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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 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
50 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
51 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
52 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
53 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
56 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
57 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
60 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
61 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
62 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
63 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
64 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
66 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
67 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
68 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
69 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
72 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
73 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
74 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
75 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
77 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
79 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
81 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
84 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
88 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
89 (report by Christian Ebert).
90 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
91 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
92 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
95 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
96 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
97 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
98 add bold for consistency with sgr,
99 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
100 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
101 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
103 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
104 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
105 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
106 line split after "%;".
107 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
108 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
111 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
112 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
113 + regenerated html manpages.
114 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
115 + updated some autoconf macros:
116 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
117 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
118 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
119 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
120 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
121 configuration (Redhat #911540).
122 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
123 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
126 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
127 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
129 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
130 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
132 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
133 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
134 of raw input in MinGW port.
137 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
138 + update config.guess, config.sub
141 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
143 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
145 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
146 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
147 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
148 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
149 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
150 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
151 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
153 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
154 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
157 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
158 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
160 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
161 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
162 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
165 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
166 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
167 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
170 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
171 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
172 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
174 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
175 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
176 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
177 by Dennis Grevenstein).
178 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
180 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
181 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
182 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
185 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
186 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
187 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
188 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
189 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
190 + improve error-checking in copywin
191 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
192 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
193 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
194 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
195 matching capability names.
196 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
197 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
198 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
201 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
202 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
203 are unused in the current driver model.
204 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
206 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
207 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
208 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
209 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
212 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
213 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
215 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
216 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
217 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
218 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
219 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
222 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
223 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
224 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
228 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
230 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
231 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
233 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
234 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
235 wide-character which can be used.
238 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
239 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
240 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
241 by Erwin Waterlander).
242 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
243 > fixes based on Coverity report:
244 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
245 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
246 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
247 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
251 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
252 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
253 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
254 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
255 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
256 > fixes based on Coverity report:
257 + remove a few redundant checks.
258 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
260 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
261 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
262 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
263 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
265 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
266 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
267 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
271 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
272 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
273 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
277 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
278 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
279 > fixes based on Coverity report:
280 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
283 > fixes based on Coverity report:
284 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
285 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
286 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
287 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
288 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
289 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
290 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
292 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
293 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
294 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
295 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
298 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
299 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
300 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
302 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
303 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
304 libraries or executables.
307 + realign these related pages:
312 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
313 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
314 (report by Reuben Thomas).
315 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
316 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
317 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
318 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
319 based on testing with tack -TD
320 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
321 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
324 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
326 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
327 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
328 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
331 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
335 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
336 (patch by Christian Persch).
339 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
341 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
342 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
343 has used that for a while.
344 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
345 for experimental use.
346 + remove unused configure macros.
347 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
348 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
349 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
350 + update config.guess, config.sub
353 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
354 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
355 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
356 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
357 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
358 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
359 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
362 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
363 to help with MinGW port.
366 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
368 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
371 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
374 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
375 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
376 might not be allocated.
377 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
380 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
381 initial screen-sizes.
382 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
383 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
387 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
388 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
392 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
393 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
394 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
396 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
397 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
400 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
401 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
402 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
403 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
404 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
405 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
406 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
410 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
411 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
412 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
413 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
414 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
415 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
416 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
417 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
421 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
422 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
423 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
424 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
425 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
426 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
429 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
433 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
435 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
437 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
438 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
439 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
440 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
441 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
442 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
445 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
447 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
448 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
449 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
451 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
452 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
455 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
456 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
457 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
460 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
461 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
463 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
464 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
466 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
467 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
470 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
472 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
473 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
474 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
475 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
476 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
477 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
480 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
481 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
482 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
483 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
484 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
485 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
486 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
487 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
488 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
490 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
491 analysis by Martin Husemann).
492 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
493 Onno van der Linden).
496 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
498 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
500 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
501 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
504 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
505 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
506 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
507 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
508 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
509 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
510 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
513 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
514 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
515 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
516 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
517 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
518 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
519 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
520 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
521 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
522 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
523 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
524 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
525 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
526 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
527 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
530 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
531 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
532 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
533 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
534 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
535 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
536 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
537 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
538 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
539 are interpreted as key definitions.
540 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
541 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
545 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
546 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
547 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
548 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
549 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
550 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
551 as building-blocks -TD
552 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
555 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
556 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
557 title is a status-line. -TD
558 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
559 of ordering and overrides -TD
560 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
561 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
562 used in that file -TD
565 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
566 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
567 definable capabilities.
568 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
569 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
570 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
571 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
572 embedded in the description.
573 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
574 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
575 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
576 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
577 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
578 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
581 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
582 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
583 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
584 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
586 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
587 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
588 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
591 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
592 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
593 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
594 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
595 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
596 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
599 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
600 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
601 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
603 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
604 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
605 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
606 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
609 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
610 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
611 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
614 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
615 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
616 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
618 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
619 calls to setupterm().
620 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
622 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
623 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
624 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
626 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
630 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
633 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
635 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
636 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
637 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
638 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
639 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
640 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
642 + update config.guess, config.sub
645 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
646 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
647 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
648 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
649 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
650 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
651 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
652 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
653 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
656 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
657 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
658 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
659 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
660 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
661 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
662 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
663 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
664 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
665 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
666 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
667 Linux versus most other systems.
670 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
674 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
675 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
676 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
677 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
678 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
679 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
680 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
681 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
682 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
683 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
684 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
685 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
686 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
687 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
690 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
692 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
694 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
695 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
696 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
697 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
700 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
702 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
703 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
704 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
705 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
706 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
708 + regenerated html manpages.
711 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
712 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
713 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
714 + change recommended regular expression library.
715 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
716 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
719 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
720 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
721 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
722 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
723 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
724 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
725 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
729 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
730 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
732 + add putty-sco entry -TD
735 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
737 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
739 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
740 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
741 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
743 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
745 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
748 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
749 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
750 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
751 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
753 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
754 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
755 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
758 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
759 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
761 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
764 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
766 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
768 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
770 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
771 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
772 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
773 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
774 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
775 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
776 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
779 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
780 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
782 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
783 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
784 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
785 database (cf: 20111001).
788 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
789 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
790 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
792 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
793 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
795 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
796 in older FreeBSD machines.
797 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
798 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
799 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
802 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
803 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
804 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
805 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
806 root's home directory.
807 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
808 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
809 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
810 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
811 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
813 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
814 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
815 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
816 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
817 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
818 (report by Peter Kruse).
821 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
822 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
824 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
826 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
827 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
828 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
831 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
832 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
833 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
834 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
835 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
836 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
839 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
840 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
841 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
842 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
843 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
846 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
847 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
848 input and output of termcap source.
849 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
850 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
851 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
852 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
853 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
854 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
855 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
856 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
857 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
860 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
863 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
865 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
866 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
867 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
868 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
870 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
873 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
874 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
876 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
877 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
880 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
881 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
883 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
884 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
886 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
887 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
888 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
889 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
891 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
892 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
893 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
894 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
896 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
897 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
900 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
901 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
902 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
903 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
906 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
907 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
908 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
909 + add terminator entry -TD
910 + add simpleterm entry -TD
911 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
912 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
916 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
917 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
918 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
919 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
920 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
921 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
922 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
923 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
924 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
925 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
929 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
930 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
931 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
932 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
933 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
934 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
936 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
937 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
938 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
940 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
943 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
944 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
945 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
946 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
948 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
949 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
951 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
952 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
953 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
954 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
955 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
956 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
957 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
958 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
960 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
961 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
963 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
964 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
965 tctest (cf: 19991211).
966 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
967 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
968 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
969 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
970 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
971 translating to termcap.
972 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
973 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
976 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
977 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
978 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
979 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
980 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
981 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
983 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
984 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
985 regarding Schilling's test program):
986 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
987 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
988 + use \040 rather than \s
989 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
990 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
993 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
994 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
995 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
996 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
997 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
998 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
999 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
1000 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
1001 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
1002 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
1003 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
1004 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
1007 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
1008 are not used in the $CC variable.
1009 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
1010 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
1011 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
1012 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
1013 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
1014 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
1017 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
1018 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
1022 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
1023 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
1024 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
1025 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
1026 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
1028 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
1029 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
1031 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
1034 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
1035 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
1038 + fixes for MirBSD port:
1039 + set default prefix to /usr.
1040 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
1041 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
1042 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
1043 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
1046 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
1047 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
1048 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
1049 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
1051 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
1052 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
1056 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
1059 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
1060 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
1061 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
1063 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
1064 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
1065 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
1066 help work around weak-symbol issues.
1069 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
1070 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
1071 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
1072 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
1073 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
1074 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
1075 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
1076 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
1077 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
1078 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
1079 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
1082 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
1083 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
1085 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
1086 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
1087 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
1088 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez):
1091 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
1092 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
1093 as different types on some Unix systems.
1094 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
1095 function pointer passed to tputs().
1096 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
1097 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
1098 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
1099 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
1102 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
1103 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1104 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
1105 + update config.guess, config.sub
1108 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
1110 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
1111 some ncurses packages.
1112 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
1113 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
1114 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
1116 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1119 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
1120 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
1121 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
1122 the in-tree build of sample programs.
1123 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
1124 needed for rpm script.
1125 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
1126 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
1127 options if building a shared library with gnat.
1130 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
1131 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
1132 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
1133 that sample program.
1134 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
1135 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
1136 which were added in 5.7 and later.
1137 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
1141 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
1143 + regen Ada html documentation.
1144 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
1145 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
1147 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
1149 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
1150 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
1151 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
1152 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
1153 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
1154 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
1156 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1157 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
1159 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
1160 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
1163 + regen Ada html documentation.
1164 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
1165 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
1167 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
1168 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
1169 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
1170 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1171 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
1172 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
1173 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
1174 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
1175 thread in comp.lang.ada).
1176 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
1177 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
1178 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1179 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
1180 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
1181 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
1182 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
1183 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
1184 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
1185 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
1188 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
1189 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1190 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
1192 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
1194 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
1195 explain.txt is not found.
1198 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1199 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
1200 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1201 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
1202 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
1204 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1207 + update release notes, for 5.8.
1208 + regenerated html manpages.
1209 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
1211 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
1212 a new install of hashed database.
1213 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
1216 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
1217 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
1218 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
1219 wide-character configuration.
1220 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
1221 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
1224 + regenerated html manpages.
1225 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
1226 special case of trace configuration.
1229 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
1230 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
1231 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
1232 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
1233 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
1237 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
1238 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
1239 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
1240 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
1241 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
1243 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
1244 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
1247 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
1248 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
1249 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
1250 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
1251 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
1252 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
1253 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
1254 file configuration if that is used.
1255 + update config.guess, config.sub
1258 + regenerated html manpages.
1259 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
1261 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1262 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
1265 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
1266 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
1269 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
1270 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
1271 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
1274 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
1276 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
1277 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
1278 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
1279 wide-character configuration.
1280 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
1281 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
1282 referred to quitting with 'q'.
1285 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
1286 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
1287 version which works with termcap.
1288 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
1289 (request by Sven Joachim).
1290 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
1291 (report by Sven Joachim).
1294 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
1295 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
1296 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
1299 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
1301 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
1302 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
1305 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
1307 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
1308 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
1309 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
1310 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
1311 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
1312 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
1316 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
1317 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
1318 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
1320 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
1323 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
1325 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
1329 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
1331 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
1332 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
1333 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
1334 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
1335 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
1336 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
1337 tree (report by Werner Fink).
1338 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
1339 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
1340 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
1341 (report by John P. Hartmann)
1342 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
1345 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
1346 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
1347 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
1348 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
1349 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
1350 external package "cindent".
1353 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
1354 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
1355 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
1356 inconsistent printer-controls.
1357 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
1358 form is available -TD
1359 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
1361 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
1363 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
1364 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1365 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
1366 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
1367 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
1369 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
1370 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
1374 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
1375 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
1376 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
1377 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1378 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
1380 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
1383 + regenerated html manpages.
1384 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
1385 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
1386 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
1389 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
1391 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
1392 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
1393 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
1394 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
1398 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
1399 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
1402 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
1403 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
1404 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
1405 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
1406 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
1407 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
1408 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
1412 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
1413 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
1414 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
1415 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
1416 by Tim van der Molen).
1417 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
1418 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
1419 library configuration.
1420 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
1421 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
1422 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
1425 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
1427 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
1428 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
1429 e.g., for cross-compiling.
1430 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
1431 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
1434 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
1435 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
1436 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
1437 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
1438 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
1439 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
1440 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
1441 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
1444 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
1445 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
1446 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
1447 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
1448 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
1449 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
1450 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
1451 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
1454 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
1455 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
1456 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
1457 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
1460 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1461 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
1462 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
1465 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1466 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
1467 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
1470 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1471 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
1472 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
1473 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
1476 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
1477 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
1478 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
1480 + update Ada95/configure.
1481 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
1482 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
1483 of updating LIBS variable.
1486 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
1487 work with 64-bit compiles.
1488 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
1492 + regenerated html documentation.
1493 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
1495 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
1496 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
1497 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
1498 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
1501 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
1502 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
1504 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
1505 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
1506 build- and target-machines differ.
1507 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
1508 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
1510 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
1511 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
1514 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
1515 new EINTR feature is enabled.
1516 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
1517 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
1518 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
1519 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
1520 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
1521 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
1522 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
1523 with the standard builds of ncurses.
1524 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
1525 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
1526 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
1527 found in predefined libraries.
1528 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
1531 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
1532 (patch by David Benjamin).
1533 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
1534 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
1535 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
1536 may be defined by that route.
1539 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
1540 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
1541 the predefined include directories.
1542 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
1543 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
1544 where older versions would produce an error.
1547 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
1548 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
1549 terminfo to termcap strings
1550 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
1551 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
1552 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
1553 directory was already added.
1554 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
1555 directories (which will be ignored).
1558 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
1559 + discard motion events
1560 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
1561 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
1562 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
1563 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
1566 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
1567 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
1568 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
1569 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
1570 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
1571 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
1572 extended-colors configuration.
1573 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
1574 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
1575 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
1578 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
1580 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
1581 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
1582 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
1584 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
1585 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
1586 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
1589 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
1590 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
1594 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
1595 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
1596 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
1597 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
1598 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
1599 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
1600 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
1601 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
1602 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
1606 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
1607 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
1608 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
1609 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
1612 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
1614 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1615 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
1616 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
1619 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
1620 making those separately distributable.
1621 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
1622 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
1626 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
1629 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
1630 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
1631 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
1632 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
1636 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
1637 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
1638 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1639 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1642 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
1643 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
1644 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
1645 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
1647 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
1648 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
1649 by Miroslav Lichvar)
1650 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
1654 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
1655 that line-drawing works.
1656 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
1657 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
1658 capabilities can run.
1659 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
1663 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
1664 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
1665 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
1666 before older in the list.
1667 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
1668 + minor documentation cleanup.
1669 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1670 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
1671 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
1674 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
1675 most common case of SGR 0.
