492 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
8494 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
8497 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
8498 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
8499 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
8500 + add entry for color_xterm
8503 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
8504 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
8505 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
8506 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
8507 CANCELLED_STRING values.
8508 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
8509 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
8510 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
8511 delays when in autoplay mode.
8512 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
8513 Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
8515 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
8518 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
8519 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
8520 a spurious clear-screen.
8521 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
8522 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
8524 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
8525 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
8526 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
8530 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
8531 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
8532 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
8533 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
8534 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
8535 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
8537 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
8538 distribution, as stated)
8539 + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
8540 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
8541 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
8542 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
8543 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
8544 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
8545 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
8547 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
8548 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
8552 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
8553 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
8554 file (lib_screen.c).
8555 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
8556 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
8557 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
8558 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
8559 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
8560 rendered as octal constants.
8561 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
8562 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
8563 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
8564 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
8565 in the top-level command-parser.
8566 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
8567 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
8569 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
8570 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
8571 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
8574 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
8575 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
8576 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
8577 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
8578 (reported by Tim Mooney).
8579 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
8581 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
8585 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
8587 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
8591 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
8592 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
8594 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
8595 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
8596 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
8597 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
8598 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
8599 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
8600 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
8601 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
8602 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
8603 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
8605 + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
8606 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
8608 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
8609 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
8610 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
8611 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
8614 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
8615 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
8616 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
8617 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
8618 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
8620 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
8621 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
8622 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
8623 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
8624 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
8625 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
8626 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
8627 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
8628 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
8629 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
8630 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
8631 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
8632 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
8635 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
8636 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
8637 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
8639 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
8640 Michael Elkins) - untested
8642 + correction to #317.
8644 + re-add _nc_hash_map
8645 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design.
8646 + add hashtest.c, program to time the hashmap optimization.
8648 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
8650 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
8652 + merged Alexander V Lukyanov's patch to use ech and rep - untested
8654 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
8655 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
8656 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
8657 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
8660 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
8662 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
8663 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
8664 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
8665 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
8666 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
8668 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
8671 + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
8672 (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8673 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
8674 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8675 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
8676 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
8679 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
8680 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
8681 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
8682 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
8683 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
8684 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
8685 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
8686 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
8687 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
8688 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
8689 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
8690 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
8691 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
8692 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
8693 + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
8697 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8698 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
8699 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
8700 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
8702 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
8703 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
8704 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
8707 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
8708 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
8709 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
8712 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
8713 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8714 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
8715 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8718 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
8719 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
8720 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
8721 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
8722 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
8724 + add dtterm description
8725 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop vscanf subtest)
8728 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
8729 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
8730 + refine configure-test for -g option (Tim Mooney).
8731 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
8732 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
8735 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
8737 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
8739 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch.
8742 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
8743 (reported by William P Setzer)
8744 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
8745 (reported by Tim Mooney).
8747 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
8748 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
8749 + updated qnx terminfo entry (by Michael Hunter)
8752 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
8754 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
8758 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
8759 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
8761 + terminfo changes (9.3.10), from BRL
8762 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
8763 + add more symbols to infocmp.
8766 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
8767 Juergen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
8768 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
8770 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
8771 null), and tests that use it.
8772 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
8773 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
8774 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
8776 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
8778 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
8779 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
8782 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
8783 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
8784 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
8785 by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
8786 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
8787 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
8788 + terminfo patches #306/307 (ESR).
8789 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
8790 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
8793 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
8794 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
8795 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
8797 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
8798 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
8799 Philippe De Muyter).
8802 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
8803 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
8805 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes (ESR).
8806 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
8808 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
8809 (reported by David MacKenzie).
8810 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
8811 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
8812 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
8813 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
8814 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
8815 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
8816 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
8820 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
8821 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
8822 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
8823 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
8824 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
8825 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
8826 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
8827 than function keys in 'g' test.
8828 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
8829 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
8830 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
8831 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
8833 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
8835 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
8836 msgwin needed scrollok set.
8837 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
8838 between PutRange and InsStr
8839 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
8840 MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
8842 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
8845 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
8846 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
8847 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
8849 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
8850 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
8851 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
8852 _yoffset to WINDOW).
8853 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
8854 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
8855 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
8856 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
8857 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
8858 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
8859 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
8860 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
8861 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
8864 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
8865 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
8866 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
8867 first entry in a list).
8868 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
8869 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
8872 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
8873 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
8874 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
8875 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
8876 with a shared-library configuration.
