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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 missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
51 + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
52 + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
53 + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
54 backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
55 + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
58 + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
59 + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
60 + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
61 + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.
64 + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
65 which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
66 name. That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
67 tset from termcap to terminfo. The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
68 this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
70 + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
71 are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
72 + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
73 renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
74 normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).
77 + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
78 valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
79 actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
80 install time (cf: 20150822).
81 + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
82 clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
83 empty "local" section.
84 + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
85 to incorrect attribute-masking.
88 + modify MKexpanded.c to update the expansion of a temporary filename
89 to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
90 + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
91 annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
93 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
94 + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
95 + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
96 the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
97 Normand, Novell #946048).
98 + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
99 FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
100 + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
101 minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
102 + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
103 + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
105 + update config.guess, config.sub from
106 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
109 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
110 (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
111 + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
112 data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
113 (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
114 > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
115 + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
116 + support building with libtool on OS/2
117 + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
118 + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
121 + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
122 + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
123 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
124 + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
126 + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
127 fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
128 (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
131 + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
133 + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
134 + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
137 + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
139 + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
140 read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
141 + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
142 configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
145 + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
147 + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
148 solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
149 of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
150 + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
151 "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
152 + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
154 + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS
157 + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
159 + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
160 all comments from the "tic -I" output.
161 + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
163 + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
164 form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.
167 + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
169 + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
170 + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
171 + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
172 + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
173 ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
177 + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
178 overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
179 + update release notes in INSTALL.
180 + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
183 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
184 releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
185 http://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
187 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
190 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
191 + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
192 + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
193 more than 200 snapshots.
194 + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
198 + updated llib-* files.
199 + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
200 + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
202 + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
203 + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
204 + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
205 curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
206 curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
207 curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
208 curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
211 + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
212 + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
213 curs_initscr.3x page.
214 + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
215 of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
216 in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
218 + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
219 e.g., ncursestw library.
222 + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
223 configuration of ncurses6.
224 + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
225 demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
226 the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
227 versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
228 + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
231 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
232 + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
233 (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
236 + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
238 + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
239 map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
240 suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
241 + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
242 from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
243 + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
244 databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
245 + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
246 setupterm and restartterm functions.
247 + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
248 of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
249 it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
253 + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
254 + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
255 the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
256 files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
257 corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
258 configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
259 discussion with Sven Joachim).
260 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
263 + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
264 intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
265 "--with-abi-version=5" option.
266 + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
267 + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
268 + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
269 Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
270 + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
271 ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
272 lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
273 + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
274 "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
275 + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
276 CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
279 + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
280 mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
281 + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
282 + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
283 + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
284 have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
285 + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
286 cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
289 + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
290 + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
291 by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
292 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
293 + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
295 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
296 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
299 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
300 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
301 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
302 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
304 + regenerate html manpages.
305 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
306 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
307 Stack Overflow forum):
310 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
311 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
312 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
313 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
314 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
318 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
319 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
320 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
321 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
322 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
324 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
325 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
326 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
327 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
328 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
329 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
331 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
332 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
333 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
334 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
335 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
336 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
338 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
339 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
341 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
342 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
344 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
345 the ncurses library aside from headers.
346 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
347 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
348 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
349 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
350 + update config.guess, config.sub from
351 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
354 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
355 (report by Todd M Lewis).
356 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
357 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
358 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
359 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
360 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
361 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
363 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
364 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
365 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
366 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
367 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
368 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
369 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
372 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
373 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
374 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
375 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
376 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
377 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
378 with the shared libraries.
379 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
380 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
381 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
382 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
383 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
384 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
385 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
386 inherit into new windows.
389 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
390 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
391 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
392 readonly text segment.
395 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
396 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
399 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
400 the extended putwin/getwin.
401 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
403 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
407 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
408 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
409 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
410 for a magic code at the beginning:
411 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
414 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
416 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
417 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
420 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
421 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
422 (report by Grady Martin).
425 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
426 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
427 the wide-character libraries.
428 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
430 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
431 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
434 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
435 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
436 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
440 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
441 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
444 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
445 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
446 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
447 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
448 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
451 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
452 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
453 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
456 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
457 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
458 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
460 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
461 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
462 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
463 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
464 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
465 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
466 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
467 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
468 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
469 (report by Pavel Balaev).
472 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
473 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
474 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
475 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
479 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
480 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
484 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
488 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
489 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
490 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
492 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
493 regenerate html-manpages.
496 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
497 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
499 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
500 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
501 package for ncurses6.
502 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
503 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
504 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
505 in the corresponding ".map" files.
506 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
507 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
511 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
512 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
513 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
514 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
516 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
517 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
518 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
519 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
522 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
523 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
524 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
525 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
526 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
529 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
530 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
531 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
532 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
533 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
534 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
535 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
539 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
540 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
544 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
548 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
549 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
550 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
551 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
552 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
554 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
555 (report by Mike Gran).
558 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
559 demonstration of its limitations.
560 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
561 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
562 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
563 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
564 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
565 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
566 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
568 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
569 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
572 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
573 + implement flash in win_driver.c
574 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
576 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
577 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
578 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
579 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
580 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
581 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
582 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
583 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
586 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
587 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
588 some older cross-compiler environments.
589 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
590 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
591 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
592 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
593 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
594 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
595 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
596 + update config.sub from
597 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
600 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
602 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
605 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
607 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
610 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
611 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
612 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
615 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
616 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
620 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
621 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
622 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
625 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
626 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
627 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
628 + regenerated html manpages.
629 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
630 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
631 which reverses cause/effect.
632 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
633 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
634 + fixes for win_driver.c:
635 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
640 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
641 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
642 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
643 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
645 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
646 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
647 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
648 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
652 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
653 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
654 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
655 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
656 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
657 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
658 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
659 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
660 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
663 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
664 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
665 options, from xterm changes.
668 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
669 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
673 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
674 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
677 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
678 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
679 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
680 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
681 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
682 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
683 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
686 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
687 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
688 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
689 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
690 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
691 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
692 providing directly comparable screens.
693 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
696 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
698 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
699 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
700 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
701 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
702 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
703 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
704 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
707 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
708 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
709 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
710 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
711 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
714 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
715 overlap with sgr functionality.
716 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
717 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
718 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
719 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
720 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
721 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
722 older ncurses than 20131207.
723 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
724 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
725 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
726 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
727 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
730 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
731 environment variable.
732 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
733 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
734 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
735 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
736 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
737 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
738 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
739 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
740 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
741 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
742 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
743 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
744 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
745 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
747 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
749 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
750 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
751 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
753 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
754 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
755 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
756 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
757 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
758 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
759 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
761 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
763 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
764 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
765 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
766 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
767 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
768 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
769 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
770 to be consecutive anyway.
771 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
772 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
773 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
774 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
777 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
778 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
779 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
782 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
783 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
784 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
785 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
788 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
790 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
791 simplify later merging:
792 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
793 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
794 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
795 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
796 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
800 + update config.guess, config.sub from
801 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
804 + modify configure script:
805 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
806 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
807 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
808 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
809 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
810 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
811 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
812 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
814 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
815 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
818 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
819 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
820 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
821 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
822 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
823 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
827 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
830 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
831 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
832 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
833 + add terminology entry -TD
834 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
835 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
838 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
839 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
840 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
841 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
842 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
846 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
847 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
848 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
849 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
850 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
853 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
856 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
857 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
858 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
862 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
863 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
864 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
865 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
866 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
867 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
869 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
870 html emitted by docbook.
873 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
874 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
875 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
876 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
879 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
880 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
881 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
882 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
883 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
884 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
887 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
888 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
889 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
890 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
893 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
894 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
897 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
899 ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
902 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
903 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
904 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
905 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
907 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
909 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
910 + updated llib-l* files.
913 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
914 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
918 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
922 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
923 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
924 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
925 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
926 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
927 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
928 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
929 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
930 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
931 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
932 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
933 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
935 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
937 + update config.sub from
938 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
941 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
944 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
945 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
946 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
947 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
949 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
952 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
953 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
954 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
955 them more consistent with other packages.
958 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
959 compiling ncurses-examples.
960 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
963 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
966 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
967 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
968 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
969 cross-compiles to MinGW.
970 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
974 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
975 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
979 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
980 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
982 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
984 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
985 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
986 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
987 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
988 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
991 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
992 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
993 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
996 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
998 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
999 before/after Debian #700177.
1000 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
1001 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
1003 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
1004 of sort, improving portability.
1005 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
1006 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1007 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1010 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
1011 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
1013 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
1014 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
1015 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
1018 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
1019 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
1020 introduced by Debian #700177.
1021 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
1022 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
1025 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
1026 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
1028 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
1029 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
1030 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
1033 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
1034 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
1036 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
1037 cross-compile support packages.
1038 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
1041 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
1042 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
1043 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
1044 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
1045 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
1046 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
1047 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
1048 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
1049 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
1050 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
1051 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
1052 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
1055 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
1056 initialization of cur_term.
1059 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
1060 + minor compiler-warning fixes
1063 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
1064 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
1065 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
1066 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
1067 --enable-auto-import flag.
1068 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
1072 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
1073 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
1074 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
1075 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
1076 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
1078 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
1079 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
1080 (patch by Eric Raymond).
1083 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
1084 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
1085 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
1087 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
1088 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
1089 not printing the full pathname of the program.
1090 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
1091 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
1092 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
1095 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
1096 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
1098 + add test/dots_termcap.c
1099 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
1100 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
1101 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
1102 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
1103 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
1104 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
1105 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
1106 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
1107 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
1109 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
1110 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
1113 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
1114 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
1115 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
1116 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
1117 the left margin of the display.
1118 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
1119 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
1120 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
1121 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
1124 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
1125 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
1126 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
1127 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
1128 + regenerated html manpages.
1129 + update doctype used for html documentation.
1132 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
1133 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
1134 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
1135 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
1136 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
1137 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
1140 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1141 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
1142 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
1143 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
1144 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
1147 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
1148 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
1151 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
1152 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
1153 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1154 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
1155 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
1157 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
1158 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
1159 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
1160 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
1163 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
1164 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
1165 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
1166 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
1168 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
1170 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
1172 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
1175 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
1179 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
1180 (report by Christian Ebert).
1181 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
1182 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
1183 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
1186 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
1187 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
1188 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
1189 add bold for consistency with sgr,
1190 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
1191 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
1192 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
1193 by Benjamin Sittler)
1194 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
1195 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
1196 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
1197 line split after "%;".
1198 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
1199 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
1202 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
1203 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
1204 + regenerated html manpages.
1205 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
1206 + updated some autoconf macros:
1207 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
1208 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
1209 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
1210 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
1211 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
1212 configuration (Redhat #911540).
1213 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
1214 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
1217 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
1218 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
1220 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
1221 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
1223 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
1224 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
1225 of raw input in MinGW port.
1228 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
1229 + update config.guess, config.sub
1232 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
1234 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
1236 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
1237 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
1238 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
1239 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
1240 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1241 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
1242 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
1244 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
1245 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
1248 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
1249 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
1251 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
1252 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
1253 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
1256 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
1257 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
1258 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
1261 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
1262 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
1263 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
1264 help reduce flicker.
1265 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
1266 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
1267 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
1268 by Dennis Grevenstein).
1269 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
1270 Dennis Grevenstein).
1271 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
1272 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
1273 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
1276 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1277 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
1278 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
1279 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
1280 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
1281 + improve error-checking in copywin
1282 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
1283 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
1284 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
1285 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
1286 matching capability names.
1287 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
1288 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
1289 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
1292 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
1293 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
1294 are unused in the current driver model.
1295 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
1297 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
1298 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
1299 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
1300 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
1303 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
1304 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
1306 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
1307 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
1308 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
1309 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
1310 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
1313 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
1314 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
1315 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
1319 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
1321 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
1322 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
1324 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
1325 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
1326 wide-character which can be used.
1329 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
1330 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
1331 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
1332 by Erwin Waterlander).
1333 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
1334 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1335 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
1336 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
1337 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
1338 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
1342 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
1343 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
1344 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
1345 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
1346 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
1347 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1348 + remove a few redundant checks.
1349 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
1351 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
1352 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
1353 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
1354 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
1356 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
1357 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
1358 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
1362 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
1363 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
1364 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
1368 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
1369 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
1370 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1371 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
1374 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1375 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
1376 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
1377 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
1378 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
1379 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
1380 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
1381 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
1383 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
1384 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
1385 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
1386 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
1389 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
1390 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
1391 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
1393 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
1394 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
1395 libraries or executables.
1398 + realign these related pages:
1403 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
1404 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
1405 (report by Reuben Thomas).
1406 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
1407 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
1408 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
1409 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
1410 based on testing with tack -TD
1411 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
1412 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
1415 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
1417 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
1418 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
1419 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
1422 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
1426 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
1427 (patch by Christian Persch).
1430 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
1432 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
1433 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
1434 has used that for a while.
1435 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
1436 for experimental use.
1437 + remove unused configure macros.
1438 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
1439 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
1440 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
1441 + update config.guess, config.sub
1444 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
1445 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
1446 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
1447 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
1448 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
1449 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
1450 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
1453 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
1454 to help with MinGW port.
1457 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
1459 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
1462 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
1465 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
1466 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
1467 might not be allocated.
1468 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
1471 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
1472 initial screen-sizes.
1473 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
1474 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
1478 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
1479 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
1483 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
1484 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
1485 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
1487 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
1488 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
1491 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
1492 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
1493 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
1494 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
1495 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
1496 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
1497 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
1501 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
1502 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
1503 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
1504 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
1505 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
1506 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
1507 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
1508 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
1512 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
1513 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
1514 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
1515 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
1516 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
1517 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
1520 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
1524 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
1526 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
1528 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
1529 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
1530 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
1531 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
1532 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
1533 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
1536 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
1538 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
1539 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
1540 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
1542 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
1543 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
1546 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
1547 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
1548 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
1551 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
1552 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
1554 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
1555 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
1557 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
1558 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
1561 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
1563 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
1564 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
1565 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
1566 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
1567 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
1568 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
1571 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
1572 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
1573 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
1574 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
1575 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
1576 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
1577 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
1578 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
1579 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
1581 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
1582 analysis by Martin Husemann).
1583 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
1584 Onno van der Linden).
1587 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
1589 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
1591 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
1592 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
1595 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
1596 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
1597 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
1598 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
1599 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
1600 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
1601 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
1604 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
1605 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
1606 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
1607 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
1608 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
1609 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
1610 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
1611 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
1612 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
1613 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
1614 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
1615 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
1616 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
1617 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
1618 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
1621 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
1622 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
1623 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
1624 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
1625 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
1626 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
1627 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
1628 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
1629 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
1630 are interpreted as key definitions.
1631 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
1632 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
1636 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
1637 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
1638 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
1639 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
1640 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
1641 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
1642 as building-blocks -TD
1643 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
1646 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
1647 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
1648 title is a status-line. -TD
1649 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
1650 of ordering and overrides -TD
1651 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
1652 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
1653 used in that file -TD
1656 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
1657 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
1658 definable capabilities.
1659 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
1660 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
1661 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
1662 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
1663 embedded in the description.
1664 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
1665 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
1666 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
1667 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
1668 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
1669 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
1672 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
1673 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
1674 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
1675 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
1676 Nicolas Boulenguez).
1677 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
1678 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
1679 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
1682 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
1683 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
1684 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
1685 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
1686 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
1687 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
1690 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
1691 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
1692 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
1694 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
1695 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
1696 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
1697 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
1700 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
1701 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
1702 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
1705 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
1706 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
1707 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
1709 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
1710 calls to setupterm().
1711 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
1713 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
1714 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
1715 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
1717 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
1721 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
1724 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
1726 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
1727 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
1728 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
1729 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
1730 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
1731 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
1733 + update config.guess, config.sub
1736 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
1737 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
1738 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
1739 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
1740 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
1741 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
1742 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
1743 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
1744 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
1747 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
1748 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
1749 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
1750 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
1751 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
1752 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
1753 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
1754 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
1755 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
1756 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
1757 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
1758 Linux versus most other systems.
1761 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
1765 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
1766 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
1767 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
1768 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
1769 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
1770 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
1771 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
1772 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
1773 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
1774 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
1775 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
1776 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
1777 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
1778 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
1781 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
1783 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
1785 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
1786 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
1787 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
1788 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).
1791 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
1793 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
1794 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
1795 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
1796 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
1797 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
1799 + regenerated html manpages.