1676 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
1677 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
1678 events remain, it will return ERR.
1681 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
1682 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
1683 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
1684 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
1685 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
1688 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
1689 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
1690 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
1693 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
1694 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
1695 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
1696 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
1697 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
1698 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
1701 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
1702 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
1703 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
1704 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
1705 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
1707 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
1709 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
1711 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
1712 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1713 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
1715 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1716 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
1719 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
1720 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
1722 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
1723 writing terminfo entries.
1724 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
1725 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
1726 by Nicholas Marriott).
1729 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
1731 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
1732 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
1736 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
1737 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
1738 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
1739 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
1740 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
1744 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
1745 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
1746 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
1747 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1750 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
1751 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
1752 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
1753 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
1754 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1755 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
1756 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
1759 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
1760 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
1761 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
1762 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
1763 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
1764 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
1765 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
1766 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
1767 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
1768 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
1769 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
1772 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
1773 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
1774 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
1775 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD bin/136223).
1778 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
1779 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
1782 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
1783 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
1784 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
1788 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
1789 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
1790 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
1791 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
1792 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
1794 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
1795 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
1798 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
1799 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
1800 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
1801 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
1802 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
1803 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
1805 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
1806 library (some work remains for forms library).
1809 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
1810 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
1811 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
1812 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
1814 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
1815 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
1816 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
1817 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
1820 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
1821 by sharing linedata.h functions):
1824 test/test_addchstr.c
1825 test/test_add_wchstr.c
1826 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
1827 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
1828 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
1831 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
1833 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
1834 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
1835 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
1836 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
1840 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
1841 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
1842 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
1843 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1846 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
1847 amd64 (Debian #542031).
1848 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
1851 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1854 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
1855 broken in 20090509 merging.
1856 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
1857 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
1858 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
1859 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
1860 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
1861 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
1862 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
1863 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
1865 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1868 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
1869 implementation details of hash function.
1872 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
1873 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
1874 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
1877 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
1878 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
1879 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
1880 test/demo_terminfo.c
1881 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1882 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
1885 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
1886 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
1890 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1893 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
1895 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
1896 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
1897 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
1898 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
1899 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
1901 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
1902 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
1903 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
1906 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
1907 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
1908 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
1911 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
1912 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
1914 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1917 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
1918 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
1920 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
1921 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
1925 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
1926 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
1927 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1930 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
1933 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1936 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
1937 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
1938 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
1939 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1942 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1945 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
1946 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
1947 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
1948 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
1952 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1955 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1956 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
1959 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1962 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
1966 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1969 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1970 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
1971 part of the form library.
1974 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
1975 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
1978 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
1979 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
1980 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
1981 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
1982 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
1983 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
1984 a temporary variable.
1985 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
1986 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
1987 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
1988 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
1989 with Charles Wilson).
1990 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
1991 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
1992 > patches by Charles Wilson:
1993 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
1994 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
1995 digits, after the final '.').
1996 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
1997 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
1998 using that in the libtool link-commands.
1999 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
2000 from 2009031 changes.
2001 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
2002 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
2003 termlib) is to be linked.
2004 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
2005 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
2008 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
2009 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2010 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
2011 (report by Charles Wilson).
2012 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
2013 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2014 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
2015 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
2016 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
2019 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
2020 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
2021 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
2022 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
2023 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
2025 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2026 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
2027 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
2028 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
2029 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
2030 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
2031 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
2032 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
2035 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2036 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
2037 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
2040 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2043 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
2045 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
2046 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
2047 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
2048 some internals work is needed to complete these).
2049 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
2052 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
2053 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
2054 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
2055 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2056 + make it work with $DESTDIR
2057 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
2060 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
2061 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
2063 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
2064 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
2065 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
2068 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
2069 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
2070 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
2071 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
2072 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
2073 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
2074 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
2075 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
2076 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
2079 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
2080 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
2082 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
2084 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
2085 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
2088 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
2090 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
2091 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
2092 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
2093 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2096 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
2097 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
2098 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
2100 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
2101 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
2104 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
2105 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
2106 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
2107 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
2108 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
2109 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
2111 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
2112 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
2114 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2115 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2118 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
2119 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
2120 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
2123 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
2124 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
2125 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
2127 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
2128 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
2131 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
2133 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
2134 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
2135 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
2137 + fixes from NetBSD port at
2138 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
2139 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
2140 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
2141 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
2142 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
2144 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
2145 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
2148 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
2149 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
2150 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
2151 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
2152 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
2153 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
2154 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
2155 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
2156 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
2157 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
2158 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
2161 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
2162 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
2163 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
2164 passing color or video attributes.
2165 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
2166 display meta-characters.
2167 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
2168 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
2169 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
2170 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
2174 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
2175 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2176 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
2178 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
2181 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
2183 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
2184 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
2186 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2189 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
2190 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
2191 does not work well on that platform).
2192 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
2195 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
2196 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
2197 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
2199 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
2200 --disable-database is used.
2201 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
2202 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
2203 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
2204 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
2208 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
2209 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
2210 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
2211 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
2212 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
2213 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
2214 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
2218 + regenerated html documentation.
2219 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
2220 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
2221 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
2222 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
2223 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
2224 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
2225 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
2226 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
2229 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
2230 works for C/C++ parts).
2231 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
2232 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
2235 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
2236 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
2237 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
2238 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
2239 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
2240 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
2241 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
2242 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
2243 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
2245 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
2246 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2247 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
2248 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
2249 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
2250 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
2253 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
2254 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
2257 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
2258 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
2259 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
2260 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
2261 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
2262 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
2265 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
2266 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
2269 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
2273 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
2274 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
2275 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
2276 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
2278 + update test/configure script.
2279 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
2280 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
2281 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
2282 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
2283 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
2286 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
2287 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
2289 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
2291 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
2292 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
2293 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
2294 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
2295 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
2296 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
2297 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2298 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2299 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
2302 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
2303 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
2304 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
2305 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
2306 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
2307 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
2308 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
2309 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
2310 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
2311 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
2312 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
2316 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
2317 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
2318 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
2319 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
2320 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
2322 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
2323 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
2324 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
2325 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
2326 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
2329 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
2330 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
2331 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
2332 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
2333 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
2334 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
2335 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
2338 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
2342 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
2345 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
2348 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
2349 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
2351 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
2352 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
2353 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
2357 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
2358 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
2360 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
2361 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
2362 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
2363 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
2366 + regenerated html documentation.
2367 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
2368 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
2369 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
2370 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
2371 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
2374 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
2375 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
2376 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
2380 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
2381 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
2382 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
2383 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
2384 window which is being used in a wgetch().
2385 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
2388 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
2389 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
2391 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
2392 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
2393 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
2394 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
2395 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
2396 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
2397 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
2398 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
2399 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
2402 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
2403 screen which must be updated.
2404 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
2405 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
2406 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
2410 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
2411 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
2413 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
2414 Emanuele Giaquinta).
2415 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
2416 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2419 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
2420 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
2421 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
2423 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
2427 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
2428 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
2429 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
2432 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
2433 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
2434 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
2435 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
2438 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
2439 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
2441 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
2443 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
2446 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
2447 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
2448 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
2449 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
2450 python-dev2 mailing list).
2453 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
2454 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
2455 are not associated with a particular screen.
2456 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
2457 stdscr to the callback function.
2458 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
2459 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
2460 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2461 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
2462 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
2463 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2464 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
2468 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
2469 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
2470 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
2471 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
2473 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
2474 wide-characters with extended-colors.
2475 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
2476 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
2477 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
2480 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
2481 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
2482 that the 'F' accepts.
2483 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
2484 are working concurrently.
2485 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
2489 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
2490 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
2491 _nc_free_and_exit().
2494 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
2495 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
2498 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
2499 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
2502 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
2503 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
2504 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
2505 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
2508 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
2509 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
2510 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
2511 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
2512 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
2513 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
2515 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
2516 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
2520 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
2521 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
2522 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
2525 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
2526 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
2527 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
2530 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
2531 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
2532 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
2536 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
2537 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
2538 "link_test" builds properly.
2539 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
2540 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
2541 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
2542 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
2543 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
2544 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
2545 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
2547 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
2550 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
2554 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
2555 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
2558 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
2560 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
2561 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
2562 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
2565 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
2566 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
2567 pierre4d2 comments).
2568 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
2569 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
2570 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
2571 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
2575 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
2576 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
2577 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
2578 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
2579 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
2581 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
2582 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
2583 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
2587 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
2588 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
2591 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
2593 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
2595 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
2599 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
2600 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
2602 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
2603 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
2604 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
2605 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
2606 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
2608 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
2609 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
2612 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
2613 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
2614 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
2615 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2618 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
2619 calls within the ncurses library.
2620 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
2622 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
2623 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
2624 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
2626 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
2627 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
2628 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
2629 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
2630 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
2633 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
2634 for threaded library (incomplete).
2635 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
2636 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
2640 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
2641 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
2642 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
2643 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
2644 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
2645 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
2646 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
2647 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2648 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2651 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
2653 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
2654 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
2657 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
2658 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
2659 "\0" followed by a digit.
2660 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
2661 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
2662 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
2663 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
2664 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
2665 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
2666 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
2667 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
2668 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
2671 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
2672 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
2673 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
2674 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
2675 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
2677 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
2678 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
2679 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
2683 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
2684 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
2685 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
2686 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
2687 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
2688 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
2689 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
2690 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
2691 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
2694 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
2695 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
2696 + add test/test_getstr.c
2697 + add test/test_inwstr.c
2698 + add test/test_instr.c
2701 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
2702 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
2703 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
2707 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
2708 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
2709 ".log" to the name and try again.
2710 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
2711 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
2712 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
2713 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
2714 --disable-echo option is used.
2715 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
2716 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
2717 + update config.guess, config.sub
2720 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
2721 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
2722 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
2726 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
2727 problems with multi-column characters.
2728 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
2729 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
2730 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
2731 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
2732 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
2733 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
2734 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
2737 + add test/demo_panels.c
2738 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
2741 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
2743 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
2744 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
2747 + add test/key_name.c
2748 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
2749 + update test/configure
2750 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
2751 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
2752 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
2756 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
2757 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
2758 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
2759 illustrate how to use mvcur().
2760 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
2761 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
2762 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
2763 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
2764 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
2767 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
2768 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
2769 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
2770 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
2771 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
2772 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
2775 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
2776 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
2778 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
2779 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
2780 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
2781 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
2784 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
2785 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
2786 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
2787 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
2789 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
2791 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
2792 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
2793 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
2794 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
2795 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
2798 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
2799 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
2801 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
2802 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
2803 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
2804 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
2805 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
2806 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
2807 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
2808 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
2809 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
2810 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
2811 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
2814 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
2815 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
2816 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
2817 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
2818 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
2819 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
2820 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
2823 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
2824 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
2825 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
2826 Ada95 tree is not built.
2829 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
2830 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
2831 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
2832 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
2833 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
2834 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
2836 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
2837 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
2838 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
2839 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
2840 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
2841 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
2842 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
2843 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2844 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
2845 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
2846 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
2847 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
2848 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
2849 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
2850 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
2851 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
2852 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
2853 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
2854 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
2856 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
2857 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
2858 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
2859 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
2860 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
2861 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
2862 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
2863 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
2864 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
2867 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
2868 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
2869 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
2870 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
2871 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
2872 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
2873 + improved install-sh's quoting.
2874 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
2878 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
2879 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
2880 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
2881 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
2882 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
2886 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
2887 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
2888 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
2889 in the configure script to an error.
2890 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
2891 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
2892 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
2893 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
2894 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
2896 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
2897 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
2900 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
2901 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2904 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
2905 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
2907 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
2908 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
2909 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
2910 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
2911 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
2912 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
2913 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
2914 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
2917 + regenerated html documentation.
2918 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
2919 opaque in selected configurations.
2920 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
2921 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
2922 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
2923 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
2924 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
2925 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
2926 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
2927 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
2928 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
2929 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
2930 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
2932 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
2933 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
2936 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
2937 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
2938 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
2939 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
2940 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2941 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
2942 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
2943 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
2944 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
2945 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
2946 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
2947 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
2950 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
2952 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
2953 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
2954 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
2956 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
2957 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2958 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
2959 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2960 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
2961 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2962 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
2963 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
2965 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
2966 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2969 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
2970 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
2972 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
2974 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
2975 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
2976 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
2979 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
2980 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
2981 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
2982 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
2984 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
2985 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
2986 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
2987 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
2988 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
2989 no longer relies on it.
2990 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
2991 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
2992 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
2995 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
2996 (report by Rong-En Fan).
2999 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
3000 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
3001 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
3002 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
3003 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
3004 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
3005 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
3006 its license consistent with ncurses.
3007 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
3008 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
3009 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
3012 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
3013 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
3014 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
3015 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
3019 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
3020 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
3021 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
3023 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
3024 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
3027 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
3028 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
3029 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3032 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
3033 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
3034 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
3035 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
3036 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
3037 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
3038 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
3039 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
3040 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
3041 to manpages as needed.
3042 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
3043 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
3046 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
3047 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
3048 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
3049 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
3050 + update config.guess, config.sub
3052 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3055 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
3056 definitions in <wchar.h>.
3057 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
3058 correct nor portable.
3059 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
3061 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
3062 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
3066 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
3067 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
3068 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
3069 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
3070 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
3071 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
3074 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
3075 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
3076 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
3077 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
3079 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
3080 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
3081 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
3082 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
3083 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
3084 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
3085 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
3086 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
3089 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
3090 database configuration.
3091 + updates for test/configure script.
3092 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
3093 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
3095 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
3096 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
3097 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
3098 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
3100 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
3101 _nc_printf_string().
3102 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
3103 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
3106 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
3107 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
3109 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
3110 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
3114 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
3115 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
3118 + add test/echochar.c
3119 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
3120 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
3123 + add AUTHORS file -TD
3124 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
3125 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
3126 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
3129 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
3130 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
3131 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
3133 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
3134 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
3135 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
3136 for rpath support in versions past 3.
3137 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
3138 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
3139 Ralf S Engelschall).
3140 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
3141 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
3142 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
3143 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
3146 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
3147 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
3148 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
3151 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
3152 and status line (Alain Bench).
3153 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
3154 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
3155 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
3156 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
3159 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
3160 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
3161 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
3162 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
3163 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
3166 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
3167 + updated html documentation.
3168 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
3169 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
3172 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
3173 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
3174 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3175 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
3176 option (from lynx changes) -TD
3177 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
3178 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
3179 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
3180 by report by Christopher Parker).
3184 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
3185 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
3186 since it does not really do this -TD
3189 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
3190 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
3191 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
3192 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
3195 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
3196 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
3197 embedded into a termcap description.
3198 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
3199 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
3200 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
3201 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
3202 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
3205 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
3207 + add test/foldkeys.c
3210 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
3211 source output (Debian #378783).
3212 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
3213 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
3214 variable is also used (Redhat #199369).
