1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2 -- Copyright (c) 1998-2014,2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. --
4 -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a --
5 -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the --
6 -- "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including --
7 -- without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, --
8 -- distribute, distribute with modifications, sublicense, and/or sell copies --
9 -- of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished --
10 -- to do so, subject to the following conditions: --
12 -- The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included --
13 -- in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. --
15 -- THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS --
16 -- OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF --
17 -- MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN --
18 -- NO EVENT SHALL THE ABOVE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, --
19 -- DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR --
20 -- OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE --
21 -- USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. --
23 -- Except as contained in this notice, the name(s) of the above copyright --
24 -- holders shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the --
25 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written --
27 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
28 -- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2543 2015/12/13 01:25:38 tom Exp $
29 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
50 needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
51 does not work. Also modified the test program to ensure that if
52 building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
53 normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
54 + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
55 in spite of its m.isconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
56 drawing characters as double-width.
59 + update form_cursor.3x, form_post.3x, menu_attributes.3x to list
60 function names in NAME section (patch by Jason McIntyre).
61 + minor fixes to manpage NAME/SYNOPSIS sections to consistently use
62 rule that either all functions which are prototyped in SYNOPSIS are
63 listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
64 listed in the NAME section. The latter is used to reduce clutter,
65 e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
66 feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
70 + add option to preserve leading whitespace in form fields (patch by
72 + add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
74 + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
75 + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
76 + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
77 backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
78 + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
81 + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
82 + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
83 + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
84 + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.
87 + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
88 which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
89 name. That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
90 tset from termcap to terminfo. The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
91 this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
93 + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
94 are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
95 + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
96 renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
97 normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).
100 + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
101 valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
102 actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
103 install time (cf: 20150822).
104 + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
105 clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
106 empty "local" section.
107 + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
108 to incorrect attribute-masking.
111 + modify MKexpanded.c to update the expansion of a temporary filename
112 to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
113 + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
114 annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
115 did not display well.
116 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
117 + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
118 + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
119 the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
120 Normand, Novell #946048).
121 + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
122 FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
123 + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
124 minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
125 + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
126 + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
128 + update config.guess, config.sub from
129 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
132 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
133 (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
134 + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
135 data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
136 (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
137 > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
138 + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
139 + support building with libtool on OS/2
140 + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
141 + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
144 + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
145 + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
146 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
147 + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
149 + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
150 fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
151 (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
154 + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
156 + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
157 + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
160 + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
162 + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
163 read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
164 + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
165 configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
168 + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
170 + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
171 solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
172 of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
173 + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
174 "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
175 + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
177 + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS
180 + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
182 + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
183 all comments from the "tic -I" output.
184 + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
186 + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
187 form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.
190 + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
192 + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
193 + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
194 + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
195 + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
196 ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
200 + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
201 overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
202 + update release notes in INSTALL.
203 + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
206 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
207 releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
208 http://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
210 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
213 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
214 + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
215 + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
216 more than 200 snapshots.
217 + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
221 + updated llib-* files.
222 + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
223 + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
225 + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
226 + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
227 + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
228 curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
229 curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
230 curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
231 curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
234 + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
235 + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
236 curs_initscr.3x page.
237 + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
238 of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
239 in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
241 + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
242 e.g., ncursestw library.
245 + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
246 configuration of ncurses6.
247 + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
248 demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
249 the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
250 versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
251 + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
254 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
255 + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
256 (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
259 + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
261 + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
262 map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
263 suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
264 + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
265 from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
266 + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
267 databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
268 + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
269 setupterm and restartterm functions.
270 + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
271 of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
272 it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
276 + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
277 + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
278 the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
279 files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
280 corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
281 configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
282 discussion with Sven Joachim).
283 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
286 + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
287 intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
288 "--with-abi-version=5" option.
289 + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
290 + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
291 + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
292 Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
293 + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
294 ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
295 lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
296 + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
297 "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
298 + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
299 CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
302 + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
303 mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
304 + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
305 + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
306 + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
307 have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
308 + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
309 cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
312 + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
313 + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
314 by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
315 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
316 + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
318 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
319 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
322 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
323 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
324 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
325 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
327 + regenerate html manpages.
328 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
329 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
330 Stack Overflow forum):
333 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
334 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
335 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
336 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
337 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
341 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
342 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
343 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
344 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
345 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
347 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
348 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
349 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
350 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
351 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
352 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
354 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
355 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
356 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
357 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
358 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
359 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
361 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
362 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
364 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
365 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
367 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
368 the ncurses library aside from headers.
369 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
370 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
371 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
372 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
373 + update config.guess, config.sub from
374 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
377 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
378 (report by Todd M Lewis).
379 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
380 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
381 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
382 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
383 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
384 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
386 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
387 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
388 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
389 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
390 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
391 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
392 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
395 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
396 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
397 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
398 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
399 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
400 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
401 with the shared libraries.
402 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
403 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
404 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
405 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
406 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
407 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
408 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
409 inherit into new windows.
412 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
413 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
414 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
415 readonly text segment.
418 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
419 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
422 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
423 the extended putwin/getwin.
424 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
426 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
430 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
431 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
432 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
433 for a magic code at the beginning:
434 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
437 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
439 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
440 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
443 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
444 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
445 (report by Grady Martin).
448 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
449 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
450 the wide-character libraries.
451 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
453 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
454 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
457 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
458 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
459 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
463 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
464 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
467 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
468 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
469 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
470 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
471 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
474 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
475 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
476 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
479 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
480 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
481 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
483 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
484 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
485 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
486 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
487 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
488 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
489 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
490 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
491 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
492 (report by Pavel Balaev).
495 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
496 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
497 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
498 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
502 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
503 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
507 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
511 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
512 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
513 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
515 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
516 regenerate html-manpages.
519 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
520 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
522 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
523 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
524 package for ncurses6.
525 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
526 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
527 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
528 in the corresponding ".map" files.
529 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
530 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
534 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
535 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
536 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
537 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
539 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
540 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
541 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
542 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
545 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
546 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
547 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
548 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
549 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
552 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
553 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
554 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
555 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
556 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
557 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
558 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
562 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
563 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
567 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
571 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
572 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
573 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
574 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
575 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
577 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
578 (report by Mike Gran).
581 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
582 demonstration of its limitations.
583 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
584 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
585 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
586 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
587 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
588 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
589 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
591 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
592 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
595 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
596 + implement flash in win_driver.c
597 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
599 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
600 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
601 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
602 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
603 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
604 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
605 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
606 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
609 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
610 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
611 some older cross-compiler environments.
612 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
613 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
614 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
615 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
616 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
617 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
618 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
619 + update config.sub from
620 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
623 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
625 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
628 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
630 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
633 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
634 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
635 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
638 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
639 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
643 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
644 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
645 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
648 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
649 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
650 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
651 + regenerated html manpages.
652 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
653 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
654 which reverses cause/effect.
655 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
656 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
657 + fixes for win_driver.c:
658 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
663 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
664 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
665 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
666 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
668 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
669 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
670 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
671 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
675 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
676 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
677 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
678 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
679 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
680 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
681 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
682 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
683 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
686 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
687 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
688 options, from xterm changes.
691 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
692 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
696 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
697 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
700 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
701 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
702 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
703 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
704 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
705 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
706 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
709 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
710 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
711 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
712 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
713 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
714 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
715 providing directly comparable screens.
716 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
719 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
721 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
722 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
723 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
724 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
725 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
726 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
727 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
730 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
731 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
732 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
733 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
734 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
737 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
738 overlap with sgr functionality.
739 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
740 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
741 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
742 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
743 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
744 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
745 older ncurses than 20131207.
746 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
747 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
748 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
749 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
750 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
753 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
754 environment variable.
755 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
756 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
757 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
758 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
759 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
760 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
761 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
762 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
763 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
764 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
765 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
766 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
767 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
768 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
770 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
772 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
773 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
774 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
776 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
777 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
778 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
779 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
780 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
781 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
782 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
784 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
786 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
787 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
788 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
789 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
790 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
791 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
792 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
793 to be consecutive anyway.
794 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
795 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
796 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
797 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
800 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
801 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
802 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
805 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
806 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
807 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
808 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
811 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
813 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
814 simplify later merging:
815 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
816 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
817 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
818 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
819 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
823 + update config.guess, config.sub from
824 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
827 + modify configure script:
828 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
829 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
830 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
831 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
832 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
833 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
834 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
835 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
837 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
838 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
841 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
842 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
843 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
844 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
845 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
846 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
850 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
853 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
854 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
855 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
856 + add terminology entry -TD
857 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
858 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
861 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
862 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
863 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
864 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
865 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
869 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
870 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
871 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
872 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
873 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
876 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
879 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
880 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
881 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
885 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
886 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
887 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
888 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
889 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
890 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
892 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
893 html emitted by docbook.
896 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
897 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
898 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
899 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
902 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
903 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
904 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
905 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
906 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
907 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
910 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
911 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
912 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
913 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
916 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
917 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
920 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
922 ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
925 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
926 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
927 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
928 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
930 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
932 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
933 + updated llib-l* files.
936 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
937 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
941 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
945 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
946 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
947 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
948 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
949 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
950 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
951 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
952 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
953 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
954 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
955 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
956 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
958 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
960 + update config.sub from
961 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
964 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
967 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
968 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
969 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
970 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
972 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
975 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
976 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
977 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
978 them more consistent with other packages.
981 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
982 compiling ncurses-examples.
983 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
986 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
989 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
990 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
991 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
992 cross-compiles to MinGW.
993 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
997 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
998 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
1002 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
1003 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
1005 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
1007 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
1008 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
1009 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
1010 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
1011 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
1014 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
1015 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
1016 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
1019 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
1021 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
1022 before/after Debian #700177.
1023 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
1024 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
1026 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
1027 of sort, improving portability.
1028 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
1029 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1030 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1033 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
1034 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
1036 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
1037 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
1038 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
1041 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
1042 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
1043 introduced by Debian #700177.
1044 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
1045 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
1048 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
1049 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
1051 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
1052 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
1053 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
1056 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
1057 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
1059 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
1060 cross-compile support packages.
1061 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
1064 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
1065 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
1066 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
1067 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
1068 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
1069 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
1070 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
1071 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
1072 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
1073 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
1074 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
1075 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
1078 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
1079 initialization of cur_term.
1082 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
1083 + minor compiler-warning fixes
1086 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
1087 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
1088 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
1089 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
1090 --enable-auto-import flag.
1091 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
1095 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
1096 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
1097 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
1098 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
1099 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
1101 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
1102 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
1103 (patch by Eric Raymond).
1106 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
1107 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
1108 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
1110 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
1111 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
1112 not printing the full pathname of the program.
1113 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
1114 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
1115 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
1118 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
1119 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
1121 + add test/dots_termcap.c
1122 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
1123 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
1124 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
1125 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
1126 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
1127 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
1128 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
1129 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
1130 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
1132 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
1133 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
1136 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
1137 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
1138 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
1139 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
1140 the left margin of the display.
1141 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
1142 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
1143 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
1144 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
1147 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
1148 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
1149 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
1150 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
1151 + regenerated html manpages.
1152 + update doctype used for html documentation.
1155 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
1156 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
1157 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
1158 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
1159 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
1160 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
1163 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1164 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
1165 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
1166 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
1167 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
1170 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
1171 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
1174 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
1175 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
1176 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1177 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
1178 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
1180 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
1181 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
1182 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
1183 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
1186 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
1187 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
1188 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
1189 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
1191 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
1193 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
1195 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
1198 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
1202 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
1203 (report by Christian Ebert).
1204 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
1205 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
1206 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
1209 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
1210 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
1211 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
1212 add bold for consistency with sgr,
1213 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
1214 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
1215 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
1216 by Benjamin Sittler)
1217 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
1218 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
1219 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
1220 line split after "%;".
1221 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
1222 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
1225 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
1226 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
1227 + regenerated html manpages.
1228 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
1229 + updated some autoconf macros:
1230 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
1231 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
1232 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
1233 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
1234 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
1235 configuration (Redhat #911540).
1236 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
1237 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
1240 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
1241 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
1243 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
1244 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
1246 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
1247 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
1248 of raw input in MinGW port.
1251 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
1252 + update config.guess, config.sub
1255 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
1257 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
1259 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
1260 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
1261 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
1262 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
1263 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1264 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
1265 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
1267 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
1268 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
1271 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
1272 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
1274 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
1275 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
1276 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
1279 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
1280 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
1281 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
1284 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
1285 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
1286 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
1287 help reduce flicker.
1288 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
1289 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
1290 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
1291 by Dennis Grevenstein).
1292 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
1293 Dennis Grevenstein).
1294 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
1295 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
1296 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
1299 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1300 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
1301 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
1302 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
1303 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
1304 + improve error-checking in copywin
1305 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
1306 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
1307 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
1308 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
1309 matching capability names.
1310 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
1311 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
1312 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
1315 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
1316 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
1317 are unused in the current driver model.
1318 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
1320 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
1321 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
1322 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
1323 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
1326 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
1327 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
1329 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
1330 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
1331 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
1332 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
1333 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
1336 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
1337 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
1338 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
1342 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
1344 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
1345 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
1347 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
1348 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
1349 wide-character which can be used.
1352 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
1353 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
1354 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
1355 by Erwin Waterlander).
1356 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
1357 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1358 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
1359 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
1360 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
1361 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
1365 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
1366 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
1367 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
1368 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
1369 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
1370 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1371 + remove a few redundant checks.
1372 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
1374 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
1375 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
1376 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
1377 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
1379 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
1380 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
1381 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
1385 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
1386 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
1387 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
1391 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
1392 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
1393 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1394 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
1397 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1398 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
1399 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
1400 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
1401 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
1402 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
1403 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
1404 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
1406 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
1407 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
1408 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
1409 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
1412 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
1413 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
1414 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
1416 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
1417 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
1418 libraries or executables.
1421 + realign these related pages:
1426 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
1427 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
1428 (report by Reuben Thomas).
1429 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
1430 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
1431 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
1432 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
1433 based on testing with tack -TD
1434 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
1435 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
1438 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
1440 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
1441 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
1442 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
1445 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
1449 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
1450 (patch by Christian Persch).
1453 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
1455 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
1456 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
1457 has used that for a while.
1458 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
1459 for experimental use.
1460 + remove unused configure macros.
1461 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
1462 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
1463 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
1464 + update config.guess, config.sub
1467 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
1468 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
1469 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
1470 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
1471 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
1472 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
1473 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
1476 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
1477 to help with MinGW port.
1480 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
1482 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
1485 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
1488 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
1489 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
1490 might not be allocated.
1491 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
1494 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
1495 initial screen-sizes.
1496 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
1497 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
1501 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
1502 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
1506 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
1507 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
1508 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
1510 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
1511 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
1514 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
1515 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
1516 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
1517 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
1518 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
1519 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
1520 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
1524 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
1525 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
1526 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
1527 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
1528 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
1529 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
1530 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
1531 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
1535 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
1536 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
1537 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
1538 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
1539 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
1540 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
1543 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
1547 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
1549 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
1551 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
1552 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
1553 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
1554 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
1555 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
1556 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
1559 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
1561 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
1562 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
1563 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
1565 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
1566 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
1569 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
1570 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
1571 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
1574 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
1575 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
1577 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
1578 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
1580 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
1581 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
1584 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
1586 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
1587 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
1588 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
1589 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
1590 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
1591 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
1594 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
1595 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
1596 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
1597 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
1598 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
1599 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
1600 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
1601 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
1602 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
1604 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
1605 analysis by Martin Husemann).
1606 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
1607 Onno van der Linden).
1610 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
1612 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
1614 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
1615 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
1618 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
1619 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
1620 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
1621 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
1622 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
1623 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
1624 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
1627 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
1628 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
1629 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
1630 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
1631 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
1632 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
1633 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
1634 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
1635 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
1636 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
1637 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
1638 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
1639 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
1640 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
1641 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
1644 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
1645 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
1646 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
1647 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
1648 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
1649 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
1650 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
1651 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
1652 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
1653 are interpreted as key definitions.
1654 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
1655 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
1659 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
1660 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
1661 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
1662 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
1663 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
1664 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
1665 as building-blocks -TD
1666 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
1669 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
1670 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
1671 title is a status-line. -TD
1672 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
1673 of ordering and overrides -TD
1674 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
1675 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
1676 used in that file -TD
1679 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
1680 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
1681 definable capabilities.
1682 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
1683 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
1684 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
1685 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
1686 embedded in the description.