1802 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
1803 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
1804 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
1805 + change recommended regular expression library.
1806 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
1807 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
1810 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
1811 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
1812 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
1813 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
1814 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
1815 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
1816 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
1820 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
1821 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
1823 + add putty-sco entry -TD
1826 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
1828 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
1830 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
1831 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
1832 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
1834 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
1836 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
1839 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
1840 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
1841 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
1842 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
1844 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
1845 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
1846 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
1849 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
1850 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
1852 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
1855 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
1857 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
1859 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
1861 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
1862 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
1863 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
1864 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1865 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
1866 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
1867 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
1870 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
1871 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
1873 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
1874 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
1875 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
1876 database (cf: 20111001).
1879 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
1880 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
1881 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
1883 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
1884 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
1886 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
1887 in older FreeBSD machines.
1888 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
1889 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
1890 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
1893 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
1894 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
1895 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
1896 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
1897 root's home directory.
1898 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
1899 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
1900 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
1901 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
1902 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
1904 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
1905 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
1906 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
1907 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
1908 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
1909 (report by Peter Kruse).
1912 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
1913 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
1915 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
1917 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
1918 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
1919 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
1922 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
1923 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
1924 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
1925 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
1926 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
1927 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
1930 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
1931 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
1932 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
1933 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
1934 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
1937 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
1938 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
1939 input and output of termcap source.
1940 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
1941 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
1942 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
1943 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
1944 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
1945 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
1946 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
1947 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
1948 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
1951 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
1954 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
1956 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
1957 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
1958 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
1959 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
1961 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
1964 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
1965 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
1967 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
1968 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
1971 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
1972 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
1974 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
1975 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
1977 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
1978 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
1979 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
1980 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
1982 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
1983 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
1984 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
1985 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
1987 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
1988 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
1991 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
1992 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
1993 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
1994 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
1997 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
1998 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
1999 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
2000 + add terminator entry -TD
2001 + add simpleterm entry -TD
2002 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
2003 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
2007 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
2008 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
2009 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
2010 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
2011 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
2012 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
2013 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
2014 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
2015 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
2016 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
2020 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
2021 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
2022 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
2023 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
2024 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
2025 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
2027 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
2028 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
2029 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
2031 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
2034 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
2035 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
2036 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
2037 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
2039 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
2040 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
2042 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
2043 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
2044 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
2045 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
2046 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
2047 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
2048 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
2049 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
2051 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
2052 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
2054 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
2055 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
2056 tctest (cf: 19991211).
2057 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
2058 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
2059 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
2060 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
2061 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
2062 translating to termcap.
2063 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
2064 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
2067 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
2068 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
2069 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
2070 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
2071 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
2072 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
2074 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
2075 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
2076 regarding Schilling's test program):
2077 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
2078 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
2079 + use \040 rather than \s
2080 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
2081 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
2084 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
2085 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
2086 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
2087 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2088 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
2089 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
2090 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
2091 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
2092 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
2093 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
2094 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
2095 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
2098 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
2099 are not used in the $CC variable.
2100 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
2101 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
2102 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
2103 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
2104 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
2105 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2108 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
2109 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
2113 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
2114 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
2115 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
2116 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
2117 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
2119 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
2120 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
2122 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
2125 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
2126 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
2129 + fixes for MirBSD port:
2130 + set default prefix to /usr.
2131 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
2132 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
2133 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
2134 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
2137 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
2138 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
2139 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
2140 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
2142 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
2143 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
2147 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
2150 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
2151 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
2152 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
2154 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
2155 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
2156 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
2157 help work around weak-symbol issues.
2160 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
2161 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
2162 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
2163 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
2164 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
2165 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
2166 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
2167 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
2168 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
2169 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
2170 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
2173 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
2174 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
2176 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
2177 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
2178 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
2179 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2182 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
2183 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
2184 as different types on some Unix systems.
2185 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
2186 function pointer passed to tputs().
2187 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
2188 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
2189 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
2190 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
2193 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
2194 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2195 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
2196 + update config.guess, config.sub
2199 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
2201 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
2202 some ncurses packages.
2203 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
2204 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
2205 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
2207 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2210 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
2211 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
2212 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
2213 the in-tree build of sample programs.
2214 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
2215 needed for rpm script.
2216 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
2217 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
2218 options if building a shared library with gnat.
2221 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
2222 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
2223 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
2224 that sample program.
2225 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
2226 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
2227 which were added in 5.7 and later.
2228 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
2232 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
2234 + regen Ada html documentation.
2235 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
2236 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
2238 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
2240 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
2241 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
2242 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
2243 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
2244 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
2245 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
2247 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2248 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
2250 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
2251 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
2254 + regen Ada html documentation.
2255 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
2256 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
2258 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
2259 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
2260 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
2261 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2262 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
2263 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
2264 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
2265 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
2266 thread in comp.lang.ada).
2267 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
2268 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
2269 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2270 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
2271 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
2272 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
2273 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
2274 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
2275 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
2276 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
2279 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
2280 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2281 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
2283 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
2285 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
2286 explain.txt is not found.
2289 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2290 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
2291 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2292 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
2293 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
2295 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2298 + update release notes, for 5.8.
2299 + regenerated html manpages.
2300 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
2302 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
2303 a new install of hashed database.
2304 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
2307 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
2308 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
2309 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
2310 wide-character configuration.
2311 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
2312 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
2315 + regenerated html manpages.
2316 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
2317 special case of trace configuration.
2320 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
2321 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
2322 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
2323 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
2324 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
2328 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
2329 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
2330 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
2331 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
2332 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
2334 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
2335 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
2338 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
2339 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
2340 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
2341 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
2342 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
2343 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
2344 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
2345 file configuration if that is used.
2346 + update config.guess, config.sub
2349 + regenerated html manpages.
2350 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
2352 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2353 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
2356 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
2357 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
2360 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
2361 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
2362 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
2365 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
2367 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
2368 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
2369 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
2370 wide-character configuration.
2371 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
2372 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
2373 referred to quitting with 'q'.
2376 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
2377 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
2378 version which works with termcap.
2379 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
2380 (request by Sven Joachim).
2381 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
2382 (report by Sven Joachim).
2385 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
2386 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
2387 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
2390 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
2392 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
2393 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
2396 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
2398 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
2399 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
2400 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
2401 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
2402 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
2403 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
2407 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
2408 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
2409 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
2411 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
2414 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
2416 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
2420 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
2422 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
2423 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
2424 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
2425 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
2426 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
2427 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
2428 tree (report by Werner Fink).
2429 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
2430 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
2431 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
2432 (report by John P. Hartmann)
2433 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
2436 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
2437 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
2438 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
2439 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
2440 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
2441 external package "cindent".
2444 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
2445 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
2446 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
2447 inconsistent printer-controls.
2448 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
2449 form is available -TD
2450 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
2452 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
2454 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
2455 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2456 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
2457 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
2458 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
2460 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
2461 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
2465 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
2466 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
2467 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
2468 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2469 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
2471 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
2474 + regenerated html manpages.
2475 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
2476 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
2477 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
2480 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
2482 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
2483 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
2484 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
2485 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
2489 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
2490 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
2493 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
2494 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
2495 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
2496 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
2497 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
2498 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
2499 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
2503 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
2504 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
2505 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
2506 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
2507 by Tim van der Molen).
2508 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
2509 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
2510 library configuration.
2511 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
2512 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
2513 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
2516 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
2518 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
2519 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
2520 e.g., for cross-compiling.
2521 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
2522 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
2525 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
2526 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
2527 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
2528 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
2529 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
2530 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
2531 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
2532 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
2535 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
2536 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
2537 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
2538 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
2539 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
2540 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
2541 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
2542 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
2545 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
2546 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
2547 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
2548 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
2551 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2552 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
2553 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
2556 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2557 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
2558 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
2561 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2562 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
2563 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
2564 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
2567 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
2568 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
2569 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
2571 + update Ada95/configure.
2572 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
2573 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
2574 of updating LIBS variable.
2577 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
2578 work with 64-bit compiles.
2579 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
2583 + regenerated html documentation.
2584 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
2586 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
2587 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
2588 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
2589 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
2592 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
2593 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
2595 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
2596 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
2597 build- and target-machines differ.
2598 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
2599 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
2601 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
2602 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
2605 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
2606 new EINTR feature is enabled.
2607 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
2608 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
2609 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
2610 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
2611 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
2612 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
2613 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
2614 with the standard builds of ncurses.
2615 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
2616 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
2617 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
2618 found in predefined libraries.
2619 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
2622 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
2623 (patch by David Benjamin).
2624 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
2625 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
2626 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
2627 may be defined by that route.
2630 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
2631 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
2632 the predefined include directories.
2633 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
2634 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
2635 where older versions would produce an error.
2638 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
2639 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
2640 terminfo to termcap strings
2641 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
2642 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
2643 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
2644 directory was already added.
2645 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
2646 directories (which will be ignored).
2649 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
2650 + discard motion events
2651 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
2652 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
2653 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
2654 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
2657 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
2658 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
2659 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
2660 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
2661 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
2662 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
2663 extended-colors configuration.
2664 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
2665 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
2666 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
2669 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
2671 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
2672 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
2673 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
2675 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
2676 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
2677 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
2680 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
2681 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
2685 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
2686 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
2687 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
2688 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
2689 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
2690 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
2691 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
2692 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
2693 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
2697 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
2698 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
2699 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
2700 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
2703 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
2705 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2706 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
2707 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
2710 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
2711 making those separately distributable.
2712 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
2713 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
2717 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
2720 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
2721 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
2722 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
2723 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
2727 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
2728 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
2729 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2730 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2733 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
2734 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
2735 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
2736 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
2738 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
2739 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
2740 by Miroslav Lichvar)
2741 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
2745 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
2746 that line-drawing works.
2747 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
2748 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
2749 capabilities can run.
2750 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
2754 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
2755 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
2756 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
2757 before older in the list.
2758 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
2759 + minor documentation cleanup.
2760 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2761 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2762 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
2765 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
2766 most common case of SGR 0.
2767 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
2768 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
2769 events remain, it will return ERR.
2772 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
2773 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
2774 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
2775 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
2776 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
2779 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
2780 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
2781 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
2784 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
2785 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
2786 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
2787 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
2788 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
2789 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
2792 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
2793 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
2794 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
2795 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
2796 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
2798 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
2800 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
2802 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
2803 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2804 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
2806 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2807 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2810 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
2811 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
2813 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
2814 writing terminfo entries.
2815 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
2816 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
2817 by Nicholas Marriott).
2820 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
2822 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
2823 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
2827 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
2828 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
2829 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
2830 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
2831 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
2835 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
2836 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
2837 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
2838 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2841 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
2842 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
2843 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
2844 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
2845 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2846 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
2847 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
2850 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
2851 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
2852 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
2853 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
2854 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
2855 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
2856 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
2857 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
2858 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
2859 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
2860 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
2863 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
2864 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
2865 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
2866 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
2869 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
2870 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
2873 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
2874 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
2875 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
2879 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
2880 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
2881 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
2882 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
2883 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
2885 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
2886 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
2889 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
2890 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
2891 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
2892 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
2893 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
2894 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
2896 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
2897 library (some work remains for forms library).
2900 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
2901 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
2902 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
2903 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
2905 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
2906 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
2907 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
2908 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
2911 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
2912 by sharing linedata.h functions):
2915 test/test_addchstr.c
2916 test/test_add_wchstr.c
2917 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
2918 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
2919 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
2922 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
2924 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
2925 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
2926 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
2927 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
2931 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
2932 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
2933 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
2934 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2937 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
2938 amd64 (Debian #542031).
2939 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
2942 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2945 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
2946 broken in 20090510 merging.
2947 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
2948 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
2949 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
2950 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
2951 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
2952 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
2953 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
2954 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
2956 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2959 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
2960 implementation details of hash function.
2963 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
2964 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
2965 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
2968 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
2969 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
2970 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
2971 test/demo_terminfo.c
2972 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2973 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
2976 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
2977 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
2981 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2984 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
2986 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
2987 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
2988 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
2989 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
2990 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
2992 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
2993 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
2994 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
2997 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
2998 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
2999 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
3002 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
3003 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
3005 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3008 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
3009 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
3011 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
3012 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
3016 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
3017 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
3018 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3021 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
3024 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3027 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
3028 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
3029 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
3030 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3033 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3036 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
3037 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
3038 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
3039 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
3043 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3046 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3047 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
3050 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3053 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
3057 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3060 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3061 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
3062 part of the form library.
3065 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
3066 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
3069 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
3070 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
3071 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
3072 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
3073 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
3074 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
3075 a temporary variable.
3076 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
3077 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
3078 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
3079 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
3080 with Charles Wilson).
3081 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
3082 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
3083 > patches by Charles Wilson:
3084 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
3085 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
3086 digits, after the final '.').
3087 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
3088 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
3089 using that in the libtool link-commands.
3090 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
3091 from 20090321 changes.
3092 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
3093 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
3094 termlib) is to be linked.
3095 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
3096 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
3099 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
3100 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
3101 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
3102 (report by Charles Wilson).
3103 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
3104 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
3105 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
3106 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
3107 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
3110 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
3111 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
3112 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
3113 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
3114 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
3116 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
3117 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
3118 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
3119 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
3120 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
3121 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
3122 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
3123 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
3126 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3127 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
3128 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
3131 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3134 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
3136 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
3137 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
3138 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
3139 some internals work is needed to complete these).
3140 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
3143 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
3144 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
3145 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
3146 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3147 + make it work with $DESTDIR
3148 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
3151 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
3152 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
3154 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
3155 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
3156 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
3159 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
3160 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
3161 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
3162 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
3163 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
3164 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
3165 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
3166 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
3167 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
3170 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
3171 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
3173 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
3175 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
3176 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
3179 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
3181 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
3182 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
3183 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
3184 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3187 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
3188 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
3189 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
3191 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
3192 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
3195 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
3196 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
3197 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
3198 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
3199 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
3200 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
3202 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
3203 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
3205 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3206 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3209 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
3210 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
3211 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
3214 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
3215 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
3216 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
3218 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
3219 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
3222 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
3224 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
3225 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
3226 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
3228 + fixes from NetBSD port at
3229 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
3230 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
3231 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
3232 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
3233 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
3235 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
3236 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
3239 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
3240 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
3241 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
3242 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
3243 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
3244 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
3245 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
3246 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
3247 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
3248 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
3249 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
3252 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
3253 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
3254 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
3255 passing color or video attributes.
3256 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
3257 display meta-characters.
3258 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
3259 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
3260 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
3261 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
3265 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
3266 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3267 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
3269 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
3272 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
3274 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
3275 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
3277 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3280 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
3281 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
3282 does not work well on that platform).
3283 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
3286 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
3287 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
3288 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
3290 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
3291 --disable-database is used.
3292 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
3293 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
3294 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
3295 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
3299 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
3300 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
3301 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
3302 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
3303 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
3304 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
3305 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
3309 + regenerated html documentation.
3310 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
3311 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
3312 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
3313 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
3314 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
3315 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
3316 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
3317 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
3320 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
3321 works for C/C++ parts).
3322 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
3323 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
3326 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
3327 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
3328 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
3329 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
3330 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
3331 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
3332 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
3333 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
3334 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
3336 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
3337 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3338 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
3339 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
3340 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
3341 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
3344 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
3345 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
3348 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
3349 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
3350 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
3351 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
3352 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
3353 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
3356 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
3357 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
3360 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
3364 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
3365 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
3366 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
3367 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
3369 + update test/configure script.
3370 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
3371 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
3372 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
3373 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
3374 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
3377 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
3378 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
3380 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
3382 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
3383 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
3384 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
3385 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
3386 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
3387 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
3388 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3389 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3390 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
3393 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
3394 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
3395 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
3396 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
3397 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
3398 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
3399 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
3400 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
3401 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
3402 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
3403 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
3407 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
3408 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
3409 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
3410 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
3411 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
3413 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
3414 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
3415 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
3416 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
3417 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
3420 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
3421 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
3422 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
3423 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
3424 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
3425 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
3426 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
3429 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
3433 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
3436 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
3439 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
3440 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
3442 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
3443 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
3444 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
3448 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
3449 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
3451 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
3452 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
3453 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
3454 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
3457 + regenerated html documentation.
