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31 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
32 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
34 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
35 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
37 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
38 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
39 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
41 A few contributors may be cited in this file by their initials.
42 Each accounts for half of 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 + check --with-fallbacks option to ensure there is a value, and add
50 the fallback information to top-level Makefile summary.
51 + add some traces in initialization to show whether a fallback entry is
53 + build-fix for test/movewindow with ncurses-examples on Solaris.
54 + add "-l" option to test/background, to dump screen contents in a form
55 that lets different curses implementations be compared.
56 + modify the initialization checks for mouse so that the xterm+sm+1006
57 block will work with terminal descriptions not mentioning xterm
58 (report by Tomas Janousek).
61 + ignore the hex/b64 $TERMINFO in toe's listing.
62 + correct a status-check in _nc_read_tic_entry() so that if reading
63 a hex/b64 $TERMINFO, and the $TERM does not match, fall-through to
64 the compiled-in search list.
67 + several workarounds to ensure proper C compiler used in parts of
69 + update config.guess, config.sub from
70 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
73 + add OpenGL clients alacritty and kitty -TD
74 + add Smulx for tmux, vte-2018 -Nicholas Marriott
77 + ignore $TERMINFO as a default value in configure script if it came
78 from the infocmp -Q option.
79 + allow value for --with-versioned-syms to be a relative pathname
80 + add a couple of broken-linker symbols to the list of versioned
81 symbols to help with link-time optimization versus weak symbols.
82 + apply shift/control/alt logic when decoding xterm's 1006 mode to
83 wheel-mouse events (Redhat #1610681).
86 + amend change from 20180818, which undid a fix for the $INSTALL value
87 to make it an absolute path.
90 + improve a configure check to work with newer optimizers (report by
91 Denis Pronin, Gentoo #606142).
92 + fix typo in tput.c (Sven Joachim, cf: 20180825).
95 + fix typo in tvi955 -TD
96 + corrected acsc for regent60 -TD
98 + corrected acsc for tvi950 -TD
99 + remove bogus kf0 from tvi950 -TD
100 + added function-key definitions to agree with Televideo 950 manual -TD
101 + add bel to tvi950 -TD
102 + add shifted function-keys to regent60 -TD
103 + renumber regent40 function-keys to match manual -TD
104 + add cd (clr_eos) to adds200 -TD
107 + build-fix: remove a _tracef call which was used for debugging (report
111 + ignore interrupted system-call in test/ncurses's command-line, e.g.,
112 if the terminal were resized.
113 + add shift/control/alt logic for decoding xterm's 1006 mode (Redhat
114 #1610681, cf: 20141011).
115 + modify rpm test-packages to not use --disable-relink with Redhat,
116 since Fedora 28's tools do not work with that feature.
119 + document --with-pcre2 configure option in INSTALL.
120 + improve workaround for special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is
121 marked as alternate-character set, to handle a case where the
122 character in the cell does not correspond to any of the ASCII
123 fallbacks (report by Leon Winter, cf: 20180505).
124 + amend change to form library which attempted to avoid unnecessary
125 update of cursor position in non-public fields, to simply disable
126 output in this case (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20180414).
127 + improve check for LINE_MAX runtime limit, to accommodate broken
128 implementations of sysconf().
131 + improve manual page for wgetnstr, giving background for the length
133 + define a limit for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr when length is negative or
135 + update configure script to autoconf 2.52.20180819 (Debian #887390).
138 + add a section to tput manual page clarifying how it determines the
139 terminal size (prompted by discussion with Grant Jenks).
140 + add "--disable-relink" to rpm test-packages, for consistency with the
142 + split spec-file into ncurses6.spec and ncursest6.spec to work around
143 toolset breakage in Fedora 28.
144 + drop mention of "--disable-touching", which was not in the final
148 + build-fix for PDCurses with ncurses-examples.
149 + improved CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS.
150 + modify configure scripts to reduce relinking/ranlib during library
151 install (Debian #903790):
152 + use "install -p" when available, to avoid need for ranlib of
154 + modify scripts which use "--disable-relink" to add a 1-second
155 sleep to work around tools which use whole-second timestamps, e.g.,
156 in utime() rather than the actual file system resolution.
159 + improve logic for clear with E3 extension, in case the terminal
160 scrolls content onto its saved-lines before actually clearing
161 the display, by clearing the saved-lines after clearing the
162 display (report/patch by Nicholas Marriott).
165 + improve documentation regarding feature-test macros in curses.h
166 + improve documentation regarding the virtual and physical screens.
167 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
170 + build-fixes for gcc8.
171 + corrected acsc for wy50 -TD
172 + add wy50 and wy60 shifted function-keys as kF1 to kF16 -TD
173 + remove ansi+rep mis-added to interix in 2018-02-23 -TD
176 + add enum, regex examples to test/demo_forms
177 + add configure check for pcre-posix library to help with MinGW port.
180 + build-fixes for gcc8.
181 + correct order of WINDOW._ttytype versus WINDOW._windowlist in
183 + fix a case where tiparm could return null if the format-string was
184 empty (Debian #902630).
187 + add acsc string to vi200 (Nibby Nebbulous)
188 add right/down-arrow to vi200's acsc -TD
189 + add "x" to tput's getopt string so that "tput -x clear" works
191 + minor fixes prompted by anonymous report on stack overflow:
192 + correct order of checks in _nc_get_locale(), for systems lacking
194 + add "#error" in a few places to flag unsupported configurations
197 + use _WIN32/_WIN64 in preference to __MINGW32__/__MINGW64__ symbols
198 to simplify building with MSVC, since the former are defined in both
199 compiler configurations (report by Ali Abdulkadir).
200 + further improvements to configure-checks from work on dialog, i.e.,
201 updated CF_ADD_INCDIR, CF_FIND_LINKAGE, CF_GCC_WARNINGS,
202 CF_GNU_SOURCE, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE, CF_SIZECHANGE, and
204 + update config.guess, config.sub from
205 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
208 + build-fix for ncurses-examples related to gcc8-fixes (cf: 20180526).
209 + reduce use of _GNU_SOURCE for current glibc where _DEFAULT_SOURCE
210 combines with _XOPEN_SOURCE (Debian #900987).
211 + change target configure level for _XOPEN_SOURCE to 600 to address
212 use of vsscanf and setenv.
213 + improved configure-checks CF_SIZECHANGE and CF_STRUCT_TERMIOS from
217 + modify generated ncurses*config and ncurses.pc, ncursesw.pc, etc.,
218 to list helper libraries such as gpm for static linking (Debian
220 + marked vwprintw and vwscanw as deprecated; recommend using vw_printw
221 and vw_scanw, respectively.
224 + add RPM test-package "ncursest-examples".
225 + modified RPM test-package to work with Mageia6.
228 + add note in curs_util.3x about unctrl.h
229 + review/improve header files to ensure that those include necessary
230 files except for the previously-documented cases (report by Isaac
232 + improved test-package scripts, adapted from byacc 1.9 20180525.
233 + fix some gcc8 warnings seen in Redhat package build, but
234 work around bug in gcc8 compiler warnings in comp_parse.c
237 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
238 + trim spurious whitespace from tmux in 2018-02-24 changes;
239 fix some inconsistencies in/between tmux- and iterm2-entries for SGR
240 (report by C Anthony Risinger)
241 + improve iterm2 using some xterm features which it has adapted -TD
242 + add check in pair_content() to handle the case where caller asks
243 for an uninitialized pair (Debian #898658).
246 + remove trailing ';' from GCC_DEPRECATED definition.
247 + repair a change from 20110730 which left an error-check/warning dead.
248 + fix several minor Coverity warnings.
251 + add deprecation warnings for internal functions called by older
253 + fix a special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is marked as
254 alternate-character set, but the terminal does not actually support
255 the given graphic character. This would happen in an older terminal
256 such as vt52, which lacks most line-drawing capability.
257 + use configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
258 conflict with Debian packages versus test-packages.
259 + update tracemunch to work with perl 5.26.2, which changed the rules
260 for escaping regular expressions.
263 + document new form-extension O_EDGE_INSERT_STAY (report by Leon
265 + correct error-returns listed in manual pages for a few form functions
266 (report by Leon Winter).
267 + add a check in form-library for null-pointer dereference:
268 unfocus_current_field (form);
269 form_driver (form, REQ_VALIDATION);
270 (patch by Leon Winter).
273 + modify form library to optionally delay cursor movement on a field
274 edge/boundary (patch by Leon Winter).
275 + modify form library to avoid unnecessary update of cursor position in
276 non-public fields (patch by Leon Winter).
277 + remove unused _nc_import_termtype2() function.
278 + also add/improve null-pointer checks in other places
279 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_parse_entry to handle an error when
280 a use-name is invalid syntax (report by Chung-Yi Lin).
283 + clarify in manual pages that vwprintw and vwscanw are obsolete,
284 not part of X/Open Curses since 2007.
285 + use "const" in some prototypes rather than NCURSES_CONST where X/Open
286 Curses was updated to do this, e.g., wscanw, newterm, the terminfo
287 interface. Also use "const" for consistency in the termcap
288 interface, which was withdrawn by X/Open Curses in Issue 5 (2007).
289 As of Issue 7, X/Open Curses still lacks "const" for certain return
290 values, e.g., keyname().
293 + improve terminfo write/read by modifying the fourth item of the
294 extended header to denote the number of valid strings in the extended
295 string table (prompted by a comment in unibilium's sources).
298 + amend Scaled256() macro in test/picsmap.c to cover the full range
299 0..1000 (report by Roger Pau Monne).
300 + add some checks in tracemunch for undefined variables.
301 + trim some redundant capabilities from st-0.7 -TD
302 + trim unnecessary setf/setb from interix -TD
305 + fix a check in infotocap which may not have detected a problem when
307 + add a check in tic for the case where setf/setb are given using
308 different strings, but provide identical results to setaf/setab.
309 + further improve fix for terminfo.5 (patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
310 + reorder loop-limit checks in winsnstr() in case the string has no
311 terminating null and only the number of characters is used (patch
315 + modify TurnOn/TurnOff macros in lib_vidattr.c and lib_vid_attr.c to
316 avoid expansion of "CUR" in trace.
317 + improve a few lintian warnings in test-packages.
318 + modify lib_setup to avoid calling pthread_self() without first
319 verifying that the address is valid, i.e., for weak symbols
320 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
321 + modify generated terminfo.5 to not use "expand" and related width
322 on the last column of tables, making layout on wide terminals look
323 better (adapted from patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
324 + add a category to report_offsets, e.g., "w" for wide-character, "t"
325 for threads to make the report more readable. Reorganized the
326 structures reported to make the categories more apparent.
327 + simplify some ifdef's for extended-colors.
328 + add NCURSES_GLOBALS and NCURSES_PRESCREEN to report_offsets, to show
329 how similar the different tinfo configurations are.
332 + modify _nc_resolve_uses2() to detect incompatible types when merging
333 a "use=" clause of extended capabilities. The problem was seen in a
334 defective terminfo integrated from simpleterm sources in 20171111,
335 compounded by repair in 20180121.
336 + correct Ss/Ms interchange in st-0.7 entry (tmux #1264) -TD
337 + fix remaining flash capabilities with trailing mandatory delays -TD
338 + correct cut/paste in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
341 + remove incorrect free() from 20170617 changes (report by David Macek).
342 + correct type for "U8" in user_caps.5; it is a number not boolean.
343 + add a null-pointer check in safe_sprintf.c (report by Steven Noonan).
344 + improve fix for Debian #882620 by reusing limit2 variable (report by
345 Julien Cristau, Sven Joachim).
348 + modify misc/Makefile.in to install/uninstall explicit list in case
349 the build-directory happens to have no ".pc" files when an uninstall
350 is performed (report by Jeffrey Walton).
351 + deprecate safe-sprintf, since the vsnprintf function, which does what
352 was needed, was standardized long ago.
353 + add several development/experimental options to development packages.
354 + minor reordering of options in configure script to make the threaded
355 and reentrant options distinct from the other extensions which are
359 + minor fixes to test/*.h to make them idempotent.
360 + add/use test/parse_rgb.h to show how the "RGB" capability works.
361 + add a clarification in user_caps.5 regarding "RGB" capability.
362 + add extended_slk_color{,_sp} symbols to the appropriate
363 package/*.{map,sym} files (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20170401).
366 + update "VERSION" file, used in shared-library naming.
368 20180127 6.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
371 + updated release notes
372 + amend a warning message from tic which should have flagged misuse
373 of "XT" capability in "screen" terminal description.
375 + trim "XT" from screen entry, add comments to explain why it was
377 + modify iterm to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
378 + mark konsole-420pc, konsole-vt100, konsole-xf3x obsolete reflecting
379 konsole's removal in 2008 -TD
380 + expanded the history section of konsole to explain its flawed
381 imitation of xterm's keyboard -TD
382 + use xterm+x11mouse in screen.* entries because screen does not yet
383 support xterm's 1006 mode -TD
384 + add nsterm-build400 for macOS 10.13 -TD
385 + add ansi+idc1, use that in ansi+idc adding dch for consistency -TD
386 + update vte to vte-2017 -TD
387 + add ecma+strikeout to vte-2017 -TD
388 + add iterm2-direct -TD
389 + updated teraterm, added teraterm-256color -TD
390 + add mlterm-direct -TD
391 + add descriptions for ANSI building-blocks -TD
395 + add xterm+noalt, xterm+titlestack, xterm+alt1049, xterm+alt+title
396 blocks from xterm #331 -TD
397 + add xterm+direct, xterm+indirect, xterm-direct entries from xterm
399 + modify xterm+256color and xterm+256setaf to use correct number of
400 color pairs, for ncurses 6.1 -TD
401 + add rs1 capability to xterm-256color -TD
402 + modify xterm-r5, xterm-r6 and xterm-xf86-v32 to use xterm+kbs to
403 match xterm #272, reflecting packager's changes -TD
404 + remove "boolean" Se, Ss from st-0.7 -TD
405 + add konsole-direct and st-direct -TD
406 + remove unsupported "Tc" capability from st-0.7; use st-direct if
407 direct-colors are wanted -TD
409 + add XT, hpa, indn, and vpa to screen, and invis, E3 to tmux (patch by
411 + use xterm+sm+1006 in xterm-new, vte-2014 -TD
412 + use xterm+x11mouse in iterm, iterm2, mlterm3 because xterm's 1006
413 mode does not work with those programs. konsole is debatable -TD
414 + add "termite" entry (report by Markus Pfeiffer) -TD
415 > merge branch begun April 2, 2017 which provides these features:
416 + support read/write new binary-format for terminfo which stores
417 numeric capabilities as a signed 32-bit integer. The test programs
418 such as picsmap, ncurses were created or updated during 2017 to use
420 + the new format is written by the wide-character configuration of
421 tic when it finds a numeric capability larger than 32767.
422 + other applications such as infocmp built with the wide-character
423 ncurses library work as expected.
424 + applications built with the "narrow" (8-bit) configuration will
425 read the new format, but will limit those extended values to 32767.