1687 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
1688 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
1689 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
1690 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
1691 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
1692 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
1695 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
1696 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
1697 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
1698 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
1699 Nicolas Boulenguez).
1700 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
1701 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
1702 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
1705 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
1706 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
1707 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
1708 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
1709 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
1710 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
1713 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
1714 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
1715 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
1717 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
1718 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
1719 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
1720 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
1723 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
1724 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
1725 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
1728 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
1729 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
1730 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
1732 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
1733 calls to setupterm().
1734 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
1736 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
1737 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
1738 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
1740 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
1744 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
1747 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
1749 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
1750 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
1751 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
1752 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
1753 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
1754 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
1756 + update config.guess, config.sub
1759 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
1760 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
1761 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
1762 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
1763 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
1764 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
1765 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
1766 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
1767 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
1770 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
1771 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
1772 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
1773 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
1774 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
1775 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
1776 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
1777 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
1778 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
1779 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
1780 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
1781 Linux versus most other systems.
1784 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
1788 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
1789 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
1790 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
1791 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
1792 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
1793 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
1794 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
1795 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
1796 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
1797 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
1798 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
1799 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
1800 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
1801 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
1804 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
1806 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
1808 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
1809 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
1810 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
1811 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).
1814 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
1816 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
1817 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
1818 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
1819 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
1820 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
1822 + regenerated html manpages.
1825 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
1826 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
1827 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
1828 + change recommended regular expression library.
1829 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
1830 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
1833 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
1834 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
1835 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
1836 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
1837 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
1838 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
1839 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
1843 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
1844 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
1846 + add putty-sco entry -TD
1849 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
1851 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
1853 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
1854 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
1855 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
1857 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
1859 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
1862 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
1863 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
1864 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
1865 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
1867 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
1868 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
1869 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
1872 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
1873 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
1875 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
1878 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
1880 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
1882 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
1884 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
1885 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
1886 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
1887 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1888 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
1889 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
1890 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
1893 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
1894 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
1896 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
1897 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
1898 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
1899 database (cf: 20111001).
1902 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
1903 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
1904 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
1906 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
1907 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
1909 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
1910 in older FreeBSD machines.
1911 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
1912 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
1913 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
1916 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
1917 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
1918 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
1919 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
1920 root's home directory.
1921 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
1922 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
1923 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
1924 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
1925 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
1927 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
1928 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
1929 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
1930 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
1931 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
1932 (report by Peter Kruse).
1935 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
1936 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
1938 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
1940 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
1941 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
1942 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
1945 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
1946 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
1947 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
1948 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
1949 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
1950 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
1953 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
1954 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
1955 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
1956 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
1957 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
1960 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
1961 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
1962 input and output of termcap source.
1963 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
1964 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
1965 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
1966 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
1967 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
1968 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
1969 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
1970 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
1971 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
1974 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
1977 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
1979 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
1980 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
1981 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
1982 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
1984 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
1987 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
1988 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
1990 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
1991 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
1994 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
1995 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
1997 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
1998 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
2000 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
2001 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
2002 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
2003 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
2005 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
2006 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
2007 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
2008 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
2010 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
2011 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
2014 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
2015 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
2016 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
2017 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
2020 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
2021 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
2022 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
2023 + add terminator entry -TD
2024 + add simpleterm entry -TD
2025 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
2026 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
2030 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
2031 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
2032 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
2033 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
2034 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
2035 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
2036 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
2037 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
2038 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
2039 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
2043 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
2044 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
2045 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
2046 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
2047 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
2048 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
2050 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
2051 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
2052 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
2054 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
2057 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
2058 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
2059 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
2060 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
2062 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
2063 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
2065 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
2066 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
2067 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
2068 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
2069 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
2070 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
2071 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
2072 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
2074 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
2075 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
2077 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
2078 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
2079 tctest (cf: 19991211).
2080 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
2081 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
2082 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
2083 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
2084 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
2085 translating to termcap.
2086 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
2087 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
2090 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
2091 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
2092 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
2093 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
2094 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
2095 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
2097 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
2098 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
2099 regarding Schilling's test program):
2100 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
2101 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
2102 + use \040 rather than \s
2103 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
2104 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
2107 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
2108 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
2109 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
2110 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2111 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
2112 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
2113 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
2114 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
2115 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
2116 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
2117 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
2118 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
2121 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
2122 are not used in the $CC variable.
2123 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
2124 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
2125 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
2126 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
2127 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
2128 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2131 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
2132 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
2136 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
2137 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
2138 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
2139 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
2140 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
2142 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
2143 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
2145 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
2148 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
2149 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
2152 + fixes for MirBSD port:
2153 + set default prefix to /usr.
2154 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
2155 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
2156 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
2157 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
2160 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
2161 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
2162 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
2163 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
2165 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
2166 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
2170 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
2173 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
2174 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
2175 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
2177 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
2178 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
2179 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
2180 help work around weak-symbol issues.
2183 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
2184 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
2185 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
2186 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
2187 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
2188 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
2189 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
2190 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
2191 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
2192 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
2193 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
2196 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
2197 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
2199 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
2200 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
2201 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
2202 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2205 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
2206 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
2207 as different types on some Unix systems.
2208 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
2209 function pointer passed to tputs().
2210 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
2211 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
2212 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
2213 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
2216 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
2217 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2218 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
2219 + update config.guess, config.sub
2222 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
2224 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
2225 some ncurses packages.
2226 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
2227 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
2228 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
2230 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2233 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
2234 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
2235 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
2236 the in-tree build of sample programs.
2237 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
2238 needed for rpm script.
2239 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
2240 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
2241 options if building a shared library with gnat.
2244 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
2245 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
2246 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
2247 that sample program.
2248 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
2249 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
2250 which were added in 5.7 and later.
2251 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
2255 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
2257 + regen Ada html documentation.
2258 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
2259 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
2261 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
2263 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
2264 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
2265 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
2266 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
2267 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
2268 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
2270 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2271 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
2273 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
2274 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
2277 + regen Ada html documentation.
2278 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
2279 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
2281 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
2282 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
2283 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
2284 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2285 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
2286 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
2287 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
2288 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
2289 thread in comp.lang.ada).
2290 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
2291 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
2292 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2293 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
2294 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
2295 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
2296 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
2297 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
2298 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
2299 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
2302 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
2303 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2304 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
2306 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
2308 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
2309 explain.txt is not found.
2312 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2313 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
2314 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2315 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
2316 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
2318 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2321 + update release notes, for 5.8.
2322 + regenerated html manpages.
2323 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
2325 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
2326 a new install of hashed database.
2327 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
2330 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
2331 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
2332 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
2333 wide-character configuration.
2334 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
2335 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
2338 + regenerated html manpages.
2339 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
2340 special case of trace configuration.
2343 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
2344 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
2345 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
2346 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
2347 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
2351 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
2352 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
2353 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
2354 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
2355 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
2357 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
2358 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
2361 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
2362 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
2363 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
2364 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
2365 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
2366 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
2367 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
2368 file configuration if that is used.
2369 + update config.guess, config.sub
2372 + regenerated html manpages.
2373 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
2375 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2376 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
2379 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
2380 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
2383 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
2384 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
2385 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
2388 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
2390 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
2391 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
2392 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
2393 wide-character configuration.
2394 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
2395 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
2396 referred to quitting with 'q'.
2399 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
2400 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
2401 version which works with termcap.
2402 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
2403 (request by Sven Joachim).
2404 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
2405 (report by Sven Joachim).
2408 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
2409 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
2410 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
2413 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
2415 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
2416 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
2419 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
2421 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
2422 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
2423 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
2424 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
2425 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
2426 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
2430 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
2431 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
2432 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
2434 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
2437 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
2439 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
2443 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
2445 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
2446 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
2447 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
2448 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
2449 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
2450 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
2451 tree (report by Werner Fink).
2452 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
2453 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
2454 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
2455 (report by John P. Hartmann)
2456 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
2459 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
2460 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
2461 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
2462 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
2463 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
2464 external package "cindent".
2467 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
2468 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
2469 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
2470 inconsistent printer-controls.
2471 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
2472 form is available -TD
2473 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
2475 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
2477 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
2478 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2479 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
2480 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
2481 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
2483 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
2484 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
2488 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
2489 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
2490 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
2491 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2492 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
2494 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
2497 + regenerated html manpages.
2498 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
2499 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
2500 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
2503 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
2505 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
2506 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
2507 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
2508 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
2512 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
2513 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
2516 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
2517 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
2518 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
2519 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
2520 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
2521 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
2522 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
2526 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
2527 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
2528 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
2529 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
2530 by Tim van der Molen).
2531 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
2532 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
2533 library configuration.
2534 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
2535 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
2536 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
2539 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
2541 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
2542 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
2543 e.g., for cross-compiling.
2544 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
2545 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
2548 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
2549 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
2550 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
2551 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
2552 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
2553 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
2554 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
2555 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
2558 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
2559 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
2560 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
2561 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
2562 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
2563 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
2564 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
2565 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
2568 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
2569 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
2570 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
2571 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
2574 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2575 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
2576 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
2579 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2580 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
2581 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
2584 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2585 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
2586 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
2587 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
2590 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
2591 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
2592 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
2594 + update Ada95/configure.
2595 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
2596 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
2597 of updating LIBS variable.
2600 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
2601 work with 64-bit compiles.
2602 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
2606 + regenerated html documentation.
2607 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
2609 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
2610 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
2611 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
2612 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
2615 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
2616 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
2618 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
2619 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
2620 build- and target-machines differ.
2621 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
2622 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
2624 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
2625 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
2628 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
2629 new EINTR feature is enabled.
2630 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
2631 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
2632 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
2633 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
2634 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
2635 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
2636 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
2637 with the standard builds of ncurses.
2638 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
2639 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
2640 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
2641 found in predefined libraries.
2642 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
2645 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
2646 (patch by David Benjamin).
2647 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
2648 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
2649 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
2650 may be defined by that route.
2653 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
2654 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
2655 the predefined include directories.
2656 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
2657 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
2658 where older versions would produce an error.
2661 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
2662 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
2663 terminfo to termcap strings
2664 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
2665 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
2666 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
2667 directory was already added.
2668 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
2669 directories (which will be ignored).
2672 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
2673 + discard motion events
2674 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
2675 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
2676 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
2677 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
2680 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
2681 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
2682 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
2683 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
2684 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
2685 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
2686 extended-colors configuration.
2687 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
2688 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
2689 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
2692 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
2694 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
2695 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
2696 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
2698 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
2699 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
2700 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
2703 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
2704 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
2708 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
2709 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
2710 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
2711 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
2712 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
2713 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
2714 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
2715 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
2716 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
2720 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
2721 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
2722 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
2723 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
2726 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
2728 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2729 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
2730 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
2733 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
2734 making those separately distributable.
2735 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
2736 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
2740 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
2743 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
2744 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
2745 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
2746 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
2750 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
2751 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
2752 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2753 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2756 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
2757 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
2758 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
2759 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
2761 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
2762 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
2763 by Miroslav Lichvar)
2764 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
2768 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
2769 that line-drawing works.
2770 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
2771 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
2772 capabilities can run.
2773 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
2777 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
2778 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
2779 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
2780 before older in the list.
2781 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
2782 + minor documentation cleanup.
2783 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2784 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2785 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
2788 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
2789 most common case of SGR 0.
2790 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
2791 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
2792 events remain, it will return ERR.
2795 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
2796 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
2797 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
2798 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
2799 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
2802 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
2803 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
2804 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
2807 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
2808 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
2809 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
2810 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
2811 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
2812 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
2815 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
2816 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
2817 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
2818 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
2819 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
2821 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
2823 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
2825 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
2826 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2827 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
2829 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2830 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2833 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
2834 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
2836 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
2837 writing terminfo entries.
2838 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
2839 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
2840 by Nicholas Marriott).
2843 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
2845 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
2846 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
2850 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
2851 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
2852 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
2853 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
2854 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
2858 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
2859 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
2860 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
2861 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2864 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
2865 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
2866 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
2867 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
2868 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2869 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
2870 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
2873 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
2874 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
2875 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
2876 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
2877 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
2878 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
2879 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
2880 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
2881 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
2882 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
2883 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
2886 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
2887 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
2888 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
2889 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
2892 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
2893 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
2896 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
2897 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
2898 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
2902 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
2903 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
2904 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
2905 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
2906 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
2908 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
2909 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
2912 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
2913 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
2914 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
2915 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
2916 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
2917 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
2919 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
2920 library (some work remains for forms library).
2923 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
2924 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
2925 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
2926 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
2928 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
2929 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
2930 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
2931 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
2934 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
2935 by sharing linedata.h functions):
2938 test/test_addchstr.c
2939 test/test_add_wchstr.c
2940 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
2941 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
2942 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
2945 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
2947 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
2948 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
2949 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
2950 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
2954 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
2955 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
2956 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
2957 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2960 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
2961 amd64 (Debian #542031).
2962 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
2965 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2968 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
2969 broken in 20090510 merging.
2970 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
2971 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
2972 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
2973 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
2974 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
2975 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
2976 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
2977 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
2979 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2982 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
2983 implementation details of hash function.
2986 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
2987 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
2988 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
2991 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
2992 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
2993 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
2994 test/demo_terminfo.c
2995 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2996 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
2999 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
3000 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
3004 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3007 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
3009 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
3010 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
3011 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
3012 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
3013 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
3015 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
3016 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
3017 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
3020 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
3021 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
3022 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
3025 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
3026 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
3028 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3031 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
3032 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
3034 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
3035 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
3039 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
3040 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
3041 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3044 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
3047 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3050 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
3051 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
3052 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
3053 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3056 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3059 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
3060 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
3061 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
3062 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
3066 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3069 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3070 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
3073 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3076 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
3080 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3083 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3084 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
3085 part of the form library.
3088 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
3089 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
3092 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
3093 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
3094 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
3095 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
3096 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
3097 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
3098 a temporary variable.
3099 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
3100 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
3101 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
3102 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
3103 with Charles Wilson).
3104 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
3105 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
3106 > patches by Charles Wilson:
3107 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
3108 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
3109 digits, after the final '.').
3110 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
3111 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
3112 using that in the libtool link-commands.
3113 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
3114 from 20090321 changes.
3115 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
3116 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
3117 termlib) is to be linked.
3118 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
3119 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
3122 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
3123 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
3124 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
3125 (report by Charles Wilson).
3126 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
3127 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
3128 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
3129 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
3130 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
3133 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
3134 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
3135 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
3136 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
3137 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
3139 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
3140 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
3141 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
3142 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
3143 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
3144 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
3145 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
3146 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
3149 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3150 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
3151 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
3154 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3157 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
3159 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
3160 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
3161 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
3162 some internals work is needed to complete these).
3163 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
3166 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
3167 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
3168 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
3169 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3170 + make it work with $DESTDIR
3171 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
3174 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
3175 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
3177 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
3178 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
3179 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
3182 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
3183 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
3184 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
3185 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
3186 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
3187 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
3188 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
3189 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
3190 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
3193 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
3194 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
3196 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
3198 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
3199 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
3202 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
3204 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
3205 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
3206 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
3207 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3210 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
3211 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
3212 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
3214 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
3215 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
3218 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
3219 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
3220 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
3221 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
3222 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
3223 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
3225 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
3226 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
3228 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3229 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3232 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
3233 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
3234 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
3237 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
3238 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
3239 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
3241 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
3242 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
3245 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
3247 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
3248 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
3249 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
3251 + fixes from NetBSD port at
3252 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
3253 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
3254 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
3255 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
3256 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
3258 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
3259 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
3262 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
3263 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
3264 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
3265 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
3266 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
3267 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
3268 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
3269 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
3270 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
3271 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
3272 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
3275 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
3276 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
3277 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
3278 passing color or video attributes.
3279 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
3280 display meta-characters.
3281 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
3282 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
3283 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
3284 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
3288 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
3289 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3290 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
3292 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
3295 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
3297 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
3298 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
3300 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3303 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
3304 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
3305 does not work well on that platform).
3306 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
3309 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
3310 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
3311 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
3313 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
3314 --disable-database is used.
3315 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
3316 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
3317 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
3318 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
3322 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
3323 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
3324 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
3325 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
3326 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
3327 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
3328 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
3332 + regenerated html documentation.
3333 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
3334 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
3335 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
3336 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
3337 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
3338 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
3339 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
3340 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
3343 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
3344 works for C/C++ parts).
3345 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
3346 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
3349 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
3350 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
3351 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
3352 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
3353 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
3354 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
3355 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
3356 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
3357 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
3359 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
3360 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3361 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
3362 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
3363 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
3364 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
3367 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
3368 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
3371 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
3372 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
3373 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
3374 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
3375 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
3376 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
3379 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
3380 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
3383 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
3387 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
3388 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
3389 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
3390 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
3392 + update test/configure script.