3458 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
3459 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
3460 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
3461 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
3462 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
3465 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
3466 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
3467 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
3471 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
3472 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
3473 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
3474 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
3475 window which is being used in a wgetch().
3476 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
3479 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
3480 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
3482 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
3483 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
3484 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
3485 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
3486 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
3487 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
3488 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
3489 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
3490 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
3493 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
3494 screen which must be updated.
3495 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
3496 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
3497 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
3501 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
3502 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
3504 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
3505 Emanuele Giaquinta).
3506 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
3507 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3510 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
3511 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
3512 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
3514 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
3518 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
3519 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
3520 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
3523 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
3524 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
3525 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
3526 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
3529 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
3530 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
3532 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
3534 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
3537 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
3538 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
3539 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
3540 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
3541 python-dev2 mailing list).
3544 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
3545 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
3546 are not associated with a particular screen.
3547 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
3548 stdscr to the callback function.
3549 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
3550 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
3551 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3552 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
3553 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
3554 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3555 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
3559 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
3560 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
3561 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
3562 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
3564 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
3565 wide-characters with extended-colors.
3566 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
3567 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
3568 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
3571 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
3572 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
3573 that the 'F' accepts.
3574 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
3575 are working concurrently.
3576 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
3580 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
3581 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
3582 _nc_free_and_exit().
3585 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
3586 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
3589 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
3590 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
3593 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
3594 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
3595 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
3596 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
3599 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
3600 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
3601 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
3602 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
3603 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
3604 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
3606 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
3607 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
3611 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
3612 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
3613 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
3616 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
3617 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
3618 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
3621 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
3622 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
3623 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
3627 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
3628 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
3629 "link_test" builds properly.
3630 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
3631 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
3632 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
3633 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
3634 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
3635 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
3636 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
3638 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
3641 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
3645 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
3646 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
3649 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
3651 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
3652 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
3653 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
3656 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
3657 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
3658 pierre4d2 comments).
3659 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
3660 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
3661 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
3662 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
3666 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
3667 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
3668 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
3669 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
3670 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
3672 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
3673 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
3674 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
3678 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
3679 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
3682 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
3684 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
3686 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
3690 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
3691 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
3693 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
3694 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
3695 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
3696 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
3697 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
3699 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
3700 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
3703 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
3704 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
3705 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
3706 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3709 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
3710 calls within the ncurses library.
3711 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
3713 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
3714 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
3715 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
3717 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
3718 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
3719 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
3720 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
3721 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
3724 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
3725 for threaded library (incomplete).
3726 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
3727 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
3731 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
3732 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
3733 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
3734 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
3735 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
3736 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
3737 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
3738 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3739 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3742 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
3744 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
3745 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
3748 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
3749 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
3750 "\0" followed by a digit.
3751 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
3752 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
3753 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
3754 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
3755 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
3756 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
3757 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
3758 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
3759 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
3762 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
3763 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
3764 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
3765 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
3766 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
3768 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
3769 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
3770 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
3774 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
3775 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
3776 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
3777 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
3778 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
3779 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
3780 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
3781 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
3782 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
3785 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
3786 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
3787 + add test/test_getstr.c
3788 + add test/test_inwstr.c
3789 + add test/test_instr.c
3792 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
3793 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
3794 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
3798 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
3799 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
3800 ".log" to the name and try again.
3801 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
3802 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
3803 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
3804 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
3805 --disable-echo option is used.
3806 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
3807 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
3808 + update config.guess, config.sub
3811 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
3812 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
3813 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
3817 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
3818 problems with multi-column characters.
3819 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
3820 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
3821 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
3822 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
3823 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
3824 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
3825 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
3828 + add test/demo_panels.c
3829 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
3832 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
3834 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
3835 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
3838 + add test/key_name.c
3839 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
3840 + update test/configure
3841 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
3842 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
3843 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
3847 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
3848 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
3849 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
3850 illustrate how to use mvcur().
3851 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
3852 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
3853 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
3854 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
3855 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
3858 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
3859 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
3860 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
3861 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
3862 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
3863 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
3866 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
3867 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
3869 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
3870 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
3871 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
3872 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
3875 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
3876 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
3877 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
3878 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
3880 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
3882 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
3883 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
3884 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
3885 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
3886 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
3889 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
3890 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
3892 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
3893 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
3894 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
3895 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
3896 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
3897 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
3898 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
3899 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
3900 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
3901 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
3902 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
3905 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
3906 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
3907 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
3908 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
3909 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
3910 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
3911 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
3914 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
3915 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
3916 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
3917 Ada95 tree is not built.
3920 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
3921 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
3922 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
3923 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
3924 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
3925 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
3927 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
3928 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
3929 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
3930 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
3931 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
3932 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
3933 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
3934 > fixes based on Coverity report:
3935 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
3936 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
3937 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
3938 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
3939 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
3940 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
3941 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
3942 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
3943 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
3944 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
3945 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
3947 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
3948 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
3949 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
3950 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
3951 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
3952 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
3953 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
3954 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
3955 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
3958 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
3959 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
3960 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
3961 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
3962 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
3963 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
3964 + improved install-sh's quoting.
3965 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
3969 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
3970 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
3971 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
3972 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
3973 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
3977 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
3978 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
3979 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
3980 in the configure script to an error.
3981 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
3982 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
3983 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
3984 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
3985 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
3987 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
3988 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
3991 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
3992 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3995 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
3996 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
3998 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
3999 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
4000 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
4001 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
4002 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
4003 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
4004 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
4005 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
4008 + regenerated html documentation.
4009 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
4010 opaque in selected configurations.
4011 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
4012 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
4013 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
4014 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
4015 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
4016 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
4017 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
4018 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
4019 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
4020 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
4021 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
4023 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
4024 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
4027 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
4028 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
4029 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
4030 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
4031 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
4032 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
4033 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
4034 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
4035 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
4036 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
4037 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
4038 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
4041 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
4043 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
4044 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
4045 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
4047 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
4048 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
4049 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
4050 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
4051 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
4052 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
4053 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
4054 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
4056 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
4057 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
4060 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
4061 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
4063 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
4065 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
4066 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
4067 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
4070 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
4071 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
4072 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
4073 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
4075 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
4076 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
4077 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
4078 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
4079 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
4080 no longer relies on it.
4081 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
4082 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
4083 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
4086 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
4087 (report by Rong-En Fan).
4090 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
4091 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
4092 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
4093 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
4094 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
4095 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
4096 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
4097 its license consistent with ncurses.
4098 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
4099 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
4100 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
4103 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
4104 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
4105 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
4106 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
4110 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
4111 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
4112 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
4114 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
4115 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
4118 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
4119 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
4120 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
4123 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
4124 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
4125 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
4126 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
4127 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
4128 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
4129 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
4130 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
4131 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
4132 to manpages as needed.
4133 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
4134 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
4137 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
4138 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
4139 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
4140 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
4141 + update config.guess, config.sub
4143 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4146 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
4147 definitions in <wchar.h>.
4148 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
4149 correct nor portable.
4150 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
4152 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
4153 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
4157 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
4158 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
4159 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
4160 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
4161 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
4162 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
4165 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
4166 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
4167 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
4168 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
4170 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
4171 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
4172 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
4173 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
4174 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
4175 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
4176 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
4177 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
4180 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
4181 database configuration.
4182 + updates for test/configure script.
4183 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
4184 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
4186 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
4187 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
4188 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
4189 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
4191 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
4192 _nc_printf_string().
4193 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
4194 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
4197 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
4198 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
4200 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
4201 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
4205 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
4206 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
4209 + add test/echochar.c
4210 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
4211 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
4214 + add AUTHORS file -TD
4215 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
4216 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
4217 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
4220 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
4221 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
4222 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
4224 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
4225 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
4226 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
4227 for rpath support in versions past 3.
4228 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
4229 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
4230 Ralf S Engelschall).
4231 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
4232 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
4233 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
4234 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
4237 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
4238 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
4239 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
4242 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
4243 and status line (Alain Bench).
4244 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
4245 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
4246 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
4247 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
4250 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
4251 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
4252 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
4253 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
4254 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
4257 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
4258 + updated html documentation.
4259 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
4260 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
4263 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
4264 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
4265 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
4266 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
4267 option (from lynx changes) -TD
4268 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
4269 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
4270 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
4271 by report by Christopher Parker).
4275 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
4276 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
4277 since it does not really do this -TD
4280 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
4281 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
4282 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
4283 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
4286 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
4287 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
4288 embedded into a termcap description.
4289 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
4290 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
4291 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
4292 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
4293 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
4296 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
4298 + add test/foldkeys.c
4301 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
4302 source output (Debian #378783).
4303 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
4304 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
4305 variable is also used (Redhat #199369).
4306 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
4307 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
4308 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
4311 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
4312 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
4313 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
4316 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
4317 or as a text file if those are not available.
4318 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
4319 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
4320 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
4323 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
4324 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
4325 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
4326 + update config.guess, config.sub
4329 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
4330 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
4331 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
4333 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
4334 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
4336 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
4337 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
4338 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
4339 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
4340 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
4341 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
4343 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
4344 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
4345 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
4346 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
4349 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
4350 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
4354 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
4355 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
4357 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
4358 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
4359 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
4360 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
4361 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
4362 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
4365 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
4366 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
4367 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
4368 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
4369 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
4370 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
4371 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
4372 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
4373 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
4374 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
4377 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
4378 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
4379 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
4380 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
4382 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
4385 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
4386 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
4387 + minor copyright fixes.
4388 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
4391 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
4392 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
4393 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
4394 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
4395 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
4396 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
4397 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
4398 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
4400 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
4401 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
4402 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
4403 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
4405 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
4408 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
4409 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
4411 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
4412 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
4413 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
4414 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
4416 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
4417 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
4418 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
4419 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
4422 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
4423 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
4424 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
4425 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
4426 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
4427 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
4428 + update config.guess, config.sub
4429 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
4430 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
4431 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
4432 function is broken in that implementation.
4435 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
4436 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
4439 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
4440 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
4442 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
4443 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
4445 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
4446 reported to implement this feature -TD
4449 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
4450 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
4453 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
4454 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
4455 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
4456 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
4457 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
4458 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
4459 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
4460 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
4463 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
4464 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
4466 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
4467 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
4470 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
4471 (report by Alain Bench).
4472 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
4473 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
4474 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
4475 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
4477 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
4478 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
4479 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
4483 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
4484 and/or video attributes.
4485 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
4486 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
4489 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
4492 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
4493 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
4494 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
4495 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
4496 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
4497 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
4498 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
4499 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
4500 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
4503 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
4504 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
4505 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
4508 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
4509 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
4510 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
4511 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
4512 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
4513 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
4514 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
4515 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
4516 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
4517 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
4520 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
4521 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
4522 rather than delayed.
4523 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
4525 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
4526 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
4527 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
4530 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
4532 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
4533 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
4536 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
4537 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
4540 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
4541 + suppress line-drawing
4542 + implement max_attributes
4544 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
4545 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
4549 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
4550 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
4552 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
4554 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
4555 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
4556 etc., when allocating screens.
4559 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
4560 this in test/filter.c
4561 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
4565 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
4566 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
4567 + add extension nofilter().
4568 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
4569 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
4570 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
4571 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
4572 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
4575 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
4576 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
4577 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
4578 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
4579 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
4580 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
4581 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
4582 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
4583 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
4585 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
4586 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
4587 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
4589 + update config.guess and config.sub
4592 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
4593 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
4594 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
4596 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
4597 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
4598 that was never built in that directory).
4599 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
4602 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
4604 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
4605 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
4609 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
4610 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
4611 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
4612 effect of the different functions.
4613 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
4617 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
4618 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
4620 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
4624 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
4625 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
4626 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
4628 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
4629 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
4633 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
4634 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
4635 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
4637 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
4638 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
4639 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
4642 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
4643 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
4644 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
4647 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
4648 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
4649 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
4651 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
4652 a derived window (Debian #316663).
4655 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
4656 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
4657 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
4658 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
4659 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
4660 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
4661 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
4664 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
4665 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
4666 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
4668 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
4669 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
4670 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
4671 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
4672 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
4674 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4677 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
4680 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
4681 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
4685 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
4686 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
4687 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
4688 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
4689 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
4691 + update config.guess and config.sub from
4692 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
4695 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
4696 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
4697 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
4698 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
4699 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
4700 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
4701 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
4702 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
4703 default if it is used.
4704 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
4705 --with-abi-version option was used.
4706 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
4707 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
4708 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
4711 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
4712 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
4713 handlers (Debian #326709).
4716 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
4717 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
4719 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
4722 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
4723 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
4724 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
4725 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
4727 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
4728 (report by Frank van Vugt).
4731 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
4732 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
4733 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
4734 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
4735 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
4736 + update llib-l* files.
4739 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
4740 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
4741 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
4742 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
4746 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
4747 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
4748 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
4749 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
4750 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
4751 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
4752 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
4753 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
4754 Konstantin Andreev).
4757 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
4758 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
4759 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
4760 several related cases -TD
4761 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
4762 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
4764 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
4765 resets line-drawing.
4768 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
4770 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
4771 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
4772 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
4773 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
4774 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
4775 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
4778 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
4779 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
4780 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
4782 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
4783 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
4786 + update config.guess and config.sub from
4787 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
4788 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
4789 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
4790 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
4791 "make install.data" step.
4792 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
4793 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
4794 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
4795 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
4796 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
4797 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
4798 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
4799 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
4800 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
4801 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
4802 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
4803 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
4804 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
4805 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
4808 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
4811 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
4812 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
4813 review of Debian package).
4814 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
4815 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
4816 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
4817 install using libtool 1.5.0):
4818 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
4820 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
4821 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
4822 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
4823 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
4824 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
4827 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
4828 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
4829 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
4832 + fixes for termcap support:
4833 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
4834 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
4835 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
4836 extended names data will be freed consistently.
4837 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
4839 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
4840 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
4841 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
4842 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
4845 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
4846 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
4847 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
4848 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
4850 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
4854 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
4856 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
4857 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
4860 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
4861 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
4862 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
4863 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
4864 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
4865 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
4866 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
4870 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
4871 shift-, control-cursor keys.
4872 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
4873 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
4874 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
4875 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
4876 it will automatically be treated as a key.
4877 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
4878 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
4879 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
4883 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
4884 + add configure option --enable-largefile
4885 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
4889 + update config.guess, config.sub
4890 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
4891 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
4892 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
4893 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
4894 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
4896 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
4897 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
4898 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
4901 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
4902 position the mouse to a particular item.
4903 + implement test/demo_menus.c
4904 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
4905 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
4906 --enable-const option.
4909 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
4910 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
4911 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
4912 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
4913 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
4914 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
4915 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
4916 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
4917 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
4918 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
4919 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
4922 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
4924 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
4925 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
4928 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
4929 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
4930 anyone used that configuration.
4931 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
4933 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
4934 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
4937 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
4938 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
4939 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
4941 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
4942 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
4943 WenRui, Debian #300512).
4946 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
4947 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
4948 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
4952 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
4953 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
4954 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
4955 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
4956 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
4959 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
4961 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
4963 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
4964 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
4965 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
4968 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
4970 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
4971 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
4972 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
4973 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
4974 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
4975 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
4976 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
4977 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
4978 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
4979 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
4980 right (cf: 20040228).
4981 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
4982 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
4985 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
4986 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
4987 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
4988 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
4989 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
4990 added (Debian #295083).
4991 + add traces to panel library.
4994 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
4995 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
4996 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
4997 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
4998 mouse events in this case.
4999 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
5000 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
5003 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
5004 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
5005 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
5006 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
5007 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
5008 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
5009 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
5010 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
5013 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
5014 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
5015 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
5016 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
5017 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
5018 already been started.
5019 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
5020 pair_content() and color_content().
5021 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
5022 if it corresponds to the default-color.
5023 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
5024 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
5025 color pairs which are allowed.
5026 + add a top-level tags rule.
5029 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
5030 first calling initscr().
5031 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
5032 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
5033 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
5034 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
5035 that are curses-specific.
5036 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
5037 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
5038 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
5039 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
5043 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
5044 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
5045 for leading whitespace.
5046 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
5047 where a following line begins in column 1.
5048 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
5049 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
5052 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
5055 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
5056 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
5057 + update config.guess, config.sub
5058 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
5059 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
5060 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
5061 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
5062 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
5063 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
5064 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
5067 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
5069 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
5070 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
5073 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
5074 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
5075 and attr_set functions.
5078 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
5079 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
5080 forms-demo to be one character short.