3215 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
3216 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
3217 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
3220 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
3221 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
3222 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
3225 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
3226 or as a text file if those are not available.
3227 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
3228 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
3229 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
3232 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
3233 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
3234 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
3235 + update config.guess, config.sub
3238 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
3239 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
3240 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
3242 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
3243 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
3245 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
3246 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
3247 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
3248 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
3249 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
3250 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
3252 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
3253 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
3254 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
3255 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3258 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
3259 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
3263 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
3264 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
3266 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
3267 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
3268 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
3269 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
3270 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
3271 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
3274 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
3275 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
3276 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
3277 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
3278 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
3279 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
3280 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
3281 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
3282 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
3283 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
3286 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
3287 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
3288 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
3289 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
3291 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
3294 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
3295 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
3296 + minor copyright fixes.
3297 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
3300 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
3301 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
3302 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
3303 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
3304 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
3305 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
3306 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
3307 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
3309 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
3310 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
3311 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
3312 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
3314 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
3317 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
3318 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
3320 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
3321 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
3322 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
3323 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
3325 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
3326 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
3327 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
3328 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
3331 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
3332 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
3333 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
3334 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
3335 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
3336 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
3337 + update config.guess, config.sub
3338 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
3339 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
3340 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
3341 function is broken in that implementation.
3344 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
3345 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
3348 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
3349 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
3351 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
3352 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
3354 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
3355 reported to implement this feature -TD
3358 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
3359 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3362 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
3363 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
3364 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
3365 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
3366 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
3367 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
3368 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
3369 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
3372 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
3373 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
3375 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
3376 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
3379 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
3380 (report by Alain Bench).
3381 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
3382 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
3383 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
3384 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
3386 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
3387 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
3388 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
3392 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
3393 and/or video attributes.
3394 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
3395 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
3398 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
3401 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
3402 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
3403 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
3404 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
3405 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
3406 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
3407 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
3408 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
3409 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
3412 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
3413 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
3414 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
3417 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
3418 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
3419 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
3420 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
3421 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
3422 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
3423 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
3424 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
3425 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
3426 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
3429 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
3430 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
3431 rather than delayed.
3432 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
3434 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
3435 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
3436 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
3439 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
3441 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
3442 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
3445 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
3446 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
3449 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
3450 + suppress line-drawing
3451 + implement max_attributes
3453 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
3454 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
3458 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
3459 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
3461 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
3463 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
3464 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
3465 etc., when allocating screens.
3468 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
3469 this in test/filter.c
3470 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
3474 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
3475 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
3476 + add extension nofilter().
3477 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
3478 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
3479 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
3480 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
3481 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3484 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
3485 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
3486 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
3487 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
3488 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
3489 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
3490 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
3491 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
3492 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
3494 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
3495 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
3496 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
3498 + update config.guess and config.sub
3501 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
3502 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
3503 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
3505 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
3506 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
3507 that was never built in that directory).
3508 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
3511 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
3513 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
3514 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
3518 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
3519 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
3520 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
3521 effect of the different functions.
3522 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
3526 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
3527 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
3529 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
3533 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
3534 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
3535 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
3537 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
3538 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
3542 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
3543 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
3544 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
3546 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
3547 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
3548 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
3551 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
3552 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
3553 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
3556 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
3557 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
3558 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
3560 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
3561 a derived window (Debian #316663).
3564 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
3565 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
3566 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
3567 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
3568 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
3569 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
3570 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
3573 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
3574 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
3575 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
3577 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
3578 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3579 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
3580 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
3581 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
3583 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3586 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
3589 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
3590 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
3594 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
3595 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3596 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
3597 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3598 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
3600 + update config.guess and config.sub from
3601 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3604 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
3605 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
3606 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
3607 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
3608 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
3609 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
3610 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
3611 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
3612 default if it is used.
3613 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
3614 --with-abi-version option was used.
3615 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
3616 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
3617 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
3620 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
3621 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
3622 handlers (Debian #326709).
3625 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
3626 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
3628 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
3631 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
3632 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
3633 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
3634 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
3636 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
3637 (report by Frank van Vugt).
3640 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
3641 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
3642 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
3643 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
3644 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
3645 + update llib-l* files.
3648 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
3649 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
3650 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
3651 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
3655 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
3656 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
3657 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
3658 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
3659 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
3660 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
3661 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
3662 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
3663 Konstantin Andreev).
3666 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
3667 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
3668 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
3669 several related cases -TD
3670 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
3671 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
3673 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
3674 resets line-drawing.
3677 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
3679 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
3680 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
3681 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
3682 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
3683 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
3684 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
3687 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
3688 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
3689 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
3691 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
3692 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
3695 + update config.guess and config.sub from
3696 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3697 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
3698 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
3699 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
3700 "make install.data" step.
3701 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
3702 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
3703 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
3704 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
3705 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
3706 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
3707 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
3708 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
3709 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
3710 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
3711 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
3712 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
3713 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
3714 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
3717 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3720 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
3721 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
3722 review of Debian package).
3723 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
3724 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
3725 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
3726 install using libtool 1.5.0):
3727 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
3729 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
3730 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
3731 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
3732 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
3733 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3736 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
3737 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
3738 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
3741 + fixes for termcap support:
3742 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
3743 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
3744 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
3745 extended names data will be freed consistently.
3746 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
3748 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
3749 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
3750 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
3751 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
3754 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
3755 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
3756 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
3757 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
3759 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
3763 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
3765 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
3766 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
3769 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
3770 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
3771 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
3772 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
3773 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
3774 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
3775 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
3779 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
3780 shift-, control-cursor keys.
3781 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
3782 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
3783 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
3784 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
3785 it will automatically be treated as a key.
3786 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
3787 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
3788 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
3792 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
3793 + add configure option --enable-largefile
3794 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
3798 + update config.guess, config.sub
3799 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
3800 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
3801 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
3802 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
3803 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
3805 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
3806 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
3807 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
3810 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
3811 position the mouse to a particular item.
3812 + implement test/demo_menus.c
3813 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
3814 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
3815 --enable-const option.
3818 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
3819 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
3820 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
3821 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
3822 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
3823 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
3824 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
3825 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
3826 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
3827 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
3828 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
3831 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
3833 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
3834 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
3837 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
3838 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
3839 anyone used that configuration.
3840 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
3842 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
3843 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
3846 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
3847 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
3848 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
3850 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
3851 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
3852 WenRui, Debian #300512).
3855 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
3856 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
3857 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
3861 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
3862 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
3863 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
3864 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
3865 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
3868 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
3870 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
3872 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
3873 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
3874 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
3877 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
3879 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
3880 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
3881 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
3882 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
3883 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
3884 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
3885 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
3886 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
3887 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
3888 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
3889 right (cf: 20040228).
3890 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
3891 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
3894 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
3895 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
3896 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
3897 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
3898 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
3899 added (Debian #295083).
3900 + add traces to panel library.
3903 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
3904 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
3905 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
3906 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
3907 mouse events in this case.
3908 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
3909 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
3912 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
3913 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
3914 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
3915 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
3916 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
3917 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
3918 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
3919 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
3922 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
3923 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
3924 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
3925 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
3926 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
3927 already been started.
3928 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
3929 pair_content() and color_content().
3930 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
3931 if it corresponds to the default-color.
3932 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
3933 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
3934 color pairs which are allowed.
3935 + add a top-level tags rule.
3938 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
3939 first calling initscr().
3940 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
3941 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
3942 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
3943 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
3944 that are curses-specific.
3945 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
3946 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
3947 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
3948 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
3952 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
3953 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
3954 for leading whitespace.
3955 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
3956 where a following line begins in column 1.
3957 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
3958 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
3961 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
3964 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
3965 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
3966 + update config.guess, config.sub
3967 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
3968 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
3969 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
3970 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
3971 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
3972 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
3973 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
3976 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
3978 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
3979 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
3982 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
3983 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
3984 and attr_set functions.
3987 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
3988 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
3989 forms-demo to be one character short.
3990 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
3991 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
3992 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
3993 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
3996 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
3997 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
3998 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
3999 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
4001 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
4002 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
4005 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
4006 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
4007 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
4008 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
4009 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat #140326).
4010 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
4011 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
4013 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
4014 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
4016 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
4017 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
4020 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
4021 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
4022 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
4023 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
4024 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
4025 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
4026 wide-character configuration.
4029 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
4030 or multicolumn characters.
4033 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
4034 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
4035 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
4036 use_default_colors() be called first.
4039 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
4040 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
4041 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
4042 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
4043 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
4044 must be wrapped to a new line.
4045 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
4046 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
4047 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
4048 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
4049 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
4053 + minor fixes for traces.
4054 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
4055 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
4056 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
4060 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
4061 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
4062 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
4063 and shift-out which seem to work.
4064 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
4065 at runtime (Debian #110586).
4068 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
4069 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
4070 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
4071 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
4075 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
4076 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
4077 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
4078 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
4081 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
4082 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
4083 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
4084 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
4085 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
4086 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
4087 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
4088 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
4089 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
4090 is no longer experimental.
4091 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
4092 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
4095 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
4098 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
4099 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
4100 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
4101 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
4102 using "tic -C" (Redhat #130921).
4103 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
4104 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
4105 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
4108 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
4109 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
4110 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
4111 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
4112 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
4113 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637).
4114 The xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and
4115 the new ones do not require this change. -TD
4118 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
4119 and window managers (Debian #265631).
4120 > terminfo updates -TD
4121 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
4122 with the common usage of bce/ech
4123 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
4127 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
4128 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
4129 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
4130 a help window as well.
4131 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
4132 the -d option is set.
4133 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
4136 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
4138 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
4139 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
4143 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
4144 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
4145 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
4146 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat #122815, patch by
4148 > terminfo updates -TD
4149 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
4150 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
4151 + add function-keys to decansi
4152 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
4153 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
4154 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
4157 > terminfo updates -TD
4158 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
4159 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
4161 + review/update konsole entries
4162 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
4163 + correct tsl string in kterm
4166 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
4169 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
4170 multibyte character.
4171 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
4173 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
4174 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
4175 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
4176 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
4177 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
4178 converting termcap to termcap format.
4179 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
4180 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
4181 > terminfo updates -TD
4182 + minor fixes for emu
4184 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
4189 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
4190 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
4191 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
4192 (report/patch by Tony Li).
4193 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
4194 > terminfo updates -TD
4195 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
4197 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
4198 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
4199 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
4202 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
4203 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
4205 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
4206 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
4207 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
4208 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
4209 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
4210 + update config.guess, config.sub
4211 > terminfo updates -TD
4213 + add xterm-xf86-v44
4214 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
4215 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
4220 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
4221 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
4222 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
4225 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
4226 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
4227 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
4229 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
4233 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
4234 field_buffer() results.
4235 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
4238 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
4240 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
4241 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
4242 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
4243 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
4244 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
4247 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
4248 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
4249 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
4253 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
4254 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
4256 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
4259 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
4260 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
4261 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
4262 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
4263 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
4264 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
4265 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
4266 information without an option.
4267 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
4268 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
4271 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
4274 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
4275 + free some memory leaks in tic.
4276 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
4277 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
4278 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
4279 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
4280 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
4282 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
4285 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
4286 to an unsigned char.
4287 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
4288 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
4291 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
4294 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
4295 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
4296 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
4297 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
4298 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
4299 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
4300 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
4301 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
4302 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
4303 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
4304 20030802 (Debian #237629).
4307 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
4308 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
4309 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
4310 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
4313 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
4315 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
4316 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
4319 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
4320 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
4321 mode is shown in that test.
4322 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
4323 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
4324 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
4327 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
4329 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
4330 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
4331 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
4332 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
4334 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
4335 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
4336 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
4337 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
4340 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
4341 (request by Mike Aubury).
4342 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
4344 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
4346 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
4349 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
4350 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
4351 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
4352 with Stanislav Ievlev).
4353 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
4354 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
4355 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
4356 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
4357 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
4358 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
4360 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4363 20040207 pre-release
4364 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
4365 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
4366 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
4367 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
4368 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
4370 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
4371 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
4372 verified by Scott Corscadden).
4374 20040131 pre-release
4375 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
4376 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
4377 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
4378 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
4379 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
4380 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
4381 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
4382 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
4383 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
4384 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
4385 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
4387 20040125 pre-release
4388 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
4389 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
4390 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
4391 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
4392 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
4393 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
4394 modifying the displayed value.
4396 20040124 pre-release
4397 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
4398 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
4399 that works better for cross-compiling.
4401 20040117 pre-release
4402 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
4403 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
4404 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
4405 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
4406 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
4407 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
4408 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
4410 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
4411 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
4413 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
4414 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
4415 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
4416 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
4417 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
4418 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
4419 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
4420 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
4421 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
4422 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
4423 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
4424 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
4426 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
4427 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
4428 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
4429 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
4430 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
4431 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
4432 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
4433 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
4435 20040110 pre-release
4436 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
4437 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
4439 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
4440 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
4442 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
4444 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
4445 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
4446 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
4447 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
4448 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
4451 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
4452 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
4453 + add pecho_wchar().
4454 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
4455 available) on older platforms.
4458 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
4459 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
4460 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
4461 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
4462 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
4463 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
4464 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
4465 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
4466 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
4469 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
4470 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
4471 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
4472 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
4473 work with Tru64 4.0d.
4474 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
4478 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
4479 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
4480 applications do not.
4481 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
4482 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
4483 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
4484 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
4485 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
4486 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
4490 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
4491 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
4492 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
4493 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
4494 <inger@altlinux.org>).
4495 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
4496 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
4497 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
4498 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
4499 awkward for some cases.
4500 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
4501 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
4503 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
4504 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
4505 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
4506 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
4507 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
4511 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
4512 values (Philippe Blain).
4513 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
4514 restarting (Philippe Blain).
4515 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
4519 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
4520 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
4521 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
4522 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
4523 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
4524 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
4528 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
4529 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
4530 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
4532 + update config.guess, config.sub
4535 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
4536 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
4537 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
4538 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
4539 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
4540 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
4541 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
4543 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
4544 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
4545 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
4546 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
4547 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
4550 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
4551 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
4552 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
4553 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
4554 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
4555 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
4556 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
4557 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
4559 + regenerated html documentation.
4560 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
4561 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
4562 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
4565 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
4566 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
4567 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
4568 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
4569 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
4570 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
4571 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
4572 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
4576 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
4577 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
4580 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
4581 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
4582 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
4583 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
4585 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
4586 (report by Philippe Blain).
4589 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
4590 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
4591 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
4592 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
4593 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
4594 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
4595 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4596 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
4597 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
4599 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
4601 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
4602 in the clr_bol logic.
4605 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4606 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
4607 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
4608 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
4609 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
4610 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
4611 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
4612 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
4613 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
4614 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
4615 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
4616 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
4619 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
4620 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
4621 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
4622 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
4625 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
4626 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
4627 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
4628 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
4629 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
4630 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
4631 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
4632 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
4633 --with-install-prefix is used.