3393 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
3394 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
3395 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
3396 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
3397 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
3400 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
3401 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
3403 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
3405 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
3406 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
3407 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
3408 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
3409 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
3410 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
3411 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3412 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3413 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
3416 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
3417 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
3418 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
3419 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
3420 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
3421 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
3422 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
3423 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
3424 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
3425 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
3426 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
3430 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
3431 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
3432 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
3433 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
3434 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
3436 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
3437 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
3438 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
3439 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
3440 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
3443 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
3444 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
3445 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
3446 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
3447 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
3448 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
3449 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
3452 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
3456 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
3459 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
3462 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
3463 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
3465 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
3466 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
3467 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
3471 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
3472 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
3474 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
3475 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
3476 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
3477 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
3480 + regenerated html documentation.
3481 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
3482 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
3483 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
3484 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
3485 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
3488 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
3489 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
3490 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
3494 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
3495 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
3496 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
3497 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
3498 window which is being used in a wgetch().
3499 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
3502 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
3503 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
3505 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
3506 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
3507 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
3508 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
3509 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
3510 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
3511 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
3512 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
3513 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
3516 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
3517 screen which must be updated.
3518 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
3519 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
3520 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
3524 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
3525 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
3527 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
3528 Emanuele Giaquinta).
3529 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
3530 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3533 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
3534 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
3535 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
3537 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
3541 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
3542 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
3543 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
3546 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
3547 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
3548 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
3549 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
3552 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
3553 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
3555 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
3557 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
3560 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
3561 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
3562 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
3563 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
3564 python-dev2 mailing list).
3567 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
3568 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
3569 are not associated with a particular screen.
3570 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
3571 stdscr to the callback function.
3572 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
3573 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
3574 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3575 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
3576 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
3577 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3578 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
3582 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
3583 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
3584 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
3585 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
3587 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
3588 wide-characters with extended-colors.
3589 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
3590 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
3591 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
3594 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
3595 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
3596 that the 'F' accepts.
3597 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
3598 are working concurrently.
3599 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
3603 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
3604 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
3605 _nc_free_and_exit().
3608 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
3609 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
3612 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
3613 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
3616 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
3617 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
3618 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
3619 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
3622 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
3623 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
3624 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
3625 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
3626 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
3627 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
3629 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
3630 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
3634 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
3635 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
3636 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
3639 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
3640 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
3641 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
3644 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
3645 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
3646 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
3650 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
3651 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
3652 "link_test" builds properly.
3653 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
3654 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
3655 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
3656 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
3657 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
3658 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
3659 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
3661 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
3664 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
3668 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
3669 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
3672 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
3674 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
3675 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
3676 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
3679 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
3680 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
3681 pierre4d2 comments).
3682 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
3683 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
3684 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
3685 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
3689 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
3690 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
3691 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
3692 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
3693 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
3695 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
3696 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
3697 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
3701 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
3702 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
3705 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
3707 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
3709 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
3713 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
3714 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
3716 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
3717 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
3718 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
3719 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
3720 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
3722 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
3723 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
3726 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
3727 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
3728 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
3729 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3732 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
3733 calls within the ncurses library.
3734 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
3736 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
3737 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
3738 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
3740 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
3741 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
3742 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
3743 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
3744 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
3747 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
3748 for threaded library (incomplete).
3749 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
3750 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
3754 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
3755 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
3756 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
3757 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
3758 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
3759 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
3760 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
3761 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3762 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3765 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
3767 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
3768 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
3771 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
3772 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
3773 "\0" followed by a digit.
3774 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
3775 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
3776 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
3777 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
3778 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
3779 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
3780 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
3781 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
3782 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
3785 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
3786 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
3787 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
3788 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
3789 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
3791 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
3792 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
3793 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
3797 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
3798 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
3799 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
3800 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
3801 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
3802 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
3803 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
3804 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
3805 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
3808 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
3809 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
3810 + add test/test_getstr.c
3811 + add test/test_inwstr.c
3812 + add test/test_instr.c
3815 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
3816 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
3817 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
3821 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
3822 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
3823 ".log" to the name and try again.
3824 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
3825 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
3826 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
3827 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
3828 --disable-echo option is used.
3829 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
3830 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
3831 + update config.guess, config.sub
3834 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
3835 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
3836 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
3840 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
3841 problems with multi-column characters.
3842 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
3843 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
3844 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
3845 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
3846 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
3847 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
3848 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
3851 + add test/demo_panels.c
3852 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
3855 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
3857 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
3858 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
3861 + add test/key_name.c
3862 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
3863 + update test/configure
3864 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
3865 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
3866 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
3870 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
3871 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
3872 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
3873 illustrate how to use mvcur().
3874 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
3875 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
3876 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
3877 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
3878 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
3881 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
3882 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
3883 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
3884 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
3885 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
3886 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
3889 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
3890 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
3892 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
3893 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
3894 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
3895 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
3898 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
3899 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
3900 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
3901 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
3903 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
3905 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
3906 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
3907 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
3908 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
3909 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
3912 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
3913 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
3915 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
3916 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
3917 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
3918 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
3919 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
3920 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
3921 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
3922 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
3923 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
3924 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
3925 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
3928 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
3929 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
3930 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
3931 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
3932 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
3933 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
3934 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
3937 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
3938 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
3939 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
3940 Ada95 tree is not built.
3943 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
3944 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
3945 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
3946 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
3947 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
3948 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
3950 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
3951 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
3952 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
3953 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
3954 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
3955 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
3956 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
3957 > fixes based on Coverity report:
3958 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
3959 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
3960 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
3961 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
3962 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
3963 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
3964 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
3965 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
3966 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
3967 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
3968 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
3970 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
3971 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
3972 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
3973 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
3974 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
3975 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
3976 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
3977 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
3978 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
3981 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
3982 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
3983 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
3984 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
3985 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
3986 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
3987 + improved install-sh's quoting.
3988 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
3992 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
3993 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
3994 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
3995 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
3996 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
4000 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
4001 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
4002 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
4003 in the configure script to an error.
4004 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
4005 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
4006 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
4007 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
4008 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
4010 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
4011 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
4014 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
4015 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
4018 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
4019 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
4021 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
4022 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
4023 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
4024 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
4025 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
4026 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
4027 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
4028 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
4031 + regenerated html documentation.
4032 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
4033 opaque in selected configurations.
4034 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
4035 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
4036 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
4037 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
4038 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
4039 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
4040 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
4041 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
4042 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
4043 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
4044 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
4046 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
4047 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
4050 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
4051 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
4052 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
4053 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
4054 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
4055 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
4056 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
4057 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
4058 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
4059 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
4060 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
4061 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
4064 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
4066 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
4067 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
4068 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
4070 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
4071 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
4072 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
4073 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
4074 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
4075 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
4076 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
4077 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
4079 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
4080 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
4083 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
4084 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
4086 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
4088 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
4089 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
4090 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
4093 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
4094 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
4095 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
4096 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
4098 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
4099 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
4100 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
4101 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
4102 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
4103 no longer relies on it.
4104 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
4105 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
4106 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
4109 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
4110 (report by Rong-En Fan).
4113 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
4114 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
4115 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
4116 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
4117 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
4118 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
4119 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
4120 its license consistent with ncurses.
4121 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
4122 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
4123 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
4126 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
4127 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
4128 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
4129 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
4133 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
4134 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
4135 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
4137 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
4138 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
4141 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
4142 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
4143 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
4146 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
4147 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
4148 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
4149 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
4150 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
4151 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
4152 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
4153 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
4154 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
4155 to manpages as needed.
4156 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
4157 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
4160 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
4161 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
4162 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
4163 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
4164 + update config.guess, config.sub
4166 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4169 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
4170 definitions in <wchar.h>.
4171 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
4172 correct nor portable.
4173 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
4175 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
4176 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
4180 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
4181 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
4182 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
4183 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
4184 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
4185 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
4188 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
4189 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
4190 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
4191 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
4193 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
4194 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
4195 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
4196 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
4197 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
4198 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
4199 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
4200 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
4203 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
4204 database configuration.
4205 + updates for test/configure script.
4206 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
4207 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
4209 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
4210 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
4211 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
4212 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
4214 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
4215 _nc_printf_string().
4216 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
4217 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
4220 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
4221 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
4223 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
4224 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
4228 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
4229 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
4232 + add test/echochar.c
4233 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
4234 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
4237 + add AUTHORS file -TD
4238 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
4239 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
4240 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
4243 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
4244 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
4245 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
4247 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
4248 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
4249 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
4250 for rpath support in versions past 3.
4251 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
4252 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
4253 Ralf S Engelschall).
4254 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
4255 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
4256 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
4257 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
4260 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
4261 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
4262 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
4265 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
4266 and status line (Alain Bench).
4267 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
4268 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
4269 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
4270 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
4273 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
4274 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
4275 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
4276 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
4277 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
4280 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
4281 + updated html documentation.
4282 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
4283 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
4286 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
4287 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
4288 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
4289 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
4290 option (from lynx changes) -TD
4291 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
4292 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
4293 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
4294 by report by Christopher Parker).
4298 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
4299 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
4300 since it does not really do this -TD
4303 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
4304 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
4305 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
4306 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
4309 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
4310 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
4311 embedded into a termcap description.
4312 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
4313 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
4314 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
4315 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
4316 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
4319 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
4321 + add test/foldkeys.c
4324 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
4325 source output (Debian #378783).
4326 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
4327 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
4328 variable is also used (Redhat #199369).
4329 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
4330 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
4331 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
4334 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
4335 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
4336 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
4339 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
4340 or as a text file if those are not available.
4341 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
4342 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
4343 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
4346 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
4347 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
4348 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
4349 + update config.guess, config.sub
4352 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
4353 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
4354 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
4356 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
4357 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
4359 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
4360 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
4361 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
4362 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
4363 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
4364 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
4366 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
4367 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
4368 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
4369 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
4372 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
4373 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
4377 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
4378 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
4380 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
4381 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
4382 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
4383 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
4384 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
4385 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
4388 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
4389 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
4390 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
4391 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
4392 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
4393 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
4394 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
4395 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
4396 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
4397 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
4400 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
4401 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
4402 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
4403 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
4405 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
4408 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
4409 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
4410 + minor copyright fixes.
4411 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
4414 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
4415 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
4416 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
4417 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
4418 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
4419 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
4420 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
4421 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
4423 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
4424 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
4425 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
4426 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
4428 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
4431 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
4432 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
4434 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
4435 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
4436 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
4437 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
4439 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
4440 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
4441 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
4442 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
4445 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
4446 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
4447 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
4448 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
4449 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
4450 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
4451 + update config.guess, config.sub
4452 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
4453 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
4454 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
4455 function is broken in that implementation.
4458 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
4459 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
4462 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
4463 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
4465 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
4466 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
4468 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
4469 reported to implement this feature -TD
4472 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
4473 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
4476 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
4477 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
4478 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
4479 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
4480 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
4481 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
4482 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
4483 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
4486 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
4487 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
4489 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
4490 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
4493 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
4494 (report by Alain Bench).
4495 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
4496 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
4497 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
4498 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
4500 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
4501 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
4502 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
4506 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
4507 and/or video attributes.
4508 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
4509 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
4512 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
4515 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
4516 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
4517 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
4518 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
4519 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
4520 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
4521 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
4522 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
4523 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
4526 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
4527 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
4528 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
4531 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
4532 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
4533 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
4534 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
4535 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
4536 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
4537 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
4538 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
4539 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
4540 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
4543 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
4544 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
4545 rather than delayed.
4546 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
4548 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
4549 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
4550 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
4553 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
4555 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
4556 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
4559 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
4560 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
4563 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
4564 + suppress line-drawing
4565 + implement max_attributes
4567 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
4568 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
4572 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
4573 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
4575 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
4577 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
4578 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
4579 etc., when allocating screens.
4582 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
4583 this in test/filter.c
4584 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
4588 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
4589 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
4590 + add extension nofilter().
4591 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
4592 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
4593 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
4594 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
4595 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
4598 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
4599 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
4600 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
4601 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
4602 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
4603 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
4604 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
4605 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
4606 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
4608 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
4609 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
4610 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
4612 + update config.guess and config.sub
4615 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
4616 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
4617 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
4619 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
4620 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
4621 that was never built in that directory).
4622 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
4625 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
4627 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
4628 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
4632 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
4633 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
4634 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
4635 effect of the different functions.
4636 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
4640 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
4641 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
4643 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
4647 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
4648 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
4649 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
4651 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
4652 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
4656 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
4657 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
4658 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
4660 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
4661 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
4662 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
4665 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
4666 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
4667 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
4670 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
4671 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
4672 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
4674 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
4675 a derived window (Debian #316663).
4678 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
4679 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
4680 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
4681 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
4682 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
4683 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
4684 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
4687 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
4688 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
4689 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
4691 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
4692 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
4693 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
4694 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
4695 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
4697 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4700 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
4703 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
4704 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
4708 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
4709 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
4710 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
4711 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
4712 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
4714 + update config.guess and config.sub from
4715 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
4718 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
4719 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
4720 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
4721 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
4722 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
4723 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
4724 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
4725 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
4726 default if it is used.
4727 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
4728 --with-abi-version option was used.
4729 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
4730 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
4731 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
4734 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
4735 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
4736 handlers (Debian #326709).
4739 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
4740 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
4742 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
4745 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
4746 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
4747 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
4748 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
4750 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
4751 (report by Frank van Vugt).
4754 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
4755 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
4756 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
4757 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
4758 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
4759 + update llib-l* files.
4762 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
4763 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
4764 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
4765 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
4769 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
4770 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
4771 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
4772 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
4773 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
4774 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
4775 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
4776 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
4777 Konstantin Andreev).
4780 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
4781 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
4782 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
4783 several related cases -TD
4784 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
4785 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
4787 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
4788 resets line-drawing.
4791 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
4793 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
4794 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
4795 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
4796 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
4797 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
4798 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
4801 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
4802 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
4803 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
4805 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
4806 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
4809 + update config.guess and config.sub from
4810 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
4811 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
4812 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
4813 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
4814 "make install.data" step.
4815 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
4816 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
4817 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
4818 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
4819 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
4820 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
4821 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
4822 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
4823 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
4824 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
4825 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
4826 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
4827 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
4828 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
4831 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
4834 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
4835 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
4836 review of Debian package).
4837 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
4838 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
4839 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
4840 install using libtool 1.5.0):
4841 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
4843 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
4844 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
4845 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
4846 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
4847 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
4850 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
4851 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
4852 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
4855 + fixes for termcap support:
4856 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
4857 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
4858 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
4859 extended names data will be freed consistently.
4860 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
4862 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
4863 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
4864 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
4865 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
4868 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
4869 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
4870 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
4871 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
4873 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
4877 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
4879 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
4880 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
4883 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
4884 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
4885 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
4886 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
4887 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
4888 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
4889 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
4893 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
4894 shift-, control-cursor keys.
4895 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
4896 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
4897 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
4898 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
4899 it will automatically be treated as a key.
4900 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
4901 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
4902 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
4906 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
4907 + add configure option --enable-largefile
4908 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
4912 + update config.guess, config.sub
4913 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
4914 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
4915 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
4916 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
4917 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
4919 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
4920 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
4921 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
4924 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
4925 position the mouse to a particular item.
4926 + implement test/demo_menus.c
4927 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
4928 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
4929 --enable-const option.
4932 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
4933 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
4934 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
4935 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
4936 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
4937 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
4938 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
4939 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
4940 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
4941 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
4942 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
4945 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
4947 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
4948 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
4951 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
4952 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
4953 anyone used that configuration.
4954 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
4956 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
4957 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
4960 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
4961 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
4962 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
4964 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
4965 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
4966 WenRui, Debian #300512).
4969 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
4970 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
4971 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
4975 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
4976 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
4977 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
4978 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
4979 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
4982 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
4984 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
4986 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
4987 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
4988 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
4991 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
4993 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
4994 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
4995 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
4996 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
4997 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
4998 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
4999 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
5000 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
5001 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
5002 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
5003 right (cf: 20040228).
5004 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
5005 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
5008 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
5009 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
5010 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
5011 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
5012 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
5013 added (Debian #295083).
5014 + add traces to panel library.
5017 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
5018 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
5019 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
5020 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
5021 mouse events in this case.
5022 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
5023 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
5026 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
5027 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
5028 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
5029 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
5030 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
5031 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
5032 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
5033 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
5036 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
5037 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
5038 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
5039 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
5040 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
5041 already been started.