5081 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
5082 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
5083 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
5084 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
5087 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
5088 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
5089 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
5090 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
5092 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
5093 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
5096 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
5097 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
5098 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
5099 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
5100 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat #140326).
5101 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
5102 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
5104 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
5105 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
5107 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
5108 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
5111 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
5112 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
5113 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
5114 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
5115 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
5116 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
5117 wide-character configuration.
5120 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
5121 or multicolumn characters.
5124 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
5125 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
5126 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
5127 use_default_colors() be called first.
5130 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
5131 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
5132 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
5133 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
5134 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
5135 must be wrapped to a new line.
5136 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
5137 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
5138 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
5139 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
5140 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
5144 + minor fixes for traces.
5145 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
5146 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
5147 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
5151 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
5152 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
5153 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
5154 and shift-out which seem to work.
5155 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
5156 at runtime (Debian #110586).
5159 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
5160 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
5161 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
5162 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
5166 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
5167 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
5168 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
5169 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
5172 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
5173 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
5174 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
5175 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
5176 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
5177 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
5178 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
5179 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
5180 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
5181 is no longer experimental.
5182 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
5183 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
5186 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
5189 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
5190 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
5191 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
5192 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
5193 using "tic -C" (Redhat #130921).
5194 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
5195 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
5196 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
5199 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
5200 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
5201 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
5202 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
5203 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
5204 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637).
5205 The xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and
5206 the new ones do not require this change. -TD
5209 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
5210 and window managers (Debian #265631).
5211 > terminfo updates -TD
5212 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
5213 with the common usage of bce/ech
5214 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
5218 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
5219 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
5220 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
5221 a help window as well.
5222 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
5223 the -d option is set.
5224 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
5227 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
5229 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
5230 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
5234 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
5235 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
5236 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
5237 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat #122815, patch by
5239 > terminfo updates -TD
5240 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
5241 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
5242 + add function-keys to decansi
5243 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
5244 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
5245 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
5248 > terminfo updates -TD
5249 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
5250 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
5252 + review/update konsole entries
5253 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
5254 + correct tsl string in kterm
5257 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
5260 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
5261 multibyte character.
5262 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
5264 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
5265 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
5266 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
5267 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
5268 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
5269 converting termcap to termcap format.
5270 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
5271 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
5272 > terminfo updates -TD
5273 + minor fixes for emu
5275 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
5280 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
5281 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
5282 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
5283 (report/patch by Tony Li).
5284 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
5285 > terminfo updates -TD
5286 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
5288 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
5289 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
5290 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
5293 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
5294 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
5296 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
5297 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
5298 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
5299 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
5300 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
5301 + update config.guess, config.sub
5302 > terminfo updates -TD
5304 + add xterm-xf86-v44
5305 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
5306 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
5311 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
5312 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
5313 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
5316 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
5317 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
5318 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
5320 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
5324 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
5325 field_buffer() results.
5326 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
5329 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
5331 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
5332 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
5333 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
5334 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
5335 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
5338 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
5339 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
5340 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
5344 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
5345 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
5347 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
5350 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
5351 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
5352 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
5353 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
5354 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
5355 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
5356 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
5357 information without an option.
5358 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
5359 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
5362 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
5365 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
5366 + free some memory leaks in tic.
5367 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
5368 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
5369 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
5370 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
5371 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
5373 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
5376 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
5377 to an unsigned char.
5378 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
5379 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
5382 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
5385 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
5386 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
5387 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
5388 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
5389 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
5390 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
5391 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
5392 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
5393 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
5394 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
5395 20030802 (Debian #237629).
5398 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
5399 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
5400 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
5401 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
5404 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
5406 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
5407 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
5410 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
5411 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
5412 mode is shown in that test.
5413 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
5414 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
5415 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
5418 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
5420 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
5421 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
5422 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
5423 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
5425 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
5426 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
5427 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
5428 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
5431 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
5432 (request by Mike Aubury).
5433 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
5435 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
5437 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
5440 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
5441 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
5442 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
5443 with Stanislav Ievlev).
5444 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
5445 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
5446 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
5447 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
5448 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
5449 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
5451 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5454 20040207 pre-release
5455 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
5456 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
5457 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
5458 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
5459 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
5461 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
5462 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
5463 verified by Scott Corscadden).
5465 20040131 pre-release
5466 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
5467 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
5468 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
5469 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
5470 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
5471 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
5472 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
5473 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
5474 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
5475 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
5476 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
5478 20040125 pre-release
5479 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
5480 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
5481 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
5482 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
5483 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
5484 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
5485 modifying the displayed value.
5487 20040124 pre-release
5488 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
5489 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
5490 that works better for cross-compiling.
5492 20040117 pre-release
5493 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
5494 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
5495 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
5496 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
5497 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
5498 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
5499 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
5501 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
5502 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
5504 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
5505 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
5506 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
5507 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
5508 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
5509 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
5510 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
5511 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
5512 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
5513 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
5514 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
5515 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
5517 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
5518 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
5519 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
5520 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
5521 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
5522 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
5523 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
5524 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
5526 20040110 pre-release
5527 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
5528 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
5530 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
5531 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
5533 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
5535 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
5536 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
5537 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
5538 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
5539 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
5542 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
5543 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
5544 + add pecho_wchar().
5545 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
5546 available) on older platforms.
5549 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
5550 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
5551 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
5552 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
5553 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
5554 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
5555 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
5556 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
5557 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
5560 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
5561 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
5562 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
5563 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
5564 work with Tru64 4.0d.
5565 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
5569 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
5570 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
5571 applications do not.
5572 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
5573 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
5574 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
5575 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
5576 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
5577 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
5581 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
5582 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
5583 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
5584 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
5585 <inger@altlinux.org>).
5586 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
5587 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
5588 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
5589 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
5590 awkward for some cases.
5591 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
5592 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
5594 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
5595 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
5596 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
5597 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
5598 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
5602 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
5603 values (Philippe Blain).
5604 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
5605 restarting (Philippe Blain).
5606 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
5610 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
5611 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
5612 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
5613 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
5614 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
5615 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
5619 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
5620 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
5621 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
5623 + update config.guess, config.sub
5626 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
5627 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
5628 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
5629 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
5630 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
5631 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
5632 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
5634 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
5635 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
5636 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
5637 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
5638 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
5641 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
5642 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
5643 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
5644 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
5645 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
5646 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
5647 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
5648 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
5650 + regenerated html documentation.
5651 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
5652 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
5653 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
5656 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
5657 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
5658 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
5659 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
5660 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
5661 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
5662 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
5663 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
5667 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
5668 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
5671 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
5672 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
5673 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
5674 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
5676 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
5677 (report by Philippe Blain).
5680 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
5681 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
5682 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
5683 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
5684 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
5685 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
5686 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5687 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
5688 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
5690 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
5692 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
5693 in the clr_bol logic.
5696 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5697 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
5698 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
5699 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
5700 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
5701 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
5702 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
5703 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
5704 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
5705 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
5706 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
5707 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
5710 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
5711 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
5712 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
5713 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
5716 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
5717 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
5718 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
5719 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
5720 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
5721 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
5722 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
5723 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
5724 --with-install-prefix is used.
5727 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5728 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
5729 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
5730 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
5733 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
5734 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
5735 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
5736 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
5737 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
5738 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
5739 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5740 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
5741 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
5744 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
5745 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
5746 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
5747 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
5748 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
5749 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
5750 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
5753 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
5755 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5756 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
5757 the size of the scroll-region.
5758 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
5761 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
5762 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
5763 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
5767 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
5768 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
5769 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
5770 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
5771 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
5773 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
5774 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
5775 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
5776 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
5777 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
5778 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
5779 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
5780 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
5781 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
5782 usage and to prevent circular links.
5783 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
5784 (rxvt-color): new alias
5785 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
5786 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
5787 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
5788 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
5789 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
5790 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
5792 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
5796 + update config.guess, config.sub
5797 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
5798 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
5801 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
5802 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
5803 would not accept gcc warning options.
5804 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
5805 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
5806 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
5807 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
5808 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
5809 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
5810 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
5812 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
5815 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
5816 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
5817 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
5818 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
5819 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
5820 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
5821 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
5822 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
5825 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
5827 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
5828 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
5829 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
5830 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
5833 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
5835 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
5836 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
5837 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
5838 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
5839 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
5840 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
5843 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
5844 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
5845 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
5846 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
5847 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
5848 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
5849 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
5850 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
5852 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
5853 Albert Chin-A-Young).
5854 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
5855 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5858 + regenerated html manpages.
5859 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
5860 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
5862 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
5863 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
5865 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
5866 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
5869 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
5870 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
5871 + add tkterm entry -TD
5872 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
5873 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
5874 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
5875 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
5877 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
5878 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
5879 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
5881 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
5882 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
5883 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
5886 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
5887 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
5888 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
5889 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
5891 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
5892 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
5893 current test programs.
5894 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
5895 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
5896 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
5897 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
5899 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
5900 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
5901 mentioned in the terminfo.
5902 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
5903 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
5906 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
5907 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
5908 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
5909 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
5910 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
5911 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
5912 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
5913 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
5916 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
5917 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
5918 the editing position before making modifications.
5919 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
5920 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
5921 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
5924 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
5925 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
5926 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
5927 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
5929 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
5930 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
5931 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
5932 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
5933 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
5934 terminfo as is done in "screen".
5937 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
5938 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
5939 code, from recent rewrite.
5940 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
5942 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
5943 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
5946 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
5947 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
5948 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
5949 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
5952 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
5953 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
5955 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
5958 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
5960 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
5961 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
5963 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
5964 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
5965 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
5968 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
5969 a file when ^W is given.
5970 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
5974 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
5975 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
5976 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
5977 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
5978 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
5979 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
5980 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
5981 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
5985 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
5986 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
5987 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
5990 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
5991 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
5992 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
5993 baudrate was not known.
5994 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
5995 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
5996 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
5997 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
5998 corresponding capability might be
6000 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
6001 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
6002 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
6003 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
6006 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
6007 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
6008 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
6009 apparently typedef'd.
6010 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
6011 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
6014 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
6015 + updated configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
6016 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
6017 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
6018 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
6019 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
6020 cached for reallocating.
6023 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
6024 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
6025 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
6027 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
6028 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
6029 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
6030 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
6031 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
6032 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
6033 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
6034 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
6037 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
6038 emx-base to the latter -TD
6039 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
6040 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
6043 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
6044 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
6045 attributes, e.g., reverse.
6046 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
6047 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
6050 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
6051 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
6052 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
6053 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
6054 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
6055 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
6056 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
6058 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
6059 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
6060 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
6061 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
6062 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
6065 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
6066 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
6067 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
6068 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
6069 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
6070 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
6072 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6073 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
6074 is indeed a "blank".
6075 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
6076 sections as small as one line.
6077 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
6079 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
6080 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
6081 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
6084 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
6085 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
6088 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
6089 (report by Philippe Blain).
6090 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
6091 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
6092 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
6093 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
6094 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
6096 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
6097 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
6098 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
6099 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6100 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
6101 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
6104 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
6105 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
6107 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
6108 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
6110 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
6111 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
6112 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
6113 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
6116 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
6117 overridden from the environment.
6118 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
6119 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
6120 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
6121 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
6122 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
6123 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
6124 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
6125 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
6126 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
6127 by Sam Varshavchik).
6128 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
6129 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
6130 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
6131 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
6133 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
6134 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
6135 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
6136 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
6137 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
6140 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
6141 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
6142 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
6143 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
6144 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
6145 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
6146 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
6147 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
6148 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
6149 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
6150 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
6151 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
6152 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
6153 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
6154 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
6155 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
6156 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
6157 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
6158 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
6159 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
6160 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
6161 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
6162 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
6165 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
6166 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
6167 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
6168 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
6169 winsch() internal function.
6170 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
6171 more than one spacing character.
6174 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
6175 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
6176 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
6177 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
6178 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
6179 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
6180 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
6181 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
6182 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
6183 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
6186 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
6187 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
6188 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
6189 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
6190 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
6191 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
6192 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
6195 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
6196 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
6197 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
6198 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
6200 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
6201 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
6202 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
6203 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
6204 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
6207 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
6208 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
6209 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
6210 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
6211 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
6212 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
6213 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
6214 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
6215 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
6216 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
6217 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
6218 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
6219 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
6220 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
6221 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
6222 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
6223 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
6226 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
6227 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
6228 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
6229 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
6230 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
6231 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
6232 Frederic L W Meunier).
6234 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
6235 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
6236 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
6237 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
6238 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
6239 the debug trace in that case.
6240 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
6241 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
6242 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
6243 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
6245 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
6246 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
6248 20021005 pre-release
6249 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
6250 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
6251 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
6252 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
6253 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
6254 formats such as "%.*s".
6255 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
6256 (report Floyd Davidson).
6257 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
6259 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
6260 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
6261 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
6263 20020928 pre-release
6264 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
6265 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
6266 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
6268 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
6269 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
6270 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
6271 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
6272 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
6273 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
6274 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
6275 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
6276 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
6277 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
6278 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
6279 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
6280 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
6281 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
6282 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
6283 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
6284 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
6285 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
6286 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
6288 20020921 pre-release
6289 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
6290 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
6291 result in core dump.
6292 + documented getbegx(), etc.
6293 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
6294 delimiter rather than '@'.
6295 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6296 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
6297 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
6298 to the lines given for the destination window.
6300 20020914 pre-release
6301 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
6302 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
6303 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
6304 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
6305 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
6306 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
6307 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
6308 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
6309 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6310 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
6311 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
6312 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
6314 20020907 pre-release
6315 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
6316 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
6317 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
6318 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
6319 html manpages on Debian.
6320 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
6321 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
6322 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
6323 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6324 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
6325 a variable from the stack.
6326 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
6328 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
6329 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
6330 _idcok window fields.
6331 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
6333 20020901 pre-release
6334 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
6335 + update config.guess, config.sub
6336 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
6337 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
6339 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
6340 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
6341 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
6342 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
6343 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
6344 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
6345 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
6346 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
6347 use in resizeterm().
6348 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
6349 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
6350 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
6351 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
6352 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6353 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
6354 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
6355 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
6356 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
6357 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
6358 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
6362 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
6363 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
6364 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
6365 + fix an overlooked case for Redhat #68199 (Philippe Blain).
6366 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
6367 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
6370 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
6371 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
6372 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
6374 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
6375 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
6376 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
6377 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
6378 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
6380 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
6381 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
6385 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
6386 when translating to termcap.
6387 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
6388 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
6389 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
6391 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
6393 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
6394 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
6396 + document TABSIZE variable.
6397 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
6398 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
6399 assume_default_colors().
6400 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
6402 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
6403 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
6404 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
6405 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
6406 window (completes Debian #87678, Debian #101699)
6409 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
6411 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
6412 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
6414 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
6415 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
6416 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
6419 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
6421 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
6424 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
6425 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
6426 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
6427 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
6428 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
6429 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
6430 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
6431 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
6432 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
6433 configure definitions.
6434 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
6435 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
6436 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
6437 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
6438 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
6439 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
6440 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
6441 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
6442 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
6443 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
6444 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
6447 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
6448 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
6449 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
6450 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
6451 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
6452 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
6453 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
6455 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
6456 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
6457 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
6458 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6461 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
6462 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
6463 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
6464 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
6466 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
6467 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
6468 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
6471 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
6472 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
6474 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
6475 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
6476 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
6478 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
6479 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
6480 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
6481 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
6483 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
6484 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
6485 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
6486 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
6490 + add charset to generated html.
6491 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
6492 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
6493 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
6494 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
6495 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
6496 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
6500 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
6501 key code in get_wch().
6502 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
6503 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
6504 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
6505 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
6506 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
6507 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
6510 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
6511 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
6513 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
6514 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
6515 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
6516 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
6519 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
6520 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
6521 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
6522 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
6523 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
6524 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
6525 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
6526 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
6527 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
6528 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
6531 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
6535 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
6536 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
6537 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
6538 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
6539 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
6540 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
6541 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
6544 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
6545 character versions as well.
6546 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
6548 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
6550 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
6551 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
6552 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
6553 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
6554 if gettimeofday() is available.
6557 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
6558 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
6561 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
6563 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
6564 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
6565 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
6566 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
6567 + update config.guess, config.sub
6570 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
6571 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
6572 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
6573 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
6574 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
6575 alias for 'function'.