426 + in either wide/narrow configuration, the structure defined in
427 term.h still uses signed 16-bit values.
428 + because it is incompatible with the legacy (mid-1980s) binary format,
429 a new magic value is provided for the "file" program.
430 + the term.5 manual page is updated to describe this new format.
431 + the limit on file-size for compiled terminfo is increased in the
432 wide-character configuration to 32768.
435 + build-fix in picsmap.c for stdint.h existence.
436 + add --disable-stripping option to configure scripts.
437 + modify ncurses-examples to install test-scripts in the data directory.
438 + work around tool-breakage in Debian 9 and later by invoking
439 gprconfig to specify the C compiler to be used by gnatmake,
440 and conditionally suppressing Library_Options line for static
442 + bump the compat level for test-packages to 7, i.e., Debian 5.
445 + fixes for writing extended color pairs in putwin.
446 + modify test/savescreen.c to add test patterns that exercise 88-,
448 + modify configure option --with-build-cc, adding clang, c89 and c99
449 as possible default values.
450 + modify ncurses-examples configure script to use pkg-config for the
451 extra form/menu/panel libraries, to be more consistent with the
452 handling of the curses/ncurses library.
453 + modify test-packages for mingw to supply "pc" files.
454 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to list -lpthread as a private library when
455 configured to access it via weak symbols.
456 + simplify gen-pkgconfig.in, adding -ltinfo without the special linker
457 checks because some versions of the linker simply hard-code the
459 + update URLs for ncurses website to use https.
460 + modify CF_CURSES_LIBS to fill in $cf_nculib_root in case the
461 ncurses-examples are built with a system ncurses that lacks the
462 standard "curses" symbolic link, as done by SuSE. The symbol is
463 needed to make a followup check for the pthread library work, and
464 would be set properly using the options "--with-screen", etc.
465 + generate misc/*.pc with "all" rule, as done for "sources" rule
466 (report by Jeffrey Walton).
469 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with Fedora27, adding check for
470 reset_color_pairs() -- not yet in Fedora's package.
471 + consistently add $CFLAGS to $MK_SHARED_LIB symbol in configure
472 script when the latter happens to use the C compiler rather than
473 directly using the loader (report by Jeffrey Walton).
474 + set ABI for upcoming 6.1 release in "*.map" files. While there are
475 some remaining internals to apply, no ABI-related changes are
477 + add configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
478 conflict with Redhat packages versus test-packages.
481 + modify ncurses-examples to quiet const-warnings when building with
483 + modify toe to not exit if unable to read a terminal description,
484 e.g., if there is a permission problem.
485 + minor fix for progs/toe.c, using _nc_free_termtype2.
486 + assign 0 to pointer in _nc_tgetent_leak() after freeing it. Also
487 avoid reusing pointer from previous successful call to tgetent
488 if the latest call is unsuccessful (patch by Michael Schroeder,
490 + minor fix for test/tracemunch, initialize $awaiting variable.
493 + repair template in test/package/ncurses-examples.spec (cf: 20171111).
494 + improve tic's warning about the number of parameters tparm might use
495 for u1-u9 by making a special case for u6.
496 + improve curs_attr.3x discussion of color pairs.
499 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to make output with --includedir
500 consistent with --cflags, i.e., when --disable-overwrite option was
501 configured the output should show the subdirectory where headers
503 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to suppress macros when calling an "implemented"
504 function in link_test.c
505 + updated ftp-url used in test-packages, etc.
506 + modify order of -pie/-shared options in configure script in case
507 LDFLAGS uses "-pie", working around a defect or limitation in the GNU
508 linker (prompted by patch by Yogesh Prasad, forwarded by Jay Shah).
509 + add entry in man_db.renames for user_caps.5
512 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid tracing result from getstr/getnstr
514 + add "-a" aspect-ratio option to picsmap.
515 + add configure check for default path of rgb.txt, used in picsmap.
516 + modify _nc_write_entry() to truncate too-long filename (report by
517 Hosein Askari, Debian #882620).
518 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses:
519 + it lacks the use_env() function.
520 + it lacks libpanel; a recent change used the wrong ifdef symbol.
521 + add a macro for is_linetouched() and adjust the function's return
522 value to make it possible for most applications to check for an
523 error-return (report by Midolikawa H).
524 + additional manpage cleanup.
525 + update config.guess, config.sub from
526 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
529 + add a note to curs_addch.3x on portability.
530 + add a note to curs_pad.3x on the origin and portability of pads.
531 + improve manpage description of getattrs (report by Midolikawa H).
532 + improve manpage macros (prompted by discussion in Debian #880551.
533 + reviewed test-programs using KEY_RESIZE, made fixes to test/worm.c
534 + add a "-d" option to picsmap for default-colors.
535 + modify old terminology entry and a few other terminal emulators to
537 + correct sgr string for tmux, which used screen's "standout" code
538 rather than the standard code (patch by Roman Kagan)
539 + correct sgr/sgr0 strings in a few other cases reported by tic, making
540 those correspond to the non-sgr settings where they differ, but
541 otherwise use ECMA-48 consistently:
542 jaixterm, aixterm, att5420_2, att4424, att500, decansi, d410-7b,
543 dm80, hpterm, emu-220, hp2, iTerm2.app, mterm-ansi, ncrvt100an,
544 st-0.7, vi603, vwmterm -TD
545 + build-fix for diagnostics warning in lib_mouse.c for pre-5.0 versions
546 of gcc which did not recognize the diagnostic "push" pragma (patch by
550 + add "op" to xterm+256setaf -TD
551 + reviewed terminology 1.0.0 -TD
552 + reviewed st 0.7 -TD
553 + suppress debug-package for ncurses-examples rpm build.
556 + check for interrupt in color-pair initialization of dots_curses.c,
558 + add z/Z zoom feature to test/ncurses.c C/c screens.
559 + add '<' and '>' commands to test/ncurses.c S/s screens, to better
560 test off-by-ones in the overlap/copywin functions.
563 + improve man/curs_inwstr.3x, correct end-logic for lib_inwstr.c
564 (report by Midolikawa H).
565 + fix typo in a few places for "improvements" (patch by Sven Joachim).
566 + clear the other half of a double-width character on which a line
567 drawing character is drawn.
568 + make test/ncurses.c "s" test easier to understand which subtests are
569 available; add a "S" wide-character overlap test-screen.
570 + modify test/ncurses.c C/c tests to allow for extended color pairs.
571 + add endwin() call in error-returns from test/ncurses.c omitted in
572 recent redesign of its menu (cf: 20170923).
573 + improve install of hashed-db by removing the ".db" file as done for
574 directory-tree terminal databases.
575 + repair a few overlooked items in include/ncurses_defs from recent
576 port/refactoring of test-programs (cf: 20170909).
577 + add test/padview.c, to compare pads with direct updates in view.c
580 + modify test/view.c to expand tabs using the ncurses library rather
581 than in the test-program.
582 + remove very old SIGWINCH example in test/view.c, just use KEY_RESIZE.
583 + add -T, -e, -f -m options to "dots" test-programs.
584 + fix a few typos in usage-messages for test-programs.
587 + minor cleanup to test/view.c:
588 + eliminate "-n" option by simply reading the whole file.
589 + implement page up/down commands.
590 + add check in tput for init/reset operands to ensure those use a
592 + improve manual pages which discuss chtype, cchar_t types and the
593 attribute values which can be stored in those types.
594 + correct array-index when parsing "-T" command-line option in tabs
596 + modify demo_new_pair.c to pass extended pairs to setcchar().
597 + add test/dots_xcurses.c to illustrate a different approach used for
598 extended colors which can be contrasted with dots_curses.c.
599 + add a check in tic to note when a description uses non-mandatory
600 delays without xon_xoff. This is not an error, but some descriptions
601 for a terminal emulator may use the combination incorrectly.
604 + modify "-T" option of clear and tput to call use_tioctl() to obtain
605 the operating system's notion of the screensize if possible.
606 + review/repair some exit-codes for tput, making usage-message exit
607 with 2 rather than 1, and a failure to open terminal 4+errno.
608 + amend check in tput, tabs and clear to allow those to use the
609 database-only features in cron if a -T option gives a suitable
610 terminal name (report by Lauri Tirkkonen).
611 + correct an ifdef in test/ncurses.c for systems with soft-keys but
613 + regenerate man-html documentation.
616 + fix a symbol conflict that made ncurses.c C/c menu not work with
618 + add refresh() call to dots_mvcur.c, needed to use mvcur() with
619 Solaris xpg4 curses after calling newterm().
620 + minor fixes for configure script from work on ncurses-examples and
622 + improve animation in test/xmas.c by adding a time-delay in blinkit().
623 + modify several test programs to reflect that ncurses honors existing
624 signal handlers in initscr(), while other implementations do not.
625 + modify bs.c to make it easier to quit.
626 + change ncurses-examples to use attr_t vs chtype to follow X/Open
627 documentation more closely since Solaris xpg4-curses uses different
628 values for WA_xxx vs A_xxx that rely on attr_t being an unsigned
629 short. Tru64 aka OSF1, HPUX, AIX did as ncurses does, equating the
633 + modify menu for test/ncurses.c to fit on 24-line screen.
634 + build-fix for configure --with-caps=uwin
635 + add options to test_arrays.c, for selecting termcap vs terminfo, etc.
638 + minor fix to test/filter.c to avoid clearing the command in one case.
639 + modify filter() to discard clr_eos if back_color_erase is set.
642 + improve wide-character implementation of myADDNSTR() in frm_driver.c,
643 which was inconsistent with the normal implementation.
644 + save/restore cursor position in Undo_Justification(), matching
645 behavior of Buffer_To_Window() (report by Leon Winter).
646 + modify test/knight to provide the "slow" solution for small screens
647 using "R", noting that Warnsdorf's method is easily done with "a".
648 + modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to
649 consistently do this only if "-d" option is given.
650 + additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses:
651 + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absense of limit
652 checks in some libraries.
653 + fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does
654 not return ERR on the lower-right corner.
655 + add checks in test/configure for some functions not in 4.3BSD curses.
656 + fix a regression in test/configure (cf: 20170826).
659 + amend change for endwin-state for better consistency with the older
660 logic (report/patch by Jeb Rosen, cf: 20170722).
661 + modify check in fmt_entry() to handle a cancelled reset string
662 (Debian #873746). Make similar fixes in other parts of dump_entry.c
666 + fix a bug in repeat_char logic (cf: 20170729, report by Chris Clayton).
669 + fixes for "iterm2" (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
670 + corrected a warning from tic about keys which are the same, to skip
671 over missing/cancelled values.
672 + add check in tic for unnecessary use of "2" to denote a shifted
674 + improve checks in trim_sgr0, comp_parse.c and parse_entry.c, for
675 cancelled string capabilities.
676 + add check in _nc_parse_entry() for invalid entry name, setting the
677 name to "invalid" to avoid problems storing entries.
678 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
679 + add a check in comp_scan.c to handle the special case where a
680 nontext file ending with a NUL rather than newline is given to tic
681 as input (Redhat #1484274).
682 + allow for cancelled capabilities in _nc_save_str (Redhat #1484276).
683 + add validity checks for "use=" target in _nc_parse_entry (Redhat
685 + check for invalid strings in postprocess_termcap (Redhat #1484285)
686 + reset secondary pointers on EOF in next_char() (Redhat #1484287).
687 + guard _nc_safe_strcpy() and _nc_safe_strcat() against calls using
688 cancelled strings (Redhat #1484291).
689 + correct typo in curs_memleaks.3x (Sven Joachim).
690 + improve test/configure checks for some curses variants not based on
692 + add options for test/configure to disable checks for form, menu and
696 + update "iterm" entry -TD
697 + add "iterm2" entry (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
698 + regenerate llib-* files.
699 + regenerate HTML manpages.
700 + improve picsmap test-program:
701 + reduce memory used for tsearch
702 + add report in log file showing cumulative color coverage.
703 + add -x option to clear/tput to make the E3 extension optional
705 + add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput.
706 + add usage message to clear command (Debian #371855).
707 + improve usage messages for tset and tput.
708 + minor fixes to "RGB" extension and reset_color_pairs().
711 + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by
713 + add reset_color_pairs() function.
714 + add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used
716 + improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure
717 script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack.
718 + modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in
719 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
720 + improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(),
721 color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters.
722 + minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the
723 current screen is marked for clearing.
724 + in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for
726 + modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow
727 on demand up to the existing limit.
728 + add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to
729 improve color_content().
730 + improve picsmap test-program:
731 + if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM,
732 checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat"
733 suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g.,
734 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
735 + add "-l" option for logging
736 + add "-d" option for debugging
737 + add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images,
739 + use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images.
740 + update config.guess, config.sub from
741 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
744 + update interix entry using tack and SFU on Windows 7 Ultimate -TD
745 + use ^? for kdch1 in interix (reported by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard)
746 + add "rep" to xterm-new, available since 1997/01/26 -TD
747 + move SGR 24 and 27 from vte-2014 to vte-2012 (request by Alain
749 + add a check in newline_forces_scroll() in case a program moves the
750 cursor outside scrolling margins (report by Robert King).
751 + improve _nc_tparm_analyze, using that to extend the checks made by
752 tic for reporting inconsistencies between the expected number of
753 parameters for a capability and the actual.
754 + amend handling of repeat_char capability in EmitRange (adapted from
755 report/patch by Dick Wesseling):
756 + translate the character to the alternate character set when the
757 alternate character set is enabled.
758 + do not use repeat_char for characters past 255.
759 + document "_nc_free_tinfo" in manual page, because it could be used in
760 tack for memory-leak checking.
761 + add "--without-tack" configure option to refine "--with-progs"
762 configure option. Normally tack is no longer built in-tree, but
763 a few packagers combine it during the build. If term_entry.h is
764 installed, there is no advantage to in-tree builds.
765 + adjust configure-script to define HAVE_CURSES_DATA_BOOLNAMES symbol
766 needed for tack 1.08 when built in-tree. Rather than relying upon
767 internal "_nc_" functions, tack now uses the boolean, number and
768 string capability name-arrays provided by ncurses and SVr4 Unix
769 curses. It still uses term_entry.h for the definitions of the
770 extended capability arrays.
771 + add an overlooked null-pointer check in mvcur changes from 20170722
774 + improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian
775 + modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where
776 the screen was never initialized, using that to trigger a flush of
777 ncurses' buffer for mvcur, e.g., in test/dots_mvcur.c for the
778 term-driver configuration.
779 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to a few other internal header
780 files to allow each to be compiled separately.
781 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program
782 using tic-library will have to supply this file. Legacy tack
783 versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the
784 dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected.
787 + modify command-line parameters for "convert" used in picsmap to work
788 with ImageMagick 6.8 and newer.
789 + fix build-problem with tack and ABI-5 (Debian #868328).
790 + repair termcap-format from tic/infocmp broken in 20170701 fixes
792 + reformat terminfo.src with 20170513 updates.
793 + improve test-packages to address lintian warnings.
796 + add a note to tic manual page about -W versus -f options.