5042 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
5043 pair_content() and color_content().
5044 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
5045 if it corresponds to the default-color.
5046 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
5047 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
5048 color pairs which are allowed.
5049 + add a top-level tags rule.
5052 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
5053 first calling initscr().
5054 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
5055 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
5056 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
5057 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
5058 that are curses-specific.
5059 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
5060 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
5061 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
5062 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
5066 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
5067 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
5068 for leading whitespace.
5069 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
5070 where a following line begins in column 1.
5071 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
5072 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
5075 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
5078 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
5079 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
5080 + update config.guess, config.sub
5081 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
5082 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
5083 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
5084 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
5085 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
5086 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
5087 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
5090 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
5092 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
5093 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
5096 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
5097 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
5098 and attr_set functions.
5101 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
5102 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
5103 forms-demo to be one character short.
5104 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
5105 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
5106 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
5107 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
5110 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
5111 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
5112 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
5113 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
5115 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
5116 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
5119 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
5120 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
5121 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
5122 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
5123 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat #140326).
5124 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
5125 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
5127 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
5128 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
5130 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
5131 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
5134 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
5135 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
5136 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
5137 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
5138 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
5139 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
5140 wide-character configuration.
5143 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
5144 or multicolumn characters.
5147 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
5148 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
5149 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
5150 use_default_colors() be called first.
5153 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
5154 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
5155 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
5156 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
5157 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
5158 must be wrapped to a new line.
5159 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
5160 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
5161 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
5162 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
5163 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
5167 + minor fixes for traces.
5168 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
5169 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
5170 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
5174 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
5175 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
5176 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
5177 and shift-out which seem to work.
5178 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
5179 at runtime (Debian #110586).
5182 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
5183 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
5184 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
5185 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
5189 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
5190 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
5191 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
5192 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
5195 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
5196 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
5197 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
5198 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
5199 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
5200 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
5201 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
5202 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
5203 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
5204 is no longer experimental.
5205 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
5206 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
5209 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
5212 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
5213 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
5214 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
5215 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
5216 using "tic -C" (Redhat #130921).
5217 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
5218 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
5219 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
5222 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
5223 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
5224 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
5225 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
5226 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
5227 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637).
5228 The xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and
5229 the new ones do not require this change. -TD
5232 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
5233 and window managers (Debian #265631).
5234 > terminfo updates -TD
5235 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
5236 with the common usage of bce/ech
5237 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
5241 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
5242 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
5243 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
5244 a help window as well.
5245 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
5246 the -d option is set.
5247 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
5250 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
5252 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
5253 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
5257 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
5258 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
5259 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
5260 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat #122815, patch by
5262 > terminfo updates -TD
5263 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
5264 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
5265 + add function-keys to decansi
5266 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
5267 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
5268 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
5271 > terminfo updates -TD
5272 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
5273 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
5275 + review/update konsole entries
5276 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
5277 + correct tsl string in kterm
5280 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
5283 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
5284 multibyte character.
5285 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
5287 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
5288 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
5289 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
5290 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
5291 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
5292 converting termcap to termcap format.
5293 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
5294 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
5295 > terminfo updates -TD
5296 + minor fixes for emu
5298 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
5303 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
5304 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
5305 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
5306 (report/patch by Tony Li).
5307 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
5308 > terminfo updates -TD
5309 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
5311 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
5312 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
5313 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
5316 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
5317 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
5319 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
5320 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
5321 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
5322 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
5323 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
5324 + update config.guess, config.sub
5325 > terminfo updates -TD
5327 + add xterm-xf86-v44
5328 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
5329 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
5334 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
5335 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
5336 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
5339 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
5340 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
5341 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
5343 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
5347 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
5348 field_buffer() results.
5349 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
5352 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
5354 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
5355 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
5356 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
5357 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
5358 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
5361 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
5362 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
5363 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
5367 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
5368 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
5370 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
5373 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
5374 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
5375 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
5376 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
5377 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
5378 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
5379 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
5380 information without an option.
5381 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
5382 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
5385 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
5388 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
5389 + free some memory leaks in tic.
5390 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
5391 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
5392 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
5393 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
5394 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
5396 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
5399 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
5400 to an unsigned char.
5401 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
5402 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
5405 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
5408 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
5409 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
5410 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
5411 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
5412 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
5413 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
5414 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
5415 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
5416 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
5417 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
5418 20030802 (Debian #237629).
5421 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
5422 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
5423 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
5424 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
5427 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
5429 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
5430 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
5433 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
5434 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
5435 mode is shown in that test.
5436 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
5437 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
5438 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
5441 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
5443 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
5444 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
5445 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
5446 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
5448 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
5449 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
5450 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
5451 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
5454 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
5455 (request by Mike Aubury).
5456 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
5458 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
5460 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
5463 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
5464 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
5465 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
5466 with Stanislav Ievlev).
5467 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
5468 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
5469 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
5470 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
5471 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
5472 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
5474 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5477 20040207 pre-release
5478 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
5479 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
5480 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
5481 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
5482 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
5484 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
5485 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
5486 verified by Scott Corscadden).
5488 20040131 pre-release
5489 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
5490 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
5491 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
5492 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
5493 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
5494 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
5495 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
5496 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
5497 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
5498 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
5499 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
5501 20040125 pre-release
5502 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
5503 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
5504 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
5505 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
5506 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
5507 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
5508 modifying the displayed value.
5510 20040124 pre-release
5511 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
5512 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
5513 that works better for cross-compiling.
5515 20040117 pre-release
5516 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
5517 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
5518 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
5519 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
5520 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
5521 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
5522 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
5524 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
5525 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
5527 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
5528 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
5529 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
5530 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
5531 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
5532 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
5533 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
5534 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
5535 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
5536 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
5537 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
5538 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
5540 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
5541 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
5542 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
5543 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
5544 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
5545 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
5546 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
5547 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
5549 20040110 pre-release
5550 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
5551 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
5553 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
5554 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
5556 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
5558 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
5559 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
5560 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
5561 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
5562 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
5565 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
5566 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
5567 + add pecho_wchar().
5568 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
5569 available) on older platforms.
5572 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
5573 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
5574 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
5575 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
5576 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
5577 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
5578 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
5579 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
5580 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
5583 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
5584 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
5585 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
5586 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
5587 work with Tru64 4.0d.
5588 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
5592 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
5593 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
5594 applications do not.
5595 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
5596 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
5597 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
5598 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
5599 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
5600 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
5604 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
5605 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
5606 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
5607 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
5608 <inger@altlinux.org>).
5609 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
5610 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
5611 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
5612 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
5613 awkward for some cases.
5614 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
5615 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
5617 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
5618 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
5619 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
5620 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
5621 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
5625 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
5626 values (Philippe Blain).
5627 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
5628 restarting (Philippe Blain).
5629 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
5633 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
5634 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
5635 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
5636 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
5637 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
5638 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
5642 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
5643 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
5644 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
5646 + update config.guess, config.sub
5649 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
5650 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
5651 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
5652 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
5653 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
5654 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
5655 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
5657 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
5658 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
5659 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
5660 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
5661 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
5664 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
5665 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
5666 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
5667 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
5668 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
5669 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
5670 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
5671 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
5673 + regenerated html documentation.
5674 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
5675 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
5676 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
5679 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
5680 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
5681 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
5682 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
5683 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
5684 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
5685 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
5686 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
5690 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
5691 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
5694 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
5695 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
5696 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
5697 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
5699 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
5700 (report by Philippe Blain).
5703 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
5704 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
5705 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
5706 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
5707 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
5708 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
5709 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5710 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
5711 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
5713 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
5715 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
5716 in the clr_bol logic.
5719 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5720 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
5721 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
5722 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
5723 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
5724 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
5725 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
5726 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
5727 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
5728 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
5729 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
5730 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
5733 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
5734 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
5735 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
5736 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
5739 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
5740 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
5741 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
5742 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
5743 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
5744 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
5745 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
5746 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
5747 --with-install-prefix is used.
5750 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5751 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
5752 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
5753 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
5756 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
5757 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
5758 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
5759 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
5760 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
5761 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
5762 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5763 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
5764 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
5767 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
5768 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
5769 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
5770 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
5771 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
5772 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
5773 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
5776 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
5778 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5779 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
5780 the size of the scroll-region.
5781 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
5784 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
5785 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
5786 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
5790 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
5791 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
5792 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
5793 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
5794 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
5796 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
5797 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
5798 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
5799 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
5800 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
5801 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
5802 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
5803 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
5804 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
5805 usage and to prevent circular links.
5806 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
5807 (rxvt-color): new alias
5808 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
5809 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
5810 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
5811 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
5812 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
5813 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
5815 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
5819 + update config.guess, config.sub
5820 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
5821 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
5824 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
5825 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
5826 would not accept gcc warning options.
5827 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
5828 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
5829 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
5830 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
5831 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
5832 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
5833 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
5835 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
5838 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
5839 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
5840 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
5841 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
5842 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
5843 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
5844 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
5845 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
5848 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
5850 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
5851 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
5852 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
5853 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
5856 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
5858 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
5859 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
5860 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
5861 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
5862 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
5863 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
5866 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
5867 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
5868 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
5869 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
5870 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
5871 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
5872 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
5873 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
5875 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
5876 Albert Chin-A-Young).
5877 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
5878 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5881 + regenerated html manpages.
5882 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
5883 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
5885 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
5886 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
5888 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
5889 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
5892 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
5893 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
5894 + add tkterm entry -TD
5895 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
5896 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
5897 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
5898 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
5900 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
5901 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
5902 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
5904 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
5905 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
5906 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
5909 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
5910 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
5911 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
5912 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
5914 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
5915 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
5916 current test programs.
5917 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
5918 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
5919 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
5920 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
5922 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
5923 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
5924 mentioned in the terminfo.
5925 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
5926 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
5929 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
5930 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
5931 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
5932 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
5933 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
5934 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
5935 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
5936 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
5939 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
5940 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
5941 the editing position before making modifications.
5942 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
5943 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
5944 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
5947 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
5948 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
5949 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
5950 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
5952 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
5953 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
5954 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
5955 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
5956 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
5957 terminfo as is done in "screen".
5960 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
5961 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
5962 code, from recent rewrite.
5963 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
5965 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
5966 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
5969 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
5970 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
5971 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
5972 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
5975 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
5976 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
5978 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
5981 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
5983 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
5984 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
5986 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
5987 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
5988 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
5991 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
5992 a file when ^W is given.
5993 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
5997 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
5998 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
5999 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
6000 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
6001 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
6002 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
6003 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
6004 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
6008 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
6009 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
6010 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
6013 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
6014 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
6015 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
6016 baudrate was not known.
6017 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
6018 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
6019 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
6020 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
6021 corresponding capability might be
6023 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
6024 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
6025 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
6026 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
6029 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
6030 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
6031 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
6032 apparently typedef'd.
6033 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
6034 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
6037 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
6038 + updated configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
6039 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
6040 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
6041 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
6042 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
6043 cached for reallocating.
6046 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
6047 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
6048 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
6050 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
6051 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
6052 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
6053 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
6054 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
6055 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
6056 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
6057 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
6060 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
6061 emx-base to the latter -TD
6062 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
6063 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
6066 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
6067 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
6068 attributes, e.g., reverse.
6069 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
6070 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
6073 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
6074 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
6075 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
6076 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
6077 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
6078 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
6079 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
6081 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
6082 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
6083 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
6084 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
6085 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
6088 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
6089 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
6090 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
6091 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
6092 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
6093 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
6095 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6096 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
6097 is indeed a "blank".
6098 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
6099 sections as small as one line.
6100 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
6102 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
6103 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
6104 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
6107 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
6108 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
6111 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
6112 (report by Philippe Blain).
6113 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
6114 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
6115 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
6116 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
6117 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
6119 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
6120 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
6121 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
6122 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6123 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
6124 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
6127 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
6128 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
6130 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
6131 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
6133 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
6134 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
6135 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
6136 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
6139 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
6140 overridden from the environment.
6141 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
6142 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
6143 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
6144 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
6145 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
6146 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
6147 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
6148 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
6149 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
6150 by Sam Varshavchik).
6151 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
6152 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
6153 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
6154 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
6156 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
6157 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
6158 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
6159 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
6160 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
6163 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
6164 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
6165 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
6166 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
6167 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
6168 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
6169 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
6170 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
6171 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
6172 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
6173 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
6174 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
6175 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
6176 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
6177 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
6178 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
6179 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
6180 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
6181 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
6182 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
6183 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
6184 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
6185 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
6188 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
6189 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
6190 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
6191 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
6192 winsch() internal function.
6193 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
6194 more than one spacing character.
6197 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
6198 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
6199 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
6200 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
6201 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
6202 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
6203 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
6204 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
6205 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
6206 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
6209 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
6210 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
6211 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
6212 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
6213 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
6214 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
6215 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
6218 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
6219 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
6220 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
6221 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
6223 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
6224 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
6225 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
6226 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
6227 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
6230 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
6231 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
6232 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
6233 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
6234 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
6235 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
6236 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
6237 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
6238 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
6239 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
6240 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
6241 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
6242 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
6243 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
6244 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
6245 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
6246 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
6249 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
6250 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
6251 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
6252 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
6253 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
6254 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
6255 Frederic L W Meunier).
6257 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
6258 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
6259 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
6260 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
6261 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
6262 the debug trace in that case.
6263 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
6264 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
6265 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
6266 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
6268 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
6269 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
6271 20021005 pre-release
6272 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
6273 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
6274 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
6275 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
6276 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
6277 formats such as "%.*s".
6278 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
6279 (report Floyd Davidson).
6280 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
6282 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
6283 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
6284 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
6286 20020928 pre-release
6287 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
6288 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
6289 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
6291 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
6292 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
6293 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
6294 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
6295 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
6296 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
6297 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
6298 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
6299 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
6300 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
6301 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
6302 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
6303 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
6304 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
6305 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
6306 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
6307 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
6308 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
6309 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
6311 20020921 pre-release
6312 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
6313 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
6314 result in core dump.
6315 + documented getbegx(), etc.
6316 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
6317 delimiter rather than '@'.
6318 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6319 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
6320 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
6321 to the lines given for the destination window.
6323 20020914 pre-release
6324 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
6325 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
6326 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
6327 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
6328 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
6329 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
6330 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
6331 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
6332 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6333 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
6334 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
6335 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
6337 20020907 pre-release
6338 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
6339 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
6340 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
6341 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
6342 html manpages on Debian.
6343 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
6344 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
6345 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
6346 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6347 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
6348 a variable from the stack.
6349 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
6351 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
6352 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
6353 _idcok window fields.
6354 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
6356 20020901 pre-release
6357 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
6358 + update config.guess, config.sub
6359 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
6360 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
6362 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
6363 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
6364 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
6365 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
6366 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
6367 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
6368 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
6369 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
6370 use in resizeterm().
6371 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
6372 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
6373 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
6374 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
6375 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6376 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
6377 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
6378 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
6379 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
6380 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
6381 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
6385 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
6386 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
6387 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
6388 + fix an overlooked case for Redhat #68199 (Philippe Blain).
6389 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
6390 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
6393 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
6394 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
6395 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
6397 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
6398 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
6399 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
6400 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
6401 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
6403 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
6404 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
6408 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
6409 when translating to termcap.
6410 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
6411 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
6412 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
6414 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
6416 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
6417 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
6419 + document TABSIZE variable.
6420 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
6421 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
6422 assume_default_colors().
6423 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
6425 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
6426 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
6427 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
6428 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
6429 window (completes Debian #87678, Debian #101699)
6432 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
6434 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
6435 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
6437 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
6438 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
6439 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
6442 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
6444 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
6447 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
6448 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
6449 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
6450 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
6451 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
6452 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
6453 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
6454 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
6455 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
6456 configure definitions.
6457 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
6458 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
6459 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
6460 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
6461 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
6462 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
6463 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
6464 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
6465 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
6466 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
6467 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
6470 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
6471 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
6472 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
6473 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
6474 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
6475 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
6476 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
6478 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
6479 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
6480 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
6481 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6484 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
6485 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
6486 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
6487 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
6489 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
6490 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
6491 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
6494 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
6495 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
6497 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
6498 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
6499 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
6501 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
6502 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
6503 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
6504 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
6506 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
6507 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
6508 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
6509 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
6513 + add charset to generated html.
6514 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
6515 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
6516 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
6517 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
6518 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
6519 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
6523 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
6524 key code in get_wch().