6578 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
6579 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
6583 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
6584 + implement wgetn_wstr().
6585 + implement win_wchnstr().
6586 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
6587 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
6590 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
6591 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
6594 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
6595 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
6598 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
6599 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
6600 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
6602 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
6603 + implement unget_wch().
6604 + implement wget_wch().
6607 + regenerated html manpages.
6608 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
6609 + implement wins_wch().
6610 + implement win_wch().
6611 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
6614 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
6615 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
6618 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
6619 + document wunctrl, key_name.
6620 + implement key_name().
6621 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
6623 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
6627 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
6628 in spurious symlinks on install.
6631 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
6632 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
6633 box() and box_set() functions.
6634 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
6635 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
6636 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
6637 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
6638 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
6639 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
6640 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
6642 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
6644 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
6645 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
6646 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
6647 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
6649 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
6650 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
6653 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
6654 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
6656 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
6660 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
6662 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
6663 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
6664 Albert Chin-A-Young).
6665 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
6666 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
6667 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6668 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
6669 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
6670 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
6671 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
6672 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
6673 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
6674 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
6675 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
6676 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
6679 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
6680 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
6683 + update config.guess, config.sub
6684 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
6685 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
6688 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
6689 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
6690 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
6692 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
6693 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
6695 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
6696 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
6697 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
6698 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
6701 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
6704 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
6705 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
6706 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
6707 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
6708 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
6709 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
6710 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
6711 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
6712 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
6714 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
6715 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
6716 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
6718 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
6720 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
6721 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
6722 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
6723 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
6724 work with SunOS nawk.
6725 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
6727 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
6728 case it uses multiple tokens.
6731 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
6732 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
6733 interrupted by that signal.
6734 + updated configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
6735 not needed with autoconf 2.52
6736 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
6737 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
6739 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
6740 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
6741 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
6742 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
6743 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
6746 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
6748 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
6749 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
6750 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
6751 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
6752 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
6753 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
6754 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
6755 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
6758 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
6759 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
6760 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
6761 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
6762 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
6763 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
6764 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
6765 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
6766 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
6769 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
6770 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
6771 may have different keypad() settings.
6772 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
6773 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
6774 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
6775 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
6776 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
6777 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
6778 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
6779 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
6781 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
6782 + update config.guess, config.sub from
6783 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
6784 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
6788 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
6790 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
6791 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
6792 implementation in cygwin package).
6793 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
6794 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
6796 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
6797 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
6798 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
6799 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
6800 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
6801 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
6802 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
6803 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
6804 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
6806 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
6807 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
6808 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
6809 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
6810 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
6811 <jevans@apple.com>).
6812 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
6813 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
6814 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
6815 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
6816 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
6820 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
6821 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
6822 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
6823 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
6824 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
6825 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
6826 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
6827 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
6828 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
6829 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
6832 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
6835 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
6836 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
6837 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
6838 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
6839 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
6842 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
6843 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
6846 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
6847 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
6848 + implement wecho_wchar()
6849 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
6850 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
6851 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
6853 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
6854 in a trace by using curly braces.
6855 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
6856 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
6857 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
6858 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
6861 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
6862 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
6863 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
6864 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
6865 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
6869 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
6870 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
6871 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
6872 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
6873 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
6874 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
6875 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
6876 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
6880 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
6881 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
6882 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
6883 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
6884 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
6885 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
6886 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
6887 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
6888 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
6891 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
6892 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
6895 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
6896 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
6897 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
6898 <bbraun@synack.net>).
6899 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
6900 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
6902 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
6903 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
6905 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
6906 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
6909 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
6910 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
6911 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
6912 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
6913 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
6915 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
6916 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
6918 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
6919 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
6920 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
6921 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
6922 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
6925 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
6926 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
6928 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
6929 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
6930 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
6931 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
6934 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
6935 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
6936 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
6937 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
6938 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
6942 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
6943 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
6944 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
6946 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
6948 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
6950 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
6952 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
6953 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
6954 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
6955 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
6956 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
6957 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
6958 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
6959 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
6960 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
6964 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
6965 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
6966 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
6967 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
6968 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
6969 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
6970 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
6971 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
6972 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
6973 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
6975 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
6976 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
6977 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6978 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
6979 supports xterm mouse controls.
6980 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
6981 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
6982 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
6983 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
6984 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
6985 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
6986 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
6987 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
6988 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
6989 AX in a color xterm.
6990 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
6994 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
6995 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
6996 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
6997 + added llib-ncursesw.
7000 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
7001 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
7002 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
7003 header files (report by William P Setzer).
7004 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
7005 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
7006 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
7007 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7008 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
7009 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
7010 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
7011 Albert Chin-A-Young).
7012 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
7013 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7014 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
7015 obsolete with QNX RTP.
7016 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
7017 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
7018 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
7019 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
7022 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
7023 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
7024 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
7027 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
7028 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
7029 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
7030 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
7031 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
7032 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
7033 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
7034 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
7035 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
7036 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
7037 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
7038 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
7042 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
7043 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
7044 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
7045 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
7046 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
7047 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
7048 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7051 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
7052 new wide-character structures.
7053 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
7054 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
7055 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
7056 compiling for wide-character configuration.
7057 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
7061 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
7063 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
7064 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
7065 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
7067 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
7068 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
7069 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
7072 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
7073 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
7074 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
7077 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
7078 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
7079 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
7080 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
7081 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
7082 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
7083 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
7086 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
7087 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
7088 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
7089 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
7090 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
7091 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
7092 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
7093 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
7094 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
7097 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
7098 which may be in libutf8.
7099 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
7100 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
7101 links (Debian #99550).
7102 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
7103 C++ vscan code (Debian #97945).
7104 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
7105 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
7106 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
7107 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
7108 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
7109 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
7112 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
7113 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
7116 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
7117 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
7118 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
7119 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
7120 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
7122 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
7123 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
7124 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
7125 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
7126 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
7127 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
7128 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
7129 are used to manipulate attributes.
7130 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
7131 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
7132 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
7133 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
7134 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
7135 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
7137 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
7138 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
7139 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
7140 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
7141 we are using chtype data.
7142 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
7144 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
7146 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
7147 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
7148 where a pointer would be more useful.
7149 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
7150 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
7151 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
7152 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
7153 passing cchar_t's by address.
7154 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
7155 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
7156 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
7157 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
7158 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
7159 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
7160 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
7161 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
7164 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
7165 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
7166 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
7167 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
7168 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
7170 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
7171 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
7172 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
7175 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
7176 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
7177 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
7178 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
7179 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
7180 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
7181 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
7182 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
7183 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
7184 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
7185 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
7186 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
7189 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
7190 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
7191 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
7194 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
7195 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
7198 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
7199 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
7200 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
7201 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
7202 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
7205 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
7206 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
7207 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
7208 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
7209 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
7210 <bsittler@iname.com>).
7211 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
7212 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
7213 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
7214 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
7215 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
7218 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
7219 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
7220 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
7221 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
7222 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
7223 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
7224 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
7225 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
7226 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
7227 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
7228 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
7229 any shots there, but the computer did.
7230 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
7231 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
7235 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
7236 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
7237 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
7238 3.09.08 (Debian #92215).
7239 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
7240 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7243 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
7244 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
7245 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
7246 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
7247 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
7249 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
7251 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
7252 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
7254 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
7256 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
7257 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian #89222).
7260 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
7261 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
7262 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
7263 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
7264 interface from C++ binding.
7265 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
7266 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
7267 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
7268 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
7270 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
7271 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
7272 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
7273 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
7276 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
7277 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
7278 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
7279 (patch by Todd C Miller).
7282 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
7285 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
7289 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
7290 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
7291 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
7292 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
7293 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
7294 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
7295 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
7296 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
7297 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
7298 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
7299 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
7300 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
7303 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
7304 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
7306 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
7307 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
7308 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
7309 did not do this already.
7310 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
7311 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7312 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
7313 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
7314 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
7315 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
7316 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
7317 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
7320 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
7321 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
7324 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
7325 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
7326 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
7327 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
7329 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
7331 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
7332 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
7334 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
7335 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
7336 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
7337 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
7338 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
7341 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
7342 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
7343 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
7344 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
7347 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
7348 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
7349 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
7352 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
7353 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
7354 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
7355 work with 'indent') -TD
7358 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
7359 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
7360 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7361 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
7362 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
7364 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
7365 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
7366 termcap and terminfo functions
7367 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
7371 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
7372 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
7373 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
7374 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
7375 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
7376 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
7378 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
7379 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
7380 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
7381 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
7382 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
7383 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
7384 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
7385 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
7388 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
7389 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
7390 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
7391 /usr rather than /usr/local.
7394 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
7395 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
7396 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
7397 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
7399 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
7400 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
7401 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
7402 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
7403 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
7404 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
7405 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
7406 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
7409 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
7410 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
7411 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
7412 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
7413 + change trace output to binary format.
7414 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
7415 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
7416 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
7417 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
7418 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
7419 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
7420 the overwrite logic.
7423 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
7424 + resync config.guess, config.sub
7425 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
7426 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
7427 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
7428 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
7430 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
7431 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
7434 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7435 + update generated html files from manpages.
7436 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
7438 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
7439 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
7440 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
7441 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
7442 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7443 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
7444 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
7445 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
7448 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
7449 wrapping at the right margin.
7450 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
7451 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
7452 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
7454 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
7455 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
7456 understands how to run tbl automatically.
7457 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
7458 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
7459 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
7460 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
7461 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
7462 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
7463 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
7464 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
7465 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
7466 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
7467 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
7468 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
7469 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
7470 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
7471 option --with-libtool.
7472 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
7473 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
7474 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
7475 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
7476 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
7479 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
7480 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
7481 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
7482 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
7483 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
7484 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
7485 > patch by Todd C Miller:
7486 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
7487 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
7488 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
7489 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
7490 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
7491 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
7492 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
7493 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
7494 to set up a 3-button mouse.
7495 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
7496 replace select() call.
7499 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
7500 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
7501 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
7502 Albert Chin-A-Young).
7503 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
7504 cursor report before decoding.
7505 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
7506 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
7507 (see assume_default_colors()).
7508 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
7509 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
7511 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
7512 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
7513 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
7515 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
7516 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
7517 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
7518 for that capability.
7519 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
7520 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
7521 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
7522 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
7523 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
7524 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
7527 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
7528 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
7529 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
7530 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
7531 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
7532 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
7533 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
7534 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
7535 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
7537 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
7538 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
7539 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
7540 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
7541 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
7542 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
7543 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7546 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
7547 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
7548 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
7549 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
7550 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
7552 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
7553 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
7554 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
7555 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
7556 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
7557 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
7558 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
7559 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
7560 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
7561 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
7562 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
7563 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
7564 the expected number of parameters.
7565 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
7566 the option value is indeed a number.
7567 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
7568 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
7569 from the other signals.
7572 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
7573 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
7574 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
7577 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
7578 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
7580 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
7581 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
7582 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
7584 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
7585 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
7586 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
7587 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
7588 character set attribute from the displayed text.
7589 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
7590 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
7591 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
7592 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
7593 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
7594 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7597 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
7598 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
7599 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
7600 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
7601 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
7602 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
7603 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7604 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
7605 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
7606 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
7608 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
7609 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
7611 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
7612 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
7613 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
7614 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
7615 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
7616 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
7619 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
7620 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
7621 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
7622 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
7623 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
7624 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
7625 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
7626 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
7627 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
7628 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7629 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
7630 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
7631 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
7632 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
7633 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
7635 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
7636 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
7637 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
7640 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
7641 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
7642 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
7643 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
7645 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
7646 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
7647 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
7648 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
7649 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
7650 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
7651 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
7653 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
7654 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
7655 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
7656 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
7657 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
7658 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
7659 a default program-prefix.
7660 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
7661 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
7664 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
7665 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
7666 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
7667 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
7668 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
7669 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
7670 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
7671 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
7672 although the name is misleading).
7673 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
7674 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
7675 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
7676 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
7679 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
7680 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
7681 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
7683 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
7684 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
7686 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
7687 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
7688 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
7690 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
7691 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
7692 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
7693 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
7694 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
7695 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
7696 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
7697 test/configure script.
7698 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
7699 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
7700 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
7703 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
7706 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
7707 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
7708 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
7709 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
7710 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
7712 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
7713 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
7714 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
7716 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
7717 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
7720 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
7721 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7722 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
7723 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
7724 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
7725 there's still the explicit configure option).
7726 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
7727 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
7728 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
7729 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
7730 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
7731 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
7732 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
7733 simplify working around implementations that define random
7734 combinations of the related macros to zero.
7735 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
7736 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
7737 > patches by Bruno Haible:
7738 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
7739 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
7740 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
7741 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
7745 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
7746 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7747 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
7748 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
7749 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
7750 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
7751 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
7752 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
7753 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
7754 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
7755 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
7756 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
7757 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
7758 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
7761 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7762 + document configure options in INSTALL.
7763 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
7764 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
7765 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
7766 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
7767 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
7768 list of generated functions.
7769 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
7770 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
7771 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
7773 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
7774 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
7775 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
7776 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
7777 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
7779 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
7780 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
7781 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
7782 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
7783 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
7784 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
7785 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
7786 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
7787 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
7788 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
7789 examples cited in announce.html
7790 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
7791 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
7792 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
7793 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
7794 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
7795 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
7796 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
7797 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
7800 20000701 pre-release
7801 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
7802 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
7803 $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
7804 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
7805 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
7806 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
7808 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
7810 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
7812 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
7813 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
7814 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
7815 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
7816 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
7818 20000624 pre-release
7819 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
7820 that happen to render the same display colors.
7821 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
7822 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
7823 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
7824 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
7825 normalized value for cursor_address.
7826 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
7829 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
7830 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
7831 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
7832 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
7833 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
7834 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
7835 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
7836 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
7837 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
7838 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
7839 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
7840 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
7841 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
7845 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
7846 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
7847 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
7848 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
7849 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
7850 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
7851 allows larger symbol tables.
7852 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
7853 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
7854 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
7855 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
7859 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
7860 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
7861 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
7862 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
7863 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
7864 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
7865 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
7866 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
7867 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
7868 + add a "make libs" rule.
7869 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
7870 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
7871 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
7872 with existing ncurses libraries.
7875 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
7876 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
7877 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
7878 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
7879 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
7880 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
7881 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
7882 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
7883 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
7884 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
7885 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
7886 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
7887 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
7888 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
7891 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
7892 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
7893 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
7894 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
7898 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
7899 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
7901 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
7902 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
7903 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
7906 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
7907 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
7908 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
7909 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
7910 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
7912 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
7913 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
7914 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
7915 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
7916 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
7917 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
7918 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
7919 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
7922 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
7924 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
7925 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
7926 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
7927 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
7928 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
7929 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
7930 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
7931 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
7932 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
7933 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
7934 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
7935 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
7938 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
7939 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
7940 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
7941 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
7942 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7943 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
7944 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
7945 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
7946 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
7947 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
7948 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
7949 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
7950 means that it will not recur for that special case.
7951 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
7952 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
7953 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
7954 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7957 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
7958 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
7959 bg300-rv in esr's version.
7960 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
7961 (fixes Debian #61088).
7962 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
7963 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
7964 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
7967 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
7968 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
7969 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
7970 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
7971 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
7974 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
7975 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
7976 improvement in setting default colors.
7977 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
7978 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
7979 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
7981 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
7982 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
7983 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
7984 check for buffer overflow.
7985 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
7986 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
7987 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
7988 such as "infocmp -Fa".
7991 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
7992 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
7993 is not permitted in termcap.
7994 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
7995 integrating 20000318.
7998 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
7999 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
8000 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
8001 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
8003 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
8004 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
8005 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
8006 result for OS/2 EMX.
8007 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
8008 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
8009 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
8010 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
8011 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
8012 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
8015 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
8016 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
8017 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
8019 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
8020 displaying string capabilities.
8021 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
8022 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
8023 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
8024 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
8025 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
8026 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
8028 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
8029 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
8031 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
8032 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
8033 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
8034 may not produce the same result as before.
8035 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
8037 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
8038 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
8040 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
8041 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
8043 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
8044 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8045 + drop support for gnat 3.10
8046 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
8047 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
8050 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
8051 made it check only one entry at a time.
8052 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
8054 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
8055 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
8056 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
8057 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
8058 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
8059 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
8060 address out of bounds.