4636 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4637 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
4638 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
4639 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
4642 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
4643 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
4644 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
4645 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
4646 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
4647 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
4648 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4649 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
4650 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
4653 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
4654 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
4655 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
4656 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
4657 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
4658 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
4659 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
4662 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
4664 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4665 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
4666 the size of the scroll-region.
4667 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
4670 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
4671 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
4672 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
4676 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
4677 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
4678 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
4679 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
4680 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
4682 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
4683 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
4684 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
4685 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
4686 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
4687 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
4688 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
4689 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
4690 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
4691 usage and to prevent circular links.
4692 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
4693 (rxvt-color): new alias
4694 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
4695 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
4696 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
4697 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
4698 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
4699 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
4701 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
4705 + update config.guess, config.sub
4706 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
4707 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
4710 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
4711 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
4712 would not accept gcc warning options.
4713 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
4714 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
4715 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
4716 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
4717 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
4718 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
4719 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
4721 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
4724 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
4725 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
4726 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
4727 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
4728 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
4729 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
4730 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
4731 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
4734 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
4736 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
4737 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
4738 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
4739 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
4742 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
4744 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
4745 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
4746 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
4747 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
4748 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
4749 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
4752 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
4753 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
4754 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
4755 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
4756 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
4757 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
4758 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
4759 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
4761 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
4762 Albert Chin-A-Young).
4763 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
4764 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4767 + regenerated html manpages.
4768 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
4769 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
4771 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
4772 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
4774 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
4775 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
4778 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
4779 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
4780 + add tkterm entry -TD
4781 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
4782 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
4783 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
4784 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
4786 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
4787 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
4788 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
4790 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
4791 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
4792 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
4795 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
4796 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
4797 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
4798 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
4800 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
4801 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
4802 current test programs.
4803 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
4804 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
4805 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
4806 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
4808 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
4809 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
4810 mentioned in the terminfo.
4811 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
4812 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
4815 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
4816 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
4817 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
4818 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
4819 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
4820 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
4821 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
4822 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
4825 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
4826 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
4827 the editing position before making modifications.
4828 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
4829 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
4830 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
4833 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
4834 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
4835 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
4836 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
4838 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
4839 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
4840 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
4841 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
4842 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
4843 terminfo as is done in "screen".
4846 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
4847 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
4848 code, from recent rewrite.
4849 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
4851 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
4852 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
4855 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
4856 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
4857 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
4858 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
4861 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
4862 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
4864 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
4867 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
4869 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
4870 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
4872 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
4873 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
4874 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
4877 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
4878 a file when ^W is given.
4879 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
4883 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
4884 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
4885 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
4886 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
4887 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
4888 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
4889 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
4890 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
4894 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
4895 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
4896 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
4899 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
4900 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
4901 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
4902 baudrate was not known.
4903 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
4904 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
4905 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
4906 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
4907 corresponding capability might be
4909 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
4910 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
4911 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
4912 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
4915 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
4916 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
4917 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
4918 apparently typedef'd.
4919 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
4920 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
4923 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
4924 + updated configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
4925 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
4926 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
4927 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
4928 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
4929 cached for reallocating.
4932 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
4933 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
4934 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
4936 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
4937 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
4938 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
4939 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
4940 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
4941 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
4942 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
4943 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
4946 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
4947 emx-base to the latter -TD
4948 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
4949 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
4952 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
4953 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
4954 attributes, e.g., reverse.
4955 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
4956 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
4959 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
4960 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
4961 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
4962 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
4963 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
4964 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
4965 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
4967 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
4968 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
4969 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
4970 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
4971 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
4974 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
4975 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
4976 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
4977 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
4978 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
4979 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
4981 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4982 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
4983 is indeed a "blank".
4984 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
4985 sections as small as one line.
4986 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
4988 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
4989 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
4990 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
4993 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
4994 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
4997 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
4998 (report by Philippe Blain).
4999 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
5000 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
5001 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
5002 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
5003 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
5005 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
5006 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
5007 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
5008 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5009 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
5010 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
5013 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
5014 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
5016 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
5017 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
5019 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
5020 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
5021 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
5022 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
5025 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
5026 overridden from the environment.
5027 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
5028 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
5029 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
5030 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
5031 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
5032 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
5033 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
5034 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
5035 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
5036 by Sam Varshavchik).
5037 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
5038 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
5039 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
5040 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
5042 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
5043 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
5044 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
5045 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
5046 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
5049 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
5050 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
5051 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
5052 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
5053 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
5054 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
5055 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
5056 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
5057 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
5058 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
5059 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
5060 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
5061 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
5062 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
5063 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
5064 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
5065 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
5066 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
5067 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
5068 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
5069 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
5070 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
5071 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
5074 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
5075 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
5076 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
5077 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
5078 winsch() internal function.
5079 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
5080 more than one spacing character.
5083 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
5084 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
5085 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
5086 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
5087 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
5088 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
5089 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
5090 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
5091 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
5092 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
5095 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
5096 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
5097 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
5098 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
5099 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
5100 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
5101 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
5104 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
5105 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
5106 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
5107 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
5109 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
5110 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
5111 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
5112 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
5113 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
5116 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
5117 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
5118 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
5119 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
5120 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
5121 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
5122 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
5123 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
5124 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
5125 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
5126 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
5127 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
5128 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
5129 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
5130 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
5131 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
5132 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
5135 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
5136 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
5137 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
5138 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
5139 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
5140 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
5141 Frederic L W Meunier).
5143 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5144 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
5145 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
5146 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
5147 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
5148 the debug trace in that case.
5149 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
5150 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
5151 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
5152 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
5154 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
5155 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
5157 20021005 pre-release
5158 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
5159 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
5160 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
5161 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
5162 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
5163 formats such as "%.*s".
5164 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
5165 (report Floyd Davidson).
5166 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
5168 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
5169 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
5170 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
5172 20020928 pre-release
5173 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
5174 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
5175 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
5177 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
5178 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
5179 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
5180 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
5181 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
5182 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
5183 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
5184 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
5185 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
5186 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
5187 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
5188 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
5189 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
5190 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
5191 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
5192 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
5193 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
5194 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
5195 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
5197 20020921 pre-release
5198 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
5199 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
5200 result in core dump.
5201 + documented getbegx(), etc.
5202 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
5203 delimiter rather than '@'.
5204 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5205 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
5206 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
5207 to the lines given for the destination window.
5209 20020914 pre-release
5210 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
5211 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
5212 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
5213 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
5214 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
5215 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
5216 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
5217 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
5218 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5219 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
5220 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
5221 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
5223 20020907 pre-release
5224 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
5225 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
5226 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
5227 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
5228 html manpages on Debian.
5229 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
5230 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
5231 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
5232 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5233 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
5234 a variable from the stack.
5235 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
5237 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
5238 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
5239 _idcok window fields.
5240 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
5242 20020901 pre-release
5243 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
5244 + update config.guess, config.sub
5245 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
5246 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
5248 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
5249 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
5250 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
5251 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
5252 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
5253 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
5254 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
5255 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
5256 use in resizeterm().
5257 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
5258 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
5259 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
5260 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
5261 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5262 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
5263 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
5264 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
5265 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
5266 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
5267 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
5271 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
5272 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
5273 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
5274 + fix an overlooked case for Redhat #68199 (Philippe Blain).
5275 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
5276 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
5279 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
5280 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
5281 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
5283 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
5284 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
5285 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
5286 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
5287 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
5289 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
5290 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
5294 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
5295 when translating to termcap.
5296 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
5297 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
5298 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
5300 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
5302 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
5303 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
5305 + document TABSIZE variable.
5306 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
5307 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
5308 assume_default_colors().
5309 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
5311 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
5312 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
5313 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
5314 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
5315 window (completes Debian #87678, Debian #101699)
5318 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
5320 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
5321 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
5323 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
5324 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
5325 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
5328 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
5330 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
5333 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
5334 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
5335 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
5336 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
5337 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
5338 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
5339 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
5340 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
5341 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
5342 configure definitions.
5343 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
5344 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
5345 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
5346 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
5347 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
5348 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
5349 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
5350 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
5351 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
5352 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
5353 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
5356 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
5357 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
5358 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
5359 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
5360 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
5361 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
5362 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
5364 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
5365 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
5366 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
5367 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5370 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
5371 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
5372 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
5373 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
5375 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
5376 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
5377 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
5380 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
5381 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
5383 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
5384 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
5385 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
5387 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
5388 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
5389 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
5390 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
5392 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
5393 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
5394 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
5395 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
5399 + add charset to generated html.
5400 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
5401 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
5402 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
5403 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
5404 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
5405 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
5409 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
5410 key code in get_wch().
5411 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
5412 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
5413 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
5414 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
5415 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
5416 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
5419 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
5420 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
5422 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
5423 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
5424 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
5425 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
5428 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
5429 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
5430 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
5431 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
5432 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
5433 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
5434 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
5435 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
5436 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
5437 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
5440 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
5444 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
5445 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
5446 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
5447 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
5448 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
5449 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
5450 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
5453 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
5454 character versions as well.
5455 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
5457 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
5459 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
5460 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
5461 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
5462 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
5463 if gettimeofday() is available.
5466 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
5467 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
5470 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
5472 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
5473 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
5474 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
5475 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
5476 + update config.guess, config.sub
5479 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
5480 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
5481 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
5482 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
5483 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
5484 alias for 'function'.
5487 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
5488 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
5492 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
5493 + implement wgetn_wstr().
5494 + implement win_wchnstr().
5495 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
5496 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
5499 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
5500 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
5503 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
5504 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
5507 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
5508 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
5509 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
5511 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
5512 + implement unget_wch().
5513 + implement wget_wch().
5516 + regenerated html manpages.
5517 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
5518 + implement wins_wch().
5519 + implement win_wch().
5520 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
5523 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
5524 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
5527 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
5528 + document wunctrl, key_name.
5529 + implement key_name().
5530 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
5532 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
5536 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
5537 in spurious symlinks on install.
5540 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
5541 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
5542 box() and box_set() functions.
5543 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
5544 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
5545 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
5546 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
5547 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
5548 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
5549 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
5551 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
5553 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
5554 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
5555 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
5556 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
5558 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
5559 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
5562 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
5563 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
5565 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
5569 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
5571 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
5572 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
5573 Albert Chin-A-Young).
5574 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
5575 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
5576 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5577 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
5578 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
5579 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
5580 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
5581 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
5582 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
5583 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
5584 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
5585 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
5588 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
5589 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
5592 + update config.guess, config.sub
5593 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
5594 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
5597 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
5598 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
5599 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
5601 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
5602 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
5604 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
5605 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
5606 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
5607 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
5610 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
5613 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
5614 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
5615 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
5616 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
5617 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
5618 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
5619 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
5620 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
5621 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
5623 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
5624 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
5625 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
5627 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
5629 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
5630 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
5631 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
5632 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
5633 work with SunOS nawk.
5634 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
5636 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
5637 case it uses multiple tokens.
5640 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
5641 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
5642 interrupted by that signal.
5643 + updated configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
5644 not needed with autoconf 2.52
5645 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
5646 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
5648 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
5649 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
5650 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
5651 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
5652 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
5655 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
5657 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
5658 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
5659 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
5660 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
5661 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
5662 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
5663 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
5664 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
5667 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
5668 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
5669 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
5670 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
5671 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
5672 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
5673 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
5674 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
5675 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
5678 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
5679 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
5680 may have different keypad() settings.
5681 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
5682 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
5683 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
5684 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
5685 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
5686 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
5687 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
5688 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
5690 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
5691 + update config.guess, config.sub from
5692 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
5693 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
5697 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
5699 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
5700 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
5701 implementation in cygwin package).
5702 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
5703 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
5705 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
5706 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
5707 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
5708 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
5709 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
5710 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
5711 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
5712 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
5713 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
5715 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
5716 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
5717 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
5718 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
5719 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
5720 <jevans@apple.com>).
5721 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
5722 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
5723 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
5724 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
5725 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
5729 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
5730 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
5731 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
5732 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
5733 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
5734 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
5735 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
5736 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
5737 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
5738 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
5741 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
5744 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
5745 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
5746 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
5747 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
5748 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
5751 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
5752 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
5755 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
5756 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
5757 + implement wecho_wchar()
5758 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
5759 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
5760 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
5762 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
5763 in a trace by using curly braces.
5764 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
5765 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
5766 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
5767 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
5770 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
5771 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
5772 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
5773 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
5774 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
5778 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
5779 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
5780 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
5781 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
5782 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
5783 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
5784 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
5785 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
5789 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
5790 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
5791 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
5792 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
5793 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
5794 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
5795 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
5796 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
5797 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
5800 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
5801 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
5804 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
5805 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
5806 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
5807 <bbraun@synack.net>).
5808 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
5809 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
5811 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
5812 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
5814 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
5815 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
5818 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
5819 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
5820 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
5821 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
5822 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
5824 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
5825 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
5827 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
5828 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
5829 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
5830 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
5831 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
5834 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
5835 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
5837 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
5838 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
5839 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
5840 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
5843 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
5844 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
5845 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
5846 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
5847 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
5851 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
5852 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
5853 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
5855 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
5857 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
5859 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
5861 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
5862 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
5863 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
5864 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
5865 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
5866 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
5867 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
5868 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
5869 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
5873 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
5874 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
5875 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
5876 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
5877 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
5878 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
5879 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
5880 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
5881 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
5882 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
5884 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
5885 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
5886 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5887 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
5888 supports xterm mouse controls.
5889 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
5890 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
5891 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
5892 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
5893 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
5894 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
5895 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
5896 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
5897 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
5898 AX in a color xterm.
5899 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
5903 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
5904 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
5905 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
5906 + added llib-ncursesw.
5909 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
5910 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
5911 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
5912 header files (report by William P Setzer).
5913 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
5914 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
5915 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
5916 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5917 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
5918 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
5919 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
5920 Albert Chin-A-Young).
5921 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
5922 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5923 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
5924 obsolete with QNX RTP.
5925 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
5926 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
5927 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
5928 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
5931 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
5932 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
5933 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
5936 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
5937 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
5938 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
5939 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
5940 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
5941 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
5942 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
5943 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
5944 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
5945 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
5946 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
5947 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
5951 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
5952 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
5953 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
5954 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
5955 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
5956 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
5957 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5960 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
5961 new wide-character structures.
5962 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
5963 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
5964 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
5965 compiling for wide-character configuration.
5966 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
5970 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
5972 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
5973 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
5974 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
5976 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
5977 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
5978 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
5981 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
5982 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
5983 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
5986 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
5987 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
5988 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
5989 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
5990 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
5991 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
5992 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
5995 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
5996 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
5997 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
5998 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
5999 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
6000 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
6001 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
6002 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
6003 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
6006 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
6007 which may be in libutf8.
6008 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
6009 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
6010 links (Debian #99550).