6525 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
6526 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
6527 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
6528 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
6529 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
6530 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
6533 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
6534 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
6536 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
6537 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
6538 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
6539 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
6542 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
6543 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
6544 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
6545 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
6546 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
6547 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
6548 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
6549 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
6550 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
6551 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
6554 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
6558 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
6559 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
6560 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
6561 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
6562 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
6563 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
6564 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
6567 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
6568 character versions as well.
6569 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
6571 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
6573 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
6574 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
6575 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
6576 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
6577 if gettimeofday() is available.
6580 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
6581 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
6584 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
6586 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
6587 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
6588 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
6589 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
6590 + update config.guess, config.sub
6593 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
6594 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
6595 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
6596 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
6597 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
6598 alias for 'function'.
6601 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
6602 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
6606 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
6607 + implement wgetn_wstr().
6608 + implement win_wchnstr().
6609 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
6610 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
6613 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
6614 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
6617 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
6618 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
6621 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
6622 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
6623 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
6625 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
6626 + implement unget_wch().
6627 + implement wget_wch().
6630 + regenerated html manpages.
6631 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
6632 + implement wins_wch().
6633 + implement win_wch().
6634 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
6637 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
6638 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
6641 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
6642 + document wunctrl, key_name.
6643 + implement key_name().
6644 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
6646 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
6650 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
6651 in spurious symlinks on install.
6654 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
6655 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
6656 box() and box_set() functions.
6657 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
6658 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
6659 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
6660 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
6661 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
6662 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
6663 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
6665 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
6667 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
6668 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
6669 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
6670 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
6672 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
6673 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
6676 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
6677 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
6679 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
6683 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
6685 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
6686 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
6687 Albert Chin-A-Young).
6688 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
6689 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
6690 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6691 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
6692 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
6693 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
6694 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
6695 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
6696 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
6697 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
6698 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
6699 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
6702 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
6703 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
6706 + update config.guess, config.sub
6707 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
6708 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
6711 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
6712 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
6713 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
6715 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
6716 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
6718 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
6719 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
6720 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
6721 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
6724 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
6727 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
6728 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
6729 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
6730 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
6731 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
6732 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
6733 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
6734 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
6735 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
6737 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
6738 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
6739 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
6741 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
6743 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
6744 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
6745 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
6746 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
6747 work with SunOS nawk.
6748 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
6750 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
6751 case it uses multiple tokens.
6754 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
6755 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
6756 interrupted by that signal.
6757 + updated configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
6758 not needed with autoconf 2.52
6759 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
6760 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
6762 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
6763 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
6764 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
6765 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
6766 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
6769 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
6771 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
6772 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
6773 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
6774 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
6775 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
6776 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
6777 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
6778 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
6781 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
6782 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
6783 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
6784 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
6785 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
6786 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
6787 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
6788 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
6789 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
6792 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
6793 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
6794 may have different keypad() settings.
6795 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
6796 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
6797 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
6798 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
6799 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
6800 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
6801 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
6802 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
6804 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
6805 + update config.guess, config.sub from
6806 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
6807 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
6811 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
6813 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
6814 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
6815 implementation in cygwin package).
6816 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
6817 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
6819 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
6820 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
6821 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
6822 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
6823 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
6824 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
6825 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
6826 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
6827 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
6829 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
6830 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
6831 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
6832 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
6833 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
6834 <jevans@apple.com>).
6835 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
6836 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
6837 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
6838 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
6839 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
6843 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
6844 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
6845 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
6846 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
6847 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
6848 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
6849 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
6850 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
6851 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
6852 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
6855 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
6858 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
6859 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
6860 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
6861 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
6862 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
6865 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
6866 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
6869 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
6870 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
6871 + implement wecho_wchar()
6872 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
6873 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
6874 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
6876 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
6877 in a trace by using curly braces.
6878 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
6879 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
6880 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
6881 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
6884 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
6885 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
6886 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
6887 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
6888 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
6892 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
6893 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
6894 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
6895 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
6896 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
6897 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
6898 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
6899 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
6903 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
6904 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
6905 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
6906 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
6907 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
6908 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
6909 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
6910 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
6911 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
6914 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
6915 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
6918 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
6919 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
6920 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
6921 <bbraun@synack.net>).
6922 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
6923 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
6925 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
6926 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
6928 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
6929 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
6932 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
6933 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
6934 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
6935 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
6936 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
6938 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
6939 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
6941 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
6942 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
6943 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
6944 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
6945 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
6948 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
6949 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
6951 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
6952 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
6953 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
6954 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
6957 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
6958 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
6959 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
6960 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
6961 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
6965 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
6966 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
6967 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
6969 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
6971 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
6973 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
6975 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
6976 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
6977 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
6978 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
6979 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
6980 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
6981 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
6982 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
6983 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
6987 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
6988 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
6989 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
6990 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
6991 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
6992 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
6993 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
6994 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
6995 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
6996 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
6998 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
6999 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
7000 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7001 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
7002 supports xterm mouse controls.
7003 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
7004 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
7005 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
7006 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
7007 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
7008 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
7009 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
7010 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
7011 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
7012 AX in a color xterm.
7013 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
7017 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
7018 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
7019 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
7020 + added llib-ncursesw.
7023 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
7024 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
7025 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
7026 header files (report by William P Setzer).
7027 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
7028 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
7029 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
7030 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7031 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
7032 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
7033 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
7034 Albert Chin-A-Young).
7035 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
7036 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7037 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
7038 obsolete with QNX RTP.
7039 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
7040 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
7041 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
7042 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
7045 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
7046 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
7047 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
7050 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
7051 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
7052 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
7053 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
7054 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
7055 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
7056 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
7057 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
7058 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
7059 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
7060 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
7061 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
7065 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
7066 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
7067 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
7068 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
7069 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
7070 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
7071 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7074 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
7075 new wide-character structures.
7076 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
7077 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
7078 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
7079 compiling for wide-character configuration.
7080 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
7084 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
7086 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
7087 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
7088 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
7090 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
7091 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
7092 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
7095 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
7096 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
7097 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
7100 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
7101 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
7102 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
7103 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
7104 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
7105 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
7106 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
7109 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
7110 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
7111 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
7112 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
7113 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
7114 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
7115 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
7116 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
7117 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
7120 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
7121 which may be in libutf8.
7122 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
7123 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
7124 links (Debian #99550).
7125 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
7126 C++ vscan code (Debian #97945).
7127 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
7128 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
7129 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
7130 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
7131 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
7132 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
7135 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
7136 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
7139 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
7140 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
7141 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
7142 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
7143 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
7145 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
7146 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
7147 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
7148 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
7149 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
7150 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
7151 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
7152 are used to manipulate attributes.
7153 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
7154 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
7155 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
7156 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
7157 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
7158 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
7160 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
7161 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
7162 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
7163 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
7164 we are using chtype data.
7165 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
7167 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
7169 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
7170 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
7171 where a pointer would be more useful.
7172 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
7173 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
7174 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
7175 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
7176 passing cchar_t's by address.
7177 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
7178 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
7179 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
7180 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
7181 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
7182 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
7183 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
7184 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
7187 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
7188 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
7189 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
7190 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
7191 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
7193 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
7194 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
7195 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
7198 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
7199 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
7200 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
7201 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
7202 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
7203 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
7204 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
7205 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
7206 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
7207 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
7208 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
7209 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
7212 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
7213 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
7214 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
7217 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
7218 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
7221 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
7222 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
7223 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
7224 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
7225 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
7228 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
7229 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
7230 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
7231 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
7232 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
7233 <bsittler@iname.com>).
7234 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
7235 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
7236 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
7237 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
7238 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
7241 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
7242 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
7243 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
7244 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
7245 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
7246 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
7247 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
7248 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
7249 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
7250 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
7251 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
7252 any shots there, but the computer did.
7253 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
7254 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
7258 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
7259 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
7260 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
7261 3.09.08 (Debian #92215).
7262 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
7263 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7266 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
7267 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
7268 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
7269 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
7270 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
7272 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
7274 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
7275 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
7277 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
7279 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
7280 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian #89222).
7283 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
7284 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
7285 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
7286 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
7287 interface from C++ binding.
7288 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
7289 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
7290 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
7291 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
7293 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
7294 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
7295 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
7296 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
7299 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
7300 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
7301 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
7302 (patch by Todd C Miller).
7305 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
7308 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
7312 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
7313 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
7314 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
7315 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
7316 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
7317 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
7318 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
7319 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
7320 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
7321 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
7322 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
7323 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
7326 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
7327 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
7329 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
7330 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
7331 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
7332 did not do this already.
7333 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
7334 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7335 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
7336 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
7337 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
7338 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
7339 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
7340 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
7343 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
7344 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
7347 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
7348 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
7349 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
7350 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
7352 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
7354 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
7355 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
7357 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
7358 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
7359 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
7360 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
7361 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
7364 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
7365 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
7366 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
7367 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
7370 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
7371 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
7372 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
7375 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
7376 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
7377 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
7378 work with 'indent') -TD
7381 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
7382 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
7383 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7384 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
7385 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
7387 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
7388 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
7389 termcap and terminfo functions
7390 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
7394 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
7395 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
7396 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
7397 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
7398 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
7399 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
7401 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
7402 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
7403 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
7404 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
7405 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
7406 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
7407 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
7408 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
7411 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
7412 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
7413 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
7414 /usr rather than /usr/local.
7417 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
7418 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
7419 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
7420 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
7422 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
7423 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
7424 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
7425 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
7426 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
7427 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
7428 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
7429 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
7432 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
7433 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
7434 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
7435 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
7436 + change trace output to binary format.
7437 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
7438 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
7439 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
7440 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
7441 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
7442 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
7443 the overwrite logic.
7446 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
7447 + resync config.guess, config.sub
7448 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
7449 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
7450 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
7451 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
7453 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
7454 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
7457 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7458 + update generated html files from manpages.
7459 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
7461 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
7462 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
7463 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
7464 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
7465 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7466 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
7467 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
7468 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
7471 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
7472 wrapping at the right margin.
7473 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
7474 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
7475 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
7477 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
7478 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
7479 understands how to run tbl automatically.
7480 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
7481 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
7482 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
7483 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
7484 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
7485 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
7486 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
7487 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
7488 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
7489 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
7490 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
7491 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
7492 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
7493 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
7494 option --with-libtool.
7495 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
7496 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
7497 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
7498 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
7499 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
7502 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
7503 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
7504 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
7505 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
7506 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
7507 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
7508 > patch by Todd C Miller:
7509 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
7510 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
7511 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
7512 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
7513 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
7514 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
7515 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
7516 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
7517 to set up a 3-button mouse.
7518 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
7519 replace select() call.
7522 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
7523 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
7524 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
7525 Albert Chin-A-Young).
7526 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
7527 cursor report before decoding.
7528 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
7529 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
7530 (see assume_default_colors()).
7531 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
7532 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
7534 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
7535 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
7536 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
7538 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
7539 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
7540 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
7541 for that capability.
7542 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
7543 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
7544 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
7545 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
7546 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
7547 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
7550 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
7551 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
7552 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
7553 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
7554 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
7555 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
7556 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
7557 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
7558 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
7560 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
7561 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
7562 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
7563 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
7564 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
7565 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
7566 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7569 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
7570 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
7571 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
7572 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
7573 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
7575 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
7576 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
7577 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
7578 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
7579 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
7580 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
7581 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
7582 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
7583 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
7584 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
7585 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
7586 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
7587 the expected number of parameters.
7588 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
7589 the option value is indeed a number.
7590 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
7591 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
7592 from the other signals.
7595 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
7596 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
7597 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
7600 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
7601 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
7603 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
7604 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
7605 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
7607 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
7608 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
7609 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
7610 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
7611 character set attribute from the displayed text.
7612 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
7613 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
7614 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
7615 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
7616 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
7617 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7620 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
7621 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
7622 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
7623 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
7624 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
7625 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
7626 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7627 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
7628 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
7629 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
7631 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
7632 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
7634 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
7635 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
7636 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
7637 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
7638 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
7639 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
7642 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
7643 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
7644 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
7645 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
7646 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
7647 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
7648 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
7649 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
7650 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
7651 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7652 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
7653 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
7654 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
7655 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
7656 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
7658 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
7659 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
7660 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
7663 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
7664 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
7665 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
7666 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
7668 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
7669 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
7670 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
7671 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
7672 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
7673 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
7674 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
7676 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
7677 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
7678 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
7679 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
7680 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
7681 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
7682 a default program-prefix.
7683 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
7684 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
7687 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
7688 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
7689 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
7690 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
7691 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
7692 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
7693 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
7694 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
7695 although the name is misleading).
7696 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
7697 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
7698 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
7699 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
7702 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
7703 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
7704 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
7706 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
7707 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
7709 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
7710 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
7711 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
7713 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
7714 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
7715 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
7716 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
7717 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
7718 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
7719 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
7720 test/configure script.
7721 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
7722 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
7723 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
7726 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
7729 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
7730 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
7731 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
7732 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
7733 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
7735 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
7736 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
7737 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
7739 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
7740 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
7743 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
7744 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7745 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
7746 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
7747 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
7748 there's still the explicit configure option).
7749 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
7750 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
7751 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
7752 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
7753 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
7754 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
7755 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
7756 simplify working around implementations that define random
7757 combinations of the related macros to zero.
7758 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
7759 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
7760 > patches by Bruno Haible:
7761 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
7762 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
7763 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
7764 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
7768 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
7769 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7770 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
7771 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
7772 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
7773 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
7774 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
7775 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
7776 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
7777 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
7778 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
7779 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
7780 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
7781 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
7784 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7785 + document configure options in INSTALL.
7786 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
7787 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
7788 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
7789 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
7790 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
7791 list of generated functions.
7792 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
7793 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
7794 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
7796 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
7797 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
7798 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
7799 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
7800 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
7802 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
7803 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
7804 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
7805 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
7806 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
7807 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
7808 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
7809 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
7810 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
7811 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
7812 examples cited in announce.html
7813 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
7814 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
7815 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
7816 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
7817 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
7818 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
7819 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
7820 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
7823 20000701 pre-release
7824 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
7825 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
7826 $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
7827 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
7828 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
7829 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
7831 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
7833 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
7835 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
7836 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
7837 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
7838 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
7839 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
7841 20000624 pre-release
7842 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
7843 that happen to render the same display colors.
7844 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
7845 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
7846 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
7847 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
7848 normalized value for cursor_address.
7849 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
7852 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
7853 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
7854 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
7855 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
7856 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
7857 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
7858 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
7859 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
7860 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
7861 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
7862 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
7863 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
7864 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
7868 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
7869 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
7870 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
7871 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
7872 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
7873 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
7874 allows larger symbol tables.
7875 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
7876 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
7877 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
7878 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
7882 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
7883 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
7884 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
7885 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
7886 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
7887 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
7888 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
7889 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
7890 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
7891 + add a "make libs" rule.
7892 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
7893 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
7894 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
7895 with existing ncurses libraries.
7898 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
7899 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
7900 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
7901 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
7902 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
7903 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
7904 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
7905 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
7906 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
7907 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
7908 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
7909 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
7910 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
7911 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
7914 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
7915 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
7916 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
7917 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
7921 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
7922 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
7924 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
7925 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
7926 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
7929 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
7930 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
7931 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
7932 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
7933 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
7935 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
7936 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
7937 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
7938 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
7939 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
7940 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
7941 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
7942 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
7945 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
7947 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
7948 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
7949 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
7950 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
7951 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
7952 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
7953 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
7954 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
7955 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
7956 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
7957 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
7958 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
7961 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
7962 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
7963 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
7964 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
7965 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7966 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
7967 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
7968 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
7969 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
7970 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
7971 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
7972 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
7973 means that it will not recur for that special case.
7974 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
7975 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
7976 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
7977 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7980 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
7981 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
7982 bg300-rv in esr's version.
7983 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
7984 (fixes Debian #61088).
7985 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
7986 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
7987 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
7990 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
7991 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
7992 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
7993 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
7994 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
7997 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
7998 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
7999 improvement in setting default colors.
8000 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
8001 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
8002 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
8004 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
8005 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
8006 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
8007 check for buffer overflow.
8008 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
8009 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
8010 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
8011 such as "infocmp -Fa".
8014 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
8015 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
8016 is not permitted in termcap.
8017 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
8018 integrating 20000318.
8021 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
8022 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
8023 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
8024 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
8026 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
8027 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
8028 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
8029 result for OS/2 EMX.
8030 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
8031 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
8032 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
8033 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
8034 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
8035 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
8038 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
8039 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
8040 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
8042 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
8043 displaying string capabilities.