8061 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
8062 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
8063 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
8064 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
8066 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
8067 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
8068 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
8070 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
8073 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
8074 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
8075 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
8076 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
8078 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
8079 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
8080 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
8081 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
8082 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
8083 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
8085 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
8086 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
8087 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
8088 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
8089 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
8090 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
8091 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
8092 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
8095 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
8096 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8097 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
8098 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
8099 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
8100 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
8104 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
8105 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
8106 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
8107 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
8108 colors are white on black.
8109 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
8110 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
8111 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
8112 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
8113 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
8116 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
8117 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
8118 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
8119 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
8120 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
8121 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
8122 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
8123 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
8124 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
8125 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
8126 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
8129 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
8130 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
8131 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
8132 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
8133 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
8134 to wait indefinitely.
8137 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
8138 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
8139 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
8140 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
8141 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
8142 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
8143 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
8144 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
8145 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
8146 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8147 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
8148 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
8152 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
8153 programs build with c++/g++.
8154 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
8155 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
8156 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
8157 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
8158 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
8159 + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and
8160 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
8161 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
8164 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
8166 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
8167 terminfo entries -TD
8168 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
8169 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
8170 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
8171 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
8173 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
8174 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
8176 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
8178 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
8179 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
8180 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
8181 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
8182 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
8183 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
8184 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
8185 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
8186 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
8190 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
8191 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
8192 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
8193 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
8194 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
8195 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
8196 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
8197 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
8198 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
8199 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
8200 use_extended_names().
8203 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
8204 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
8205 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
8206 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
8207 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
8208 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
8209 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
8210 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
8211 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
8212 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
8213 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
8214 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
8215 + add manpage for infotocap
8218 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
8219 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
8220 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
8221 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
8223 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
8224 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
8225 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
8226 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
8227 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
8228 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
8229 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
8230 initc for xterm-88color.
8231 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
8235 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
8236 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
8238 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
8239 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
8240 SP, since it is part of that struct.
8241 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
8243 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
8244 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
8245 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
8246 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
8247 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
8248 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
8249 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
8250 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
8251 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
8253 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
8254 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
8255 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8256 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
8258 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
8261 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
8262 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
8263 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
8264 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
8265 over the use of default colors.
8266 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
8267 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
8268 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
8269 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
8270 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
8271 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
8272 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
8273 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
8276 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
8277 <robert@progplus.com>)
8278 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
8279 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
8280 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
8283 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
8284 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
8285 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
8287 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
8288 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
8289 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
8290 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
8291 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
8292 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
8293 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
8294 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
8295 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
8296 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
8297 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
8298 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
8300 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
8301 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
8304 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
8305 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
8307 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
8308 (request by Bob van der Poel).
8309 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
8310 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
8311 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
8312 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
8313 libraries by default.
8314 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
8316 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
8317 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
8319 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
8320 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
8321 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
8322 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
8323 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
8324 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
8325 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
8327 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
8329 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
8330 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
8331 advice from Bela Lubkin).
8332 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
8333 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8334 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
8335 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
8336 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
8337 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
8340 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
8343 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
8344 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
8345 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
8346 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
8347 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
8348 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
8349 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
8350 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
8351 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
8352 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
8355 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
8356 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
8357 Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8358 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
8359 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
8360 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
8362 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
8363 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
8364 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
8365 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
8366 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
8367 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
8368 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
8369 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
8370 is used), and in color.
8371 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
8372 shared library rules.
8375 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
8376 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
8377 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
8378 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
8379 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
8380 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
8381 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
8382 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
8383 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
8384 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
8385 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
8386 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
8387 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
8388 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
8389 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
8390 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
8391 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8394 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
8395 <j@interface-business.de>).
8396 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
8397 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
8398 that hard-links work on Unix again.
8399 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
8400 Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
8401 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
8404 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
8405 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
8406 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
8407 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
8408 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
8409 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
8410 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
8411 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
8412 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
8413 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
8414 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
8415 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
8416 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
8419 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
8420 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
8421 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
8422 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
8423 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
8424 in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
8425 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
8426 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
8427 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
8428 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
8429 function works only for sockets.
8430 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
8431 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
8432 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
8433 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
8434 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
8435 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
8436 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
8437 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
8438 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
8439 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
8442 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
8443 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
8444 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
8445 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
8446 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
8447 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
8448 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
8451 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
8452 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
8453 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
8455 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
8456 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
8457 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
8458 nonfunctional link().
8459 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
8460 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
8463 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
8464 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
8465 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
8468 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
8469 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
8470 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
8471 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
8472 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
8473 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
8474 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8475 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
8476 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
8477 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
8478 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
8479 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
8480 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
8481 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
8482 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
8483 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
8484 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
8485 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
8486 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
8487 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
8490 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
8491 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
8492 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
8493 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
8494 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
8495 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
8496 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
8497 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
8498 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
8499 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
8500 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
8501 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
8502 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
8503 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
8504 short-circuit expression evaluation.
8505 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
8506 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
8508 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
8509 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
8510 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
8511 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
8512 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
8516 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
8517 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
8519 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
8520 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
8521 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
8524 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
8525 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
8526 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
8527 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
8528 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
8529 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
8530 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
8531 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
8533 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
8534 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
8535 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8538 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
8539 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
8540 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
8541 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
8542 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
8543 --with-rcs-ids option.
8546 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
8547 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
8549 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
8550 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
8551 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
8555 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
8556 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
8557 BeOS predefines a bool type.
8558 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
8559 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
8560 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
8561 option to infocmp -TD
8562 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8563 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
8564 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
8565 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
8566 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
8567 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
8568 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
8571 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8572 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
8573 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
8574 + change interface version-number to 1.0
8575 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
8578 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
8579 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
8580 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
8581 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
8582 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
8583 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
8584 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
8585 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
8586 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
8587 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
8589 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
8590 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (prompted by
8591 discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
8594 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
8595 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
8596 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
8598 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
8599 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
8602 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
8603 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8604 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
8605 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
8606 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
8609 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
8613 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
8614 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
8615 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
8616 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
8617 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
8619 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
8620 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
8621 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
8622 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
8625 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
8626 fields, and showing forms within panels.
8627 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
8628 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
8629 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
8630 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
8631 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
8632 ownership may change).
8635 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
8637 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
8638 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
8639 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8640 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
8641 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
8642 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
8643 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
8645 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
8646 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
8647 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
8648 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
8649 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
8650 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
8653 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
8654 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
8656 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
8657 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
8658 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
8659 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8662 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
8663 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
8664 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
8665 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
8666 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
8667 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
8671 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
8672 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8673 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
8674 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
8675 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
8676 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
8677 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
8678 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
8681 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
8682 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
8683 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
8684 Alexander V Lukyanov).
8687 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
8688 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
8691 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the "-g" option.
8692 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
8693 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
8694 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
8695 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8696 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
8697 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
8698 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
8699 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
8700 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
8701 reset for the next newterm.
8702 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
8703 terminal has true SLKs.
8704 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
8707 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
8708 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
8709 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
8710 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
8711 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
8712 read of the extended capabilities.
8713 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
8714 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
8715 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
8716 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
8717 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
8718 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
8719 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
8720 throughout ncurses library.
8721 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
8722 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
8724 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
8725 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
8726 + regenerate some of the html documentation
8727 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
8730 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
8731 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
8732 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
8733 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD
8734 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
8736 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
8738 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
8739 defined for a keycode.
8740 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
8741 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
8742 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
8743 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
8744 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
8746 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8747 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
8748 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
8749 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
8751 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
8752 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
8754 + modify configuration scripts to
8755 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
8756 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
8757 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
8758 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
8759 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
8760 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
8761 + rename ada_include directory to src.
8764 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
8765 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
8766 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
8770 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
8771 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
8772 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
8773 though the problem is more general.
8774 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
8775 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
8776 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
8777 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
8779 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
8780 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
8781 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
8784 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
8785 Alexander V Lukyanov).
8786 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
8787 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
8788 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
8789 operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8790 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
8791 be any substring rather than the prefix.
8792 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
8793 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
8794 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
8795 has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
8796 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
8797 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
8798 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
8799 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
8800 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
8801 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
8802 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
8803 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
8804 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
8805 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
8806 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
8807 --with-shlib-version option.
8810 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
8811 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
8812 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
8813 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
8814 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
8815 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
8816 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
8817 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
8818 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
8819 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
8820 intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
8821 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
8822 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
8823 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
8824 source distribution.
8827 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
8828 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
8829 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
8831 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
8832 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
8833 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
8834 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
8835 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
8838 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
8841 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
8842 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
8843 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
8844 Alexander V Lukyanov).
8845 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
8846 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
8847 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
8848 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
8849 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8850 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
8851 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
8852 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
8853 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
8854 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
8856 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
8857 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
8858 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
8859 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
8862 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
8864 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
8865 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
8866 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
8867 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
8868 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
8869 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
8870 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
8871 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
8872 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
8873 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
8874 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
8875 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
8876 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
8877 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
8878 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
8879 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
8880 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
8884 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
8885 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
8886 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
8887 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
8888 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
8889 running screen built with ncurses.
8890 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
8891 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
8892 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
8895 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
8898 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
8899 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
8900 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
8901 by a Debian bug report).
8902 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
8903 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
8905 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
8906 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
8907 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
8908 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
8912 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
8913 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
8914 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
8915 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
8916 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
8917 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
8918 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
8919 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
8920 (reported by H.J.Lu).
8923 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
8924 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
8925 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
8926 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
8927 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
8928 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
8929 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
8930 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
8931 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
8932 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
8933 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8934 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
8936 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
8937 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
8939 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
8941 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
8943 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
8944 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
8948 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
8949 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
8950 address rather than its length.
8951 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
8952 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
8953 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
8954 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
8955 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
8956 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
8957 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
8958 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
8959 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
8960 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
8963 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
8964 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
8966 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
8967 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
8968 for an older version of ncurses.
8969 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
8970 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
8971 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
8972 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
8973 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
8974 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
8975 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
8976 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
8977 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8978 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
8979 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
8980 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
8982 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
8983 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
8986 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
8987 (request by Larry Virden).
8988 > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
8989 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
8990 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
8991 changes to ncurses library.
8992 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
8993 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
8994 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
8995 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8996 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
8997 + some Ada95 cosmetics
8998 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
8999 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
9000 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
9003 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
9004 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
9005 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
9006 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
9007 proposed changes to ncurses library.
9008 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
9009 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
9010 broken configure scripts.
9013 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
9015 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
9016 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
9017 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
9019 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
9020 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
9024 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
9025 with --srcdir option.
9026 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
9027 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
9028 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
9029 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
9030 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
9031 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9034 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
9035 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
9036 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
9038 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
9039 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
9040 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
9041 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
9042 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
9043 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
9044 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
9045 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
9048 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
9049 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9052 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
9053 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
9054 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
9055 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
9056 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
9057 some older entries - TD
9058 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
9059 since that is a little more efficient.
9060 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
9061 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
9062 + add "-g" option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
9063 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
9064 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
9065 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
9067 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
9069 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
9070 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
9072 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
9073 + use format string for printing strings.
9074 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
9077 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
9078 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
9079 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
9080 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
9081 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
9082 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
9083 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
9084 > patches by Todd C Miller:
9085 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
9086 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
9087 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
9088 dealing with env variables again.
9089 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
9090 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
9091 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
9092 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
9093 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
9094 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
9095 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
9096 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
9097 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
9098 newhash data to SP struct.
9099 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
9100 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
9101 function's parameter which is deleted.
9102 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
9103 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
9104 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
9105 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
9109 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
9110 consistent treatment.
9111 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
9112 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
9113 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
9114 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
9117 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
9118 capability name, as in SVr4.
9119 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
9120 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
9121 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
9124 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
9125 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
9126 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
9127 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
9128 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
9129 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
9130 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
9131 > from esr's terminfo version:
9132 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
9133 + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
9134 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
9137 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
9138 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
9139 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
9140 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
9141 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
9142 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
9143 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
9144 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
9145 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
9146 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
9150 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
9151 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
9152 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
9153 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
9154 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
9157 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
9158 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
9162 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
9163 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
9164 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
9165 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
9166 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
9167 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
9168 as obtained via ioctl.
9171 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
9172 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
9173 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
9174 turning attributes off.
9175 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
9176 initializing multiple screens.
9177 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
9178 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
9179 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
9182 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
9183 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
9184 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
9185 with Solaris curses).
9186 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
9187 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
9188 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
9189 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
9190 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
9191 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
9192 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
9193 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
9196 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
9197 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
9198 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
9199 (request by QingLong).
9200 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
9201 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
9202 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
9203 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
9205 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
9206 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
9207 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
9208 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
9209 otherwise simply exit with an error.
9212 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
9213 "_g" for a debug build).
9214 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
9215 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
9216 compile/link working Ada95 program.
9217 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
9218 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
9219 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
9220 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
9221 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
9222 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
9226 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
9227 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
9228 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
9229 corresponds to vt100.
9230 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
9231 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
9234 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
9235 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
9236 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
9237 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
9238 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
9239 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
9240 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
9241 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
9242 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
9243 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9246 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
9247 several minor errors/omissions.
9248 + implement tparm %l format.
9249 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
9251 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
9254 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
9255 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
9256 to be written to large screens.
9257 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
9258 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
9259 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
9260 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
9261 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
9263 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
9264 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9265 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
9266 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
9269 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
9271 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
9273 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
9274 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
9275 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
9276 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
9277 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
9278 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
9279 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
9281 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
9282 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
9284 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
9287 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
9288 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
9289 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
9290 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
9291 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
9292 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
9293 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
9294 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
9295 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
9296 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
9299 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
9300 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9301 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty
9302 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
9303 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
9304 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
9305 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
9306 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
9307 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
9308 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
9309 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
9310 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
9311 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
9314 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
9315 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
9316 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
9317 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
9318 which contains a colon in the description field.
9319 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
9320 from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
9321 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
9323 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
9324 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
9327 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
9328 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
9330 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
9331 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
9332 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
9333 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
9334 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
9335 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
9336 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
9337 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
9338 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
9339 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
9340 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
9341 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
9342 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
9343 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
9344 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
9345 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
9346 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
9347 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
9348 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
9349 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
9350 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
9351 comparisons out of inner loop.
9354 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
9355 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
9356 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
9357 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
9358 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
9359 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
9360 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
9361 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
9362 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
9364 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
9365 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
9366 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
9369 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
9370 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
9371 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
9372 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
9373 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
9374 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
9375 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
9376 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
9377 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
9378 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
9381 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
9382 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
9383 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
9384 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
9386 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
9387 avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
9388 by Juergen Pfeifer).
9391 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
9392 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
9395 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
9396 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
9397 uses them when they are available.
9398 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
9399 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
9400 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
9401 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
9403 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
9406 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
9407 declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
9408 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
9409 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
9411 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9412 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
9413 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
9414 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
9415 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
9416 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
9417 use --disable-overwrite).
9418 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
9419 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
9420 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
9421 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
9422 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
9423 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
9424 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
9425 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
9426 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
9430 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
9431 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9432 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
9433 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
9434 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
9435 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
9436 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
9437 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
9439 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
9440 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
9441 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
9442 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
9444 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
9445 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
9446 parameter according to XSI.
9447 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
9448 reflect above enhancements.
9451 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
9452 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
9453 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
9454 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
9456 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
9458 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
9460 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
9461 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
9462 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
9465 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
9466 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
9467 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9468 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
9469 <claesg@algonet.se>).
9470 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
9471 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
9474 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
9475 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
9476 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
9478 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
9479 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
9480 by Florian La Roche).
9481 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
9482 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
9483 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
9484 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9487 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
9488 distributions, though it is retained in development.
9489 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
9491 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
9492 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
9493 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
9494 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
9495 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
9498 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
9500 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
9501 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
9502 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
9503 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
9504 This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
9505 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
9507 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
9508 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
9509 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
9511 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
9512 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
9513 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
9516 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
9517 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
9519 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
9520 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
9522 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
9524 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
9526 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
9528 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
9529 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
9530 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
9531 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
9532 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
9534 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
9535 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
9537 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
9538 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
9539 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
9540 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
9541 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
9542 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
9543 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
9544 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
9545 turn off attributes inconsistently.
9548 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
9549 test for no_color_video.
9550 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
9552 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
9553 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
9554 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
9556 > from reports by Fred Fish:
9557 + add configure-test for isascii
9558 + add configure-test for -lm library.