8877 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
8878 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
8879 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
8880 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
8881 builders to install into staging locations (requested by
8882 Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
8883 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
8885 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
8886 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
8887 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
8888 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
8889 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
8891 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
8892 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
8893 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
8894 invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8896 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
8897 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
8898 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
8902 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
8903 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
8904 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
8905 + added rules for lintlib, lint
8906 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
8907 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
8908 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
8909 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
8910 checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
8911 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
8912 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
8913 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
8914 + typos, don't use inline with -g (Philippe De Muyter)
8915 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
8918 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
8919 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
8920 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
8921 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
8922 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
8923 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
8925 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
8926 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
8927 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
8928 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
8931 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
8932 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
8933 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
8934 <lav@yars.free.net>).
8935 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
8936 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
8937 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
8938 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
8940 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
8942 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
8943 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
8944 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
8945 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
8948 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
8952 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
8953 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
8954 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
8955 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
8956 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
8957 > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
8958 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
8959 + added TRACE_IEVENT
8960 + removed boolean version of 'getm'
8961 + added lib_print.c (for Rick Marshall)
8963 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
8964 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
8965 + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
8966 is not part of X/Open Curses).
8967 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
8970 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
8971 + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
8972 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
8973 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
8974 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
8975 "#include" if needed.
8978 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
8979 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
8982 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
8983 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
8984 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
8988 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
8989 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
8990 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
8991 > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
8992 + new "-e" option of tic.
8993 + fix for "infocmp -e".
8994 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c
8995 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
8996 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
9000 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
9001 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
9002 K&R-style substitution)
9003 > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
9004 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode
9005 + corrected askuser() logic in tset
9006 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing
9007 + added trace support for TTY flags
9010 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
9011 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
9012 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
9013 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
9014 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
9016 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
9017 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
9019 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
9021 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
9022 copy-changed-lines behavior.
9023 * added and documented wresize() function.
9024 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
9025 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
9026 emitted before the first check.
9027 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
9028 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
9029 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
9030 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
9031 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
9032 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
9034 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
9035 * support for ESCDELAY.
9036 * small fixes for menu/form code.
9037 * the test directory has its own configure.
9038 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
9039 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
9040 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
9043 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
9045 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
9046 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
9047 * support infocmp -RBSD.
9048 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
9049 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
9050 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
9051 catastrophies or acts of God.
9052 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
9054 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
9055 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
9058 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
9060 * corrected return values of setupterm()
9061 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
9062 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
9063 one `use' capability.
9064 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
9065 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
9066 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
9067 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
9068 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
9069 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
9070 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
9071 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
9072 * added -h option to toe(1).
9073 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
9074 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
9075 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
9076 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
9078 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
9080 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
9081 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
9083 * mouse support for xterm.
9084 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
9085 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initally off.
9086 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
9087 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
9088 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
9089 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
9090 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
9091 * infocmp -T option added.
9092 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
9094 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
9096 * menus library is now included with documentation.
9097 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
9098 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
9099 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
9100 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
9101 * tweaks for compiling in seperate directories.
9102 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
9103 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
9104 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
9106 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
9108 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
9109 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
9110 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
9111 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
9113 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
9115 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
9116 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
9117 * added tracemunch to the test tools
9118 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
9120 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
9122 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
9123 profile and shared object models.
9125 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
9127 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
9128 * panels support added
9129 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
9130 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
9132 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
9134 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
9135 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
9136 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
9137 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
9139 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
9140 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
9141 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
9142 are consistent (they weren't).
9143 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
9144 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
9145 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
9146 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
9148 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
9149 * more spelling fixes
9150 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
9151 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
9152 core in init_acs()).
9153 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
9156 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
9158 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
9159 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
9160 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
9162 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
9163 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
9164 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
9165 resolution of traces.
9166 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
9167 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
9168 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
9169 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
9170 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
9172 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
9173 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
9174 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
9175 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
9177 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
9178 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
9179 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
9180 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
9181 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
9182 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This wil mostly happen if
9183 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
9184 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
9185 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
9186 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
9187 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
9188 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
9189 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
9190 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
9191 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
9192 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
9194 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
9195 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
9196 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
9197 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
9198 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
9199 the correct alternate character set.
9200 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
9201 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
9202 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
9203 a terminal is undefined.
9204 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
9205 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
9206 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
9207 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
9208 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
9209 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
9211 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
9212 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
9213 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
9214 if other attributes are turned off.