6011 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
6012 C++ vscan code (Debian #97945).
6013 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
6014 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
6015 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
6016 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
6017 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
6018 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
6021 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
6022 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
6025 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
6026 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
6027 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
6028 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
6029 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
6031 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
6032 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
6033 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
6034 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
6035 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
6036 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
6037 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
6038 are used to manipulate attributes.
6039 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
6040 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
6041 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
6042 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
6043 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
6044 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
6046 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
6047 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
6048 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
6049 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
6050 we are using chtype data.
6051 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
6053 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
6055 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
6056 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
6057 where a pointer would be more useful.
6058 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
6059 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
6060 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
6061 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
6062 passing cchar_t's by address.
6063 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
6064 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
6065 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
6066 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
6067 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
6068 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
6069 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
6070 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
6073 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
6074 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
6075 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
6076 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
6077 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
6079 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
6080 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
6081 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
6084 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
6085 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
6086 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
6087 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
6088 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
6089 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
6090 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
6091 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
6092 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
6093 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
6094 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
6095 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
6098 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
6099 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
6100 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
6103 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
6104 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
6107 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
6108 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
6109 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
6110 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
6111 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
6114 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
6115 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
6116 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
6117 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
6118 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
6119 <bsittler@iname.com>).
6120 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
6121 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
6122 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
6123 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
6124 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
6127 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
6128 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
6129 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
6130 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
6131 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
6132 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
6133 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
6134 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
6135 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
6136 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
6137 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
6138 any shots there, but the computer did.
6139 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
6140 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
6144 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
6145 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
6146 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
6147 3.09.08 (Debian #92215).
6148 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
6149 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6152 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
6153 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
6154 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
6155 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
6156 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
6158 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
6160 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
6161 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
6163 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
6165 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
6166 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian #89222).
6169 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
6170 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
6171 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
6172 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
6173 interface from C++ binding.
6174 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
6175 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
6176 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
6177 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
6179 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
6180 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
6181 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
6182 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
6185 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
6186 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
6187 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
6188 (patch by Todd C Miller).
6191 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
6194 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
6198 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
6199 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
6200 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
6201 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
6202 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
6203 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
6204 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
6205 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
6206 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
6207 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
6208 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
6209 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
6212 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
6213 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
6215 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
6216 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
6217 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
6218 did not do this already.
6219 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
6220 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6221 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
6222 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
6223 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
6224 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
6225 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
6226 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
6229 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
6230 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
6233 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
6234 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
6235 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
6236 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
6238 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
6240 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
6241 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
6243 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
6244 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
6245 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
6246 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
6247 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
6250 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
6251 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
6252 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
6253 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
6256 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
6257 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
6258 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
6261 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
6262 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
6263 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
6264 work with 'indent') -TD
6267 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
6268 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
6269 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6270 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
6271 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
6273 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
6274 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
6275 termcap and terminfo functions
6276 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
6280 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
6281 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
6282 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
6283 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
6284 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
6285 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
6287 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
6288 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
6289 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
6290 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
6291 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
6292 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
6293 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
6294 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
6297 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
6298 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
6299 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
6300 /usr rather than /usr/local.
6303 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
6304 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
6305 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
6306 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
6308 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
6309 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
6310 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
6311 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
6312 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
6313 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
6314 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
6315 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
6318 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
6319 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
6320 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
6321 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
6322 + change trace output to binary format.
6323 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
6324 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
6325 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
6326 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
6327 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
6328 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
6329 the overwrite logic.
6332 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
6333 + resync config.guess, config.sub
6334 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
6335 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
6336 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
6337 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
6339 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
6340 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
6343 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
6344 + update generated html files from manpages.
6345 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
6347 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
6348 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
6349 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
6350 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
6351 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6352 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
6353 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
6354 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
6357 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
6358 wrapping at the right margin.
6359 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
6360 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
6361 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
6363 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
6364 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
6365 understands how to run tbl automatically.
6366 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
6367 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
6368 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
6369 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
6370 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
6371 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
6372 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
6373 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
6374 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
6375 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
6376 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
6377 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
6378 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
6379 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
6380 option --with-libtool.
6381 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
6382 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
6383 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
6384 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
6385 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
6388 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
6389 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
6390 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
6391 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
6392 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
6393 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
6394 > patch by Todd C Miller:
6395 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
6396 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
6397 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
6398 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
6399 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
6400 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
6401 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
6402 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
6403 to set up a 3-button mouse.
6404 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
6405 replace select() call.
6408 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
6409 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
6410 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
6411 Albert Chin-A-Young).
6412 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
6413 cursor report before decoding.
6414 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
6415 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
6416 (see assume_default_colors()).
6417 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
6418 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
6420 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
6421 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
6422 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
6424 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
6425 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
6426 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
6427 for that capability.
6428 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
6429 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
6430 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
6431 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
6432 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
6433 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
6436 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
6437 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
6438 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
6439 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
6440 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
6441 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
6442 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
6443 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
6444 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
6446 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
6447 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
6448 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
6449 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
6450 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
6451 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
6452 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6455 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
6456 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
6457 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
6458 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
6459 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
6461 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
6462 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
6463 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
6464 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
6465 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
6466 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
6467 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
6468 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
6469 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
6470 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
6471 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
6472 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
6473 the expected number of parameters.
6474 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
6475 the option value is indeed a number.
6476 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
6477 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
6478 from the other signals.
6481 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
6482 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
6483 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
6486 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
6487 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
6489 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
6490 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
6491 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
6493 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
6494 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
6495 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
6496 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
6497 character set attribute from the displayed text.
6498 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
6499 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
6500 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
6501 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
6502 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
6503 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6506 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
6507 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
6508 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
6509 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
6510 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
6511 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
6512 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6513 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
6514 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
6515 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
6517 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
6518 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
6520 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
6521 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
6522 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
6523 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
6524 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
6525 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
6528 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
6529 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
6530 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
6531 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
6532 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
6533 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
6534 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
6535 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
6536 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
6537 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6538 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
6539 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
6540 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
6541 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
6542 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
6544 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
6545 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
6546 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
6549 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
6550 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
6551 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
6552 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
6554 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
6555 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
6556 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
6557 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
6558 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
6559 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
6560 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
6562 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
6563 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
6564 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
6565 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
6566 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
6567 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
6568 a default program-prefix.
6569 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
6570 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
6573 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
6574 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
6575 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
6576 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
6577 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
6578 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
6579 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
6580 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
6581 although the name is misleading).
6582 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
6583 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
6584 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
6585 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
6588 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
6589 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
6590 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
6592 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
6593 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
6595 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
6596 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
6597 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
6599 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
6600 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
6601 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
6602 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
6603 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
6604 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
6605 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
6606 test/configure script.
6607 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
6608 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
6609 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
6612 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
6615 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
6616 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
6617 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
6618 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
6619 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
6621 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
6622 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
6623 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
6625 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
6626 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
6629 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
6630 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6631 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
6632 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
6633 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
6634 there's still the explicit configure option).
6635 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
6636 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
6637 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
6638 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
6639 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
6640 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
6641 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
6642 simplify working around implementations that define random
6643 combinations of the related macros to zero.
6644 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
6645 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
6646 > patches by Bruno Haible:
6647 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
6648 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
6649 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
6650 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
6654 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
6655 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6656 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
6657 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
6658 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
6659 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
6660 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
6661 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
6662 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
6663 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
6664 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
6665 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
6666 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
6667 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
6670 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
6671 + document configure options in INSTALL.
6672 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
6673 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
6674 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
6675 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
6676 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
6677 list of generated functions.
6678 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
6679 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
6680 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
6682 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
6683 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
6684 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
6685 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
6686 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
6688 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
6689 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
6690 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
6691 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
6692 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
6693 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
6694 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
6695 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
6696 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
6697 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
6698 examples cited in announce.html
6699 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
6700 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
6701 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
6702 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
6703 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
6704 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
6705 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
6706 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
6709 20000701 pre-release
6710 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
6711 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
6712 $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
6713 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
6714 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
6715 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
6717 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
6719 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
6721 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
6722 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
6723 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
6724 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
6725 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
6727 20000624 pre-release
6728 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
6729 that happen to render the same display colors.
6730 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
6731 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
6732 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
6733 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
6734 normalized value for cursor_address.
6735 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
6738 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
6739 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
6740 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
6741 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
6742 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
6743 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
6744 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
6745 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
6746 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
6747 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
6748 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
6749 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
6750 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
6754 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
6755 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
6756 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
6757 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
6758 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
6759 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
6760 allows larger symbol tables.
6761 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
6762 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
6763 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
6764 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
6768 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
6769 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
6770 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
6771 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
6772 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
6773 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
6774 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
6775 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
6776 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
6777 + add a "make libs" rule.
6778 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
6779 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
6780 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
6781 with existing ncurses libraries.
6784 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
6785 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
6786 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
6787 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
6788 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
6789 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
6790 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
6791 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
6792 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
6793 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
6794 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
6795 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
6796 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
6797 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
6800 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
6801 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
6802 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
6803 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
6807 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
6808 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
6810 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
6811 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
6812 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
6815 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
6816 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
6817 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
6818 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
6819 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
6821 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
6822 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
6823 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
6824 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
6825 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
6826 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
6827 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
6828 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
6831 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
6833 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
6834 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
6835 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
6836 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
6837 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
6838 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
6839 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
6840 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
6841 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
6842 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
6843 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
6844 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
6847 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
6848 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
6849 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
6850 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
6851 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6852 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
6853 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
6854 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
6855 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
6856 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
6857 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
6858 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
6859 means that it will not recur for that special case.
6860 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
6861 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
6862 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
6863 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6866 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
6867 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
6868 bg300-rv in esr's version.
6869 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
6870 (fixes Debian #61088).
6871 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
6872 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
6873 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
6876 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
6877 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
6878 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
6879 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
6880 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
6883 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
6884 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
6885 improvement in setting default colors.
6886 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
6887 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
6888 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
6890 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
6891 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
6892 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
6893 check for buffer overflow.
6894 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
6895 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
6896 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
6897 such as "infocmp -Fa".
6900 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
6901 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
6902 is not permitted in termcap.
6903 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
6904 integrating 20000318.
6907 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
6908 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
6909 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
6910 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
6912 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
6913 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
6914 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
6915 result for OS/2 EMX.
6916 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
6917 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
6918 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
6919 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
6920 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
6921 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
6924 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
6925 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
6926 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
6928 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
6929 displaying string capabilities.
6930 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
6931 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
6932 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
6933 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
6934 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
6935 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
6937 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
6938 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
6940 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
6941 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
6942 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
6943 may not produce the same result as before.
6944 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
6946 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
6947 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
6949 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
6950 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
6952 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
6953 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6954 + drop support for gnat 3.10
6955 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
6956 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
6959 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
6960 made it check only one entry at a time.
6961 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
6963 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
6964 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
6965 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
6966 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
6967 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
6968 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
6969 address out of bounds.
6970 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
6971 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
6972 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
6973 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
6975 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
6976 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
6977 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
6979 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
6982 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
6983 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
6984 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
6985 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
6987 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
6988 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
6989 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
6990 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
6991 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
6992 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
6994 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
6995 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
6996 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
6997 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
6998 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
6999 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
7000 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
7001 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
7004 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
7005 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7006 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
7007 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
7008 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
7009 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
7013 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
7014 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
7015 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
7016 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
7017 colors are white on black.
7018 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
7019 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
7020 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
7021 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
7022 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
7025 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
7026 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
7027 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
7028 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
7029 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
7030 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
7031 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
7032 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
7033 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
7034 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
7035 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
7038 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
7039 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
7040 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
7041 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
7042 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
7043 to wait indefinitely.
7046 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
7047 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
7048 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
7049 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
7050 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
7051 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
7052 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
7053 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
7054 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
7055 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7056 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
7057 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
7061 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
7062 programs build with c++/g++.
7063 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
7064 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
7065 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
7066 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
7067 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
7068 + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and
7069 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
7070 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
7073 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
7075 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
7076 terminfo entries -TD
7077 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
7078 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
7079 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
7080 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
7082 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
7083 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
7085 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
7087 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
7088 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
7089 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
7090 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
7091 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
7092 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
7093 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
7094 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
7095 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
7099 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
7100 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
7101 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
7102 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
7103 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
7104 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
7105 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
7106 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
7107 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
7108 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
7109 use_extended_names().
7112 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
7113 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
7114 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
7115 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
7116 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
7117 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
7118 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
7119 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
7120 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
7121 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
7122 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
7123 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
7124 + add manpage for infotocap
7127 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
7128 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
7129 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
7130 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
7132 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
7133 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
7134 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
7135 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
7136 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
7137 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
7138 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
7139 initc for xterm-88color.
7140 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
7144 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
7145 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
7147 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
7148 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
7149 SP, since it is part of that struct.
7150 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
7152 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
7153 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
7154 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
7155 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
7156 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
7157 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
7158 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
7159 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
7160 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
7162 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
7163 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
7164 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7165 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
7167 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
7170 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
7171 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
7172 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
7173 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
7174 over the use of default colors.
7175 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
7176 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
7177 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
7178 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
7179 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
7180 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
7181 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
7182 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
7185 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
7186 <robert@progplus.com>)
7187 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
7188 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
7189 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
7192 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
7193 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
7194 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
7196 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
7197 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
7198 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
7199 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
7200 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
7201 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
7202 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
7203 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
7204 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
7205 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
7206 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
7207 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
7209 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
7210 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
7213 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7214 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
7216 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
7217 (request by Bob van der Poel).
7218 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
7219 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
7220 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
7221 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
7222 libraries by default.
7223 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
7225 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
7226 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
7228 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
7229 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
7230 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
7231 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
7232 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
7233 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
7234 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
7236 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
7238 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
7239 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
7240 advice from Bela Lubkin).
7241 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
7242 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7243 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
7244 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
7245 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
7246 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
7249 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
7252 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
7253 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
7254 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
7255 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
7256 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
7257 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
7258 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
7259 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
7260 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
7261 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
7264 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
7265 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
7266 Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7267 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
7268 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
7269 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
7271 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
7272 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
7273 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
7274 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
7275 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
7276 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
7277 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
7278 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
7279 is used), and in color.
7280 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
7281 shared library rules.
7284 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
7285 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
7286 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
7287 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
7288 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
7289 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
7290 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
7291 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
7292 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
7293 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
7294 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
7295 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
7296 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
7297 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
7298 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
7299 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
7300 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7303 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
7304 <j@interface-business.de>).
7305 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
7306 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
7307 that hard-links work on Unix again.
7308 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
7309 Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
7310 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
7313 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
7314 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
7315 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
7316 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
7317 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
7318 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
7319 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
7320 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
7321 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
7322 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
7323 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
7324 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
7325 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
7328 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
7329 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
7330 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
7331 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
7332 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
7333 in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
7334 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
7335 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
7336 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
7337 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
7338 function works only for sockets.
7339 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
7340 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
7341 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
7342 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
7343 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
7344 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
7345 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
7346 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
7347 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
7348 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
7351 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
7352 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
7353 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
7354 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
7355 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
7356 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
7357 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
7360 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
7361 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
7362 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
7364 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
7365 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
7366 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
7367 nonfunctional link().