797 + correct a limit-check in fixes from 20170701 (report by Sven Joachim).
800 + modify update_getenv() in db_iterator.c to ensure that environment
801 variables which are not initially set will be checked later if an
802 application happens to set them (patch by Guillaume Maudoux).
803 + remove initialization-check for calling napms() in the term-driver
804 configuration; none is needed.
805 + add help-screen to test/test_getstr.c and test/test_get_wstr.c
806 + improve compatibility between different configurations of new_prescr,
807 fixing a case with threaded code and term-driver where c++/demo did
808 not work (cf: 20160213).
809 + the fixes for Redhat #1464685 obscured a problem subsequently
810 reported in Redhat #1464687; the given test-case was no longer
811 reproducible. Testing without the fixes for the earlier reports
812 showed a problem with buffer overflow in dump_entry.c, which is
813 addressed by reducing the use of a fixed-size buffer.
814 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
815 (Redhat #1464684, #1464685, #1464686, #1464691).
816 + alloc_entry.c, add a check for a null-pointer.
817 + parse_entry.c, add several checks for valid pointers as well as
818 one check to ensure that a single character on a line is not
819 treated as the 2-character termcap short-name.
820 + fix a memory leak in delscreen() (report by Bai Junq).
821 + improve tracemunch, showing thread identifiers as names.
822 + fix a use-after-free in NCursesMenu::~NCursesMenu()
823 + further amend incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
824 (report by Allen Hewes).
827 + modify c++/etip.h.in to accommodate deprecation of throw() and
828 throws() in c++17 (prompted by patch by Romain Geissler).
829 + remove some incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
830 (report by Allen Hewes).
831 + add test-programs for termattrs and term_attrs.
832 + modify _nc_outc_wrapper to use the standard output if the screen was
833 not initialized, rather than returning an error.
834 + improve checks for low-level terminfo functions when the terminal
835 has not been initialized (Redhat #1345963).
836 + modify make_hash to allow building with address-sanitizer,
837 assuming that --disable-leaks is configured.
838 + amend changes for number_format() in 20170506 to avoid undefined
839 behavior when shifting (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta).
842 + fill in some places where TERMTYPE2 vs TERMTYPE was not used
843 (report by Allen Hewes).
844 + use ExitTerminfo() internally in error-exits for ncurses' setupterm
845 to help with leak checking.
846 + use ExitProgram() in error-exit from initscr() to help with leak
848 + review test-programs, adding checks for cases where the terminal
849 cannot be initialized.
852 + add option "-xp" to picsmap.c, to use init_extended_pair().
853 + make simple performance fixes for picsmap.c
854 + improve aspect ratio of images read from "convert" in picsmap.c
857 + add option to picsmap to use color-palette files, e.g., for mapping
859 + move the data in SCREEN used for the alloc_pair() function to the
860 end, to restore compatibility between ncurses/ncursesw libtinfo
861 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
862 + add build-time utility "report_offsets" to help show when the various
863 configurations of tinfo library are compatible or not.
866 + improved test/picsmap.c:
867 + lookup named colors for xpm files in rgb.txt
868 + accept blanks in color-keys for xpm files.
869 + if neither xbm/xpm work, try "convert", which may be available.
872 + modify test/picsmap.c to read xpm files.
873 + modify package/debian/* to create documentation packages, so the
874 related files can be checked with lintian.
875 + fix some typos in manpages (report/patch by Sven Joachim).
878 + add test/picsmap.c to fill in some testing issues not met by dots.
879 The initial version reads X bitmap (".xbm") files.
880 + repair logic which forces a repaint where a color-pair's content is
881 changed (cf: 20170311).
882 + improve tracemunch, showing screenXX pointers as names.
885 + modify tic/infocmp display of numeric values to use hexadecimal when
886 they are "close" to a power of two, making the result more readable.
887 + improve discussion of portability in curs_mouse.3x
888 + change line-length for generated html/manpages to 78 columns from 65.
889 + improve discussion of line-drawing characters in curs_add_wch.3x
890 (prompted by discussion with Lorinczy Zsigmond).
891 + cleanup formatting of hackguide.html and ncurses-intro.html
892 + add examples for WACS_D_PLUS and WACS_T_PLUS to test/ncurses.c
895 + corrected a case where $with_gpm was set to "maybe" after CF_WITH_GPM,
896 overlooked in 20160528 fixes (report by Alexandre Bury).
897 + improve a couple of test-program's help-messages.
898 + corrected loop in rain.c from 20170415 changes.
899 + modify winnstr and winchnstr to return error if the output pointer is
900 null, as well as adding a null pointer check of the window pointer
901 for better compatibility with other implementations.
902 + improve discussion of NetBSD curses in scr_dump.5
903 + modify LIMIT_TYPED macro in new_pair.h to avoid changing sign of the
904 value to be limited (reports by Darby Payne, Rob Boudreau).
905 + update config.guess, config.sub from
906 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
909 + build-fix for termcap-configuration (report by Chi-Hsuan Yen).
910 + improve terminfo manual page discussion of control- and graphics-
912 + remove tic warning about "^?" in string capabilities, which was
913 marked as an extension (cf: 20000610, 20110820); however all Unix
914 implementations support this and X/Open Curses does not address it.
915 On the other hand, termcap never did support this feature.
916 + correct missing comma-separator between string capabilities in
917 icl6402 and m2-nam -TD
918 + restore rmir/smir in ansi+idc to better match original ansiterm+idc,
919 add alias ansiterm (report by Robert King).
920 + amend an old check for ambiguous use of "ma" in terminfo versus
921 a termcap use, if the capability is cancelled to treat it as number.
922 + correct a case in _nc_captoinfo() which read "%%" and emitted "%".
923 + modify sscanf calls in _nc_infotocap() for patterns "%{number}%+%c"
924 and "%'char'%+%c" to check that the final character is really 'c',
925 avoiding a case in icl6404 which cannot be converted to termcap.
926 + in _nc_infotocap(), add a check to ensure that terminfo "^?" is not
927 written to termcap, because the BSDs did not implement that.
928 + in _nc_tic_expand() and _nc_infotocap(), improve string-length check
929 when deciding whether to use "^X" or "\xxx" format for control
930 characters, to make the output of tic/infocmp more predictable.
931 + limit termcap "%d" width to 2 digits on input, and use "%2" in
932 preference to "%02" on output.
933 + correct terminfo/termcap conversion of "%02" and "%03" into "%2" and
934 "%3"; the result repeated the last character.
935 + add man/scr_dump.5 to document screen-dump format.
938 + modify several test programs to use new popup_msgs, adapted from
939 help-screen used in test/edit_field.c
940 + drop two symbols obsoleted in 2004: _nc_check_termtype, and
942 + fix some old copyright dates (cf: 20031025).
943 + build-fixes for test/savescreen.c to work with AIX and HPUX.
944 + minor fix to configure script, adding a backslash/continuation.
945 + extend TERMINAL structure for ABI 6 to store numbers internally as
946 integers rather than short, by adding new data for this purpose.
947 + more fixes for minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
950 + change logic in wins_nwstr() to avoid addressing data past the output
952 + correct a call to setcchar() in Data_Entry_w() from 20131207 changes.
953 + fix minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
954 + further improve ifdef in term_entry.h for internal definitions not
958 + minor fixes for vt100+4bsd, e.g., delay in sgr for consistency -TD
959 + add smso for env230, to match sgr -TD
960 + remove p7/protect from sgr in fbterm -TD
961 + drop setf/setb from fbterm; setaf/setab are enough -TD
962 + make xterm-pcolor sgr consistent with other capabilities -TD
963 + add rmxx/smxx ECMA-48 strikeout extension to tmux and xterm-basic
964 (discussion with Nicholas Marriott)
965 + add test-programs sp_tinfo and extended_color
966 + modify no-leaks code for lib_cur_term.c to account for the tgetent()
968 + modify setupterm() to save original tty-modes so that erasechar()
969 works as expected. Also modify _nc_setupscreen() to avoid redundant
970 calls to get original tty-modes.
971 + modify set_curterm() to update ttytype[] data used by longname().
972 + modify wattr_set() and wattr_get() to return ERR if win-parameter is
974 + improve cast used for null-pointer checks in header macros, to
975 reduce compiler warnings.
976 + modify several functions, using the reserved "opts" parameter to pass
977 color- and pair-values larger than 16-bits:
978 + getcchar(), setcchar(), slk_attr_set(), vid_puts(), wattr_get(),
979 wattr_set(), wchgat(), wcolor_set().
980 + Other functions call these with the corresponding altered behavior,
981 including chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat(), slk_color_on(),
982 slk_color_off(), vid_attr().
983 + add new functions for manipulating color- and pair-values larger
984 than 16-bits. These are extended_color_content(),
985 extended_pair_content(), extended_slk_color(), init_extended_color(),
986 init_extended_pair(), and the corresponding sp-funcs.
989 + fix a memory leak in the window-list when creating multiple screens
990 (reports by Andres Martinelli, Debian #783486).
991 + reviewed calls from link_test.c, added a few more null-pointer
993 + add a null-pointer check in ungetmouse, in case mousemask was not
994 called (report by "Kau").
995 + updated curs_sp_funcs.3x for new functions.
998 + change TERMINAL structure in term.h to make it opaque. Some
999 applications misuse its members, e.g., directly modifying it
1000 rather than using def_prog_mode().
1001 + modify utility headers such as tic.h to make it clearer which are
1002 externals that are used by tack.
1003 + improve curs_slk.3x in particular its discussion of portability.
1004 + fix cut/paste in legacy_encoding.3x
1005 + add prototype for find_pair() to new_pair.3x (report by Branden
1007 + fix a couple of broken links in generated man-html documentation.
1008 + regenerate man-html documentation.
1011 + modify vt100 rs2 string to reset vt52 mode and scrolling regions
1012 (report/analysis by Robert King) -TD
1013 + add vt100+4bsd building block, use that for older terminals rather
1014 than "vt100" which is now mostly used as a building block for
1015 terminal emulators -TD
1016 + correct a few spelling errors in terminfo.src comments -TD
1018 + fix a typo in ncurses.c test_attr legend (patch by Petr Vanek).
1019 + changed internal colorpair_t to a struct, eliminating an internal
1020 8-bit limit on colors
1021 + add ncurses/new_pair.h
1022 + add ncurses/base/new_pair.c with alloc_pair(), find_pair() and
1023 free_pair() functions
1024 + add test/demo_new_pair.c
1027 + improve terminfo manual description of terminfo syntax.
1028 + clarify the use of wint_t vs wchar_t in curs_get_wstr.3x
1029 + improve description of endwin() in manual.
1030 + modify setcchar() and getcchar() to treat negative color-pair as an
1032 + fix a typo in include/hashed_db.h (Andre Sa).
1035 + fixes for CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS (report by Ross Burton).
1038 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
1039 + correct read of terminfo entry in which all strings are absent or
1040 explicitly cancelled. Before this fix, the result was that all were
1041 treated as only absent.
1042 + modify infocmp to suppress mixture of absent/cancelled capabilities
1043 that would only show as "NULL, NULL", unless the -q option is used,
1044 e.g., to show "-, @" or "@, -".
1047 + build-fixes for PGI compilers (report by Adam J. Stewart)
1048 + accept whitespace in sed expression for generating expanded.c
1049 + modify configure check that g++ compiler warnings are not used.
1050 + add configure check for -fPIC option needed for shared libraries.
1051 + let configure --disable-ext-funcs override the default for the
1052 --enable-sp-funcs option.
1053 + mark some structs in form/menu/panel libraries as potentially opaque
1054 without modifying API/ABI.
1055 + add configure option --enable-opaque-curses for ncurses library and
1056 similar options for the other libraries.
1059 + trim newlines, tabs and escaped newlines from terminfo "paths" passed
1061 + ignore zero-length files in db-iterator; these are useful for
1062 instance to suppress "$HOME/.terminfo" when not wanted.
1063 + amended "b64:" encoder to work with the terminfo reader.
1064 + modify terminfo reader to accept "b64:" format using RFC-3548 in
1065 as well as RFC-4648 url/filename-safe format.
1066 + modify terminfo reader to accept "hex:" format as generated by
1067 "infocmp -0qQ1" (cf: 20150905).
1068 + adjust authors comment to reflect drop below 1% for SV.
1071 + minor comment-fixes to help automate links to bug-urls -TD
1072 + add dvtm, dvtm-256color -TD
1073 + add settings corresponding to xterm-keys option to tmux entry to
1074 reflect upcoming change to make that option "on" by default
1075 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1076 + uncancel Ms in tmux entry (Harry Gindi, Nicholas Marriott).
1077 + add dumb-emacs-ansi -TD
1080 + improve discussion of early history of tput program.
1081 + incorporate A_COLOR mask into COLOR_PAIR(), in case user application
1082 provides an out-of-range pair number (report by Elijah Stone).
1083 + clarify description in tput manual page regarding support for
1084 termcap names (prompted by FreeBSD #214709).
1085 + remove a restriction in tput's support for termcap names which
1086 omitted capabilities normally not shown in termcap translations
1088 + modify configure script for clang as used on FreeBSD, to work around
1089 clang's differences in exit codes vs gcc.
1092 + improve discussion of early history of tset/reset programs.
1093 + clarify in manual pages that the optional verbose option level is
1094 available only when ncurses is configured for tracing.
1095 + amend change from 20161231 to avoid writing traces to the standard
1096 error after initializing the trace feature using the environment
1100 + amend changes for tput to reset tty modes to "sane" if the program
1101 is run as "reset", like tset. Likewise, ensure that tset sends
1102 either reset- or init-strings.
1103 + improve manual page descriptions of tput init/reset and tset/reset,
1104 to make it easier to see how they are similar and different.
1105 + move a static result from key_name() to _nc_globals
1106 + modify _nc_get_screensize to allow for use_env() and use_tioctl()
1107 state to be per-screen when sp-funcs are configured, better matching
1108 the behavior when using the term-driver configuration.
1109 + improve cross-references in manual pages for often used functions
1110 + move SCREEN field for use_tioctl() data before the ncursesw fields,
1111 and limit that to the sp-funcs configuration to improve termlib
1112 compatibility (cf: 20120714).
1113 + correct order of initialization for traces in use_env() and
1114 use_tioctl() versus first trace calls.
1117 + fix errata for ncurses-howto (report by Damien Ruscoe).
1118 + fix a few places in configure/build scripts where DESTDIR and rpath
1119 were combined (report by Thomas Klausner).
1120 + merge current st description (report by Harry Gindi) -TD
1121 + modify flash capability for linux and wyse entries to put the delay
1122 between the reverse/normal escapes rather than after -TD
1123 + modify program tabs to pass the actual tty file descriptor to
1124 setupterm rather than the standard output, making padding work
1126 + explain in clear's manual page that it writes to stdout.
1127 + add special case for verbose debugging traces of command-line
1128 utilities which write to stderr (cf: 20161126).
1129 + remove a trace with literal escapes from skip_DECSCNM(), added in
1131 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1132 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1135 + correct parameters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes()
1136 (patch by Leon Winter).