8044 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
8045 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
8046 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
8047 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
8048 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
8049 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
8051 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
8052 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
8054 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
8055 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
8056 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
8057 may not produce the same result as before.
8058 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
8060 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
8061 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
8063 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
8064 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
8066 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
8067 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8068 + drop support for gnat 3.10
8069 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
8070 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
8073 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
8074 made it check only one entry at a time.
8075 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
8077 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
8078 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
8079 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
8080 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
8081 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
8082 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
8083 address out of bounds.
8084 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
8085 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
8086 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
8087 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
8089 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
8090 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
8091 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
8093 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
8096 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
8097 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
8098 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
8099 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
8101 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
8102 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
8103 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
8104 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
8105 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
8106 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
8108 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
8109 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
8110 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
8111 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
8112 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
8113 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
8114 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
8115 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
8118 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
8119 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8120 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
8121 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
8122 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
8123 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
8127 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
8128 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
8129 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
8130 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
8131 colors are white on black.
8132 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
8133 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
8134 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
8135 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
8136 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
8139 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
8140 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
8141 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
8142 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
8143 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
8144 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
8145 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
8146 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
8147 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
8148 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
8149 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
8152 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
8153 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
8154 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
8155 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
8156 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
8157 to wait indefinitely.
8160 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
8161 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
8162 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
8163 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
8164 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
8165 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
8166 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
8167 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
8168 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
8169 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8170 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
8171 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
8175 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
8176 programs build with c++/g++.
8177 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
8178 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
8179 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
8180 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
8181 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
8182 + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and
8183 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
8184 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
8187 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
8189 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
8190 terminfo entries -TD
8191 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
8192 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
8193 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
8194 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
8196 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
8197 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
8199 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
8201 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
8202 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
8203 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
8204 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
8205 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
8206 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
8207 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
8208 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
8209 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
8213 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
8214 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
8215 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
8216 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
8217 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
8218 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
8219 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
8220 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
8221 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
8222 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
8223 use_extended_names().
8226 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
8227 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
8228 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
8229 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
8230 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
8231 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
8232 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
8233 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
8234 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
8235 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
8236 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
8237 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
8238 + add manpage for infotocap
8241 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
8242 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
8243 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
8244 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
8246 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
8247 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
8248 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
8249 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
8250 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
8251 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
8252 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
8253 initc for xterm-88color.
8254 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
8258 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
8259 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
8261 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
8262 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
8263 SP, since it is part of that struct.
8264 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
8266 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
8267 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
8268 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
8269 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
8270 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
8271 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
8272 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
8273 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
8274 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
8276 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
8277 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
8278 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8279 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
8281 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
8284 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
8285 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
8286 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
8287 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
8288 over the use of default colors.
8289 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
8290 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
8291 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
8292 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
8293 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
8294 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
8295 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
8296 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
8299 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
8300 <robert@progplus.com>)
8301 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
8302 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
8303 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
8306 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
8307 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
8308 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
8310 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
8311 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
8312 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
8313 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
8314 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
8315 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
8316 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
8317 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
8318 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
8319 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
8320 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
8321 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
8323 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
8324 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
8327 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
8328 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
8330 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
8331 (request by Bob van der Poel).
8332 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
8333 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
8334 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
8335 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
8336 libraries by default.
8337 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
8339 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
8340 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
8342 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
8343 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
8344 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
8345 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
8346 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
8347 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
8348 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
8350 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
8352 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
8353 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
8354 advice from Bela Lubkin).
8355 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
8356 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8357 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
8358 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
8359 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
8360 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
8363 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
8366 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
8367 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
8368 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
8369 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
8370 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
8371 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
8372 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
8373 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
8374 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
8375 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
8378 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
8379 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
8380 Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8381 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
8382 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
8383 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
8385 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
8386 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
8387 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
8388 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
8389 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
8390 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
8391 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
8392 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
8393 is used), and in color.
8394 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
8395 shared library rules.
8398 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
8399 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
8400 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
8401 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
8402 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
8403 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
8404 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
8405 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
8406 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
8407 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
8408 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
8409 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
8410 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
8411 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
8412 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
8413 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
8414 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8417 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
8418 <j@interface-business.de>).
8419 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
8420 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
8421 that hard-links work on Unix again.
8422 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
8423 Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
8424 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
8427 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
8428 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
8429 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
8430 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
8431 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
8432 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
8433 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
8434 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
8435 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
8436 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
8437 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
8438 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
8439 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
8442 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
8443 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
8444 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
8445 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
8446 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
8447 in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
8448 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
8449 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
8450 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
8451 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
8452 function works only for sockets.
8453 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
8454 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
8455 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
8456 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
8457 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
8458 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
8459 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
8460 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
8461 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
8462 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
8465 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
8466 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
8467 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
8468 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
8469 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
8470 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
8471 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
8474 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
8475 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
8476 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
8478 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
8479 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
8480 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
8481 nonfunctional link().
8482 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
8483 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
8486 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
8487 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
8488 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
8491 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
8492 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
8493 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
8494 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
8495 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
8496 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
8497 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8498 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
8499 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
8500 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
8501 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
8502 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
8503 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
8504 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
8505 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
8506 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
8507 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
8508 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
8509 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
8510 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
8513 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
8514 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
8515 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
8516 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
8517 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
8518 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
8519 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
8520 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
8521 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
8522 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
8523 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
8524 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
8525 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
8526 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
8527 short-circuit expression evaluation.
8528 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
8529 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
8531 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
8532 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
8533 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
8534 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
8535 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
8539 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
8540 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
8542 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
8543 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
8544 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
8547 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
8548 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
8549 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
8550 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
8551 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
8552 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
8553 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
8554 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
8556 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
8557 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
8558 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8561 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
8562 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
8563 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
8564 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
8565 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
8566 --with-rcs-ids option.
8569 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
8570 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
8572 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
8573 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
8574 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
8578 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
8579 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
8580 BeOS predefines a bool type.
8581 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
8582 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
8583 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
8584 option to infocmp -TD
8585 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8586 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
8587 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
8588 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
8589 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
8590 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
8591 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
8594 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8595 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
8596 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
8597 + change interface version-number to 1.0
8598 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
8601 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
8602 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
8603 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
8604 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
8605 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
8606 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
8607 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
8608 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
8609 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
8610 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
8612 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
8613 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (prompted by
8614 discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
8617 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
8618 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
8619 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
8621 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
8622 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
8625 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
8626 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8627 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
8628 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
8629 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
8632 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
8636 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
8637 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
8638 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
8639 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
8640 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
8642 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
8643 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
8644 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
8645 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
8648 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
8649 fields, and showing forms within panels.
8650 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
8651 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
8652 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
8653 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
8654 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
8655 ownership may change).
8658 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
8660 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
8661 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
8662 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8663 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
8664 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
8665 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
8666 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
8668 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
8669 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
8670 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
8671 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
8672 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
8673 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
8676 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
8677 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
8679 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
8680 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
8681 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
8682 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8685 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
8686 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
8687 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
8688 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
8689 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
8690 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
8694 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
8695 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8696 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
8697 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
8698 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
8699 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
8700 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
8701 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
8704 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
8705 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
8706 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
8707 Alexander V Lukyanov).
8710 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
8711 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
8714 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the "-g" option.
8715 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
8716 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
8717 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
8718 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8719 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
8720 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
8721 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
8722 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
8723 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
8724 reset for the next newterm.
8725 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
8726 terminal has true SLKs.
8727 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
8730 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
8731 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
8732 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
8733 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
8734 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
8735 read of the extended capabilities.
8736 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
8737 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
8738 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
8739 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
8740 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
8741 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
8742 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
8743 throughout ncurses library.
8744 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
8745 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
8747 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
8748 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
8749 + regenerate some of the html documentation
8750 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
8753 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
8754 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
8755 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
8756 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD
8757 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
8759 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
8761 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
8762 defined for a keycode.
8763 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
8764 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
8765 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
8766 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
8767 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
8769 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8770 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
8771 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
8772 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
8774 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
8775 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
8777 + modify configuration scripts to
8778 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
8779 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
8780 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
8781 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
8782 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
8783 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
8784 + rename ada_include directory to src.
8787 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
8788 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
8789 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
8793 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
8794 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
8795 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
8796 though the problem is more general.
8797 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
8798 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
8799 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
8800 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
8802 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
8803 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
8804 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
8807 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
8808 Alexander V Lukyanov).
8809 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
8810 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
8811 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
8812 operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8813 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
8814 be any substring rather than the prefix.
8815 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
8816 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
8817 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
8818 has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
8819 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
8820 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
8821 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
8822 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
8823 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
8824 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
8825 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
8826 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
8827 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
8828 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
8829 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
8830 --with-shlib-version option.
8833 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
8834 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
8835 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
8836 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
8837 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
8838 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
8839 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
8840 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
8841 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
8842 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
8843 intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
8844 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
8845 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
8846 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
8847 source distribution.
8850 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
8851 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
8852 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
8854 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
8855 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
8856 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
8857 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
8858 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
8861 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
8864 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
8865 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
8866 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
8867 Alexander V Lukyanov).
8868 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
8869 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
8870 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
8871 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
8872 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8873 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
8874 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
8875 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
8876 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
8877 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
8879 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
8880 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
8881 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
8882 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
8885 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
8887 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
8888 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
8889 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
8890 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
8891 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
8892 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
8893 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
8894 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
8895 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
8896 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
8897 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
8898 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
8899 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
8900 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
8901 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
8902 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
8903 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
8907 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
8908 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
8909 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
8910 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
8911 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
8912 running screen built with ncurses.
8913 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
8914 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
8915 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
8918 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
8921 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
8922 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
8923 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
8924 by a Debian bug report).
8925 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
8926 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
8928 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
8929 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
8930 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
8931 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
8935 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
8936 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
8937 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
8938 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
8939 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
8940 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
8941 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
8942 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
8943 (reported by H.J.Lu).
8946 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
8947 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
8948 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
8949 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
8950 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
8951 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
8952 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
8953 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
8954 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
8955 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
8956 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8957 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
8959 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
8960 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
8962 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
8964 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
8966 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
8967 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
8971 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
8972 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
8973 address rather than its length.
8974 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
8975 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
8976 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
8977 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
8978 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
8979 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
8980 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
8981 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
8982 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
8983 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
8986 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
8987 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
8989 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
8990 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
8991 for an older version of ncurses.
8992 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
8993 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
8994 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
8995 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
8996 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
8997 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
8998 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
8999 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
9000 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9001 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
9002 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
9003 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
9005 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
9006 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
9009 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
9010 (request by Larry Virden).
9011 > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
9012 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
9013 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
9014 changes to ncurses library.
9015 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
9016 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
9017 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
9018 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9019 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
9020 + some Ada95 cosmetics
9021 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
9022 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
9023 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
9026 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
9027 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
9028 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
9029 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
9030 proposed changes to ncurses library.
9031 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
9032 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
9033 broken configure scripts.
9036 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
9038 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
9039 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
9040 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
9042 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
9043 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
9047 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
9048 with --srcdir option.
9049 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
9050 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
9051 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
9052 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
9053 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
9054 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9057 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
9058 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
9059 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
9061 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
9062 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
9063 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
9064 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
9065 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
9066 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
9067 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
9068 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
9071 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
9072 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9075 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
9076 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
9077 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
9078 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
9079 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
9080 some older entries - TD
9081 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
9082 since that is a little more efficient.
9083 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
9084 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
9085 + add "-g" option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
9086 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
9087 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
9088 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
9090 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
9092 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
9093 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
9095 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
9096 + use format string for printing strings.
9097 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
9100 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
9101 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
9102 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
9103 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
9104 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
9105 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
9106 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
9107 > patches by Todd C Miller:
9108 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
9109 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
9110 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
9111 dealing with env variables again.
9112 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
9113 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
9114 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
9115 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
9116 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
9117 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
9118 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
9119 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
9120 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
9121 newhash data to SP struct.
9122 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
9123 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
9124 function's parameter which is deleted.
9125 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
9126 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
9127 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
9128 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
9132 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
9133 consistent treatment.
9134 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
9135 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
9136 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
9137 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
9140 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
9141 capability name, as in SVr4.
9142 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
9143 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
9144 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
9147 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
9148 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
9149 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
9150 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
9151 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
9152 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
9153 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
9154 > from esr's terminfo version:
9155 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
9156 + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
9157 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
9160 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
9161 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
9162 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
9163 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
9164 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
9165 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
9166 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
9167 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
9168 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
9169 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
9173 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
9174 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
9175 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
9176 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
9177 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
9180 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
9181 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
9185 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
9186 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
9187 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
9188 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
9189 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
9190 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
9191 as obtained via ioctl.
9194 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
9195 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
9196 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
9197 turning attributes off.
9198 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
9199 initializing multiple screens.
9200 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
9201 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
9202 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
9205 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
9206 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
9207 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
9208 with Solaris curses).
9209 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
9210 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
9211 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
9212 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
9213 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
9214 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
9215 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
9216 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
9219 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
9220 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
9221 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
9222 (request by QingLong).
9223 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
9224 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
9225 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
9226 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
9228 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
9229 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
9230 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
9231 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
9232 otherwise simply exit with an error.
9235 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
9236 "_g" for a debug build).
9237 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
9238 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
9239 compile/link working Ada95 program.
9240 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
9241 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
9242 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
9243 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
9244 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
9245 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
9249 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
9250 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
9251 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
9252 corresponds to vt100.
9253 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
9254 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
9257 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
9258 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
9259 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
9260 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
9261 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
9262 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
9263 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
9264 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
9265 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
9266 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9269 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
9270 several minor errors/omissions.
9271 + implement tparm %l format.
9272 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
9274 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
9277 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
9278 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
9279 to be written to large screens.
9280 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
9281 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
9282 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
9283 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
9284 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
9286 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
9287 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9288 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
9289 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
9292 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
9294 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
9296 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
9297 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
9298 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
9299 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
9300 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
9301 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
9302 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
9304 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
9305 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
9307 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
9310 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
9311 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
9312 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
9313 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
9314 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
9315 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
9316 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
9317 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
9318 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
9319 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
9322 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
9323 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9324 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty
9325 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
9326 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
9327 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
9328 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
9329 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
9330 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
9331 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
9332 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
9333 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
9334 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
9337 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
9338 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
9339 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
9340 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
9341 which contains a colon in the description field.
9342 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
9343 from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
9344 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
9346 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
9347 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
9350 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
9351 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
9353 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
9354 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
9355 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
9356 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
9357 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
9358 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
9359 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
9360 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
9361 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
9362 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
9363 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
9364 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
9365 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
9366 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
9367 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
9368 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
9369 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
9370 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
9371 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
9372 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
9373 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
9374 comparisons out of inner loop.
9377 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
9378 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
9379 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
9380 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
9381 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
9382 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
9383 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
9384 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
9385 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
9387 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
9388 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
9389 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
9392 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
9393 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
9394 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
9395 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
9396 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
9397 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
9398 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
9399 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
9400 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
9401 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
9404 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
9405 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
9406 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
9407 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
9409 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
9410 avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
9411 by Juergen Pfeifer).
9414 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
9415 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
9418 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
9419 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
9420 uses them when they are available.
9421 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
9422 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
9423 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
9424 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
9426 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
9429 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
9430 declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
9431 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
9432 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
9434 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9435 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
9436 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
9437 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
9438 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
9439 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
9440 use --disable-overwrite).
9441 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
9442 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
9443 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
9444 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
9445 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
9446 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
9447 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
9448 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
9449 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
9453 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
9454 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9455 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
9456 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
9457 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
9458 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
9459 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
9460 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
9462 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
9463 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
9464 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
9465 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
9467 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
9468 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
9469 parameter according to XSI.
9470 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
9471 reflect above enhancements.
9474 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
9475 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
9476 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
9477 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
9479 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
9481 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
9483 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
9484 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
9485 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
9488 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
9489 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
9490 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9491 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
9492 <claesg@algonet.se>).
9493 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
9494 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
9497 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
9498 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
9499 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
9501 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
9502 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
9503 by Florian La Roche).
9504 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
9505 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
9506 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
9507 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9510 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
9511 distributions, though it is retained in development.
9512 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
9514 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
9515 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
9516 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
9517 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
9518 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
9521 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
9523 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
9524 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
9525 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
9526 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
9527 This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
9528 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
9530 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
9531 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
9532 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
9534 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
9535 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
9536 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
9539 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
9540 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
9542 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
9543 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
9545 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
9547 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
9549 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
9551 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
9552 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
9553 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
9554 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
9555 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
9557 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
9558 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
9560 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
9561 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
9562 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
9563 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
9564 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
9565 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
9566 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
9567 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
9568 turn off attributes inconsistently.