7368 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
7369 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
7372 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
7373 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
7374 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
7377 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
7378 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
7379 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
7380 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
7381 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
7382 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
7383 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7384 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
7385 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
7386 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
7387 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
7388 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
7389 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
7390 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
7391 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
7392 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
7393 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
7394 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
7395 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
7396 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
7399 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
7400 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
7401 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
7402 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
7403 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
7404 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
7405 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
7406 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
7407 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
7408 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
7409 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
7410 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
7411 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
7412 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
7413 short-circuit expression evaluation.
7414 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
7415 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
7417 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
7418 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
7419 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
7420 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
7421 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
7425 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
7426 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
7428 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
7429 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
7430 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
7433 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
7434 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
7435 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
7436 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
7437 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
7438 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
7439 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
7440 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
7442 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
7443 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
7444 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7447 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
7448 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
7449 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
7450 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
7451 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
7452 --with-rcs-ids option.
7455 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
7456 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
7458 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
7459 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
7460 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
7464 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
7465 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
7466 BeOS predefines a bool type.
7467 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
7468 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
7469 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
7470 option to infocmp -TD
7471 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7472 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
7473 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
7474 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
7475 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
7476 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
7477 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
7480 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7481 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
7482 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
7483 + change interface version-number to 1.0
7484 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
7487 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
7488 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
7489 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
7490 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
7491 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
7492 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
7493 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
7494 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
7495 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
7496 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
7498 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
7499 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (prompted by
7500 discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
7503 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
7504 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
7505 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
7507 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
7508 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
7511 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
7512 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7513 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
7514 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
7515 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
7518 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
7522 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
7523 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
7524 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
7525 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
7526 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
7528 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
7529 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
7530 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
7531 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
7534 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
7535 fields, and showing forms within panels.
7536 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
7537 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
7538 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
7539 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
7540 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
7541 ownership may change).
7544 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
7546 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
7547 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
7548 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7549 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
7550 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
7551 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
7552 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
7554 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
7555 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
7556 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
7557 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
7558 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
7559 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
7562 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
7563 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
7565 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
7566 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
7567 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
7568 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7571 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
7572 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
7573 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
7574 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
7575 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
7576 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
7580 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
7581 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7582 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
7583 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
7584 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
7585 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
7586 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
7587 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
7590 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
7591 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
7592 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
7593 Alexander V Lukyanov).
7596 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
7597 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
7600 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the "-g" option.
7601 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
7602 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
7603 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
7604 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7605 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
7606 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
7607 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
7608 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
7609 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
7610 reset for the next newterm.
7611 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
7612 terminal has true SLKs.
7613 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
7616 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
7617 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
7618 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
7619 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
7620 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
7621 read of the extended capabilities.
7622 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
7623 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
7624 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
7625 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
7626 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
7627 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
7628 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
7629 throughout ncurses library.
7630 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
7631 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
7633 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
7634 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
7635 + regenerate some of the html documentation
7636 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
7639 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
7640 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
7641 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
7642 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD
7643 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
7645 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
7647 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
7648 defined for a keycode.
7649 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
7650 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
7651 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
7652 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
7653 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
7655 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7656 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
7657 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
7658 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
7660 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
7661 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
7663 + modify configuration scripts to
7664 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
7665 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
7666 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
7667 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
7668 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
7669 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
7670 + rename ada_include directory to src.
7673 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
7674 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
7675 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
7679 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
7680 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
7681 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
7682 though the problem is more general.
7683 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
7684 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
7685 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
7686 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
7688 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
7689 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
7690 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
7693 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
7694 Alexander V Lukyanov).
7695 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
7696 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
7697 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
7698 operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7699 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
7700 be any substring rather than the prefix.
7701 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
7702 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
7703 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
7704 has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
7705 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
7706 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
7707 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
7708 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
7709 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
7710 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
7711 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
7712 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
7713 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
7714 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
7715 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
7716 --with-shlib-version option.
7719 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
7720 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
7721 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
7722 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
7723 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
7724 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
7725 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
7726 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
7727 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
7728 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
7729 intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
7730 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
7731 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
7732 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
7733 source distribution.
7736 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
7737 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
7738 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
7740 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
7741 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
7742 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
7743 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
7744 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
7747 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
7750 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
7751 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
7752 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
7753 Alexander V Lukyanov).
7754 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
7755 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
7756 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
7757 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
7758 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7759 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
7760 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
7761 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
7762 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
7763 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
7765 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
7766 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
7767 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
7768 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
7771 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
7773 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
7774 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
7775 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
7776 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
7777 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
7778 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
7779 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
7780 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
7781 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
7782 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
7783 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
7784 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
7785 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
7786 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
7787 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
7788 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
7789 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
7793 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
7794 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
7795 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
7796 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
7797 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
7798 running screen built with ncurses.
7799 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
7800 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
7801 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
7804 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
7807 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
7808 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
7809 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
7810 by a Debian bug report).
7811 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
7812 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
7814 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
7815 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
7816 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
7817 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
7821 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
7822 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
7823 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
7824 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
7825 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
7826 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
7827 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
7828 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
7829 (reported by H.J.Lu).
7832 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
7833 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
7834 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
7835 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
7836 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
7837 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
7838 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
7839 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
7840 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
7841 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
7842 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7843 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
7845 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
7846 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
7848 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
7850 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
7852 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
7853 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
7857 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
7858 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
7859 address rather than its length.
7860 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
7861 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
7862 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
7863 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
7864 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
7865 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
7866 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
7867 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
7868 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
7869 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
7872 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
7873 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
7875 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
7876 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
7877 for an older version of ncurses.
7878 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
7879 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
7880 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
7881 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
7882 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
7883 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
7884 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
7885 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
7886 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7887 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
7888 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
7889 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
7891 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
7892 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
7895 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
7896 (request by Larry Virden).
7897 > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
7898 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
7899 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
7900 changes to ncurses library.
7901 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
7902 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
7903 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
7904 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7905 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
7906 + some Ada95 cosmetics
7907 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
7908 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
7909 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
7912 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
7913 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
7914 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
7915 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
7916 proposed changes to ncurses library.
7917 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
7918 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
7919 broken configure scripts.
7922 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
7924 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
7925 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
7926 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
7928 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
7929 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
7933 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
7934 with --srcdir option.
7935 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
7936 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
7937 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
7938 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
7939 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
7940 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7943 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
7944 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
7945 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
7947 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
7948 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
7949 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
7950 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
7951 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
7952 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
7953 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
7954 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
7957 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
7958 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7961 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
7962 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
7963 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
7964 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
7965 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
7966 some older entries - TD
7967 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
7968 since that is a little more efficient.
7969 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
7970 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
7971 + add "-g" option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
7972 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
7973 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
7974 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
7976 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
7978 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
7979 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
7981 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
7982 + use format string for printing strings.
7983 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
7986 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
7987 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
7988 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
7989 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
7990 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
7991 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
7992 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
7993 > patches by Todd C Miller:
7994 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
7995 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
7996 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
7997 dealing with env variables again.
7998 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
7999 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
8000 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
8001 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
8002 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
8003 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
8004 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
8005 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
8006 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
8007 newhash data to SP struct.
8008 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
8009 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
8010 function's parameter which is deleted.
8011 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
8012 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
8013 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
8014 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
8018 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
8019 consistent treatment.
8020 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
8021 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
8022 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
8023 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
8026 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
8027 capability name, as in SVr4.
8028 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
8029 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
8030 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
8033 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
8034 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
8035 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
8036 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
8037 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
8038 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
8039 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
8040 > from esr's terminfo version:
8041 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
8042 + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
8043 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
8046 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
8047 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
8048 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
8049 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
8050 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
8051 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
8052 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
8053 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
8054 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
8055 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
8059 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
8060 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
8061 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
8062 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
8063 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
8066 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
8067 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
8071 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
8072 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
8073 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
8074 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
8075 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
8076 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
8077 as obtained via ioctl.
8080 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
8081 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
8082 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
8083 turning attributes off.
8084 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
8085 initializing multiple screens.
8086 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
8087 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
8088 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
8091 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
8092 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
8093 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
8094 with Solaris curses).
8095 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
8096 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
8097 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
8098 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
8099 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
8100 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
8101 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
8102 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
8105 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
8106 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
8107 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
8108 (request by QingLong).
8109 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
8110 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
8111 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
8112 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
8114 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
8115 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
8116 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
8117 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
8118 otherwise simply exit with an error.
8121 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
8122 "_g" for a debug build).
8123 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
8124 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
8125 compile/link working Ada95 program.
8126 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
8127 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
8128 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
8129 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
8130 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
8131 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
8135 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
8136 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
8137 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
8138 corresponds to vt100.
8139 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
8140 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
8143 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
8144 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
8145 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
8146 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
8147 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
8148 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
8149 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
8150 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
8151 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
8152 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8155 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
8156 several minor errors/omissions.
8157 + implement tparm %l format.
8158 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
8160 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
8163 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
8164 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
8165 to be written to large screens.
8166 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
8167 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
8168 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
8169 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
8170 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
8172 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
8173 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8174 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
8175 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
8178 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
8180 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
8182 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
8183 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
8184 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
8185 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
8186 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
8187 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
8188 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
8190 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
8191 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
8193 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
8196 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
8197 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
8198 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
8199 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
8200 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
8201 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
8202 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
8203 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
8204 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
8205 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
8208 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
8209 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8210 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty
8211 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
8212 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
8213 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
8214 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
8215 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
8216 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
8217 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
8218 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
8219 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
8220 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
8223 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
8224 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
8225 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
8226 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
8227 which contains a colon in the description field.
8228 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
8229 from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
8230 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
8232 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
8233 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
8236 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
8237 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
8239 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
8240 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
8241 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
8242 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
8243 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
8244 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
8245 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
8246 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
8247 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
8248 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
8249 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
8250 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
8251 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
8252 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
8253 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
8254 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
8255 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
8256 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
8257 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
8258 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
8259 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
8260 comparisons out of inner loop.
8263 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
8264 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
8265 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
8266 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
8267 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
8268 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
8269 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
8270 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
8271 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
8273 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
8274 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
8275 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
8278 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
8279 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
8280 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
8281 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
8282 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
8283 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
8284 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
8285 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
8286 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
8287 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
8290 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
8291 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
8292 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
8293 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
8295 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
8296 avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
8297 by Juergen Pfeifer).
8300 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
8301 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
8304 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
8305 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
8306 uses them when they are available.
8307 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
8308 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
8309 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
8310 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
8312 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
8315 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
8316 declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
8317 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
8318 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
8320 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8321 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
8322 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
8323 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
8324 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
8325 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
8326 use --disable-overwrite).
8327 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
8328 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
8329 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
8330 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
8331 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
8332 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
8333 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
8334 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
8335 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
8339 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
8340 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8341 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
8342 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
8343 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
8344 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
8345 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
8346 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
8348 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
8349 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
8350 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
8351 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
8353 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
8354 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
8355 parameter according to XSI.
8356 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
8357 reflect above enhancements.
8360 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
8361 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
8362 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
8363 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
8365 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
8367 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
8369 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
8370 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
8371 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
8374 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
8375 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
8376 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8377 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
8378 <claesg@algonet.se>).
8379 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
8380 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
8383 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
8384 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
8385 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
8387 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
8388 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
8389 by Florian La Roche).
8390 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
8391 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
8392 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
8393 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8396 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
8397 distributions, though it is retained in development.
8398 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
8400 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
8401 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
8402 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
8403 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
8404 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
8407 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
8409 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
8410 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
8411 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
8412 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
8413 This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
8414 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
8416 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
8417 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
8418 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
8420 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
8421 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
8422 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
8425 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
8426 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
8428 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
8429 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
8431 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
8433 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
8435 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
8437 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
8438 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
8439 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
8440 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
8441 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
8443 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
8444 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
8446 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
8447 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
8448 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
8449 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
8450 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
8451 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
8452 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
8453 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
8454 turn off attributes inconsistently.
8457 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
8458 test for no_color_video.
8459 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
8461 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
8462 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
8463 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
8465 > from reports by Fred Fish:
8466 + add configure-test for isascii
8467 + add configure-test for -lm library.
8468 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
8469 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
8470 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
8471 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
8472 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
8473 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
8474 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
8476 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
8477 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
8479 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
8480 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
8481 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
8482 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
8483 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
8486 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
8487 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
8489 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
8491 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
8492 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
8493 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
8495 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
8496 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
8498 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
8500 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
8501 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
8502 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
8503 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8504 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
8505 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
8506 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8507 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
8508 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
8509 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
8510 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
8511 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
8512 fields are also always inactive.
8513 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
8514 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
8517 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
8518 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
8519 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
8520 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
8521 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
8522 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
8523 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
8524 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
8525 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
8528 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
8529 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
8530 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
8531 defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
8532 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
8534 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
8535 Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
8536 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
8537 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
8538 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
8539 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
8540 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
8541 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
8542 cross-platform compatibility.
8543 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
8544 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
8545 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8546 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
8548 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
8552 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
8553 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
8554 EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
8555 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
8556 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
8557 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
8558 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
8559 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
8560 that simply cannot scroll.
8561 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
8562 embedded \200 characters are matched.
8563 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
8567 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
8568 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
8569 functions from the build.
8570 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
8571 functions as a separate library.
8572 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
8573 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
8574 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
8575 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
8576 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
8577 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
8578 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
8579 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
8580 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
8582 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8583 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
8584 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
8587 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
8588 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
8590 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
8591 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
8592 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
8593 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
8596 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
8597 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
8598 + add configure check for 'tack'.
8599 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
8600 for Debian configuration.
8601 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
8603 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
8604 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
8606 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
8607 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
8608 case of wide characters in chtype.
8609 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
8610 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
8611 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
8614 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
8615 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
8616 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
8617 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
8618 have set root's umask to 077.
8619 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
8620 end of output when they had embedded comments.
8621 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
8622 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
8623 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
8624 correct logic for handling backslashes.
8625 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
8626 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
8627 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
8628 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
8629 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
8630 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
8632 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8633 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
8635 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
8636 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
8638 + resync of the html version of the manpages
8641 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
8642 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
8644 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
8645 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
8646 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
8647 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
8648 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8649 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
8650 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
8651 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
8655 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
8657 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
8658 comments from Daniel Weaver.
8659 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
8660 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
8661 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
8662 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
8664 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
8665 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
8666 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
8668 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
8669 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
8672 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
8676 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
8677 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
8678 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
8679 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
8680 in call to delay_output().
8681 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
8682 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
8683 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
8684 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
8685 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
8687 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
8688 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
8689 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
8690 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
8691 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
8692 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
8693 so that will work on NeXT.
8694 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
8695 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
8698 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
8700 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
8702 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
8703 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
8704 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
8705 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
8706 when that feature is not configured.
8707 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
8708 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
8709 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
8710 (this dates back to 951102, in 1.9.7a).