1137 + improve color-handling section in terminfo manual page (prompted by
1138 patch by Mihail Konev).
1139 + modify programs clear, tput and tset to pass the actual tty file
1140 descriptor to setupterm rather than the standard output, making
1144 + add tput-colorcube demo script.
1145 + add -r and -s options to tput-initc demo, to match usage in xterm.
1146 + flush the standard output in _nc_flush for the case where SP is zero,
1147 e.g., when called via putp. This fixes a scenario where "tput flash"
1148 did not work after changes in 20130112.
1151 + add configure script option --disable-wattr-macros for use in cases
1152 where one wants to use the same headers for ncurses5/ncurses6
1153 development, by suppressing the wattr* macros which differ due to
1154 the introduction of extended colors (prompted by comments in
1155 Debian #230990, Redhat #1270534).
1156 + add test/tput-initc to demonstrate tput used to initialize palette
1158 + modify test/xterm*.dat to use the newer color4/color12 values.
1161 + improve discussion of field validation in form_driver.3x manual page.
1162 + update curs_trace.3x manual page.
1165 + modify linux-16color to not mask dim, standout or reverse with the
1167 + add 0.1sec mandatory delay to flash capabilities using the VT100
1168 reverse-video control -TD
1169 + omit selection of ISO-8859-1 for G0 in enacs capability from linux2.6
1170 entry, to avoid conflict with the user-defined mapping. The reset
1171 feature will use ISO-8859-1 in any case (Mikulas Patocka).
1172 + improve check in tic for delays by also warning about beep/flash
1173 when a delay is not embedded, or if those use the VT100 reverse
1174 video escape without using a delay.
1175 + minor fix for syntax-check of delays from 20161119 changes.
1176 + modify trace() to avoid overwriting existing file (report by Maor
1180 + add check in tic for some syntax errors of delays, as well as use of
1181 proportional delays for non-line capabilities.
1182 + document history of the clear program and the E3 extension, prompted
1183 by various discussions including
1184 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87469/clearing-the-old-scrollback-buffer
1187 + improve -W option in tic/infocmp:
1188 + correct order of size-adjustments in wrapped lines
1189 + if -f option splits line, do not further split it with -W
1190 + begin a new line when adding "use=" after a wrapped line
1193 + fix typo in man/terminfo.tail (Alain Williams).
1194 + correct program-name in adacurses6-config.1 manual page.
1197 + add new function "unfocus_current_field" (Leon Winter)
1200 + modify tset -w (and tput reset) to update the program's copy of the
1201 screensize if it was already set in the system, to improve tabstop
1202 setting which relies upon knowing the actual screensize.
1203 + add functionality of tset -w to tput, like the "-c" feature this is
1204 not optional in tput.
1205 + add "clear" as a possible link/alias to tput.
1206 + improve tput's check for being called as "init" or "reset" to allow
1207 for transformed names.
1208 + split-out the "clear" function from progs/clear.c, share with
1209 tput to get the same behavior, e.g., the E3 extension.
1212 + amend internal use of tputs to consistently use the number of lines
1213 affected, e.g., for insert/delete character operations. While
1214 merging terminfo source early in 1995, several descriptions used the
1215 "*" proportional delay for these operations, prompting a change in
1217 + regenerate llib-* files.
1218 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1219 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
1222 + adjust size in infocmp/tic to work with strlcpy.
1223 + fix configure script to record when strlcat is found on OpenBSD.
1224 + build-fix for "recent" OpenBSD vs baudrate.
1227 + add -W option to tic/infocmp to force long strings to wrap. This is
1228 in addition to the -w option which attempts to fit capabilities into
1229 a given line-length.
1230 + add linux-m1 minitel entries (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
1231 + correct rs2 string for vt100-nam -TD
1234 + modify _nc_tic_expand to escape comma if it immediately follows a
1235 percent sign, to work with minitel change.
1236 + updated minitel and viewdata descriptions (Alexandre Montaron).
1239 + build-fix for gnat6, which unhelpfully attempts to compile C files.
1240 + fix typo in 20160910 changes (Debian #837892, patch by Sven Joachim).
1243 + trim dead code ifdef'd with HIDE_EINTR since 970830 (discussion with
1245 + trim some obsolete/incorrect wording about EINTR from wgetch manual
1246 page (patch by Leon Winter).
1247 + really correct 20100515 change (patch by Rich Coe).
1248 + add "--enable-string-hacks" option to test/configure
1249 + completed string-hacks for "sprintf", etc., including test-programs.
1250 + make "--enable-string-hacks" work with Debian by checking for the
1251 "bsd" library and its associated "<bsd/string.h>" header.
1254 + correct 20100515 change for weak signals versus sigprocmask (report
1256 + modify misc/Makefile.in to work around OpenBSD "make" which unlike
1257 all other versions of "make" does not recognize continuation lines
1259 + amend the last change to CF_C_ENV_FLAGS to move only the
1260 preprocessor, optimization and warning flags to CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS,
1261 leaving the residue in CC. That happens to work for gcc's various
1262 "model" options, but may require tuning for other compilers (report
1266 + add "v" menu entry to test/ncurses.c to show baudrate and other
1268 + add "newer" baudrate symbols from Linux and FreeBSD to progs/tset.c,
1270 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro:
1271 + add "uclinux" to case for "linux" (patch by Yann E. Morin)
1272 + modify _GNU_SOURCE for cygwin headers, tested with cygwin 2.3, 2.5
1273 (patch by Corinna Vinschen, from changes to tin).
1274 + improve CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS macro to allow for compiler wrappers such
1275 as "ccache" (report by Enrico Scholz).
1276 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1277 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1280 + update tput manual page to reflect changes to manipulate terminal
1281 modes by sharing functions with tset.
1282 + add the terminal-mode parts of "reset" (aka tset) to the "tput reset"
1283 command, making the two almost the same except for window-size.
1284 + adapt logic used in dialog "--keep-tite" option for test/filter.c as
1285 "-a" option. When set, test/filter attempts to suppress the
1287 + correct a typo in interix entry -TD
1290 + add a dependency upon generated-sources in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to
1291 handle a case of "configure && make install".
1292 + trim trailing blanks from include/Caps*, to work around a problem
1293 in sed (Debian #818067).
1296 + improve CF_GNU_SOURCE configure macro to optionally define
1297 _DEFAULT_SOURCE work around a nuisance in recent glibc releases.
1298 + move the terminfo-specific parts of tput's "reset" function into
1299 the shared reset_cmd.c, making the two forms of reset use the same
1301 + split-out the terminal initialization functions from tset as
1302 progs/reset_cmd.c, as part of changes to merge the reset-feature
1306 + change tset's initialization to allow it to get settings from the
1307 standard input as well as /dev/tty, to be more effective when
1308 output or error are redirected.
1309 + improve discussion of history and portability for tset/reset/tput
1313 + improve error message from tset/reset when both stderr/stdout are
1314 redirected to a file or pipe.
1315 + improve organization of curs_attr.3x, curs_color.3x
1318 + work around Debian's antique/unmaintained version of mawk when
1320 + improve test/list_keys.c, showing ncurses's convention of modifiers
1321 for special keys, based on xterm.
1324 + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters are given.
1327 + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule.
1328 + amend change to CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS in 20160521 to make multilib build
1329 work (report by Sven Joachim).
1332 + build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses.
1333 + improve test/list_keys.c, fixing column-widths and sorting the list
1334 to make it more readable.
1337 + revise fix for Debian #805618 (report by Vlado Potisk, cf: 20151128).
1338 + modify test/ncurses.c a/A screens to make exiting on an escape
1339 character depend on the start of keypad and timeout modes, to allow
1340 better testing of function-keys.
1341 + modify rs1 for xterm-16color, xterm-88color and xterm-256color to
1342 reset palette using "oc" string as in linux -TD
1343 + use ANSI reply for u8 in xterm-new, to reflect vt220-style responses
1344 that could be returned -TD
1345 + added a few capabilities fixed in recent vte -TD
1348 + correct logic for -f option in test/demo_terminfo.c
1349 + add test/list_keys.c
1352 + further workaround for PIE/PIC breakage which causes gpm to not link.
1353 + fix most cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library.
1356 + improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size.
1357 + fixes to work with a slightly broken compiler configuration which
1358 cannot compile "Hello World!" without adding compiler options
1359 (report by Ola x Nilsson):
1360 + pass appropriate compiler options to the CF_PROG_CC_C_O macro.
1361 + when separating compiler and options in CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, ensure
1362 that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS
1363 + restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared
1364 to be redundant. In fact, they are needed for a compiler that
1365 cannot combine -c and -o options.
1368 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1369 + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they
1370 might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426).
1371 + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD
1372 + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0
1373 entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD
1374 + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran).
1377 + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the
1378 special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,
1380 + modify test/ncurses.c:
1381 + check return-value of putwin
1382 + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes
1383 to keypad- and scroll-modes.
1384 + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).
1387 + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm
1388 color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE
1389 and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R.
1390 + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for
1394 + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs
1395 PIC builds documented in
1396 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
1397 + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages
1398 due to program-transformation configure options.
1399 + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset.
1402 + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when
1403 available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850.
1406 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1407 + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus
1411 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1412 + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers
1413 to switch the active menu. This requires a new extension option
1414 O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not
1415 apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application
1416 can handle the event.
1419 + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso).
1420 + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case
1421 that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for
1422 non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888).
1425 + modified test/filter.c to illustrate an alternative to getnstr, that
1426 polls for input while updating a clock on the right margin as well
1427 as responding to window size-changes.
1430 + omit a redefinition of "inline" when traces are enabled, since this
1431 does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912).
1434 + modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of
1435 ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g.,
1436 in case weak symbols are used.
1437 + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
1438 rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
1440 + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
1441 winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
1442 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1443 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1446 + amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work
1447 in threaded configuration.
1448 + move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h,
1449 since they are not part of the suggested ABI6.
1452 + define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN for MinGW port, making builds faster.
1453 + modify test/ditto.c to allow $XTERM_PROG environment variable to
1454 override "xterm" as the name of the program to run in the threaded
1458 + improve formatting of man/curs_refresh.3x and man/tset.1 manpages
1459 + regenerate HTML manpages using newer man2html to eliminate some
1460 unwanted blank lines.
1463 + ifdef'd header-file definition of mouse_trafo() with NCURSES_NOMACROS
1464 (report by Corey Minyard).
1465 + fix some strict compiler-warnings in traces.
1468 + tidy up comments about hardcoded 256color palette (report by
1469 Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
1470 + add putty-noapp entry, and amend putty entry to use application mode
1471 for better consistency with xterm (report by Leonardo Brondani
1473 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to trace wide-characters
1474 as a whole rather than their multibyte equivalents.
1475 + minor fix in wadd_wchnstr() to ensure that each cell has nonzero
1477 + move PUTC_INIT calls next to wcrtomb calls, to avoid carry-over of
1478 error status when processing Unicode values which are not mapped.
1481 + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
1482 screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
1483 + minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of
1484 SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.
1487 + add check in tic for use of bold, etc., video attributes in the
1488 color capabilities, accounting whether the feature is listed in ncv.
1489 + add check in tic for conflict between ritm, rmso, rmul versus sgr0.
1492 + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion
1493 with James Crippen).
1494 + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
1496 + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
1497 characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.
1500 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
1501 needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
1502 does not work. Also modified the test program to ensure that if
1503 building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
1504 normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
1505 + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
1506 in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
1507 drawing characters as double-width.
1510 + update form_cursor.3x, form_post.3x, menu_attributes.3x to list
1511 function names in NAME section (patch by Jason McIntyre).
1512 + minor fixes to manpage NAME/SYNOPSIS sections to consistently use
1513 rule that either all functions which are prototyped in SYNOPSIS are
1514 listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
1515 listed in the NAME section. The latter is used to reduce clutter,
1516 e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
1517 feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
1521 + add option to preserve leading whitespace in form fields (patch by
1523 + add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
1525 + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
1526 + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
1527 + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
1528 backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
1529 + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
1532 + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
1533 + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
1534 + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
1535 + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.
1538 + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
1539 which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
1540 name. That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
1541 tset from termcap to terminfo. The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
1542 this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
1544 + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
1545 are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
1546 + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
1547 renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
1548 normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).
1551 + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
1552 valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
1553 actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
1554 install time (cf: 20150822).
1555 + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
1556 clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
1557 empty "local" section.
1558 + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
1559 to incorrect attribute-masking.
1562 + modify MKexpanded.sh to update the expansion of a temporary filename
1563 to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
1564 + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
1565 annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
1566 did not display well.
1567 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
1568 + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
1569 + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
1570 the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
1571 Normand, Novell #946048).
1572 + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
1573 FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
1574 + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
1575 minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
1576 + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
1577 + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
1578 Internet Archive -TD
1579 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1580 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1583 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
1584 (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
1585 + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
1586 data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
1587 (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
1588 > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
1589 + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
1590 + support building with libtool on OS/2
1591 + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
1592 + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
1595 + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
1596 + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
1597 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
1598 + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
1600 + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
1601 fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
1602 (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
1605 + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
1607 + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
1608 + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
1611 + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
1613 + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
1614 read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
1615 + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
1616 configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
1619 + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
1621 + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
1622 solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
1623 of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
1624 + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
1625 "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
1626 + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
1628 + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS
1631 + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
1633 + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
1634 all comments from the "tic -I" output.
1635 + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
1637 + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
1638 form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.
1641 + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
1643 + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
1644 + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
1645 + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
1646 + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
1647 ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
1651 + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
1652 overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
1653 + update release notes in INSTALL.
1654 + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
1657 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
1658 releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
1659 https://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
1661 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1664 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
1665 + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
1666 + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
1667 more than 200 snapshots.
1668 + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
1672 + updated llib-* files.
1673 + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
1674 + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
1676 + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1677 + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
1678 + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
1679 curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
1680 curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
1681 curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
1682 curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
1685 + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
1686 + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
1687 curs_initscr.3x page.
1688 + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
1689 of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
1690 in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
1692 + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
1693 e.g., ncursestw library.
1696 + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
1697 configuration of ncurses6.
1698 + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
1699 demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
1700 the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
1701 versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
1702 + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
1705 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
1706 + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
1707 (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
1710 + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
1712 + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
1713 map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
1714 suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
1715 + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
1716 from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
1717 + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
1718 databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
1719 + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
1720 setupterm and restartterm functions.
1721 + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
1722 of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
1723 it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
1727 + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
1728 + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
1729 the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
1730 files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
1731 corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
1732 configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
1733 discussion with Sven Joachim).
1734 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
1736 20150606 pre-release
1737 + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
1738 intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
1739 "--with-abi-version=5" option.
1740 + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
1741 + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
1742 + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
1743 Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
1744 + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
1745 ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
1746 lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
1747 + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
1748 "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
1749 + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
1750 CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
1753 + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
1754 mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
1755 + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
1756 + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
1757 + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
1758 have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
1759 + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
1760 cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
1763 + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
1764 + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
1765 by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
1766 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
1767 + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
1769 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
1770 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
1773 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
1774 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
1775 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
1776 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
1778 + regenerate html manpages.