9571 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
9572 test for no_color_video.
9573 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
9575 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
9576 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
9577 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
9579 > from reports by Fred Fish:
9580 + add configure-test for isascii
9581 + add configure-test for -lm library.
9582 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
9583 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
9584 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
9585 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
9586 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
9587 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
9588 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
9590 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
9591 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
9593 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
9594 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
9595 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
9596 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
9597 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
9600 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
9601 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
9603 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
9605 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
9606 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
9607 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
9609 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
9610 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
9612 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
9614 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
9615 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
9616 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
9617 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9618 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
9619 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
9620 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9621 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
9622 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
9623 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
9624 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
9625 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
9626 fields are also always inactive.
9627 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
9628 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
9631 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
9632 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
9633 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
9634 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
9635 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
9636 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
9637 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
9638 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
9639 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
9642 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
9643 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
9644 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
9645 defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
9646 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
9648 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
9649 Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
9650 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
9651 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
9652 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
9653 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
9654 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
9655 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
9656 cross-platform compatibility.
9657 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
9658 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
9659 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9660 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
9662 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
9666 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
9667 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
9668 EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
9669 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
9670 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
9671 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
9672 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
9673 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
9674 that simply cannot scroll.
9675 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
9676 embedded \200 characters are matched.
9677 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
9681 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
9682 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
9683 functions from the build.
9684 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
9685 functions as a separate library.
9686 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
9687 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
9688 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
9689 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
9690 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
9691 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
9692 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
9693 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
9694 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
9696 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9697 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
9698 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
9701 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
9702 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
9704 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
9705 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
9706 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
9707 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
9710 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
9711 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
9712 + add configure check for 'tack'.
9713 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
9714 for Debian configuration.
9715 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
9717 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
9718 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
9720 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
9721 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
9722 case of wide characters in chtype.
9723 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
9724 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
9725 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
9728 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
9729 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
9730 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
9731 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
9732 have set root's umask to 077.
9733 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
9734 end of output when they had embedded comments.
9735 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
9736 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
9737 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
9738 correct logic for handling backslashes.
9739 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
9740 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
9741 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
9742 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
9743 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
9744 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
9746 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9747 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
9749 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
9750 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
9752 + resync of the html version of the manpages
9755 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
9756 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
9758 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
9759 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
9760 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
9761 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
9762 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9763 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
9764 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
9765 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
9769 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
9771 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
9772 comments from Daniel Weaver.
9773 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
9774 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
9775 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
9776 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
9778 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
9779 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
9780 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
9782 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
9783 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
9786 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
9790 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
9791 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
9792 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
9793 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
9794 in call to delay_output().
9795 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
9796 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
9797 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
9798 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
9799 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
9801 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
9802 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
9803 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
9804 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
9805 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
9806 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
9807 so that will work on NeXT.
9808 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
9809 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
9812 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
9814 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
9816 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
9817 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
9818 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
9819 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
9820 when that feature is not configured.
9821 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
9822 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
9823 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
9824 (this dates back to 951102 in 1.9.7a).
9825 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
9826 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
9827 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
9828 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
9831 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
9833 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
9834 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
9836 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
9838 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
9839 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
9842 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
9843 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
9844 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
9845 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
9846 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
9847 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
9848 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
9849 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
9850 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
9852 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
9853 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
9854 tputs() if called from that function.
9855 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
9856 tputs works when SP is not set.
9857 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9858 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
9859 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
9860 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation
9861 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
9862 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
9865 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
9866 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
9867 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
9868 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
9869 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
9870 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
9871 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
9872 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
9873 _nc_update_screensize().
9874 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
9876 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
9877 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
9878 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
9879 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9880 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
9881 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9882 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
9883 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
9884 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
9885 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
9887 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
9891 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
9892 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
9893 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
9895 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
9896 click-interval without modifying it.
9897 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
9898 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
9900 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
9901 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
9902 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
9903 other ncurses headers.
9904 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
9905 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
9906 (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
9907 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
9908 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
9909 characters output in delay_output().
9910 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
9911 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
9912 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
9913 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9914 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
9916 + typo in configure --help.
9917 > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
9918 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
9919 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
9920 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
9923 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9924 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
9927 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
9928 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
9929 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
9930 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
9931 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
9933 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
9934 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
9935 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
9936 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
9937 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
9938 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
9939 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
9940 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
9941 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
9942 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
9943 form (sorted, unique mapping).
9944 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
9945 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
9946 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9947 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
9948 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9949 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9950 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
9951 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
9952 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
9953 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
9954 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
9955 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
9956 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9957 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
9959 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
9960 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
9961 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
9962 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
9963 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
9964 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
9968 + add 'deinstall' rules.
9969 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
9970 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
9971 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
9972 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
9973 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
9974 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
9976 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
9977 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9978 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
9980 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
9981 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
9982 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
9983 scripts are also provided.
9986 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
9988 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
9989 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
9990 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
9991 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
9992 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
9993 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
9994 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
9995 generating lint library.
9996 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
9998 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
9999 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
10000 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
10001 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
10002 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
10003 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
10004 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
10005 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
10006 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
10007 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
10009 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
10010 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
10012 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
10014 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
10015 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
10016 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
10017 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
10018 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
10019 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
10020 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10021 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
10022 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
10026 + modify rain.c to use color.
10027 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
10028 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
10029 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
10030 of configure cache variables in 970906.
10031 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
10032 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
10033 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
10034 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
10035 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
10036 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
10037 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
10038 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
10039 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
10040 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
10041 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
10043 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
10044 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
10045 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
10046 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
10047 NCursesPanel class.
10048 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
10049 NCursesWindow class.
10050 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
10051 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
10052 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
10053 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
10055 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
10056 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
10057 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
10058 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
10059 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
10060 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
10062 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
10063 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
10064 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
10065 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
10066 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
10067 already disconnected.
10068 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
10069 navigation requests.
10070 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
10071 case-insensitiva comparision routine.
10072 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
10073 forms field by index.
10074 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
10076 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
10077 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
10078 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
10079 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
10080 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
10081 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
10082 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
10083 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
10084 move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
10086 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
10087 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
10088 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
10090 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
10091 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10092 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
10093 know that auto_right_margin is true.
10094 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
10095 shifting character to LR corner.
10096 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
10097 terminal right margin mode is known.
10098 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
10099 _nc_scroll_window().
10100 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
10101 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
10103 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
10104 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
10105 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
10106 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
10108 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
10109 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
10110 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
10111 the terminal window is resized.
10114 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
10115 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
10116 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
10117 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
10118 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
10119 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
10120 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
10121 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
10122 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10123 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
10124 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
10126 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
10127 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
10128 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
10130 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
10131 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
10133 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
10137 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
10138 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
10139 lib_printw.c functions.
10140 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
10141 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
10142 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
10143 force the screen to scroll.
10146 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
10148 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
10150 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
10151 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
10153 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
10154 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
10155 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10156 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
10157 was in the wrong order.
10158 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
10160 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
10162 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
10163 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
10164 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
10165 invoke wechochar() instead.
10166 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
10169 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
10170 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
10171 work properly when we add calls to that function.
10172 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
10173 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
10174 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10175 + several fixes to getch:
10176 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
10177 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
10178 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
10179 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
10181 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
10182 6. correctly handle the case of receiption of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
10183 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
10184 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
10185 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
10187 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
10188 line-breakout optimization
10189 + improve hashmap.c by
10190 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
10191 2. not marking lines with offset 0
10192 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
10193 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
10194 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
10195 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
10197 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
10198 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
10199 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
10200 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
10202 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
10204 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
10205 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
10206 stored/retrieved via set_term().
10207 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
10211 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
10212 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
10213 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
10215 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
10216 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
10217 before looking for (n)curses library.
10218 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
10219 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
10220 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
10221 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
10222 include ncurses_cfg.h
10223 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
10224 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
10225 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10226 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
10227 example firstlast.c
10228 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
10229 common subexpressions.
10230 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
10231 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
10232 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
10233 against the background character.
10234 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
10235 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
10236 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
10237 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
10238 > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
10239 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
10240 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
10241 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
10242 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
10245 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
10246 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
10247 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
10248 terminal type ncr7900).
10249 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
10250 package is built with an install-prefix.
10251 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
10252 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
10253 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
10254 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
10255 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
10256 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
10257 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
10258 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
10259 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
10260 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10261 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
10262 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
10263 by Juergen Pfeifer).
10266 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
10267 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
10268 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
10269 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
10270 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
10271 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
10272 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
10273 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
10274 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
10275 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
10276 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
10279 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
10280 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
10281 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
10282 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
10283 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
10284 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
10285 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
10286 configuration of wide-characters.
10287 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
10288 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
10289 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
10290 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
10291 does not have getttynam().
10292 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
10293 + add table entries for B230400 and B460800 to baudrate() function.
10294 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
10295 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10296 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
10297 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10298 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
10299 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
10300 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
10301 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
10302 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
10306 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
10307 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10308 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
10309 options should be accompanied by a message.
10310 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
10311 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
10313 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
10315 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10316 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
10317 better when csr is not available.
10318 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
10319 after failure to scroll one.
10320 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
10321 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
10322 case and wrong string in TRACE.
10323 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10324 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
10328 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
10329 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
10331 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
10332 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
10333 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
10334 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
10335 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
10338 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
10339 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
10340 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
10342 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
10345 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
10346 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
10347 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
10348 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
10349 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
10350 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
10351 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
10352 (reported by Larry Virden).
10353 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
10354 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
10356 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10357 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
10358 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
10359 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
10363 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
10364 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
10365 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
10366 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
10367 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
10369 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
10370 terminfo description to the stored strings.
10371 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
10372 terminfo descriptions.
10373 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
10374 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
10375 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
10376 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
10377 option is a stopgap.
10378 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
10379 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
10382 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
10383 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
10384 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
10385 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
10386 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
10387 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
10391 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
10392 lines in curscr that are shifted.
10393 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
10394 than a series of function calls.
10395 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
10396 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
10397 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
10398 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
10399 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
10400 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
10401 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
10402 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10403 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10406 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
10407 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
10408 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
10409 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
10410 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
10411 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
10412 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
10413 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
10414 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
10415 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
10416 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
10417 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
10418 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
10419 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
10420 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10421 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
10422 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10423 + improve threshhold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
10424 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10427 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
10428 use only the fallback data.
10429 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
10430 terminal descriptions.
10431 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
10432 still assume there's an ncurses.h
10433 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
10434 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
10435 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
10436 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
10437 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
10438 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
10440 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
10441 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
10442 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
10443 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
10444 <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
10445 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
10446 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
10448 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
10450 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
10451 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
10453 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
10455 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
10456 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
10457 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
10458 original implementation (1.9.6).
10459 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
10460 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
10461 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
10462 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
10464 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
10465 SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
10466 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
10467 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
10468 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
10469 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10470 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
10471 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
10473 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
10474 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
10475 field is not possible.
10476 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
10477 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
10478 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
10479 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
10481 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
10482 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
10483 in forms/menus libraries.
10486 + add description of xterm-16color.
10487 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
10488 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
10490 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
10491 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
10492 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
10493 works properly w/o first doing "make".
10494 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
10495 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
10497 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
10498 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
10499 bounding box without tidying up).
10500 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
10501 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
10502 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
10504 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
10505 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10506 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
10507 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
10508 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10511 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
10512 option is specified.
10513 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
10514 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
10516 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
10517 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
10518 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
10519 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
10520 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
10521 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
10522 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
10523 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
10524 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
10525 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
10526 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
10527 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
10528 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
10529 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
10531 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
10532 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
10533 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10534 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
10535 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
10536 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10537 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
10538 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
10539 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10540 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
10541 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
10543 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
10545 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
10547 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
10548 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
10551 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
10552 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
10553 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
10554 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
10556 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
10557 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
10558 during a call to newwin.
10559 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
10560 is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
10561 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
10562 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
10563 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
10564 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10565 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
10566 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
10569 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
10570 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
10571 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
10572 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
10574 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
10577 970505 4.1 pre-release
10578 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
10580 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
10581 unnecessary recompiles.
10582 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
10583 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
10584 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
10585 overwrite of symbolic links.
10586 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
10587 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
10588 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
10589 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
10590 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
10591 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
10592 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
10593 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
10594 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
10595 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
10596 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
10597 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
10598 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
10599 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
10603 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
10604 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
10605 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
10607 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
10608 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
10609 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
10610 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
10611 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
10612 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
10613 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
10614 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
10615 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
10617 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
10618 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
10619 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
10620 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
10622 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
10623 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
10624 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10625 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
10626 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10627 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
10628 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10629 + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
10630 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
10631 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
10632 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10635 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
10636 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
10637 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
10638 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
10639 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
10640 original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
10641 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
10642 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
10643 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
10644 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
10645 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
10646 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
10647 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
10648 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
10649 or redefinition within an acsc string.
10650 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
10651 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
10652 regression testing.
10653 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
10654 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
10657 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
10658 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
10659 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
10660 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
10661 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
10662 match SVr4 documentation.
10663 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
10664 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
10665 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
10668 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
10669 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
10670 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
10671 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
10672 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
10673 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
10674 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
10675 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
10678 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
10679 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
10680 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
10682 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
10683 --enable/--with values.
10684 + add configure option --enable-big-core
10685 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
10686 + check for C++ builtin.h header
10687 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
10688 parameter from the expression.
10689 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
10690 ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted from diffs by
10692 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
10693 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
10694 was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
10695 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
10696 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
10697 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
10700 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
10701 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
10702 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
10703 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
10704 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
10707 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
10708 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
10709 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
10710 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
10711 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
10712 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
10713 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
10714 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
10715 (reported by Ward Horner).
10716 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
10717 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
10720 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
10721 even if "make all" is not done first.
10722 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
10723 expanded functions with ATAC.
10724 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
10725 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
10729 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
10731 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
10733 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
10736 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
10737 addressing request by Ward Horner.
10738 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
10739 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
10740 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
10741 a pointer-increment.
10742 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
10746 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
10747 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
10749 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
10750 (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
10751 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
10752 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
10753 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
10754 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
10755 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
10756 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
10758 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
10759 (reported by Ward Horner)
10760 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
10761 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
10762 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
10763 (reported by Gary Johnson).
10764 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
10765 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
10766 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
10767 wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
10768 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
10769 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
10770 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
10771 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
10775 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
10776 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
10777 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
10778 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
10779 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
10780 (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10781 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
10782 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
10783 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
10784 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
10787 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
10789 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
10790 the returned buffer.
10791 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
10792 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
10793 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
10794 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
10796 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
10797 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
10800 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
10801 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
10802 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
10803 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
10805 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
10806 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
10809 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
10810 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
10812 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
10814 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
10815 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
10816 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
10817 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
10819 + modify _tracedump() to pad pad colors & attrs lines to match change
10820 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
10821 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
10822 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
10825 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
10826 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
10827 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
10828 that machine - T.Dickey.
10829 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
10830 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
10831 linking against static libraries.
10832 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
10834 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
10835 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
10836 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
10837 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
10839 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
10840 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
10841 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
10842 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
10843 Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
10846 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
10847 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
10848 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
10850 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
10851 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
10852 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
10853 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
10854 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
10855 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
10858 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
10860 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
10861 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
10862 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
10863 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
10864 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
10865 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
10866 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
10867 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
10868 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
10869 insert/delete line method.
10870 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
10871 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
10872 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
10873 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
10875 961229 (internal alpha)
10876 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
10877 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
10878 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
10879 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
10880 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
10881 there is data on stdin.
10882 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
10883 descriptors, needed for GPM.
10884 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
10885 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
10886 prevented patch from working properly -TD
10887 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
10888 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
10889 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
10890 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
10893 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
10894 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
10896 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
10899 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
10900 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
10901 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
10902 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
10904 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
10905 solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
10906 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
10907 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
10908 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
10909 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
10911 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
10912 i.e., set current directory before linking.
10913 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
10914 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
10915 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
10916 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
10917 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
10918 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
10919 Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
10920 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
10923 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
10924 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
10925 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
10926 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
10927 Solaris curses, which does this.
10930 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
10931 work with wider range of screen sizes.
10932 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
10933 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
10934 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
10936 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
10937 resize between endwin/refresh.
10938 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
10939 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
10940 terminal modes in 960907.
10941 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
10942 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
10944 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
10945 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
10946 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
10947 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
10948 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
10949 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
10950 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
10951 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
10952 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
10954 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
10955 (requested by Florian La Roche).
10956 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
10957 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
10958 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
10959 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
10960 by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10963 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
10966 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
10967 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
10968 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
10969 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
10970 data used in ncurses library.