8711 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
8712 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
8713 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
8714 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
8717 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
8719 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
8720 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
8722 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
8724 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
8725 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
8728 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
8729 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
8730 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
8731 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
8732 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
8733 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
8734 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
8735 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
8736 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
8738 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
8739 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
8740 tputs() if called from that function.
8741 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
8742 tputs works when SP is not set.
8743 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8744 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
8745 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
8746 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation
8747 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
8748 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
8751 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
8752 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
8753 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
8754 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
8755 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
8756 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
8757 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
8758 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
8759 _nc_update_screensize().
8760 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
8762 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
8763 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
8764 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
8765 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
8766 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
8767 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8768 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
8769 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
8770 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
8771 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
8773 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
8777 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
8778 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
8779 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
8781 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
8782 click-interval without modifying it.
8783 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
8784 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
8786 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
8787 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
8788 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
8789 other ncurses headers.
8790 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
8791 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
8792 (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
8793 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
8794 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
8795 characters output in delay_output().
8796 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
8797 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
8798 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
8799 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
8800 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
8802 + typo in configure --help.
8803 > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
8804 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
8805 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
8806 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
8809 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8810 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
8813 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
8814 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
8815 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
8816 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
8817 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
8819 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
8820 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
8821 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
8822 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
8823 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
8824 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
8825 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
8826 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
8827 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
8828 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
8829 form (sorted, unique mapping).
8830 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
8831 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
8832 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8833 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
8834 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8835 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
8836 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
8837 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
8838 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
8839 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
8840 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
8841 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
8842 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8843 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
8845 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
8846 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
8847 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
8848 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
8849 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
8850 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
8854 + add 'deinstall' rules.
8855 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
8856 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
8857 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
8858 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
8859 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
8860 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
8862 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
8863 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8864 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
8866 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
8867 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
8868 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
8869 scripts are also provided.
8872 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
8874 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
8875 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
8876 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
8877 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
8878 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
8879 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
8880 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
8881 generating lint library.
8882 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
8884 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
8885 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
8886 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
8887 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
8888 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
8889 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
8890 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
8891 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
8892 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
8893 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
8895 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8896 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
8898 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
8900 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
8901 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
8902 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
8903 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
8904 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
8905 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
8906 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
8907 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
8908 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
8912 + modify rain.c to use color.
8913 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
8914 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
8915 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
8916 of configure cache variables in 970906.
8917 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
8918 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
8919 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
8920 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
8921 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
8922 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
8923 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
8924 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
8925 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
8926 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8927 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
8929 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
8930 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
8931 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
8932 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
8934 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
8935 NCursesWindow class.
8936 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
8937 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
8938 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
8939 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
8941 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
8942 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
8943 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
8944 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
8945 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
8946 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
8948 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
8949 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
8950 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
8951 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
8952 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
8953 already disconnected.
8954 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
8955 navigation requests.
8956 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
8957 case-insensitiva comparision routine.
8958 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
8959 forms field by index.
8960 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
8962 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
8963 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
8964 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
8965 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
8966 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
8967 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
8968 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
8969 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
8970 move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
8972 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
8973 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
8974 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
8976 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
8977 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
8978 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
8979 know that auto_right_margin is true.
8980 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
8981 shifting character to LR corner.
8982 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
8983 terminal right margin mode is known.
8984 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
8985 _nc_scroll_window().
8986 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
8987 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
8989 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
8990 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
8991 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
8992 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
8994 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
8995 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
8996 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
8997 the terminal window is resized.
9000 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
9001 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
9002 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
9003 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
9004 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
9005 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
9006 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
9007 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
9008 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9009 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
9010 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
9012 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
9013 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
9014 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
9016 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
9017 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
9019 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
9023 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
9024 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
9025 lib_printw.c functions.
9026 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
9027 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
9028 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
9029 force the screen to scroll.
9032 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
9034 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
9036 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
9037 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
9039 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
9040 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
9041 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9042 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
9043 was in the wrong order.
9044 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
9046 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
9048 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
9049 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
9050 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
9051 invoke wechochar() instead.
9052 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
9055 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
9056 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
9057 work properly when we add calls to that function.
9058 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
9059 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
9060 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9061 + several fixes to getch:
9062 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
9063 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
9064 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
9065 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
9067 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
9068 6. correctly handle the case of receiption of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
9069 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
9070 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
9071 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
9073 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
9074 line-breakout optimization
9075 + improve hashmap.c by
9076 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
9077 2. not marking lines with offset 0
9078 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
9079 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
9080 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
9081 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
9083 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
9084 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
9085 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
9086 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
9088 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
9090 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
9091 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
9092 stored/retrieved via set_term().
9093 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
9097 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
9098 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
9099 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
9101 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
9102 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
9103 before looking for (n)curses library.
9104 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
9105 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
9106 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
9107 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
9108 include ncurses_cfg.h
9109 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
9110 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
9111 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9112 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
9114 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
9115 common subexpressions.
9116 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
9117 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
9118 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
9119 against the background character.
9120 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
9121 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
9122 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
9123 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
9124 > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
9125 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
9126 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
9127 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
9128 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
9131 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
9132 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
9133 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
9134 terminal type ncr7900).
9135 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
9136 package is built with an install-prefix.
9137 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
9138 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
9139 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
9140 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
9141 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
9142 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
9143 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
9144 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
9145 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
9146 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9147 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
9148 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
9149 by Juergen Pfeifer).
9152 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
9153 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
9154 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
9155 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
9156 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
9157 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
9158 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
9159 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
9160 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
9161 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
9162 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
9165 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
9166 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
9167 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
9168 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
9169 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
9170 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
9171 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
9172 configuration of wide-characters.
9173 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
9174 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
9175 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
9176 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
9177 does not have getttynam().
9178 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
9179 + add table entries for 230400 and 460800 bd to baudrate() function.
9180 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
9181 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9182 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
9183 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9184 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
9185 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
9186 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
9187 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
9188 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
9192 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
9193 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9194 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
9195 options should be accompanied by a message.
9196 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
9197 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
9199 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
9201 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9202 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
9203 better when csr is not available.
9204 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
9205 after failure to scroll one.
9206 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
9207 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
9208 case and wrong string in TRACE.
9209 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9210 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
9214 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
9215 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
9217 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
9218 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
9219 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
9220 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
9221 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
9224 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
9225 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
9226 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
9228 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
9231 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
9232 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
9233 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
9234 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
9235 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
9236 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
9237 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
9238 (reported by Larry Virden).
9239 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
9240 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
9242 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9243 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
9244 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
9245 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
9249 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
9250 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
9251 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
9252 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
9253 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
9255 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
9256 terminfo description to the stored strings.
9257 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
9258 terminfo descriptions.
9259 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
9260 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
9261 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
9262 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
9263 option is a stopgap.
9264 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
9265 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
9268 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
9269 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
9270 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
9271 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
9272 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
9273 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
9277 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
9278 lines in curscr that are shifted.
9279 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
9280 than a series of function calls.
9281 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
9282 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
9283 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
9284 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
9285 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
9286 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
9287 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
9288 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9289 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9292 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
9293 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
9294 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
9295 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
9296 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
9297 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
9298 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
9299 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
9300 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
9301 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
9302 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
9303 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
9304 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
9305 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
9306 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9307 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
9308 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9309 + improve threshhold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
9310 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9313 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
9314 use only the fallback data.
9315 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
9316 terminal descriptions.
9317 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
9318 still assume there's an ncurses.h
9319 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
9320 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
9321 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
9322 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
9323 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
9324 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
9326 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
9327 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
9328 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
9329 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
9330 <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
9331 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
9332 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
9334 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
9336 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
9337 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
9339 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
9341 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
9342 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
9343 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
9344 original implementation (1.9.6).
9345 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
9346 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
9347 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
9348 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
9350 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
9351 SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
9352 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
9353 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
9354 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
9355 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9356 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
9357 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
9359 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
9360 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
9361 field is not possible.
9362 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
9363 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
9364 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
9365 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
9367 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
9368 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
9369 in forms/menus libraries.
9372 + add description of xterm-16color.
9373 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
9374 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
9376 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
9377 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
9378 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
9379 works properly w/o first doing "make".
9380 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
9381 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
9383 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
9384 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
9385 bounding box without tidying up).
9386 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
9387 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
9388 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
9390 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
9391 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9392 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
9393 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
9394 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9397 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
9398 option is specified.
9399 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
9400 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
9402 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
9403 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
9404 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
9405 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
9406 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
9407 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
9408 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
9409 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
9410 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
9411 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
9412 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
9413 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
9414 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
9415 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
9417 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
9418 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
9419 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9420 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
9421 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
9422 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9423 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
9424 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
9425 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9426 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
9427 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
9429 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
9431 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
9433 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
9434 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
9437 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
9438 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
9439 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
9440 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
9442 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
9443 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
9444 during a call to newwin.
9445 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
9446 is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
9447 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
9448 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
9449 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
9450 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9451 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
9452 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
9455 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
9456 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
9457 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
9458 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
9460 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
9463 970505 4.1 pre-release
9464 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
9466 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
9467 unnecessary recompiles.
9468 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
9469 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
9470 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
9471 overwrite of symbolic links.
9472 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
9473 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
9474 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
9475 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
9476 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
9477 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
9478 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
9479 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
9480 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
9481 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
9482 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
9483 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
9484 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
9485 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
9489 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
9490 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
9491 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
9493 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
9494 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
9495 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
9496 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
9497 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
9498 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
9499 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
9500 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
9501 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
9503 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
9504 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
9505 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
9506 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
9508 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
9509 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
9510 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9511 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
9512 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9513 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
9514 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9515 + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
9516 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
9517 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
9518 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9521 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
9522 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
9523 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
9524 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
9525 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
9526 original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
9527 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
9528 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
9529 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
9530 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
9531 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
9532 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
9533 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
9534 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
9535 or redefinition within an acsc string.
9536 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
9537 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
9539 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
9540 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
9543 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
9544 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
9545 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
9546 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
9547 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
9548 match SVr4 documentation.
9549 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
9550 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
9551 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
9554 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
9555 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
9556 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
9557 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
9558 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
9559 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
9560 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
9561 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
9564 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
9565 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
9566 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
9568 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
9569 --enable/--with values.
9570 + add configure option --enable-big-core
9571 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
9572 + check for C++ builtin.h header
9573 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
9574 parameter from the expression.
9575 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
9576 ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted from diffs by
9578 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
9579 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
9580 was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
9581 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
9582 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
9583 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
9586 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
9587 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
9588 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
9589 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
9590 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
9593 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
9594 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
9595 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
9596 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
9597 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
9598 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
9599 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
9600 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
9601 (reported by Ward Horner).
9602 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
9603 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
9606 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
9607 even if "make all" is not done first.
9608 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
9609 expanded functions with ATAC.
9610 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
9611 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
9615 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
9617 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
9619 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
9622 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
9623 addressing request by Ward Horner.
9624 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
9625 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
9626 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
9627 a pointer-increment.
9628 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
9632 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
9633 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
9635 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
9636 (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
9637 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
9638 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
9639 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
9640 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
9641 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
9642 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
9644 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
9645 (reported by Ward Horner)
9646 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
9647 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
9648 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
9649 (reported by Gary Johnson).
9650 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
9651 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
9652 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
9653 wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
9654 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
9655 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
9656 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
9657 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
9661 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
9662 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
9663 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
9664 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
9665 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
9666 (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9667 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
9668 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
9669 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
9670 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
9673 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
9675 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
9676 the returned buffer.
9677 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
9678 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
9679 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
9680 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
9682 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
9683 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
9686 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
9687 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
9688 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
9689 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
9691 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
9692 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
9695 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
9696 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
9698 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
9700 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
9701 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
9702 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
9703 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
9705 + modify _tracedump() to pad pad colors & attrs lines to match change
9706 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
9707 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
9708 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
9711 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
9712 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
9713 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
9714 that machine - T.Dickey.
9715 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
9716 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
9717 linking against static libraries.
9718 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
9720 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
9721 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
9722 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
9723 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
9725 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
9726 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
9727 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
9728 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
9729 Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
9732 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
9733 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
9734 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
9736 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
9737 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
9738 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
9739 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
9740 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
9741 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
9744 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
9746 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
9747 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
9748 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
9749 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
9750 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
9751 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
9752 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
9753 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
9754 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
9755 insert/delete line method.
9756 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
9757 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
9758 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
9759 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
9761 961229 (internal alpha)
9762 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
9763 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
9764 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
9765 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
9766 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
9767 there is data on stdin.
9768 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
9769 descriptors, needed for GPM.
9770 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
9771 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
9772 prevented patch from working properly -TD
9773 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
9774 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
9775 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
9776 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
9779 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
9780 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
9782 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
9785 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
9786 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
9787 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
9788 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
9790 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
9791 solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
9792 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
9793 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
9794 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
9795 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
9797 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
9798 i.e., set current directory before linking.
9799 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
9800 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
9801 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
9802 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
9803 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
9804 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
9805 Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
9806 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
9809 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
9810 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
9811 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
9812 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
9813 Solaris curses, which does this.
9816 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
9817 work with wider range of screen sizes.
9818 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
9819 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
9820 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
9822 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
9823 resize between endwin/refresh.
9824 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
9825 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
9826 terminal modes in 960907.
9827 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
9828 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
9830 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
9831 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
9832 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
9833 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
9834 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
9835 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
9836 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
9837 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
9838 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
9840 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
9841 (requested by Florian La Roche).
9842 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
9843 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
9844 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
9845 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
9846 by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9849 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
9852 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
9853 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
9854 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
9855 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
9856 data used in ncurses library.
9857 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
9858 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
9859 Alexander V Lukyanov).
9860 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
9861 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
9862 beta may not be interchangeable).
9863 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
9865 961130 1.9.9g release
9866 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
9870 > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
9871 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
9872 to avoid warning messages.
9873 + the panel overlap detection was broken
9874 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
9876 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
9880 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9881 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
9882 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
9883 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
9884 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
9887 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
9888 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
9889 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
9894 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
9896 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
9898 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
9901 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
9902 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
9903 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
9904 + add entry for color_xterm
9907 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
9908 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
9909 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
9910 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
9911 CANCELLED_STRING values.
9912 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
9913 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
9914 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
9915 delays when in autoplay mode.
9916 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
9917 Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
9919 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
9922 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
9923 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
9924 a spurious clear-screen.
9925 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
9926 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
9928 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
9929 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
9930 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
9934 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
9935 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
9936 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
9937 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
9938 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
9939 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
9941 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
9942 distribution, as stated)
9943 + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
9944 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
9945 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
9946 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
9947 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
9948 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
9949 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
9951 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
9952 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
9956 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
9957 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
9958 file (lib_screen.c).
9959 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
9960 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
9961 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
9962 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
9963 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
9964 rendered as octal constants.
9965 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
9966 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
9967 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
9968 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
9969 in the top-level command-parser.