1779 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
1780 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
1781 Stack Overflow forum):
1784 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
1785 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
1786 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
1787 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
1788 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
1792 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
1793 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
1794 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
1795 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
1796 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
1798 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
1799 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1800 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
1801 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
1802 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
1803 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
1805 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
1806 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
1807 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
1808 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
1809 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
1810 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
1812 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
1813 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
1815 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
1816 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
1818 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
1819 the ncurses library aside from headers.
1820 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
1821 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
1822 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
1823 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
1824 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1825 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1828 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
1829 (report by Todd M Lewis).
1830 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
1831 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
1832 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
1833 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
1834 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
1835 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
1837 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
1838 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
1839 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
1840 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
1841 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
1842 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
1843 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
1846 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
1847 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
1848 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
1849 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
1850 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
1851 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
1852 with the shared libraries.
1853 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
1854 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
1855 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
1856 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
1857 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
1858 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
1859 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
1860 inherit into new windows.
1863 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
1864 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
1865 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
1866 readonly text segment.
1869 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
1870 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
1873 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
1874 the extended putwin/getwin.
1875 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
1877 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
1881 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
1882 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
1883 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
1884 for a magic code at the beginning:
1885 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
1888 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
1890 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
1891 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
1894 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
1895 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
1896 (report by Grady Martin).
1899 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
1900 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
1901 the wide-character libraries.
1902 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
1904 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
1905 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
1908 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
1909 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
1910 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
1914 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
1915 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
1918 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
1919 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
1920 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
1921 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
1922 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
1925 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
1926 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
1927 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
1930 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
1931 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
1932 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
1934 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
1935 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
1936 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
1937 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
1938 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
1939 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
1940 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
1941 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
1942 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
1943 (report by Pavel Balaev).
1946 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
1947 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
1948 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
1949 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
1950 variations in ABI 6.
1953 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
1954 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
1958 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
1962 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
1963 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
1964 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
1965 the ABI 5 libraries.
1966 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
1967 regenerate html-manpages.
1970 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
1971 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
1973 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
1974 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
1975 package for ncurses6.
1976 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
1977 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
1978 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
1979 in the corresponding ".map" files.
1980 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
1981 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
1985 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
1986 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
1987 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
1988 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
1989 gcc introduced here:
1990 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
1991 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
1992 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
1993 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
1996 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
1997 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
1998 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
1999 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
2000 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
2003 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
2004 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
2005 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
2006 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
2007 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
2008 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
2009 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
2013 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
2014 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
2018 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
2019 msys2 configuration.
2022 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
2023 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
2024 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
2025 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
2026 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
2028 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
2029 (report by Mike Gran).
2032 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
2033 demonstration of its limitations.
2034 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
2035 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
2036 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
2037 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
2038 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
2039 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
2040 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
2042 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
2043 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
2046 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
2047 + implement flash in win_driver.c
2048 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
2050 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
2051 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
2052 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
2053 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
2054 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
2055 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
2056 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
2057 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
2060 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
2061 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
2062 some older cross-compiler environments.
2063 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
2064 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
2065 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
2066 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
2067 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
2068 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
2069 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
2070 + update config.sub from
2071 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2074 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
2075 C++ cross-compilers.
2076 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
2079 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
2081 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
2084 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
2085 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
2086 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
2089 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
2090 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
2094 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
2095 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
2096 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
2099 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
2100 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
2101 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
2102 + regenerated html manpages.
2103 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
2104 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
2105 which reverses cause/effect.
2106 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
2107 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
2108 + fixes for win_driver.c:
2109 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
2114 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
2115 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
2116 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
2117 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
2119 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
2120 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
2121 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
2122 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
2126 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
2127 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
2128 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
2129 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
2130 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
2131 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
2132 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
2133 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
2134 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
2137 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
2138 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
2139 options, from xterm changes.
2142 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
2143 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
2147 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
2148 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
2151 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
2152 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
2153 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
2154 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
2155 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
2156 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
2157 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
2160 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
2161 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
2162 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
2163 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
2164 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
2165 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
2166 providing directly comparable screens.
2167 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
2170 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
2172 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
2173 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
2174 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
2175 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
2176 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
2177 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
2178 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
2181 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
2182 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
2183 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
2184 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
2185 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
2188 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
2189 overlap with sgr functionality.
2190 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
2191 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
2192 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
2193 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
2194 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
2195 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
2196 older ncurses than 20131207.
2197 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
2198 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
2199 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
2200 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
2201 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
2204 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
2205 environment variable.
2206 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
2207 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
2208 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
2209 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
2210 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
2211 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
2212 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
2213 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
2214 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
2215 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
2216 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
2217 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
2218 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
2219 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
2221 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
2223 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
2224 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
2225 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
2227 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
2228 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
2229 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
2230 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
2231 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
2232 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
2233 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
2235 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
2237 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
2238 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
2239 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
2240 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
2241 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
2242 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
2243 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
2244 to be consecutive anyway.
2245 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
2246 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
2247 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
2248 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
2251 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
2252 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
2253 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
2256 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
2257 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
2258 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
2259 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2262 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
2264 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
2265 simplify later merging:
2266 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
2267 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
2268 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
2269 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
2270 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
2274 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2275 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2278 + modify configure script:
2279 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
2280 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
2281 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
2282 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
2283 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
2284 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
2285 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
2286 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
2287 "#win32console", and
2288 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
2289 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
2292 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
2293 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
2294 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
2295 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
2296 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
2297 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
2301 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
2304 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
2305 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
2306 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
2307 + add terminology entry -TD
2308 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
2309 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
2312 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
2313 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
2314 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
2315 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
2316 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
2320 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
2321 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
2322 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
2323 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
2324 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
2327 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
2330 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
2331 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
2332 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
2336 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
2337 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
2338 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
2339 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
2340 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
2341 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
2343 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
2344 html emitted by docbook.
2347 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
2348 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
2349 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
2350 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
2353 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
2354 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
2355 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
2356 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
2357 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2358 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
2361 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
2362 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
2363 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
2364 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2367 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
2368 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
2371 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
2373 ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
2376 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
2377 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
2378 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
2379 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
2381 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
2383 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
2384 + updated llib-l* files.
2387 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
2388 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
2392 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
2393 recognized by clang.
2396 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
2397 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
2398 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
2399 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
2400 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
2401 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
2402 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
2403 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
2404 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
2405 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
2406 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
2407 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
2409 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
2411 + update config.sub from
2412 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2415 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
2418 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
2419 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
2420 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
2421 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
2423 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
2426 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
2427 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
2428 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
2429 them more consistent with other packages.
2432 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
2433 compiling ncurses-examples.
2434 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
2437 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
2440 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
2441 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
2442 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
2443 cross-compiles to MinGW.
2444 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
2448 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
2449 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
2453 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
2454 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
2456 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
2458 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
2459 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
2460 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
2461 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
2462 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
2465 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
2466 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
2467 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
2470 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
2472 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
2473 before/after Debian #700177.
2474 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
2475 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
2477 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
2478 of sort, improving portability.
2479 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
2480 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2481 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2484 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
2485 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
2487 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
2488 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
2489 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
2492 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
2493 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
2494 introduced by Debian #700177.
2495 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
2496 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
2499 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
2500 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
2502 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
2503 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
2504 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
2507 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
2508 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
2510 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
2511 cross-compile support packages.
2512 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
2515 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
2516 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
2517 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
2518 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
2519 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
2520 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
2521 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
2522 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
2523 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
2524 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
2525 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
2526 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
2529 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
2530 initialization of cur_term.
2533 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
2534 + minor compiler-warning fixes
2537 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
2538 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
2539 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
2540 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
2541 --enable-auto-import flag.
2542 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
2546 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
2547 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
2548 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
2549 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
2550 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
2552 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
2553 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
2554 (patch by Eric Raymond).
2557 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
2558 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
2559 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
2561 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
2562 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
2563 not printing the full pathname of the program.
2564 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
2565 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
2566 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
2569 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
2570 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
2572 + add test/dots_termcap.c
2573 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
2574 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
2575 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
2576 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
2577 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
2578 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
2579 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
2580 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
2581 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
2583 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
2584 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
2587 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
2588 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
2589 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
2590 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
2591 the left margin of the display.
2592 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
2593 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
2594 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
2595 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
2598 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
2599 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
2600 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
2601 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
2602 + regenerated html manpages.
2603 + update doctype used for html documentation.
2606 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
2607 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
2608 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
2609 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
2610 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
2611 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
2614 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
2615 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
2616 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
2617 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
2618 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
2621 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
2622 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
2625 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
2626 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
2627 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2628 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
2629 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
2631 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
2632 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
2633 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
2634 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
2637 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
2638 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
2639 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
2640 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
2642 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
2644 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
2646 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
2649 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
2653 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
2654 (report by Christian Ebert).
2655 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
2656 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
2657 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
2660 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
2661 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
2662 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
2663 add bold for consistency with sgr,
2664 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
2665 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
2666 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
2667 by Benjamin Sittler)
2668 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
2669 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
2670 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
2671 line split after "%;".
2672 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
2673 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
2676 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
2677 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
2678 + regenerated html manpages.
2679 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
2680 + updated some autoconf macros:
2681 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
2682 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
2683 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
2684 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
2685 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
2686 configuration (Redhat #911540).
2687 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
2688 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
2691 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
2692 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
2694 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
2695 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
2697 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
2698 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
2699 of raw input in MinGW port.
2702 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
2703 + update config.guess, config.sub
2706 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
2708 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
2710 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
2711 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
2712 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
2713 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
2714 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
2715 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
2716 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
2718 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
2719 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
2722 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
2723 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
2725 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
2726 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
2727 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
2730 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
2731 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
2732 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
2735 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
2736 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
2737 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
2738 help reduce flicker.
2739 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
2740 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
2741 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
2742 by Dennis Grevenstein).
2743 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
2744 Dennis Grevenstein).
2745 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
2746 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
2747 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
2750 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
2751 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
2752 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
2753 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
2754 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
2755 + improve error-checking in copywin
2756 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
2757 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
2758 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
2759 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
2760 matching capability names.
2761 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
2762 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
2763 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
2766 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
2767 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
2768 are unused in the current driver model.
2769 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
2771 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
2772 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
2773 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
2774 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
2777 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
2778 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
2780 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
2781 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
2782 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
2783 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
2784 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
2787 + fix Coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
2788 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
2789 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
2793 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
2795 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
2796 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
2798 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
2799 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
2800 wide-character which can be used.
2803 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
2804 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
2805 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
2806 by Erwin Waterlander).
2807 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
2808 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2809 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
2810 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
2811 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
2812 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
2816 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
2817 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
2818 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
2819 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
2820 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
2821 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2822 + remove a few redundant checks.
2823 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
2825 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
2826 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
2827 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
2828 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
2830 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
2831 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
2832 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
2836 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
2837 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
2838 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
2842 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
2843 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
2844 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2845 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
2848 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2849 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
2850 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
2851 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
2852 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
2853 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
2854 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
2855 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
2857 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
2858 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
2859 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
2860 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
2863 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
2864 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
2865 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
2867 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
2868 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
2869 libraries or executables.
2872 + realign these related pages:
2877 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
2878 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
2879 (report by Reuben Thomas).
2880 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
2881 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
2882 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
2883 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
2884 based on testing with tack -TD
2885 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
2886 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
2889 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
2891 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
2892 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
2893 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
2896 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
2900 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
2901 (patch by Christian Persch).
2904 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
2906 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
2907 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
2908 has used that for a while.
2909 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
2910 for experimental use.
2911 + remove unused configure macros.
2912 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
2913 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
2914 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
2915 + update config.guess, config.sub
2918 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
2919 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
2920 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
2921 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
2922 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
2923 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
2924 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
2927 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
2928 to help with MinGW port.
2931 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
2933 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
2936 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
2939 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
2940 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
2941 might not be allocated.
2942 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
2945 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
2946 initial screen-sizes.
2947 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
2948 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
2952 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
2953 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
2957 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
2958 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
2959 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
2961 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
2962 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
2965 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
2966 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
2967 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
2968 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
2969 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
2970 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
2971 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
2975 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
2976 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
2977 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
2978 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
2979 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
2980 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
2981 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
2982 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
2986 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
2987 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
2988 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
2989 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
2990 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
2991 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
2994 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
2998 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
3000 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
3002 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
3003 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
3004 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
3005 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
3006 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
3007 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
3010 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
3012 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
3013 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
3014 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
3016 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
3017 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
3020 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
3021 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
3022 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
3025 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
3026 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
3028 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
3029 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
3031 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
3032 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
3035 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
3037 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
3038 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
3039 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
3040 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
3041 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
3042 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
3045 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
3046 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
3047 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
3048 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
3049 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
3050 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
3051 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
3052 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
3053 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
3055 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
3056 analysis by Martin Husemann).
3057 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
3058 Onno van der Linden).
3061 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
3063 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
3065 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
3066 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
3069 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
3070 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
3071 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
3072 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
3073 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
3074 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
3075 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
3078 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
3079 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
3080 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
3081 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
3082 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
3083 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
3084 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
3085 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
3086 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
3087 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
3088 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
3089 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
3090 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
3091 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
3092 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
3095 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
3096 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
3097 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
3098 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
3099 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
3100 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
3101 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
3102 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
3103 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
3104 are interpreted as key definitions.
3105 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
3106 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
3110 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
3111 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
3112 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
3113 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
3114 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
3115 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
3116 as building-blocks -TD
3117 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
3120 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
3121 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
3122 title is a status-line. -TD
3123 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
3124 of ordering and overrides -TD
3125 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
3126 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
3127 used in that file -TD
3130 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
3131 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
3132 definable capabilities.
3133 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
3134 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
3135 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
3136 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
3137 embedded in the description.
3138 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
3139 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
3140 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
3141 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
3142 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
3143 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
3146 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
3147 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
3148 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
3149 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
3150 Nicolas Boulenguez).
3151 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
3152 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
3153 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
3156 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
3157 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
3158 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
3159 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
3160 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
3161 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
3164 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
3165 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
3166 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
3168 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
3169 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
3170 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
3171 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
3174 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
3175 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
3176 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
3179 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
3180 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
3181 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
3183 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
3184 calls to setupterm().
3185 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
3187 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
3188 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
3189 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
3191 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
3195 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
3198 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
3200 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
3201 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
3202 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
3203 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
3204 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
3205 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
3207 + update config.guess, config.sub
3210 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
3211 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
3212 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
3213 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
3214 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
3215 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
3216 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
3217 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
3218 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
3221 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
3222 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
3223 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
3224 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
3225 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
3226 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
3227 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
3228 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
3229 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
3230 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
3231 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
3232 Linux versus most other systems.
3235 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
3239 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
3240 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
3241 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
3242 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
3243 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
3244 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
3245 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
3246 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
3247 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
3248 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
3249 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
3250 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
3251 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
3252 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
3255 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
3257 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
3259 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
3260 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
3261 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
3262 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).