9559 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
9560 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
9561 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
9562 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
9563 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
9564 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
9565 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
9567 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
9568 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
9570 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
9571 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
9572 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
9573 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
9574 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
9577 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
9578 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
9580 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
9582 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
9583 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
9584 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
9586 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
9587 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
9589 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
9591 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
9592 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
9593 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
9594 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9595 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
9596 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
9597 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9598 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
9599 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
9600 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
9601 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
9602 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
9603 fields are also always inactive.
9604 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
9605 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
9608 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
9609 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
9610 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
9611 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
9612 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
9613 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
9614 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
9615 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
9616 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
9619 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
9620 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
9621 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
9622 defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
9623 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
9625 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
9626 Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
9627 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
9628 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
9629 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
9630 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
9631 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
9632 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
9633 cross-platform compatibility.
9634 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
9635 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
9636 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9637 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
9639 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
9643 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
9644 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
9645 EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
9646 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
9647 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
9648 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
9649 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
9650 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
9651 that simply cannot scroll.
9652 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
9653 embedded \200 characters are matched.
9654 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
9658 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
9659 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
9660 functions from the build.
9661 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
9662 functions as a separate library.
9663 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
9664 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
9665 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
9666 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
9667 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
9668 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
9669 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
9670 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
9671 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
9673 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9674 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
9675 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
9678 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
9679 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
9681 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
9682 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
9683 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
9684 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
9687 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
9688 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
9689 + add configure check for 'tack'.
9690 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
9691 for Debian configuration.
9692 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
9694 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
9695 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
9697 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
9698 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
9699 case of wide characters in chtype.
9700 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
9701 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
9702 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
9705 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
9706 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
9707 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
9708 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
9709 have set root's umask to 077.
9710 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
9711 end of output when they had embedded comments.
9712 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
9713 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
9714 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
9715 correct logic for handling backslashes.
9716 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
9717 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
9718 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
9719 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
9720 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
9721 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
9723 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9724 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
9726 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
9727 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
9729 + resync of the html version of the manpages
9732 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
9733 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
9735 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
9736 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
9737 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
9738 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
9739 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9740 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
9741 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
9742 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
9746 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
9748 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
9749 comments from Daniel Weaver.
9750 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
9751 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
9752 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
9753 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
9755 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
9756 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
9757 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
9759 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
9760 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
9763 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
9767 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
9768 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
9769 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
9770 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
9771 in call to delay_output().
9772 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
9773 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
9774 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
9775 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
9776 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
9778 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
9779 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
9780 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
9781 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
9782 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
9783 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
9784 so that will work on NeXT.
9785 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
9786 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
9789 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
9791 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
9793 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
9794 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
9795 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
9796 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
9797 when that feature is not configured.
9798 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
9799 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
9800 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
9801 (this dates back to 951102 in 1.9.7a).
9802 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
9803 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
9804 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
9805 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
9808 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
9810 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
9811 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
9813 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
9815 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
9816 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
9819 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
9820 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
9821 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
9822 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
9823 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
9824 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
9825 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
9826 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
9827 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
9829 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
9830 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
9831 tputs() if called from that function.
9832 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
9833 tputs works when SP is not set.
9834 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9835 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
9836 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
9837 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation
9838 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
9839 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
9842 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
9843 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
9844 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
9845 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
9846 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
9847 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
9848 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
9849 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
9850 _nc_update_screensize().
9851 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
9853 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
9854 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
9855 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
9856 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9857 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
9858 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9859 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
9860 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
9861 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
9862 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
9864 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
9868 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
9869 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
9870 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
9872 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
9873 click-interval without modifying it.
9874 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
9875 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
9877 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
9878 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
9879 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
9880 other ncurses headers.
9881 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
9882 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
9883 (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
9884 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
9885 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
9886 characters output in delay_output().
9887 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
9888 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
9889 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
9890 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9891 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
9893 + typo in configure --help.
9894 > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
9895 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
9896 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
9897 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
9900 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9901 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
9904 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
9905 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
9906 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
9907 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
9908 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
9910 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
9911 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
9912 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
9913 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
9914 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
9915 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
9916 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
9917 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
9918 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
9919 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
9920 form (sorted, unique mapping).
9921 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
9922 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
9923 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9924 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
9925 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9926 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9927 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
9928 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
9929 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
9930 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
9931 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
9932 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
9933 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9934 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
9936 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
9937 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
9938 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
9939 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
9940 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
9941 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
9945 + add 'deinstall' rules.
9946 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
9947 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
9948 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
9949 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
9950 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
9951 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
9953 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
9954 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9955 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
9957 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
9958 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
9959 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
9960 scripts are also provided.
9963 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
9965 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
9966 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
9967 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
9968 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
9969 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
9970 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
9971 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
9972 generating lint library.
9973 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
9975 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
9976 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
9977 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
9978 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
9979 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
9980 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
9981 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
9982 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
9983 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
9984 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
9986 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9987 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
9989 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
9991 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
9992 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
9993 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
9994 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
9995 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
9996 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
9997 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9998 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
9999 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
10003 + modify rain.c to use color.
10004 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
10005 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
10006 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
10007 of configure cache variables in 970906.
10008 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
10009 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
10010 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
10011 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
10012 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
10013 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
10014 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
10015 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
10016 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
10017 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
10018 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
10020 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
10021 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
10022 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
10023 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
10024 NCursesPanel class.
10025 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
10026 NCursesWindow class.
10027 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
10028 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
10029 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
10030 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
10032 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
10033 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
10034 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
10035 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
10036 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
10037 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
10039 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
10040 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
10041 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
10042 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
10043 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
10044 already disconnected.
10045 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
10046 navigation requests.
10047 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
10048 case-insensitiva comparision routine.
10049 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
10050 forms field by index.
10051 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
10053 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
10054 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
10055 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
10056 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
10057 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
10058 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
10059 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
10060 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
10061 move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
10063 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
10064 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
10065 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
10067 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
10068 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10069 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
10070 know that auto_right_margin is true.
10071 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
10072 shifting character to LR corner.
10073 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
10074 terminal right margin mode is known.
10075 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
10076 _nc_scroll_window().
10077 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
10078 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
10080 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
10081 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
10082 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
10083 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
10085 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
10086 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
10087 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
10088 the terminal window is resized.
10091 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
10092 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
10093 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
10094 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
10095 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
10096 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
10097 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
10098 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
10099 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10100 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
10101 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
10103 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
10104 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
10105 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
10107 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
10108 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
10110 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
10114 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
10115 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
10116 lib_printw.c functions.
10117 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
10118 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
10119 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
10120 force the screen to scroll.
10123 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
10125 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
10127 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
10128 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
10130 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
10131 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
10132 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10133 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
10134 was in the wrong order.
10135 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
10137 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
10139 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
10140 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
10141 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
10142 invoke wechochar() instead.
10143 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
10146 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
10147 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
10148 work properly when we add calls to that function.
10149 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
10150 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
10151 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10152 + several fixes to getch:
10153 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
10154 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
10155 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
10156 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
10158 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
10159 6. correctly handle the case of receiption of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
10160 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
10161 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
10162 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
10164 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
10165 line-breakout optimization
10166 + improve hashmap.c by
10167 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
10168 2. not marking lines with offset 0
10169 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
10170 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
10171 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
10172 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
10174 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
10175 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
10176 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
10177 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
10179 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
10181 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
10182 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
10183 stored/retrieved via set_term().
10184 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
10188 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
10189 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
10190 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
10192 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
10193 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
10194 before looking for (n)curses library.
10195 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
10196 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
10197 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
10198 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
10199 include ncurses_cfg.h
10200 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
10201 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
10202 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10203 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
10204 example firstlast.c
10205 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
10206 common subexpressions.
10207 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
10208 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
10209 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
10210 against the background character.
10211 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
10212 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
10213 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
10214 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
10215 > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
10216 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
10217 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
10218 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
10219 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
10222 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
10223 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
10224 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
10225 terminal type ncr7900).
10226 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
10227 package is built with an install-prefix.
10228 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
10229 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
10230 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
10231 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
10232 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
10233 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
10234 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
10235 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
10236 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
10237 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10238 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
10239 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
10240 by Juergen Pfeifer).
10243 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
10244 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
10245 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
10246 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
10247 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
10248 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
10249 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
10250 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
10251 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
10252 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
10253 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
10256 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
10257 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
10258 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
10259 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
10260 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
10261 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
10262 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
10263 configuration of wide-characters.
10264 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
10265 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
10266 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
10267 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
10268 does not have getttynam().
10269 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
10270 + add table entries for B230400 and B460800 to baudrate() function.
10271 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
10272 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10273 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
10274 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10275 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
10276 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
10277 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
10278 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
10279 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
10283 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
10284 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10285 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
10286 options should be accompanied by a message.
10287 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
10288 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
10290 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
10292 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10293 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
10294 better when csr is not available.
10295 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
10296 after failure to scroll one.
10297 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
10298 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
10299 case and wrong string in TRACE.
10300 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10301 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
10305 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
10306 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
10308 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
10309 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
10310 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
10311 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
10312 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
10315 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
10316 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
10317 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
10319 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
10322 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
10323 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
10324 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
10325 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
10326 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
10327 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
10328 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
10329 (reported by Larry Virden).
10330 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
10331 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
10333 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10334 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
10335 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
10336 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
10340 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
10341 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
10342 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
10343 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
10344 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
10346 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
10347 terminfo description to the stored strings.
10348 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
10349 terminfo descriptions.
10350 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
10351 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
10352 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
10353 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
10354 option is a stopgap.
10355 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
10356 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
10359 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
10360 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
10361 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
10362 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
10363 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
10364 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
10368 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
10369 lines in curscr that are shifted.
10370 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
10371 than a series of function calls.
10372 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
10373 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
10374 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
10375 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
10376 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
10377 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
10378 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
10379 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10380 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10383 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
10384 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
10385 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
10386 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
10387 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
10388 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
10389 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
10390 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
10391 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
10392 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
10393 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
10394 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
10395 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
10396 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
10397 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10398 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
10399 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10400 + improve threshhold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
10401 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10404 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
10405 use only the fallback data.
10406 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
10407 terminal descriptions.
10408 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
10409 still assume there's an ncurses.h
10410 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
10411 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
10412 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
10413 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
10414 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
10415 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
10417 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
10418 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
10419 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
10420 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
10421 <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
10422 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
10423 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
10425 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
10427 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
10428 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
10430 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
10432 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
10433 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
10434 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
10435 original implementation (1.9.6).
10436 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
10437 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
10438 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
10439 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
10441 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
10442 SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
10443 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
10444 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
10445 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
10446 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10447 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
10448 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
10450 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
10451 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
10452 field is not possible.
10453 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
10454 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
10455 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
10456 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
10458 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
10459 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
10460 in forms/menus libraries.
10463 + add description of xterm-16color.
10464 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
10465 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
10467 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
10468 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
10469 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
10470 works properly w/o first doing "make".
10471 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
10472 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
10474 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
10475 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
10476 bounding box without tidying up).
10477 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
10478 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
10479 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
10481 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
10482 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10483 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
10484 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
10485 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10488 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
10489 option is specified.
10490 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
10491 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
10493 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
10494 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
10495 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
10496 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
10497 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
10498 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
10499 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
10500 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
10501 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
10502 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
10503 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
10504 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
10505 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
10506 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
10508 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
10509 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
10510 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10511 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
10512 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
10513 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10514 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
10515 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
10516 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10517 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
10518 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
10520 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
10522 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
10524 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
10525 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
10528 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
10529 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
10530 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
10531 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
10533 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
10534 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
10535 during a call to newwin.
10536 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
10537 is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
10538 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
10539 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
10540 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
10541 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10542 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
10543 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
10546 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
10547 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
10548 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
10549 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
10551 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
10554 970505 4.1 pre-release
10555 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
10557 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
10558 unnecessary recompiles.
10559 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
10560 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
10561 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
10562 overwrite of symbolic links.
10563 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
10564 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
10565 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
10566 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
10567 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
10568 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
10569 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
10570 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
10571 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
10572 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
10573 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
10574 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
10575 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
10576 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
10580 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
10581 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
10582 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
10584 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
10585 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
10586 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
10587 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
10588 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
10589 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
10590 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
10591 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
10592 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
10594 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
10595 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
10596 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
10597 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
10599 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
10600 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
10601 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10602 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
10603 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10604 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
10605 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10606 + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
10607 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
10608 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
10609 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10612 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
10613 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
10614 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
10615 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
10616 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
10617 original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
10618 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
10619 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
10620 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
10621 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
10622 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
10623 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
10624 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
10625 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
10626 or redefinition within an acsc string.
10627 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
10628 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
10629 regression testing.
10630 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
10631 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
10634 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
10635 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
10636 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
10637 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
10638 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
10639 match SVr4 documentation.
10640 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
10641 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
10642 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
10645 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
10646 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
10647 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
10648 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
10649 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
10650 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
10651 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
10652 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
10655 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
10656 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
10657 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
10659 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
10660 --enable/--with values.
10661 + add configure option --enable-big-core
10662 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
10663 + check for C++ builtin.h header
10664 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
10665 parameter from the expression.
10666 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
10667 ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted from diffs by
10669 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
10670 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
10671 was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
10672 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
10673 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
10674 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
10677 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
10678 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
10679 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
10680 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
10681 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
10684 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
10685 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
10686 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
10687 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
10688 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
10689 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
10690 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
10691 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
10692 (reported by Ward Horner).
10693 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
10694 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
10697 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
10698 even if "make all" is not done first.
10699 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
10700 expanded functions with ATAC.
10701 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
10702 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
10706 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
10708 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
10710 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
10713 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
10714 addressing request by Ward Horner.
10715 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
10716 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
10717 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
10718 a pointer-increment.
10719 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
10723 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
10724 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
10726 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
10727 (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
10728 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
10729 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
10730 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
10731 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
10732 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
10733 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
10735 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
10736 (reported by Ward Horner)
10737 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
10738 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
10739 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
10740 (reported by Gary Johnson).
10741 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
10742 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
10743 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
10744 wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
10745 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
10746 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
10747 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
10748 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
10752 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
10753 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
10754 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
10755 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
10756 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
10757 (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10758 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
10759 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
10760 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
10761 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
10764 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
10766 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
10767 the returned buffer.
10768 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
10769 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
10770 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
10771 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
10773 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
10774 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
10777 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
10778 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
10779 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
10780 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
10782 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
10783 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
10786 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
10787 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
10789 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
10791 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
10792 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
10793 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
10794 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
10796 + modify _tracedump() to pad pad colors & attrs lines to match change
10797 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
10798 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
10799 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
10802 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
10803 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
10804 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
10805 that machine - T.Dickey.
10806 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
10807 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
10808 linking against static libraries.
10809 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
10811 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
10812 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
10813 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
10814 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
10816 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
10817 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
10818 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
10819 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
10820 Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
10823 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
10824 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
10825 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
10827 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
10828 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
10829 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
10830 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
10831 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
10832 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
10835 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
10837 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
10838 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
10839 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
10840 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
10841 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
10842 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
10843 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
10844 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
10845 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
10846 insert/delete line method.
10847 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
10848 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
10849 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
10850 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
10852 961229 (internal alpha)
10853 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
10854 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
10855 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
10856 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
10857 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
10858 there is data on stdin.
10859 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
10860 descriptors, needed for GPM.
10861 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
10862 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
10863 prevented patch from working properly -TD
10864 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
10865 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
10866 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
10867 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
10870 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
10871 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
10873 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
10876 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
10877 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
10878 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
10879 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
10881 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
10882 solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
10883 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
10884 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
10885 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
10886 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
10888 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
10889 i.e., set current directory before linking.
10890 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
10891 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
10892 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
10893 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
10894 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
10895 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
10896 Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
10897 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
10900 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
10901 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
10902 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
10903 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
10904 Solaris curses, which does this.
10907 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
10908 work with wider range of screen sizes.
10909 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
10910 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
10911 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
10913 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
10914 resize between endwin/refresh.
10915 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
10916 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
10917 terminal modes in 960907.
10918 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
10919 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
10921 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
10922 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
10923 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
10924 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
10925 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
10926 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
10927 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
10928 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
10929 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
10931 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
10932 (requested by Florian La Roche).
10933 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
10934 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
10935 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
10936 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
10937 by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10940 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
10943 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
10944 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
10945 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
10946 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
10947 data used in ncurses library.
10948 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
10949 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
10950 Alexander V Lukyanov).
10951 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
10952 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
10953 beta may not be interchangeable).