9970 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
9971 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
9973 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
9974 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
9975 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
9978 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
9979 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
9980 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
9981 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
9982 (reported by Tim Mooney).
9983 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
9985 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
9989 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
9991 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
9995 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
9996 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
9998 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
9999 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
10000 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
10001 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
10002 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
10003 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
10004 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
10005 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
10006 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
10007 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
10009 + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
10010 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
10011 > patch #321 (ESR):
10012 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
10013 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
10014 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
10015 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
10018 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
10019 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
10020 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
10021 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
10022 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
10024 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
10025 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
10026 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
10027 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
10028 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
10029 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
10030 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
10031 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
10032 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
10033 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
10034 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
10035 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
10036 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
10038 + change ABI to 3.3
10039 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
10040 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
10041 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
10043 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
10044 Michael Elkins) - untested
10046 + correction to #317.
10048 + re-add _nc_hash_map
10049 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design
10050 (patch by A. Lukyanov).
10051 + modify test/ncurses.c and tputs, etc., to allow trace counting
10053 + add hashtest.c program to time the hashmap optimization.
10055 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
10057 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
10059 + merge changes to lib_doupdate.c to use ech and rep - untested
10060 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10061 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
10062 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
10063 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
10064 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
10067 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
10069 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
10070 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
10071 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
10072 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
10073 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
10075 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
10078 + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
10079 (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10080 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
10081 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10082 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
10083 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
10086 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
10087 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
10088 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
10089 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
10090 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
10091 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
10092 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
10093 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
10094 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
10095 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
10096 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
10097 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
10098 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
10099 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
10100 + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
10104 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10105 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
10106 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
10107 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
10109 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
10110 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
10111 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
10114 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
10115 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
10116 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
10119 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
10120 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10121 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
10122 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10125 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
10126 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
10127 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
10128 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
10129 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
10131 + add dtterm description
10132 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop mvwscanw subtest)
10135 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
10136 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
10137 + refine configure-test for "-g" option (Tim Mooney).
10138 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
10139 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
10142 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
10144 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
10146 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch (report
10150 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
10151 (reported by William P Setzer)
10152 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
10153 (reported by Tim Mooney).
10155 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
10156 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
10157 + updated qnx terminfo entry (patch by Michael Hunter)
10160 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
10162 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
10166 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
10167 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
10169 + terminfo changes (9.3.9), from BRL
10170 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
10171 + add more symbols to infocmp.
10174 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
10175 Juergen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
10176 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
10178 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
10179 null), and tests that use it.
10180 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
10181 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
10182 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
10184 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
10186 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
10187 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
10188 + fix option-processing bug in toe.
10191 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
10192 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
10193 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
10194 by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
10195 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
10196 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
10198 + enable more translations of nonstandard caps, and document them.
10199 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.8
10201 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
10202 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
10203 + cosmetic fixes to test/ncurses.c
10204 + modify open() call in ncurses/read_entry.c to use O_RDONLY symbol
10205 rather than constant (report by mib).
10206 + misc/terminfo.src sgr0 and acsc changes (report by Philippe De
10208 + modify ncurses/comp_parse.c so that entries containing a "+" can
10209 have missing rmcup vs smcup.
10212 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
10213 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
10214 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
10216 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
10217 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
10218 Philippe De Muyter).
10221 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
10222 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
10224 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
10225 (reported by Zeyd).
10226 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
10227 (reported by David MacKenzie).
10228 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
10229 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
10230 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
10231 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
10232 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
10233 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
10234 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
10237 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes.
10238 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.7 (report by A. Lukyanov).
10239 + modify man/Makefile.in to make terminfo.5 during normal build.
10241 + corrected allocation-length for $HOME/.terminfo path.
10244 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
10245 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
10246 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
10247 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
10248 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
10249 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
10250 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
10251 than function keys in 'g' test.
10252 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
10253 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
10254 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
10255 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
10257 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
10259 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
10260 msgwin needed scrollok set.
10261 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
10262 between PutRange and InsStr
10263 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
10264 MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
10266 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
10269 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
10270 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
10271 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
10273 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
10274 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
10275 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
10276 _yoffset to WINDOW).
10277 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
10278 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
10279 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
10280 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
10281 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
10282 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
10283 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
10284 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
10285 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
10288 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
10289 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
10290 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
10291 first entry in a list).
10292 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
10293 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
10296 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
10297 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
10298 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
10299 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
10300 with a shared-library configuration.
10301 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
10302 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
10303 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
10304 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
10305 builders to install into staging locations (requested by
10306 Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
10307 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
10309 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
10310 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
10311 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
10312 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
10313 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
10315 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
10316 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
10317 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
10318 invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10320 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
10321 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
10322 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
10324 + misc/ncurses-intro.html syntax fix (Kajiyama Tamito).
10327 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
10328 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
10329 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
10330 + added rules for lintlib, lint
10331 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
10332 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
10333 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
10334 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
10335 checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
10336 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
10337 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
10338 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
10339 + typos, don't use inline with "-g" (Philippe De Muyter)
10340 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
10343 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
10344 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
10345 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
10346 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
10347 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
10348 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
10350 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
10351 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
10352 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
10353 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
10355 + improve hash function (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10356 + 9.13.4 update for terminfo.src
10359 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
10360 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
10361 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
10362 <lav@yars.free.net>).
10363 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
10364 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
10365 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
10366 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
10368 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
10369 + html fixes (Phillippe de Muyter).
10370 + fix typo in ncurses-intro.html (report by Fabrizio Polacco).
10372 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
10373 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
10374 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
10375 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
10378 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
10382 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
10383 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
10384 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
10385 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
10386 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
10387 > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
10388 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
10389 + added TRACE_IEVENT
10390 + fix REQ_TOGGLE_ITEM in menu/menu_driver.c; it could select but not
10392 + added lib_print.c (request by Rick Marshall).
10393 + added has_key() (request by Juergen Pfeifer).
10394 + do not issue clrtoeol or clrtobot if the relevant portion of the line
10395 is already blank (analysis by Keith Bostic).
10396 + add parentheses for parameters of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER macros
10397 (analysis by Jurgen Eidt).
10398 + update screen's notion of cursor position in endwin() (analysis by
10399 Alexander Lukyanov).
10400 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
10401 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
10402 + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
10403 is not part of X/Open Curses).
10404 + removed boolean version of 'getm'.
10405 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
10408 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
10409 + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
10410 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
10411 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
10412 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
10413 "#include" if needed.
10416 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
10417 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
10420 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
10421 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
10422 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
10426 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
10427 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
10428 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
10429 > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
10430 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
10431 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
10432 + new "-e" and "-h" options of tic (request by Tony Nugent).
10433 + fix bug in mandatory-delay logic in lib_tputs.c (report by Sven
10435 + fix for "infocmp -e" to emit correct initializers (reported by Manual
10437 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c (report by Kayvan
10439 + use "-h" option on Solaris when generating shared libraries on
10440 Solaris 2.5 to record the library name in the file, for assisting
10441 the loader (patch by Scott Kramer).
10442 + undo patch #294 changes to form and menu libraries (request by
10447 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
10448 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
10449 K&R-style substitution)
10450 > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
10451 + rewrite wsyncup(), wsyncdown(), as well as small fixes to form and
10452 menu libraries to fix echo-breakage introduced by 1.8.9, 1.9.9e
10453 changes (patches by Juergen Pfeifer).
10454 + fix compile under QNX 4.2 by defining ONLCR in lib_raw.c when
10455 __QNX__ is defined (patch by Michael Hunter).
10456 + modify setupterm() to match documentation for its return value, fix
10457 newterm to work with this change (report by Emmet Lazich).
10458 + add checks in getch() for error, return ERR as appropriate (report by
10460 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode (report by Pete Seebach).
10461 + corrected askuser() logic in tset (patch by Remco Treffkorn).
10462 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing (report by
10464 + added trace support for TTY flags
10465 + update terminfo.src to 9.13.1
10466 + FreeBSD console entries (patch by Andrew Chernov).
10469 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
10470 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
10471 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
10472 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
10473 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
10475 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
10476 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
10478 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
10480 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
10481 copy-changed-lines behavior.
10482 * added and documented wresize() function.
10483 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
10484 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
10485 emitted before the first check.
10486 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
10487 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
10488 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
10489 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
10490 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
10491 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
10493 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
10494 * support for ESCDELAY.
10495 * small fixes for menu/form code.
10496 * the test directory has its own configure.
10497 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
10498 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
10499 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
10502 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
10504 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
10505 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
10506 * support infocmp -RBSD.
10507 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
10508 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
10509 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
10510 catastrophies or acts of God.
10511 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
10513 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
10514 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
10517 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
10519 * corrected return values of setupterm()
10520 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
10521 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
10522 one `use' capability.
10523 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
10524 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
10525 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
10526 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
10527 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
10528 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
10529 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
10530 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
10531 * added -h option to toe(1).
10532 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
10533 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
10534 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
10535 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
10537 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
10539 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
10540 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
10542 * mouse support for xterm.
10543 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
10544 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initally off.
10545 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
10546 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
10547 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
10548 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
10549 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
10550 * infocmp -T option added.
10551 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
10553 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
10555 * menus library is now included with documentation.
10556 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
10557 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
10558 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
10559 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
10560 * tweaks for compiling in seperate directories.
10561 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
10562 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
10563 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
10565 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
10567 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
10568 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
10569 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
10570 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
10572 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
10574 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
10575 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
10576 * added tracemunch to the test tools
10577 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
10579 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
10581 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
10582 profile and shared object models.
10584 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
10586 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
10587 * panels support added
10588 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
10589 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
10591 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
10593 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
10594 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
10595 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
10596 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
10598 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
10599 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
10600 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
10601 are consistent (they weren't).
10602 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
10603 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
10604 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
10605 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
10606 warnings from gcc).
10607 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
10608 * more spelling fixes
10609 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
10610 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
10611 core in init_acs()).
10612 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
10615 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
10617 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
10618 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
10619 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
10621 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
10622 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
10623 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
10624 resolution of traces.
10625 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
10626 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
10627 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
10628 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
10629 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
10630 is much less flaky.
10631 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
10632 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
10633 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
10634 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
10636 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
10637 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
10638 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
10639 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
10640 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
10641 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This wil mostly happen if
10642 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
10643 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
10644 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
10645 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
10646 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
10647 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
10648 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
10649 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
10650 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
10651 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
10653 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
10654 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
10655 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
10656 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
10657 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
10658 the correct alternate character set.
10659 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
10660 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
10661 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
10662 a terminal is undefined.
10663 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
10664 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
10665 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
10666 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
10667 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
10668 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
10670 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
10671 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
10672 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
10673 if other attributes are turned off.
10674 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
10675 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
10676 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
10678 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
10679 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
10680 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
10683 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
10684 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
10685 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
10686 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
10688 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
10689 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
10691 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
10693 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
10694 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
10695 break operation with any emulators.
10696 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
10697 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
10698 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
10699 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
10700 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
10701 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
10702 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
10703 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
10705 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
10706 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
10708 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
10709 unpredictable results.
10710 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
10712 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
10713 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
10714 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
10715 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
10716 take note of the terminfo directory.
10717 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
10718 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
10721 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
10722 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
10723 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
10724 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
10725 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
10726 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
10727 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
10728 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
10729 performs more testing.
10730 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
10731 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
10733 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
10734 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
10736 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
10737 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
10738 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
10740 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
10742 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
10743 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
10744 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
10745 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
10746 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
10747 will probably continue to work ok.
10749 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
10750 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
10751 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
10752 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
10753 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
10755 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
10756 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
10757 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
10759 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
10760 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
10761 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
10762 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
10763 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
10764 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
10765 changed accordingly.
10766 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
10767 bottom-right corner.
10768 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
10769 pads I'd love a copy.
10770 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
10771 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
10772 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
10773 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
10774 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
10775 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
10776 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
10778 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
10779 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
10780 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
10782 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
10783 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
10784 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
10785 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
10786 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
10787 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
10788 * See src/README for porting notes.
10789 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
10790 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
10791 rows instead of lines, etc.)
10792 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
10793 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
10794 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
10795 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
10796 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
10797 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
10798 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
10800 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
10801 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
10802 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
10803 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
10804 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
10805 fact was exposed by hanoi.
10806 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
10807 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
10808 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
10809 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
10810 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
10811 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
10813 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
10815 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
10816 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
10817 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
10818 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
10819 Config.* files through an awk script.
10820 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
10821 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
10822 * a few minor cleanups.
10823 * added more prototypes in curses.h
10825 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
10827 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
10828 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
10829 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
10830 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
10831 * a couple of bug fixes.
10832 * a few code cleanups.
10834 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
10836 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
10837 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
10838 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
10839 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
10840 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
10841 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
10842 * Cleaner Makefile.
10843 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
10844 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
10846 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
10847 (doesn't work on Linux)
10848 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
10849 screen before working.
10850 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
10851 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
10853 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
10854 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
10855 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
10856 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
10857 * several minor bug fixes.
10859 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
10861 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
10862 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
10863 * changes related to Config
10865 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
10867 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
10868 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
10869 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
10870 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
10871 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
10872 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
10873 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
10874 * added halfdelay()
10875 * fixed problems with asc_init()
10876 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
10877 * cleaned up vidputs()
10878 * general cleanup of the code
10879 * more attention to portability to other systems
10880 * added terminfos for hp70092 (wont work until changes to lib_update.c are
10881 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
10883 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
10884 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
10886 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
10887 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
10888 the rationale drop me a line.
10890 Included are several test programs in test/.
10891 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
10892 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
10894 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
10896 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
10897 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
10898 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
10899 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
10900 * keyname() is added.
10901 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
10902 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
10903 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
10904 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
10905 * included fixes from 0.6.1
10906 * added a few more missing functions.
10907 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
10908 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
10911 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
10913 1) Included the missing data/console.
10915 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
10917 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
10919 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
10920 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
10921 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
10923 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
10924 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
10925 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
10926 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
10927 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
10928 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
10929 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
10930 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
10931 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
10932 * added notimeout().
10933 * added timeout() define in curses.h
10934 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
10936 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
10937 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
10938 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
10939 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
10940 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
10941 * added slk_* support.
10942 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
10943 * added PANEL library.
10944 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
10945 * terminfo.h is really term.h
10947 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
10948 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
10949 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
10950 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
10951 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
10952 another key is pressed.
10953 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
10954 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
10955 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
10957 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
10958 * fixed bug in wvline().
10959 * added curs_set().
10960 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
10961 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
10963 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
10964 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
10965 * Addition of function prototypes.
10966 * Addition of several missing functions.
10967 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
10968 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
10969 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
10970 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
10971 * New scrolling code.
10972 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
10974 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
10975 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
10976 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
10977 * more fixes for updates.
10978 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
10979 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
10980 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
10981 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
10983 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
10984 * support for color.
10985 * support for PC graphic characters.
10986 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
10987 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
10989 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
10990 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
10991 * ANSIfication of some functions.
10992 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
10993 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.
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