3265 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
3267 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
3268 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
3269 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
3270 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
3271 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
3273 + regenerated html manpages.
3276 + various improvements for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
3277 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
3278 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
3279 + change recommended regular expression library.
3280 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
3281 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
3284 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
3285 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
3286 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
3287 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
3288 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
3289 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
3290 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
3294 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
3295 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
3297 + add putty-sco entry -TD
3300 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
3302 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
3304 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
3305 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
3306 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
3308 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
3310 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
3313 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
3314 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
3315 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
3316 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
3318 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
3319 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
3320 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
3323 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
3324 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
3326 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
3329 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
3331 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
3333 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
3335 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
3336 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
3337 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
3338 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
3339 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
3340 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
3341 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
3344 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
3345 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
3347 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
3348 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
3349 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
3350 database (cf: 20111001).
3353 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
3354 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
3355 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
3357 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
3358 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
3360 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
3361 in older FreeBSD machines.
3362 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
3363 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
3364 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
3367 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
3368 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
3369 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
3370 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
3371 root's home directory.
3372 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
3373 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
3374 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
3375 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
3376 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
3378 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
3379 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
3380 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
3381 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
3382 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
3383 (report by Peter Kruse).
3386 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
3387 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
3389 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
3391 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
3392 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
3393 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
3396 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
3397 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
3398 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
3399 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
3400 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
3401 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
3404 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
3405 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
3406 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
3407 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
3408 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
3411 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
3412 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
3413 input and output of termcap source.
3414 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
3415 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
3416 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
3417 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
3418 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
3419 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
3420 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
3421 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
3422 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
3425 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
3428 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
3430 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
3431 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
3432 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
3433 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
3435 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
3438 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
3439 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
3441 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
3442 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
3445 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
3446 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
3448 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
3449 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
3451 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
3452 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
3453 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
3454 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
3456 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
3457 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
3458 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
3459 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
3461 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
3462 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
3465 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
3466 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
3467 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
3468 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
3471 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
3472 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
3473 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
3474 + add terminator entry -TD
3475 + add simpleterm entry -TD
3476 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
3477 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
3481 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
3482 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
3483 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
3484 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
3485 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
3486 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
3487 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
3488 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
3489 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
3490 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
3494 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
3495 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
3496 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
3497 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
3498 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
3499 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
3501 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
3502 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
3503 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
3505 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
3508 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
3509 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
3510 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
3511 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
3513 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
3514 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
3516 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
3517 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
3518 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
3519 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
3520 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
3521 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
3522 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
3523 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
3525 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
3526 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
3528 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
3529 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
3530 tctest (cf: 19991211).
3531 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
3532 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
3533 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
3534 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
3535 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
3536 translating to termcap.
3537 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
3538 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
3541 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
3542 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
3543 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
3544 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
3545 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
3546 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
3548 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
3549 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
3550 regarding Schilling's test program):
3551 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
3552 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
3553 + use \040 rather than \s
3554 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
3555 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
3558 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
3559 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
3560 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
3561 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3562 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
3563 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
3564 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
3565 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
3566 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
3567 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
3568 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
3569 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
3572 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
3573 are not used in the $CC variable.
3574 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
3575 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
3576 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
3577 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
3578 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
3579 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3582 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
3583 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
3587 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
3588 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
3589 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
3590 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
3591 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
3593 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
3594 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
3596 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
3599 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
3600 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
3603 + fixes for MirBSD port:
3604 + set default prefix to /usr.
3605 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
3606 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
3607 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
3608 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
3611 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
3612 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
3613 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
3614 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
3616 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
3617 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
3621 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
3624 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
3625 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
3626 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
3628 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
3629 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
3630 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
3631 help work around weak-symbol issues.
3634 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
3635 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
3636 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
3637 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
3638 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
3639 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
3640 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
3641 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
3642 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
3643 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
3644 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
3647 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
3648 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
3650 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
3651 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
3652 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
3653 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3656 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
3657 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
3658 as different types on some Unix systems.
3659 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
3660 function pointer passed to tputs().
3661 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
3662 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
3663 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
3664 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
3667 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
3668 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3669 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
3670 + update config.guess, config.sub
3673 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
3675 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
3676 some ncurses packages.
3677 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
3678 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
3679 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
3681 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3684 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
3685 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
3686 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
3687 the in-tree build of sample programs.
3688 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
3689 needed for rpm script.
3690 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
3691 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
3692 options if building a shared library with gnat.
3695 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
3696 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
3697 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
3698 that sample program.
3699 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
3700 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
3701 which were added in 5.7 and later.
3702 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
3706 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
3708 + regen Ada html documentation.
3709 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
3710 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
3712 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
3714 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
3715 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
3716 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
3717 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
3718 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
3719 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
3721 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
3722 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
3724 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
3725 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
3728 + regen Ada html documentation.
3729 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
3730 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
3732 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
3733 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
3734 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
3735 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3736 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
3737 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
3738 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
3739 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
3740 thread in comp.lang.ada).
3741 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
3742 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
3743 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
3744 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
3745 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
3746 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
3747 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
3748 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
3749 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
3750 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
3753 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
3754 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
3755 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
3757 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
3759 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
3760 explain.txt is not found.
3763 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3764 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
3765 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3766 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
3767 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
3769 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3772 + update release notes, for 5.8.
3773 + regenerated html manpages.
3774 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
3776 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
3777 a new install of hashed database.
3778 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
3781 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
3782 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
3783 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
3784 wide-character configuration.
3785 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
3786 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
3789 + regenerated html manpages.
3790 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
3791 special case of trace configuration.
3794 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
3795 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
3796 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
3797 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
3798 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
3802 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
3803 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
3804 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
3805 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
3806 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
3808 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
3809 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
3812 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
3813 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
3814 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
3815 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
3816 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
3817 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
3818 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
3819 file configuration if that is used.
3820 + update config.guess, config.sub
3823 + regenerated html manpages.
3824 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
3826 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
3827 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
3830 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
3831 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
3834 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
3835 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
3836 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
3839 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
3841 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
3842 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
3843 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
3844 wide-character configuration.
3845 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
3846 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
3847 referred to quitting with 'q'.
3850 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
3851 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
3852 version which works with termcap.
3853 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
3854 (request by Sven Joachim).
3855 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
3856 (report by Sven Joachim).
3859 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
3860 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
3861 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
3864 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
3866 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
3867 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
3870 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
3872 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
3873 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
3874 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
3875 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
3876 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
3877 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
3881 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
3882 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
3883 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
3885 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
3888 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
3890 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
3894 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
3896 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
3897 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
3898 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
3899 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
3900 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
3901 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
3902 tree (report by Werner Fink).
3903 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
3904 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
3905 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
3906 (report by John P. Hartmann)
3907 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
3910 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
3911 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
3912 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
3913 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
3914 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
3915 external package "cindent".
3918 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
3919 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
3920 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
3921 inconsistent printer-controls.
3922 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
3923 form is available -TD
3924 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
3926 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
3928 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
3929 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3930 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
3931 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
3932 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
3934 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
3935 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
3939 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
3940 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
3941 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
3942 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3943 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
3945 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
3948 + regenerated html manpages.
3949 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
3950 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
3951 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
3954 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
3956 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
3957 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
3958 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
3959 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
3963 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
3964 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
3967 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
3968 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
3969 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
3970 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
3971 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
3972 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
3973 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
3977 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
3978 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
3979 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
3980 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
3981 by Tim van der Molen).
3982 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
3983 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
3984 library configuration.
3985 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
3986 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
3987 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
3990 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
3992 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
3993 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
3994 e.g., for cross-compiling.
3995 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
3996 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
3999 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
4000 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
4001 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
4002 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
4003 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
4004 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
4005 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
4006 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
4009 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
4010 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
4011 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
4012 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
4013 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
4014 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
4015 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
4016 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
4019 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
4020 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
4021 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
4022 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
4025 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
4026 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
4027 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
4030 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
4031 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
4032 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
4035 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
4036 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
4037 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
4038 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
4041 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
4042 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
4043 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
4045 + update Ada95/configure.
4046 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
4047 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
4048 of updating LIBS variable.
4051 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
4052 work with 64-bit compiles.
4053 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
4057 + regenerated html documentation.
4058 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
4060 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
4061 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
4062 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
4063 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
4066 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
4067 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
4069 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
4070 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
4071 build- and target-machines differ.
4072 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
4073 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
4075 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
4076 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
4079 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
4080 new EINTR feature is enabled.
4081 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
4082 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
4083 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
4084 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
4085 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
4086 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
4087 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
4088 with the standard builds of ncurses.
4089 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
4090 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
4091 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
4092 found in predefined libraries.
4093 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
4096 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
4097 (patch by David Benjamin).
4098 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
4099 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
4100 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
4101 may be defined by that route.
4104 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
4105 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
4106 the predefined include directories.
4107 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
4108 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
4109 where older versions would produce an error.
4112 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
4113 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
4114 terminfo to termcap strings
4115 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
4116 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
4117 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
4118 directory was already added.
4119 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
4120 directories (which will be ignored).
4123 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
4124 + discard motion events
4125 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
4126 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
4127 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
4128 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
4131 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
4132 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
4133 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
4134 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
4135 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
4136 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
4137 extended-colors configuration.
4138 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
4139 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
4140 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
4143 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
4145 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
4146 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
4147 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
4149 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
4150 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
4151 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
4154 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
4155 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
4159 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
4160 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
4161 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
4162 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
4163 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
4164 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
4165 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
4166 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
4167 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
4171 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
4172 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
4173 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
4174 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
4177 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
4179 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
4180 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
4181 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
4184 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
4185 making those separately distributable.
4186 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
4187 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
4191 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
4194 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
4195 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
4196 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
4197 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
4201 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
4202 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
4203 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
4204 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
4207 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
4208 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
4209 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
4210 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
4212 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
4213 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
4214 by Miroslav Lichvar)
4215 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
4219 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
4220 that line-drawing works.
4221 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
4222 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
4223 capabilities can run.
4224 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
4228 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
4229 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
4230 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
4231 before older in the list.
4232 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
4233 + minor documentation cleanup.
4234 + update config.guess, config.sub from
4235 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
4236 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
4239 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
4240 most common case of SGR 0.
4241 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
4242 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
4243 events remain, it will return ERR.
4246 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
4247 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
4248 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
4249 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
4250 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
4253 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
4254 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
4255 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
4258 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
4259 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
4260 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
4261 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
4262 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
4263 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
4266 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
4267 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
4268 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
4269 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
4270 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
4272 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
4274 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
4276 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
4277 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
4278 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
4280 + update config.guess, config.sub from
4281 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
4284 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
4285 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
4287 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
4288 writing terminfo entries.
4289 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
4290 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
4291 by Nicholas Marriott).
4294 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
4296 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
4297 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
4301 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
4302 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
4303 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
4304 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
4305 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
4308 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
4309 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
4310 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
4311 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
4314 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
4315 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
4316 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
4317 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
4318 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4319 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
4320 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
4323 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
4324 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
4325 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
4326 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
4327 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
4328 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
4329 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
4330 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
4331 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
4332 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
4333 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
4336 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
4337 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
4338 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
4339 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
4342 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
4343 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
4346 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
4347 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
4348 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
4352 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
4353 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
4354 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
4355 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
4356 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
4358 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
4359 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
4362 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
4363 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
4364 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
4365 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
4366 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
4367 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
4369 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
4370 library (some work remains for forms library).
4373 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
4374 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
4375 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
4376 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
4378 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
4379 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
4380 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
4381 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
4384 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
4385 by sharing linedata.h functions):
4388 test/test_addchstr.c
4389 test/test_add_wchstr.c
4390 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
4391 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
4392 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
4395 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
4397 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
4398 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
4399 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
4400 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
4404 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
4405 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
4406 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
4407 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4410 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
4411 amd64 (Debian #542031).
4412 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
4415 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4418 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
4419 broken in 20090510 merging.
4420 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
4421 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
4422 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
4423 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
4424 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
4425 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
4426 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
4427 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
4429 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
4432 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
4433 implementation details of hash function.
4436 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
4437 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
4438 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
4441 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
4442 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
4443 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
4444 test/demo_terminfo.c
4445 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4446 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
4449 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
4450 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
4454 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4457 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
4459 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
4460 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
4461 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
4462 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
4463 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
4465 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
4466 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
4467 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
4470 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
4471 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
4472 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
4475 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
4476 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
4478 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4481 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
4482 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
4484 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
4485 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
4489 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
4490 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
4491 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4494 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
4497 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4500 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
4501 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
4502 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
4503 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4506 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4509 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
4510 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
4511 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
4512 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
4516 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4519 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4520 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
4523 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4526 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
4530 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4533 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4534 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
4535 part of the form library.
4538 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
4539 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
4542 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
4543 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
4544 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
4545 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
4546 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
4547 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
4548 a temporary variable.
4549 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
4550 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
4551 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
4552 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
4553 with Charles Wilson).
4554 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
4555 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
4556 > patches by Charles Wilson:
4557 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
4558 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
4559 digits, after the final '.').
4560 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
4561 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
4562 using that in the libtool link-commands.
4563 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
4564 from 20090321 changes.
4565 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
4566 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
4567 termlib) is to be linked.
4568 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
4569 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
4572 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
4573 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
4574 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
4575 (report by Charles Wilson).
4576 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
4577 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
4578 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
4579 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
4580 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
4583 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
4584 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
4585 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
4586 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
4587 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
4589 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
4590 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
4591 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
4592 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
4593 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
4594 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
4595 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
4596 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
4599 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4600 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
4601 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
4604 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4607 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
4609 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
4610 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
4611 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
4612 some internals work is needed to complete these).
4613 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
4616 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
4617 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
4618 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
4619 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
4620 + make it work with $DESTDIR
4621 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
4624 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
4625 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
4627 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
4628 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
4629 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
4632 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
4633 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
4634 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
4635 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
4636 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
4637 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
4638 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
4639 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
4640 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
4643 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
4644 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
4646 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
4648 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
4649 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
4652 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
4654 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
4655 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
4656 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
4657 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
4660 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
4661 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
4662 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
4664 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
4665 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
4668 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
4669 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
4670 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
4671 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
4672 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
4673 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
4675 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
4676 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
4678 + update config.guess, config.sub from
4679 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
4682 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
4683 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
4684 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
4687 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
4688 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
4689 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
4691 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
4692 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
4695 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
4697 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
4698 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
4699 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
4701 + fixes from NetBSD port at
4702 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
4703 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
4704 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
4705 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
4706 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
4708 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
4709 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
4712 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
4713 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
4714 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
4715 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
4716 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
4717 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
4718 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
4719 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
4720 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
4721 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
4722 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
4725 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
4726 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
4727 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
4728 passing color or video attributes.
4729 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
4730 display meta-characters.
4731 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
4732 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
4733 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
4734 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
4738 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
4739 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4740 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
4742 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
4745 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
4747 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
4748 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
4750 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4753 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
4754 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
4755 does not work well on that platform).
4756 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
4759 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
4760 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
4761 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
4763 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
4764 --disable-database is used.