10954 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
10956 961130 1.9.9g release
10957 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
10961 > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
10962 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
10963 to avoid warning messages.
10964 + the panel overlap detection was broken
10965 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
10967 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
10971 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10972 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
10973 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
10974 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
10975 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
10978 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
10979 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
10980 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
10984 + change ABI to 3.4
10985 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
10987 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
10989 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
10991 > patch #324 (ESR):
10992 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
10993 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
10994 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
10995 + add entry for color_xterm
10998 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
10999 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
11000 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
11001 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
11002 CANCELLED_STRING values.
11003 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
11004 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
11005 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
11006 delays when in autoplay mode.
11007 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
11008 Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
11009 > patch #322 (ESR):
11010 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
11013 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
11014 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
11015 a spurious clear-screen.
11016 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
11017 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
11019 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
11020 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
11021 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
11022 <perf@efd.lth.se>).
11025 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
11026 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
11027 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
11028 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
11029 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
11030 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
11032 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
11033 distribution, as stated)
11034 + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
11035 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
11036 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
11037 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
11038 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
11039 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
11040 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
11042 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
11043 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
11047 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
11048 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
11049 file (lib_screen.c).
11050 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
11051 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
11052 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
11053 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
11054 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
11055 rendered as octal constants.
11056 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
11057 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
11058 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
11059 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
11060 in the top-level command-parser.
11061 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
11062 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
11064 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
11065 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
11066 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
11069 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
11070 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
11071 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
11072 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
11073 (reported by Tim Mooney).
11074 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
11076 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
11080 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
11081 that are available.
11082 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
11083 the pointer was -1.
11086 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
11087 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
11088 lower-right corner.
11089 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
11090 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
11091 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
11092 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
11093 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
11094 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
11095 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
11096 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
11097 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
11098 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
11100 + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
11101 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
11102 > patch #321 (ESR):
11103 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
11104 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
11105 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
11106 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
11109 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
11110 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
11111 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
11112 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
11113 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
11115 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
11116 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
11117 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
11118 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
11119 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
11120 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
11121 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
11122 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
11123 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
11124 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
11125 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
11126 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
11127 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
11129 + change ABI to 3.3
11130 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
11131 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
11132 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
11134 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
11135 Michael Elkins) - untested
11137 + correction to #317.
11139 + re-add _nc_hash_map
11140 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design
11141 (patch by A. Lukyanov).
11142 + modify test/ncurses.c and tputs, etc., to allow trace counting
11144 + add hashtest.c program to time the hashmap optimization.
11146 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
11148 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
11150 + merge changes to lib_doupdate.c to use ech and rep - untested
11151 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11152 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
11153 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
11154 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
11155 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
11158 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
11160 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
11161 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
11162 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
11163 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
11164 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
11166 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
11169 + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
11170 (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11171 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
11172 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11173 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
11174 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
11177 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
11178 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
11179 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
11180 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
11181 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
11182 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
11183 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
11184 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
11185 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
11186 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
11187 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
11188 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
11189 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
11190 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
11191 + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
11195 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11196 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
11197 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
11198 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
11200 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
11201 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
11202 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
11205 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
11206 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
11207 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
11210 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
11211 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11212 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
11213 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11216 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
11217 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
11218 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
11219 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
11220 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
11222 + add dtterm description
11223 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop mvwscanw subtest)
11226 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
11227 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
11228 + refine configure-test for "-g" option (Tim Mooney).
11229 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
11230 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
11233 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
11235 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
11237 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch (report
11241 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
11242 (reported by William P Setzer)
11243 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
11244 (reported by Tim Mooney).
11246 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
11247 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
11248 + updated qnx terminfo entry (patch by Michael Hunter)
11251 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
11253 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
11257 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
11258 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
11260 + terminfo changes (9.3.9), from BRL
11261 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
11262 + add more symbols to infocmp.
11265 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
11266 Juergen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
11267 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
11269 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
11270 null), and tests that use it.
11271 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
11272 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
11273 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
11275 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
11277 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
11278 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
11279 + fix option-processing bug in toe.
11282 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
11283 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
11284 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
11285 by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
11286 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
11287 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
11289 + enable more translations of nonstandard caps, and document them.
11290 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.8
11292 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
11293 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
11294 + cosmetic fixes to test/ncurses.c
11295 + modify open() call in ncurses/read_entry.c to use O_RDONLY symbol
11296 rather than constant (report by mib).
11297 + misc/terminfo.src sgr0 and acsc changes (report by Philippe De
11299 + modify ncurses/comp_parse.c so that entries containing a "+" can
11300 have missing rmcup vs smcup.
11303 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
11304 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
11305 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
11307 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
11308 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
11309 Philippe De Muyter).
11312 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
11313 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
11315 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
11316 (reported by Zeyd).
11317 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
11318 (reported by David MacKenzie).
11319 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
11320 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
11321 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
11322 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
11323 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
11324 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
11325 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
11328 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes.
11329 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.7 (report by A. Lukyanov).
11330 + modify man/Makefile.in to make terminfo.5 during normal build.
11332 + corrected allocation-length for $HOME/.terminfo path.
11335 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
11336 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
11337 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
11338 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
11339 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
11340 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
11341 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
11342 than function keys in 'g' test.
11343 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
11344 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
11345 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
11346 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
11348 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
11350 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
11351 msgwin needed scrollok set.
11352 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
11353 between PutRange and InsStr
11354 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
11355 MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
11357 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
11360 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
11361 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
11362 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
11364 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
11365 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
11366 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
11367 _yoffset to WINDOW).
11368 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
11369 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
11370 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
11371 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
11372 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
11373 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
11374 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
11375 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
11376 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
11379 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
11380 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
11381 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
11382 first entry in a list).
11383 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
11384 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
11387 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
11388 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
11389 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
11390 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
11391 with a shared-library configuration.
11392 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
11393 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
11394 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
11395 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
11396 builders to install into staging locations (requested by
11397 Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
11398 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
11400 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
11401 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
11402 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
11403 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
11404 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
11406 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
11407 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
11408 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
11409 invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11411 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
11412 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
11413 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
11415 + misc/ncurses-intro.html syntax fix (Kajiyama Tamito).
11418 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
11419 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
11420 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
11421 + added rules for lintlib, lint
11422 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
11423 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
11424 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
11425 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
11426 checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
11427 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
11428 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
11429 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
11430 + typos, don't use inline with "-g" (Philippe De Muyter)
11431 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
11434 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
11435 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
11436 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
11437 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
11438 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
11439 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
11441 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
11442 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
11443 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
11444 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
11446 + improve hash function (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11447 + 9.13.4 update for terminfo.src
11450 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
11451 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
11452 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
11453 <lav@yars.free.net>).
11454 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
11455 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
11456 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
11457 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
11459 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
11460 + html fixes (Phillippe de Muyter).
11461 + fix typo in ncurses-intro.html (report by Fabrizio Polacco).
11463 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
11464 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
11465 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
11466 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
11469 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
11473 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
11474 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
11475 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
11476 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
11477 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
11478 > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
11479 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
11480 + added TRACE_IEVENT
11481 + fix REQ_TOGGLE_ITEM in menu/menu_driver.c; it could select but not
11483 + added lib_print.c (request by Rick Marshall).
11484 + added has_key() (request by Juergen Pfeifer).
11485 + do not issue clrtoeol or clrtobot if the relevant portion of the line
11486 is already blank (analysis by Keith Bostic).
11487 + add parentheses for parameters of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER macros
11488 (analysis by Jurgen Eidt).
11489 + update screen's notion of cursor position in endwin() (analysis by
11490 Alexander Lukyanov).
11491 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
11492 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
11493 + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
11494 is not part of X/Open Curses).
11495 + removed boolean version of 'getm'.
11496 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
11499 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
11500 + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
11501 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
11502 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
11503 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
11504 "#include" if needed.
11507 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
11508 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
11511 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
11512 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
11513 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
11517 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
11518 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
11519 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
11520 > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
11521 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
11522 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
11523 + new "-e" and "-h" options of tic (request by Tony Nugent).
11524 + fix bug in mandatory-delay logic in lib_tputs.c (report by Sven
11526 + fix for "infocmp -e" to emit correct initializers (reported by Manual
11528 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c (report by Kayvan
11530 + use "-h" option on Solaris when generating shared libraries on
11531 Solaris 2.5 to record the library name in the file, for assisting
11532 the loader (patch by Scott Kramer).
11533 + undo patch #294 changes to form and menu libraries (request by
11538 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
11539 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
11540 K&R-style substitution)
11541 > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
11542 + rewrite wsyncup(), wsyncdown(), as well as small fixes to form and
11543 menu libraries to fix echo-breakage introduced by 1.8.9, 1.9.9e
11544 changes (patches by Juergen Pfeifer).
11545 + fix compile under QNX 4.2 by defining ONLCR in lib_raw.c when
11546 __QNX__ is defined (patch by Michael Hunter).
11547 + modify setupterm() to match documentation for its return value, fix
11548 newterm to work with this change (report by Emmet Lazich).
11549 + add checks in getch() for error, return ERR as appropriate (report by
11551 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode (report by Pete Seebach).
11552 + corrected askuser() logic in tset (patch by Remco Treffkorn).
11553 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing (report by
11555 + added trace support for TTY flags
11556 + update terminfo.src to 9.13.1
11557 + FreeBSD console entries (patch by Andrew Chernov).
11560 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
11561 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
11562 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
11563 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
11564 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
11566 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
11567 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
11569 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
11571 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
11572 copy-changed-lines behavior.
11573 * added and documented wresize() function.
11574 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
11575 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
11576 emitted before the first check.
11577 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
11578 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
11579 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
11580 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
11581 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
11582 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
11584 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
11585 * support for ESCDELAY.
11586 * small fixes for menu/form code.
11587 * the test directory has its own configure.
11588 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
11589 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
11590 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
11593 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
11595 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
11596 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
11597 * support infocmp -RBSD.
11598 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
11599 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
11600 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
11601 catastrophies or acts of God.
11602 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
11604 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
11605 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
11608 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
11610 * corrected return values of setupterm()
11611 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
11612 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
11613 one `use' capability.
11614 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
11615 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
11616 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
11617 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
11618 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
11619 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
11620 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
11621 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
11622 * added -h option to toe(1).
11623 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
11624 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
11625 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
11626 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
11628 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
11630 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
11631 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
11633 * mouse support for xterm.
11634 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
11635 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initally off.
11636 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
11637 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
11638 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
11639 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
11640 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
11641 * infocmp -T option added.
11642 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
11644 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
11646 * menus library is now included with documentation.
11647 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
11648 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
11649 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
11650 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
11651 * tweaks for compiling in seperate directories.
11652 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
11653 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
11654 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
11656 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
11658 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
11659 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
11660 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
11661 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
11663 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
11665 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
11666 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
11667 * added tracemunch to the test tools
11668 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
11670 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
11672 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
11673 profile and shared object models.
11675 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
11677 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
11678 * panels support added
11679 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
11680 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
11682 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
11684 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
11685 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
11686 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
11687 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
11689 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
11690 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
11691 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
11692 are consistent (they weren't).
11693 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
11694 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
11695 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
11696 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
11697 warnings from gcc).
11698 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
11699 * more spelling fixes
11700 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
11701 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
11702 core in init_acs()).
11703 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
11706 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
11708 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
11709 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
11710 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
11712 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
11713 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
11714 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
11715 resolution of traces.
11716 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
11717 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
11718 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
11719 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
11720 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
11721 is much less flaky.
11722 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
11723 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
11724 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
11725 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
11727 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
11728 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
11729 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
11730 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
11731 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
11732 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This wil mostly happen if
11733 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
11734 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
11735 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
11736 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
11737 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
11738 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
11739 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
11740 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
11741 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
11742 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
11744 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
11745 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
11746 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
11747 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
11748 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
11749 the correct alternate character set.
11750 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
11751 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
11752 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
11753 a terminal is undefined.
11754 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
11755 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
11756 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
11757 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
11758 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
11759 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
11761 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
11762 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
11763 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
11764 if other attributes are turned off.
11765 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
11766 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
11767 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
11769 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
11770 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
11771 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
11774 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
11775 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
11776 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
11777 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
11779 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
11780 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
11782 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
11784 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
11785 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
11786 break operation with any emulators.
11787 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
11788 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
11789 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
11790 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
11791 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
11792 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
11793 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
11794 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
11796 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
11797 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
11799 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
11800 unpredictable results.
11801 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
11803 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
11804 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
11805 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
11806 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
11807 take note of the terminfo directory.
11808 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
11809 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
11812 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
11813 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
11814 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
11815 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
11816 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
11817 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
11818 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
11819 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
11820 performs more testing.
11821 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
11822 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
11824 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
11825 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
11827 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
11828 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
11829 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
11831 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
11833 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
11834 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
11835 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
11836 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
11837 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
11838 will probably continue to work ok.
11840 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
11841 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
11842 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
11843 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
11844 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
11846 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
11847 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
11848 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
11850 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
11851 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
11852 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
11853 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
11854 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
11855 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
11856 changed accordingly.
11857 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
11858 bottom-right corner.
11859 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
11860 pads I'd love a copy.
11861 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
11862 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
11863 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
11864 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
11865 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
11866 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
11867 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
11869 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
11870 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
11871 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
11873 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
11874 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
11875 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
11876 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
11877 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
11878 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
11879 * See src/README for porting notes.
11880 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
11881 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
11882 rows instead of lines, etc.)
11883 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
11884 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
11885 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
11886 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
11887 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
11888 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
11889 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
11891 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
11892 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
11893 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
11894 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
11895 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
11896 fact was exposed by hanoi.
11897 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
11898 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
11899 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
11900 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
11901 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
11902 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
11904 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
11906 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
11907 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
11908 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
11909 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
11910 Config.* files through an awk script.
11911 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
11912 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
11913 * a few minor cleanups.
11914 * added more prototypes in curses.h
11916 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
11918 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
11919 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
11920 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
11921 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
11922 * a couple of bug fixes.
11923 * a few code cleanups.
11925 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
11927 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
11928 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
11929 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
11930 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
11931 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
11932 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
11933 * Cleaner Makefile.
11934 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
11935 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
11937 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
11938 (doesn't work on Linux)
11939 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
11940 screen before working.
11941 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
11942 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
11944 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
11945 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
11946 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
11947 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
11948 * several minor bug fixes.
11950 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
11952 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
11953 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
11954 * changes related to Config
11956 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
11958 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
11959 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
11960 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
11961 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
11962 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
11963 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
11964 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
11965 * added halfdelay()
11966 * fixed problems with asc_init()
11967 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
11968 * cleaned up vidputs()
11969 * general cleanup of the code
11970 * more attention to portability to other systems
11971 * added terminfos for hp70092 (wont work until changes to lib_update.c are
11972 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
11974 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
11975 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
11977 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
11978 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
11979 the rationale drop me a line.
11981 Included are several test programs in test/.
11982 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
11983 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
11985 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
11987 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
11988 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
11989 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
11990 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
11991 * keyname() is added.
11992 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
11993 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
11994 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
11995 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
11996 * included fixes from 0.6.1
11997 * added a few more missing functions.
11998 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
11999 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
12002 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
12004 1) Included the missing data/console.
12006 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
12008 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
12010 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
12011 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
12012 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
12014 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
12015 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
12016 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
12017 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
12018 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
12019 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
12020 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
12021 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
12022 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
12023 * added notimeout().
12024 * added timeout() define in curses.h
12025 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
12027 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
12028 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
12029 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
12030 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
12031 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
12032 * added slk_* support.
12033 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
12034 * added PANEL library.
12035 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
12036 * terminfo.h is really term.h
12038 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
12039 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
12040 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
12041 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
12042 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
12043 another key is pressed.
12044 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
12045 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
12046 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
12048 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
12049 * fixed bug in wvline().
12050 * added curs_set().
12051 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
12052 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
12054 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
12055 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
12056 * Addition of function prototypes.
12057 * Addition of several missing functions.
12058 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
12059 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
12060 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
12061 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
12062 * New scrolling code.
12063 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
12065 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
12066 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
12067 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
12068 * more fixes for updates.
12069 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
12070 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
12071 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
12072 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
12074 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
12075 * support for color.
12076 * support for PC graphic characters.
12077 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
12078 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
12080 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
12081 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
12082 * ANSIfication of some functions.
12083 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
12084 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.
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