9215 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
9216 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
9217 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
9219 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
9220 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
9221 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
9224 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
9225 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
9226 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
9227 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
9229 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
9230 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
9232 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
9234 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
9235 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
9236 break operation with any emulators.
9237 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
9238 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
9239 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
9240 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
9241 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
9242 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
9243 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
9244 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
9246 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
9247 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
9249 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
9250 unpredictable results.
9251 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
9253 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
9254 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
9255 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
9256 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
9257 take note of the terminfo directory.
9258 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
9259 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
9262 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
9263 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
9264 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
9265 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
9266 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
9267 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
9268 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
9269 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
9270 performs more testing.
9271 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
9272 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
9274 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
9275 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
9277 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
9278 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
9279 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
9281 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
9283 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
9284 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
9285 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
9286 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
9287 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
9288 will probably continue to work ok.
9290 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
9291 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
9292 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
9293 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
9294 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
9296 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
9297 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
9298 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
9300 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
9301 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
9302 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
9303 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
9304 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
9305 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
9306 changed accordingly.
9307 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
9308 bottom-right corner.
9309 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
9310 pads I'd love a copy.
9311 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
9312 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
9313 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
9314 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
9315 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
9316 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
9317 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
9319 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
9320 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
9321 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
9323 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
9324 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
9325 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
9326 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
9327 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
9328 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
9329 * See src/README for porting notes.
9330 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
9331 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
9332 rows instead of lines, etc.)
9333 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
9334 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
9335 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
9336 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
9337 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
9338 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
9339 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
9341 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
9342 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
9343 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
9344 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
9345 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
9346 fact was exposed by hanoi.
9347 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
9348 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
9349 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
9350 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
9351 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
9352 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
9354 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
9356 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
9357 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
9358 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
9359 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
9360 Config.* files through an awk script.
9361 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
9362 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
9363 * a few minor cleanups.
9364 * added more prototypes in curses.h
9366 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
9368 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
9369 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
9370 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
9371 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
9372 * a couple of bug fixes.
9373 * a few code cleanups.
9375 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
9377 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
9378 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
9379 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
9380 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
9381 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
9382 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
9384 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
9385 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
9387 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
9388 (doesn't work on Linux)
9389 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
9390 screen before working.
9391 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
9392 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
9394 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
9395 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
9396 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
9397 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
9398 * several minor bug fixes.
9400 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
9402 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
9403 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
9404 * changes related to Config
9406 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
9408 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
9409 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
9410 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
9411 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
9412 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
9413 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
9414 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
9416 * fixed problems with asc_init()
9417 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
9418 * cleaned up vidputs()
9419 * general cleanup of the code
9420 * more attention to portability to other systems
9421 * added terminfos for hp70092 (wont work until changes to lib_update.c are
9422 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
9424 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
9425 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
9427 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
9428 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
9429 the rationale drop me a line.
9431 Included are several test programs in test/.
9432 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
9433 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
9435 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
9437 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
9438 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
9439 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
9440 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
9441 * keyname() is added.
9442 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
9443 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
9444 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
9445 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
9446 * included fixes from 0.6.1
9447 * added a few more missing functions.
9448 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
9449 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
9452 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
9454 1) Included the missing data/console.
9456 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
9458 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
9460 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
9461 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
9462 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
9464 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
9465 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
9466 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
9467 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
9468 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
9469 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
9470 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
9471 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
9472 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
9473 * added notimeout().
9474 * added timeout() define in curses.h
9475 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
9477 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
9478 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
9479 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
9480 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
9481 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
9482 * added slk_* support.
9483 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
9484 * added PANEL library.
9485 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
9486 * terminfo.h is really term.h
9488 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
9489 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
9490 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
9491 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
9492 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
9493 another key is pressed.
9494 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
9495 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
9496 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
9498 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
9499 * fixed bug in wvline().
9501 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
9502 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
9504 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
9505 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
9506 * Addition of function prototypes.
9507 * Addition of several missing functions.
9508 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
9509 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
9510 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
9511 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
9512 * New scrolling code.
9513 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
9515 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
9516 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
9517 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
9518 * more fixes for updates.
9519 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
9520 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
9521 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
9522 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
9524 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
9525 * support for color.
9526 * support for PC graphic characters.
9527 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
9528 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
9530 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
9531 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
9532 * ANSIfication of some functions.
9533 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
9534 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.
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