4765 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
4766 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
4767 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
4768 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
4772 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
4773 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
4774 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
4775 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
4776 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
4777 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
4778 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
4782 + regenerated html documentation.
4783 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
4784 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
4785 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
4786 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
4787 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
4788 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
4789 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
4790 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
4793 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
4794 works for C/C++ parts).
4795 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
4796 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
4799 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
4800 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
4801 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
4802 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
4803 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
4804 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
4805 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
4806 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
4807 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
4809 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
4810 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4811 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
4812 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
4813 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
4814 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
4817 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
4818 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
4821 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
4822 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
4823 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
4824 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
4825 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
4826 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
4829 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
4830 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
4833 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
4837 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
4838 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
4839 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
4840 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
4842 + update test/configure script.
4843 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
4844 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
4845 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
4846 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
4847 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
4850 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
4851 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
4853 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
4855 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
4856 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
4857 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
4858 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
4859 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
4860 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
4861 + update config.guess, config.sub from
4862 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
4863 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
4866 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
4867 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
4868 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
4869 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
4870 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
4871 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
4872 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
4873 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
4874 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
4875 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
4876 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
4880 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
4881 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
4882 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
4883 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
4884 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
4886 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
4887 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
4888 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
4889 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
4890 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
4893 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
4894 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
4895 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
4896 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
4897 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
4898 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
4899 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
4902 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
4906 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
4909 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
4912 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
4913 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
4915 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
4916 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
4917 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
4921 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
4922 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
4924 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
4925 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
4926 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
4927 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
4930 + regenerated html documentation.
4931 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
4932 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
4933 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
4934 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
4935 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
4938 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
4939 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
4940 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
4944 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
4945 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
4946 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
4947 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
4948 window which is being used in a wgetch().
4949 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
4952 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
4953 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
4955 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
4956 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
4957 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
4958 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
4959 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
4960 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
4961 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
4962 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
4963 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
4966 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
4967 screen which must be updated.
4968 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
4969 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
4970 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
4974 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
4975 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
4977 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
4978 Emanuele Giaquinta).
4979 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
4980 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
4983 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
4984 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
4985 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
4987 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
4991 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
4992 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
4993 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
4996 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
4997 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
4998 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
4999 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
5002 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
5003 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
5005 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
5007 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
5010 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
5011 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
5012 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
5013 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
5014 python-dev2 mailing list).
5017 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
5018 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
5019 are not associated with a particular screen.
5020 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
5021 stdscr to the callback function.
5022 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
5023 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
5024 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
5025 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
5026 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
5027 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
5028 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
5032 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
5033 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
5034 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
5035 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
5037 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
5038 wide-characters with extended-colors.
5039 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
5040 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
5041 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
5044 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
5045 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
5046 that the 'F' accepts.
5047 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
5048 are working concurrently.
5049 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
5053 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
5054 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
5055 _nc_free_and_exit().
5058 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
5059 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
5062 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
5063 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
5066 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
5067 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open Curses
5068 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
5069 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
5072 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
5073 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
5074 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
5075 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
5076 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
5077 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
5079 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
5080 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
5084 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
5085 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
5086 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
5089 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
5090 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
5091 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
5094 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
5095 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
5096 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
5100 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
5101 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
5102 "link_test" builds properly.
5103 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
5104 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
5105 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
5106 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
5107 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
5108 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
5109 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
5111 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
5114 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
5118 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
5119 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
5122 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
5124 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
5125 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
5126 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
5129 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
5130 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
5131 pierre4d2 comments).
5132 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
5133 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
5134 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
5135 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
5139 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
5140 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
5141 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
5142 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
5143 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
5145 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
5146 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
5147 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
5151 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
5152 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
5155 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
5157 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
5159 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
5163 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
5164 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
5166 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
5167 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
5168 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
5169 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
5170 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
5172 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
5173 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
5176 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
5177 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
5178 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
5179 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
5182 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
5183 calls within the ncurses library.
5184 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
5186 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
5187 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
5188 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
5190 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
5191 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
5192 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
5193 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
5194 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
5197 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
5198 for threaded library (incomplete).
5199 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
5200 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
5204 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
5205 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
5206 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
5207 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
5208 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
5209 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
5210 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
5211 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
5212 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
5215 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
5217 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
5218 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
5221 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
5222 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
5223 "\0" followed by a digit.
5224 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
5225 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
5226 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
5227 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
5228 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
5229 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
5230 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
5231 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
5232 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
5235 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
5236 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
5237 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
5238 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
5239 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
5241 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
5242 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
5243 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
5247 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
5248 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
5249 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
5250 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
5251 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
5252 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
5253 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
5254 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
5255 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
5258 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
5259 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
5260 + add test/test_getstr.c
5261 + add test/test_inwstr.c
5262 + add test/test_instr.c
5265 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
5266 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
5267 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
5271 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
5272 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
5273 ".log" to the name and try again.
5274 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
5275 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
5276 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
5277 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
5278 --disable-echo option is used.
5279 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
5280 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
5281 + update config.guess, config.sub
5284 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
5285 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
5286 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
5290 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
5291 problems with multi-column characters.
5292 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
5293 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
5294 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
5295 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
5296 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
5297 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
5298 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
5301 + add test/demo_panels.c
5302 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
5305 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
5307 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
5308 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
5311 + add test/key_name.c
5312 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
5313 + update test/configure
5314 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
5315 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
5316 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
5320 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
5321 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
5322 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
5323 illustrate how to use mvcur().
5324 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
5325 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
5326 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
5327 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
5328 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
5331 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
5332 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
5333 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
5334 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
5335 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
5336 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
5339 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
5340 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
5342 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
5343 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
5344 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
5345 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
5348 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
5349 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
5350 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
5351 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
5353 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
5355 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
5356 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
5357 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
5358 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
5359 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
5362 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
5363 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
5365 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
5366 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
5367 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
5368 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
5369 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
5370 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
5371 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
5372 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
5373 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
5374 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
5375 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
5378 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
5379 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
5380 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
5381 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
5382 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
5383 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
5384 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
5387 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
5388 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
5389 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
5390 Ada95 tree is not built.
5393 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
5394 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
5395 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
5396 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
5397 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
5398 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
5400 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
5401 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
5402 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
5403 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
5404 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
5405 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
5406 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
5407 > fixes based on Coverity report:
5408 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
5409 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
5410 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
5411 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
5412 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
5413 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
5414 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
5415 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
5416 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
5417 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
5418 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
5420 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
5421 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
5422 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
5423 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
5424 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
5425 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
5426 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
5427 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
5428 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
5431 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
5432 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
5433 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
5434 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
5435 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
5436 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
5437 + improved install-sh's quoting.
5438 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
5442 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
5443 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
5444 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
5445 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
5446 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
5450 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
5451 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
5452 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
5453 in the configure script to an error.
5454 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
5455 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
5456 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
5457 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
5458 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
5460 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
5461 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
5464 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
5465 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
5468 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
5469 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
5471 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
5472 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
5473 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
5474 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
5475 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
5476 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
5477 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
5478 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
5481 + regenerated html documentation.
5482 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
5483 opaque in selected configurations.
5484 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
5485 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
5486 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
5487 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
5488 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
5489 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
5490 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
5491 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
5492 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
5493 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
5494 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
5496 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
5497 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
5500 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
5501 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
5502 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
5503 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
5504 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
5505 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
5506 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
5507 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
5508 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
5509 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
5510 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
5511 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
5514 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
5516 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
5517 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
5518 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
5520 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
5521 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
5522 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
5523 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
5524 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
5525 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
5526 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
5527 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
5529 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
5530 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
5533 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
5534 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
5536 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
5538 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
5539 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
5540 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
5543 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
5544 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
5545 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
5546 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
5548 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
5549 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
5550 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
5551 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
5552 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
5553 no longer relies on it.
5554 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
5555 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
5556 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
5559 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
5560 (report by Rong-En Fan).
5563 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
5564 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
5565 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
5566 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
5567 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
5568 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
5569 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
5570 its license consistent with ncurses.
5571 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
5572 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
5573 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
5576 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
5577 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
5578 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
5579 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
5583 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
5584 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
5585 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
5587 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
5588 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
5591 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
5592 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
5593 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
5596 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
5597 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
5598 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
5599 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
5600 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
5601 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
5602 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
5603 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
5604 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
5605 to manpages as needed.
5606 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
5607 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
5610 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
5611 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
5612 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
5613 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
5614 + update config.guess, config.sub
5616 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5619 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
5620 definitions in <wchar.h>.
5621 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
5622 correct nor portable.
5623 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
5625 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
5626 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
5630 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
5631 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
5632 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
5633 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
5634 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
5635 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
5638 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
5639 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
5640 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
5641 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
5643 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
5644 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
5645 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
5646 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
5647 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
5648 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
5649 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
5650 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
5653 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
5654 database configuration.
5655 + updates for test/configure script.
5656 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
5657 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
5659 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
5660 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
5661 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
5662 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
5664 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
5665 _nc_printf_string().
5666 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
5667 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
5670 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
5671 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
5673 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
5674 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
5678 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
5679 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
5682 + add test/echochar.c
5683 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
5684 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
5687 + add AUTHORS file -TD
5688 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
5689 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
5690 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
5693 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
5694 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
5695 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
5697 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
5698 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
5699 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
5700 for rpath support in versions past 3.
5701 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
5702 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
5703 Ralf S Engelschall).
5704 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
5705 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
5706 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
5707 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
5710 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
5711 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
5712 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
5715 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
5716 and status line (Alain Bench).
5717 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
5718 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
5719 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
5720 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
5723 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
5724 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
5725 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
5726 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvements to "-f" option.
5727 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
5730 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
5731 + updated html documentation.
5732 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
5733 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
5736 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
5737 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
5738 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
5739 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
5740 option (from lynx changes) -TD
5741 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
5742 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
5743 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
5744 by report by Christopher Parker).
5748 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
5749 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
5750 since it does not really do this -TD
5753 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
5754 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
5755 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
5756 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
5759 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
5760 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
5761 embedded into a termcap description.
5762 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
5763 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
5764 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
5765 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
5766 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
5769 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
5771 + add test/foldkeys.c
5774 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
5775 source output (Debian #378783).
5776 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
5777 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
5778 variable is also used (Redhat #199369).
5779 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
5780 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
5781 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
5784 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
5785 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
5786 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
5789 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
5790 or as a text file if those are not available.
5791 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
5792 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
5793 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
5796 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
5797 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
5798 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
5799 + update config.guess, config.sub
5802 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
5803 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
5804 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
5806 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
5807 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
5809 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
5810 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
5811 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
5812 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
5813 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
5814 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
5816 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
5817 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
5818 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
5819 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
5822 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
5823 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
5827 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
5828 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
5830 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
5831 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
5832 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
5833 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
5834 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
5835 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
5838 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
5839 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
5840 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
5841 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
5842 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
5843 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
5844 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
5845 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
5846 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
5847 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
5850 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
5851 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
5852 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
5853 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
5855 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
5858 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
5859 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
5860 + minor copyright fixes.
5861 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
5864 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
5865 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
5866 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
5867 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
5868 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
5869 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
5870 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
5871 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
5873 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
5874 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
5875 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
5876 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
5878 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
5881 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
5882 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
5884 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
5885 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
5886 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
5887 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
5889 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
5890 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
5891 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
5892 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
5895 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
5896 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
5897 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
5898 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
5899 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
5900 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
5901 + update config.guess, config.sub
5902 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
5903 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
5904 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
5905 function is broken in that implementation.
5908 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
5909 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
5912 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
5913 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
5915 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
5916 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
5918 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
5919 reported to implement this feature -TD
5922 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
5923 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
5926 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
5927 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
5928 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
5929 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
5930 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
5931 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
5932 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
5933 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
5936 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
5937 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
5939 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
5940 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
5943 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
5944 (report by Alain Bench).
5945 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
5946 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
5947 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
5948 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
5950 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
5951 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
5952 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
5956 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
5957 and/or video attributes.
5958 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
5959 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
5962 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
5965 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
5966 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
5967 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
5968 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
5969 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
5970 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
5971 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
5972 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
5973 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
5976 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
5977 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
5978 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
5981 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
5982 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
5983 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
5984 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
5985 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
5986 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
5987 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
5988 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
5989 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
5990 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
5993 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
5994 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
5995 rather than delayed.
5996 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
5998 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
5999 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
6000 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
6003 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
6005 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
6006 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
6009 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
6010 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
6013 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
6014 + suppress line-drawing
6015 + implement max_attributes
6017 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
6018 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
6022 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
6023 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
6025 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
6027 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
6028 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
6029 etc., when allocating screens.
6032 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
6033 this in test/filter.c
6034 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
6038 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
6039 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
6040 + add extension nofilter().
6041 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
6042 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
6043 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
6044 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
6045 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
6048 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
6049 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
6050 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
6051 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
6052 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
6053 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
6054 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
6055 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
6056 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
6058 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
6059 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
6060 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
6062 + update config.guess and config.sub
6065 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
6066 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
6067 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
6069 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
6070 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
6071 that was never built in that directory).
6072 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
6075 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
6077 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
6078 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
6082 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
6083 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
6084 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
6085 effect of the different functions.
6086 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
6090 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
6091 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
6093 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
6097 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
6098 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
6099 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
6101 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
6102 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
6106 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
6107 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
6108 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
6110 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
6111 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
6112 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
6115 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
6116 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
6117 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
6120 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
6121 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
6122 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
6124 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
6125 a derived window (Debian #316663).
6128 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
6129 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
6130 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
6131 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
6132 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
6133 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
6134 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
6137 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
6138 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
6139 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
6141 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
6142 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
6143 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
6144 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
6145 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
6147 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
6150 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
6153 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
6154 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
6158 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
6159 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
6160 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
6161 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
6162 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
6164 + update config.guess and config.sub from
6165 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
6168 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
6169 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
6170 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
6171 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
6172 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
6173 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
6174 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
6175 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
6176 default if it is used.
6177 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
6178 --with-abi-version option was used.
6179 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
6180 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
6181 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
6184 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
6185 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
6186 handlers (Debian #326709).
6189 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
6190 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
6192 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
6195 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
6196 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
6197 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
6198 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
6200 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
6201 (report by Frank van Vugt).
6204 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
6205 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
6206 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
6207 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
6208 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
6209 + update llib-l* files.
6212 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
6213 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
6214 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
6215 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
6219 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
6220 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
6221 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
6222 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
6223 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
6224 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
6225 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
6226 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
6227 Konstantin Andreev).
6230 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
6231 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
6232 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
6233 several related cases -TD
6234 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
6235 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
6237 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
6238 resets line-drawing.
6241 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
6243 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
6244 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
6245 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
6246 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
6247 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
6248 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
6251 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
6252 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
6253 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
6255 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
6256 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
6259 + update config.guess and config.sub from
6260 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
6261 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
6262 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
6263 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
6264 "make install.data" step.
6265 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
6266 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
6267 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
6268 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
6269 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
6270 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
6271 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
6272 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
6273 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
6274 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
6275 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
6276 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
6277 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
6278 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
6281 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
6284 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
6285 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
6286 review of Debian package).