10971 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
10972 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
10973 Alexander V Lukyanov).
10974 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
10975 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
10976 beta may not be interchangeable).
10977 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
10979 961130 1.9.9g release
10980 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
10984 > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
10985 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
10986 to avoid warning messages.
10987 + the panel overlap detection was broken
10988 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
10990 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
10994 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10995 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
10996 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
10997 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
10998 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
11001 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
11002 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
11003 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
11007 + change ABI to 3.4
11008 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
11010 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
11012 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
11014 > patch #324 (ESR):
11015 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
11016 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
11017 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
11018 + add entry for color_xterm
11021 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
11022 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
11023 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
11024 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
11025 CANCELLED_STRING values.
11026 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
11027 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
11028 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
11029 delays when in autoplay mode.
11030 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
11031 Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
11032 > patch #322 (ESR):
11033 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
11036 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
11037 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
11038 a spurious clear-screen.
11039 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
11040 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
11042 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
11043 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
11044 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
11045 <perf@efd.lth.se>).
11048 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
11049 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
11050 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
11051 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
11052 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
11053 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
11055 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
11056 distribution, as stated)
11057 + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
11058 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
11059 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
11060 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
11061 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
11062 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
11063 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
11065 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
11066 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
11070 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
11071 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
11072 file (lib_screen.c).
11073 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
11074 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
11075 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
11076 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
11077 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
11078 rendered as octal constants.
11079 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
11080 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
11081 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
11082 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
11083 in the top-level command-parser.
11084 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
11085 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
11087 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
11088 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
11089 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
11092 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
11093 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
11094 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
11095 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
11096 (reported by Tim Mooney).
11097 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
11099 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
11103 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
11104 that are available.
11105 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
11106 the pointer was -1.
11109 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
11110 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
11111 lower-right corner.
11112 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
11113 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
11114 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
11115 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
11116 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
11117 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
11118 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
11119 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
11120 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
11121 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
11123 + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
11124 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
11125 > patch #321 (ESR):
11126 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
11127 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
11128 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
11129 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
11132 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
11133 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
11134 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
11135 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
11136 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
11138 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
11139 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
11140 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
11141 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
11142 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
11143 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
11144 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
11145 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
11146 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
11147 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
11148 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
11149 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
11150 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
11152 + change ABI to 3.3
11153 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
11154 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
11155 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
11157 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
11158 Michael Elkins) - untested
11160 + correction to #317.
11162 + re-add _nc_hash_map
11163 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design
11164 (patch by A. Lukyanov).
11165 + modify test/ncurses.c and tputs, etc., to allow trace counting
11167 + add hashtest.c program to time the hashmap optimization.
11169 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
11171 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
11173 + merge changes to lib_doupdate.c to use ech and rep - untested
11174 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11175 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
11176 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
11177 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
11178 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
11181 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
11183 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
11184 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
11185 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
11186 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
11187 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
11189 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
11192 + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
11193 (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11194 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
11195 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11196 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
11197 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
11200 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
11201 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
11202 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
11203 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
11204 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
11205 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
11206 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
11207 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
11208 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
11209 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
11210 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
11211 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
11212 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
11213 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
11214 + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
11218 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11219 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
11220 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
11221 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
11223 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
11224 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
11225 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
11228 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
11229 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
11230 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
11233 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
11234 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11235 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
11236 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11239 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
11240 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
11241 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
11242 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
11243 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
11245 + add dtterm description
11246 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop mvwscanw subtest)
11249 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
11250 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
11251 + refine configure-test for "-g" option (Tim Mooney).
11252 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
11253 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
11256 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
11258 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
11260 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch (report
11264 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
11265 (reported by William P Setzer)
11266 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
11267 (reported by Tim Mooney).
11269 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
11270 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
11271 + updated qnx terminfo entry (patch by Michael Hunter)
11274 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
11276 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
11280 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
11281 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
11283 + terminfo changes (9.3.9), from BRL
11284 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
11285 + add more symbols to infocmp.
11288 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
11289 Juergen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
11290 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
11292 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
11293 null), and tests that use it.
11294 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
11295 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
11296 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
11298 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
11300 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
11301 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
11302 + fix option-processing bug in toe.
11305 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
11306 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
11307 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
11308 by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
11309 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
11310 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
11312 + enable more translations of nonstandard caps, and document them.
11313 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.8
11315 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
11316 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
11317 + cosmetic fixes to test/ncurses.c
11318 + modify open() call in ncurses/read_entry.c to use O_RDONLY symbol
11319 rather than constant (report by mib).
11320 + misc/terminfo.src sgr0 and acsc changes (report by Philippe De
11322 + modify ncurses/comp_parse.c so that entries containing a "+" can
11323 have missing rmcup vs smcup.
11326 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
11327 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
11328 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
11330 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
11331 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
11332 Philippe De Muyter).
11335 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
11336 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
11338 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
11339 (reported by Zeyd).
11340 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
11341 (reported by David MacKenzie).
11342 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
11343 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
11344 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
11345 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
11346 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
11347 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
11348 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
11351 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes.
11352 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.7 (report by A. Lukyanov).
11353 + modify man/Makefile.in to make terminfo.5 during normal build.
11355 + corrected allocation-length for $HOME/.terminfo path.
11358 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
11359 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
11360 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
11361 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
11362 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
11363 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
11364 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
11365 than function keys in 'g' test.
11366 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
11367 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
11368 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
11369 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
11371 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
11373 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
11374 msgwin needed scrollok set.
11375 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
11376 between PutRange and InsStr
11377 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
11378 MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
11380 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
11383 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
11384 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
11385 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
11387 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
11388 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
11389 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
11390 _yoffset to WINDOW).
11391 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
11392 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
11393 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
11394 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
11395 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
11396 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
11397 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
11398 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
11399 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
11402 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
11403 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
11404 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
11405 first entry in a list).
11406 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
11407 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
11410 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
11411 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
11412 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
11413 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
11414 with a shared-library configuration.
11415 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
11416 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
11417 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
11418 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
11419 builders to install into staging locations (requested by
11420 Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
11421 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
11423 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
11424 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
11425 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
11426 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
11427 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
11429 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
11430 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
11431 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
11432 invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11434 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
11435 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
11436 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
11438 + misc/ncurses-intro.html syntax fix (Kajiyama Tamito).
11441 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
11442 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
11443 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
11444 + added rules for lintlib, lint
11445 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
11446 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
11447 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
11448 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
11449 checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
11450 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
11451 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
11452 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
11453 + typos, don't use inline with "-g" (Philippe De Muyter)
11454 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
11457 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
11458 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
11459 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
11460 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
11461 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
11462 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
11464 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
11465 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
11466 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
11467 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
11469 + improve hash function (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11470 + 9.13.4 update for terminfo.src
11473 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
11474 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
11475 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
11476 <lav@yars.free.net>).
11477 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
11478 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
11479 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
11480 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
11482 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
11483 + html fixes (Phillippe de Muyter).
11484 + fix typo in ncurses-intro.html (report by Fabrizio Polacco).
11486 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
11487 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
11488 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
11489 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
11492 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
11496 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
11497 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
11498 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
11499 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
11500 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
11501 > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
11502 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
11503 + added TRACE_IEVENT
11504 + fix REQ_TOGGLE_ITEM in menu/menu_driver.c; it could select but not
11506 + added lib_print.c (request by Rick Marshall).
11507 + added has_key() (request by Juergen Pfeifer).
11508 + do not issue clrtoeol or clrtobot if the relevant portion of the line
11509 is already blank (analysis by Keith Bostic).
11510 + add parentheses for parameters of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER macros
11511 (analysis by Jurgen Eidt).
11512 + update screen's notion of cursor position in endwin() (analysis by
11513 Alexander Lukyanov).
11514 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
11515 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
11516 + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
11517 is not part of X/Open Curses).
11518 + removed boolean version of 'getm'.
11519 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
11522 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
11523 + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
11524 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
11525 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
11526 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
11527 "#include" if needed.
11530 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
11531 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
11534 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
11535 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
11536 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
11540 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
11541 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
11542 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
11543 > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
11544 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
11545 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
11546 + new "-e" and "-h" options of tic (request by Tony Nugent).
11547 + fix bug in mandatory-delay logic in lib_tputs.c (report by Sven
11549 + fix for "infocmp -e" to emit correct initializers (reported by Manual
11551 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c (report by Kayvan
11553 + use "-h" option on Solaris when generating shared libraries on
11554 Solaris 2.5 to record the library name in the file, for assisting
11555 the loader (patch by Scott Kramer).
11556 + undo patch #294 changes to form and menu libraries (request by
11561 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
11562 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
11563 K&R-style substitution)
11564 > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
11565 + rewrite wsyncup(), wsyncdown(), as well as small fixes to form and
11566 menu libraries to fix echo-breakage introduced by 1.8.9, 1.9.9e
11567 changes (patches by Juergen Pfeifer).
11568 + fix compile under QNX 4.2 by defining ONLCR in lib_raw.c when
11569 __QNX__ is defined (patch by Michael Hunter).
11570 + modify setupterm() to match documentation for its return value, fix
11571 newterm to work with this change (report by Emmet Lazich).
11572 + add checks in getch() for error, return ERR as appropriate (report by
11574 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode (report by Pete Seebach).
11575 + corrected askuser() logic in tset (patch by Remco Treffkorn).
11576 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing (report by
11578 + added trace support for TTY flags
11579 + update terminfo.src to 9.13.1
11580 + FreeBSD console entries (patch by Andrew Chernov).
11583 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
11584 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
11585 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
11586 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
11587 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
11589 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
11590 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
11592 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
11594 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
11595 copy-changed-lines behavior.
11596 * added and documented wresize() function.
11597 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
11598 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
11599 emitted before the first check.
11600 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
11601 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
11602 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
11603 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
11604 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
11605 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
11607 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
11608 * support for ESCDELAY.
11609 * small fixes for menu/form code.
11610 * the test directory has its own configure.
11611 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
11612 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
11613 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
11616 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
11618 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
11619 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
11620 * support infocmp -RBSD.
11621 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
11622 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
11623 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
11624 catastrophies or acts of God.
11625 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
11627 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
11628 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
11631 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
11633 * corrected return values of setupterm()
11634 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
11635 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
11636 one `use' capability.
11637 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
11638 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
11639 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
11640 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
11641 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
11642 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
11643 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
11644 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
11645 * added -h option to toe(1).
11646 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
11647 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
11648 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
11649 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
11651 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
11653 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
11654 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
11656 * mouse support for xterm.
11657 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
11658 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initally off.
11659 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
11660 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
11661 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
11662 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
11663 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
11664 * infocmp -T option added.
11665 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
11667 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
11669 * menus library is now included with documentation.
11670 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
11671 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
11672 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
11673 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
11674 * tweaks for compiling in seperate directories.
11675 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
11676 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
11677 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
11679 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
11681 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
11682 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
11683 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
11684 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
11686 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
11688 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
11689 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
11690 * added tracemunch to the test tools
11691 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
11693 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
11695 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
11696 profile and shared object models.
11698 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
11700 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
11701 * panels support added
11702 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
11703 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
11705 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
11707 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
11708 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
11709 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
11710 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
11712 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
11713 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
11714 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
11715 are consistent (they weren't).
11716 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
11717 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
11718 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
11719 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
11720 warnings from gcc).
11721 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
11722 * more spelling fixes
11723 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
11724 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
11725 core in init_acs()).
11726 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
11729 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
11731 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
11732 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
11733 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
11735 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
11736 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
11737 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
11738 resolution of traces.
11739 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
11740 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
11741 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
11742 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
11743 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
11744 is much less flaky.
11745 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
11746 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
11747 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
11748 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
11750 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
11751 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
11752 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
11753 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
11754 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
11755 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This wil mostly happen if
11756 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
11757 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
11758 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
11759 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
11760 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
11761 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
11762 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
11763 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
11764 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
11765 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
11767 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
11768 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
11769 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
11770 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
11771 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
11772 the correct alternate character set.
11773 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
11774 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
11775 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
11776 a terminal is undefined.
11777 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
11778 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
11779 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
11780 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
11781 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
11782 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
11784 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
11785 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
11786 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
11787 if other attributes are turned off.
11788 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
11789 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
11790 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
11792 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
11793 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
11794 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
11797 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
11798 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
11799 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
11800 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
11802 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
11803 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
11805 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
11807 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
11808 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
11809 break operation with any emulators.
11810 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
11811 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
11812 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
11813 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
11814 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
11815 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
11816 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
11817 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
11819 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
11820 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
11822 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
11823 unpredictable results.
11824 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
11826 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
11827 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
11828 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
11829 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
11830 take note of the terminfo directory.
11831 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
11832 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
11835 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
11836 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
11837 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
11838 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
11839 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
11840 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
11841 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
11842 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
11843 performs more testing.
11844 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
11845 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
11847 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
11848 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
11850 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
11851 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
11852 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
11854 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
11856 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
11857 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
11858 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
11859 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
11860 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
11861 will probably continue to work ok.
11863 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
11864 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
11865 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
11866 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
11867 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
11869 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
11870 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
11871 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
11873 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
11874 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
11875 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
11876 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
11877 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
11878 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
11879 changed accordingly.
11880 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
11881 bottom-right corner.
11882 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
11883 pads I'd love a copy.
11884 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
11885 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
11886 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
11887 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
11888 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
11889 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
11890 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
11892 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
11893 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
11894 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
11896 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
11897 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
11898 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
11899 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
11900 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
11901 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
11902 * See src/README for porting notes.
11903 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
11904 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
11905 rows instead of lines, etc.)
11906 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
11907 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
11908 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
11909 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
11910 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
11911 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
11912 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
11914 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
11915 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
11916 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
11917 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
11918 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
11919 fact was exposed by hanoi.
11920 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
11921 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
11922 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
11923 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
11924 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
11925 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
11927 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
11929 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
11930 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
11931 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
11932 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
11933 Config.* files through an awk script.
11934 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
11935 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
11936 * a few minor cleanups.
11937 * added more prototypes in curses.h
11939 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
11941 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
11942 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
11943 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
11944 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
11945 * a couple of bug fixes.
11946 * a few code cleanups.
11948 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
11950 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
11951 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
11952 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
11953 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
11954 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
11955 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
11956 * Cleaner Makefile.
11957 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
11958 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
11960 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
11961 (doesn't work on Linux)
11962 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
11963 screen before working.
11964 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
11965 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
11967 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
11968 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
11969 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
11970 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
11971 * several minor bug fixes.
11973 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
11975 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
11976 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
11977 * changes related to Config
11979 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
11981 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
11982 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
11983 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
11984 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
11985 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
11986 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
11987 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
11988 * added halfdelay()
11989 * fixed problems with asc_init()
11990 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
11991 * cleaned up vidputs()
11992 * general cleanup of the code
11993 * more attention to portability to other systems
11994 * added terminfos for hp70092 (wont work until changes to lib_update.c are
11995 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
11997 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
11998 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
12000 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
12001 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
12002 the rationale drop me a line.
12004 Included are several test programs in test/.
12005 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
12006 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
12008 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
12010 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
12011 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
12012 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
12013 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
12014 * keyname() is added.
12015 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
12016 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
12017 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
12018 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
12019 * included fixes from 0.6.1
12020 * added a few more missing functions.
12021 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
12022 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
12025 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
12027 1) Included the missing data/console.
12029 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
12031 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
12033 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
12034 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
12035 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
12037 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
12038 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
12039 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
12040 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
12041 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
12042 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
12043 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
12044 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
12045 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
12046 * added notimeout().
12047 * added timeout() define in curses.h
12048 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
12050 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
12051 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
12052 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
12053 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
12054 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
12055 * added slk_* support.
12056 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
12057 * added PANEL library.
12058 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
12059 * terminfo.h is really term.h
12061 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
12062 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
12063 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
12064 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
12065 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
12066 another key is pressed.
12067 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
12068 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
12069 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
12071 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
12072 * fixed bug in wvline().
12073 * added curs_set().
12074 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
12075 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
12077 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
12078 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
12079 * Addition of function prototypes.
12080 * Addition of several missing functions.
12081 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
12082 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
12083 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
12084 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
12085 * New scrolling code.
12086 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
12088 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
12089 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
12090 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
12091 * more fixes for updates.
12092 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
12093 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
12094 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
12095 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
12097 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
12098 * support for color.
12099 * support for PC graphic characters.
12100 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
12101 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
12103 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
12104 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
12105 * ANSIfication of some functions.
12106 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
12107 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.
projects / ncurses.git / blob