6287 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
6288 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
6289 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
6290 install using libtool 1.5.0):
6291 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
6293 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
6294 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
6295 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
6296 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
6297 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
6300 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
6301 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
6302 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
6305 + fixes for termcap support:
6306 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
6307 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
6308 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
6309 extended names data will be freed consistently.
6310 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
6312 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
6313 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
6314 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
6315 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
6318 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
6319 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
6320 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
6321 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
6323 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
6327 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
6329 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
6330 see ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
6333 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
6334 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
6335 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
6336 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
6337 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
6338 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
6339 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
6343 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
6344 shift-, control-cursor keys.
6345 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
6346 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
6347 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
6348 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
6349 it will automatically be treated as a key.
6350 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
6351 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
6352 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
6356 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
6357 + add configure option --enable-largefile
6358 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
6362 + update config.guess, config.sub
6363 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
6364 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
6365 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
6366 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
6367 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
6369 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
6370 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
6371 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
6374 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
6375 position the mouse to a particular item.
6376 + implement test/demo_menus.c
6377 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
6378 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
6379 --enable-const option.
6382 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
6383 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
6384 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
6385 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
6386 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
6387 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
6388 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
6389 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
6390 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
6391 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
6392 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
6395 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
6397 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
6398 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
6401 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
6402 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
6403 anyone used that configuration.
6404 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
6406 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
6407 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
6410 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
6411 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
6412 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
6414 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
6415 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
6416 WenRui, Debian #300512).
6419 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
6420 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
6421 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
6425 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
6426 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
6427 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
6428 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
6429 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
6432 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
6434 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
6436 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
6437 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
6438 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
6441 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
6443 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
6444 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
6445 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
6446 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
6447 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
6448 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
6449 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
6450 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
6451 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
6452 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
6453 right (cf: 20040228).
6454 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
6455 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
6458 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
6459 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
6460 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
6461 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
6462 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
6463 added (Debian #295083).
6464 + add traces to panel library.
6467 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
6468 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
6469 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
6470 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
6471 mouse events in this case.
6472 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
6473 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
6476 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
6477 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
6478 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
6479 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
6480 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
6481 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
6482 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
6483 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
6486 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
6487 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
6488 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
6489 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
6490 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
6491 already been started.
6492 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
6493 pair_content() and color_content().
6494 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
6495 if it corresponds to the default-color.
6496 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
6497 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
6498 color pairs which are allowed.
6499 + add a top-level tags rule.
6502 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
6503 first calling initscr().
6504 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
6505 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
6506 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
6507 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
6508 that are curses-specific.
6509 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
6510 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
6511 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
6512 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
6516 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
6517 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
6518 for leading whitespace.
6519 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
6520 where a following line begins in column 1.
6521 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
6522 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
6525 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
6528 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
6529 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
6530 + update config.guess, config.sub
6531 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
6532 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
6533 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
6534 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
6535 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
6536 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
6537 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
6540 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
6542 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
6543 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
6546 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
6547 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
6548 and attr_set functions.
6551 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
6552 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
6553 forms-demo to be one character short.
6554 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
6555 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
6556 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
6557 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
6560 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
6561 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
6562 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
6563 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
6565 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
6566 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
6569 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
6570 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
6571 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
6572 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
6573 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat #140326).
6574 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
6575 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
6577 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
6578 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
6580 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
6581 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
6584 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
6585 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
6586 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
6587 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
6588 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
6589 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
6590 wide-character configuration.
6593 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
6594 or multicolumn characters.
6597 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
6598 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
6599 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
6600 use_default_colors() be called first.
6603 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
6604 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
6605 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
6606 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
6607 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
6608 must be wrapped to a new line.
6609 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
6610 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
6611 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
6612 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
6613 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
6617 + minor fixes for traces.
6618 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
6619 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
6620 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
6624 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
6625 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
6626 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
6627 and shift-out which seem to work.
6628 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
6629 at runtime (Debian #110586).
6632 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
6633 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
6634 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
6635 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
6639 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
6640 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
6641 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
6642 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
6645 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
6646 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
6647 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
6648 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
6649 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
6650 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
6651 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
6652 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
6653 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
6654 is no longer experimental.
6655 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
6656 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
6659 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
6662 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
6663 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
6664 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
6665 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
6666 using "tic -C" (Redhat #130921).
6667 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
6668 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
6669 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
6672 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
6673 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
6674 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
6675 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
6676 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
6677 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637).
6678 The xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and
6679 the new ones do not require this change. -TD
6682 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
6683 and window managers (Debian #265631).
6684 > terminfo updates -TD
6685 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
6686 with the common usage of bce/ech
6687 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
6691 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
6692 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
6693 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
6694 a help window as well.
6695 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
6696 the -d option is set.
6697 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
6700 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
6702 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
6703 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
6707 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
6708 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
6709 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
6710 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat #122815, patch by
6712 > terminfo updates -TD
6713 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
6714 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
6715 + add function-keys to decansi
6716 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
6717 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
6718 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
6721 > terminfo updates -TD
6722 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
6723 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
6725 + review/update konsole entries
6726 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
6727 + correct tsl string in kterm
6730 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
6733 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
6734 multibyte character.
6735 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
6737 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
6738 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
6739 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
6740 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
6741 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
6742 converting termcap to termcap format.
6743 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
6744 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
6745 > terminfo updates -TD
6746 + minor fixes for emu
6748 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
6753 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
6754 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
6755 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
6756 (report/patch by Tony Li).
6757 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
6758 > terminfo updates -TD
6759 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
6761 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
6762 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
6763 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
6766 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
6767 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
6769 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
6770 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
6771 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
6772 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
6773 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
6774 + update config.guess, config.sub
6775 > terminfo updates -TD
6777 + add xterm-xf86-v44
6778 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
6779 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
6784 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
6785 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
6786 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
6789 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
6790 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
6791 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
6793 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
6797 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
6798 field_buffer() results.
6799 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
6802 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
6804 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
6805 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
6806 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
6807 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
6808 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
6811 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
6812 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
6813 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
6817 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
6818 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
6820 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
6823 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
6824 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
6825 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
6826 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
6827 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
6828 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
6829 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
6830 information without an option.
6831 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
6832 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
6835 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
6838 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
6839 + free some memory leaks in tic.
6840 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
6841 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
6842 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
6843 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
6844 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
6846 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
6849 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
6850 to an unsigned char.
6851 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
6852 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
6855 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
6858 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
6859 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
6860 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
6861 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
6862 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
6863 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
6864 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
6865 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
6866 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
6867 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
6868 20030802 (Debian #237629).
6871 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
6872 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
6873 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
6874 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
6877 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
6879 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
6880 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
6883 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
6884 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
6885 mode is shown in that test.
6886 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
6887 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
6888 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
6891 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
6893 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
6894 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
6895 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
6896 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
6898 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
6899 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
6900 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
6901 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
6904 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
6905 (request by Mike Aubury).
6906 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
6908 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
6910 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
6913 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
6914 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
6915 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
6916 with Stanislav Ievlev).
6917 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
6918 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
6919 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
6920 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
6921 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
6922 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
6924 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
6927 20040207 pre-release
6928 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
6929 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
6930 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
6931 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
6932 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
6934 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
6935 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
6936 verified by Scott Corscadden).
6938 20040131 pre-release
6939 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
6940 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
6941 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
6942 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
6943 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
6944 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
6945 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
6946 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
6947 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
6948 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
6949 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
6951 20040125 pre-release
6952 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
6953 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
6954 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
6955 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
6956 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
6957 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
6958 modifying the displayed value.
6960 20040124 pre-release
6961 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
6962 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
6963 that works better for cross-compiling.
6965 20040117 pre-release
6966 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
6967 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
6968 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
6969 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
6970 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
6971 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
6972 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
6974 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
6975 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
6977 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
6978 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
6979 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
6980 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
6981 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
6982 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
6983 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
6984 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
6985 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
6986 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
6987 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
6988 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
6990 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
6991 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
6992 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
6993 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
6994 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
6995 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
6996 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
6997 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
6999 20040110 pre-release
7000 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
7001 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
7003 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
7004 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
7006 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
7008 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
7009 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
7010 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
7011 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
7012 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
7015 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
7016 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
7017 + add pecho_wchar().
7018 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
7019 available) on older platforms.
7022 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
7023 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
7024 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
7025 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
7026 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
7027 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
7028 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
7029 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
7030 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
7033 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
7034 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
7035 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
7036 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
7037 work with Tru64 4.0d.
7038 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
7042 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
7043 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
7044 applications do not.
7045 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
7046 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
7047 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
7048 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
7049 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
7050 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
7054 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
7055 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
7056 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
7057 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
7058 <inger@altlinux.org>).
7059 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
7060 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
7061 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
7062 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
7063 awkward for some cases.
7064 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
7065 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
7067 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
7068 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
7069 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
7070 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
7071 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
7075 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
7076 values (Philippe Blain).
7077 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
7078 restarting (Philippe Blain).
7079 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
7083 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
7084 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
7085 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
7086 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
7087 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
7088 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
7092 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
7093 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
7094 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
7096 + update config.guess, config.sub
7099 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
7100 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
7101 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
7102 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
7103 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
7104 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
7105 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
7107 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
7108 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
7109 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
7110 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
7111 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
7114 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
7115 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
7116 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
7117 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
7118 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
7119 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
7120 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
7121 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
7123 + regenerated html documentation.
7124 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
7125 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
7126 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
7129 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
7130 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
7131 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
7132 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
7133 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
7134 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
7135 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
7136 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
7140 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
7141 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
7144 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
7145 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
7146 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
7147 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
7149 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
7150 (report by Philippe Blain).
7153 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
7154 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
7155 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
7156 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
7157 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
7158 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
7159 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7160 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
7161 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
7163 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
7165 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
7166 in the clr_bol logic.
7169 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7170 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
7171 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
7172 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
7173 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
7174 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
7175 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
7176 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
7177 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
7178 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
7179 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
7180 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
7183 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
7184 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
7185 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
7186 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
7189 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
7190 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
7191 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
7192 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
7193 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
7194 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
7195 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
7196 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
7197 --with-install-prefix is used.
7200 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7201 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
7202 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
7203 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
7206 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
7207 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
7208 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
7209 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
7210 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
7211 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
7212 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7213 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
7214 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
7217 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
7218 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
7219 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
7220 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
7221 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
7222 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
7223 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
7226 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
7228 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7229 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
7230 the size of the scroll-region.
7231 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
7234 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
7235 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
7236 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
7240 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
7241 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
7242 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
7243 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
7244 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
7246 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
7247 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
7248 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
7249 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
7250 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
7251 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
7252 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
7253 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
7254 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
7255 usage and to prevent circular links.
7256 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
7257 (rxvt-color): new alias
7258 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
7259 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
7260 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
7261 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
7262 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
7263 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
7265 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
7269 + update config.guess, config.sub
7270 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
7271 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
7274 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
7275 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
7276 would not accept gcc warning options.
7277 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
7278 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
7279 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
7280 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
7281 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
7282 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
7283 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
7285 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
7288 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
7289 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
7290 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
7291 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
7292 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
7293 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
7294 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
7295 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
7298 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
7300 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
7301 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
7302 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
7303 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
7306 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
7308 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
7309 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
7310 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
7311 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
7312 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
7313 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
7316 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
7317 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
7318 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
7319 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
7320 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
7321 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
7322 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
7323 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
7325 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
7326 Albert Chin-A-Young).
7327 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
7328 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7331 + regenerated html manpages.
7332 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
7333 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
7335 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
7336 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
7338 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
7339 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
7342 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
7343 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
7344 + add tkterm entry -TD
7345 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
7346 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
7347 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
7348 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
7350 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
7351 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
7352 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
7354 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
7355 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
7356 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
7359 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
7360 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
7361 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
7362 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
7364 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
7365 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
7366 current test programs.
7367 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
7368 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
7369 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
7370 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
7372 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
7373 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
7374 mentioned in the terminfo.
7375 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
7376 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
7379 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
7380 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
7381 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
7382 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
7383 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
7384 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
7385 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
7386 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
7389 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
7390 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
7391 the editing position before making modifications.
7392 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
7393 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
7394 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
7397 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
7398 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
7399 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
7400 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
7402 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
7403 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
7404 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
7405 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
7406 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
7407 terminfo as is done in "screen".
7410 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
7411 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
7412 code, from recent rewrite.
7413 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
7415 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
7416 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
7419 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
7420 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
7421 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
7422 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
7425 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
7426 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
7428 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
7431 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
7433 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
7434 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
7436 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
7437 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
7438 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
7441 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
7442 a file when ^W is given.
7443 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
7447 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
7448 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
7449 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
7450 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
7451 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
7452 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
7453 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
7454 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
7458 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
7459 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
7460 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
7463 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
7464 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
7465 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
7466 baudrate was not known.
7467 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
7468 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
7469 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
7470 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
7471 corresponding capability might be
7473 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
7474 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
7475 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
7476 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
7479 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
7480 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
7481 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
7482 apparently typedef'd.
7483 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
7484 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
7487 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
7488 + updated configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
7489 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
7490 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
7491 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
7492 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
7493 cached for reallocating.
7496 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
7497 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
7498 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
7500 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
7501 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
7502 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
7503 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
7504 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
7505 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
7506 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
7507 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
7510 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
7511 emx-base to the latter -TD
7512 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
7513 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
7516 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
7517 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
7518 attributes, e.g., reverse.
7519 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
7520 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
7523 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
7524 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
7525 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
7526 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
7527 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
7528 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
7529 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
7531 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
7532 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
7533 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
7534 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
7535 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
7538 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
7539 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
7540 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
7541 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
7542 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
7543 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
7545 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7546 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
7547 is indeed a "blank".
7548 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
7549 sections as small as one line.
7550 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
7552 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
7553 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
7554 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
7557 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
7558 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
7561 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
7562 (report by Philippe Blain).
7563 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
7564 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
7565 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
7566 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
7567 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
7569 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
7570 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
7571 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
7572 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7573 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
7574 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
7577 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
7578 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
7580 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
7581 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
7583 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
7584 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
7585 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
7586 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
7589 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
7590 overridden from the environment.
7591 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
7592 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
7593 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
7594 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
7595 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
7596 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
7597 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
7598 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
7599 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
7600 by Sam Varshavchik).
7601 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
7602 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
7603 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
7604 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
7606 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
7607 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
7608 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
7609 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
7610 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
7613 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
7614 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
7615 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
7616 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
7617 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
7618 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
7619 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
7620 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
7621 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
7622 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
7623 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
7624 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
7625 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
7626 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
7627 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
7628 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
7629 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
7630 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
7631 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
7632 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
7633 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
7634 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
7635 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
7638 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
7639 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
7640 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
7641 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
7642 winsch() internal function.
7643 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
7644 more than one spacing character.
7647 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
7648 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
7649 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
7650 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
7651 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
7652 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
7653 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
7654 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
7655 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
7656 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
7659 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
7660 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
7661 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
7662 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
7663 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
7664 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
7665 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
7668 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
7669 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
7670 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
7671 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
7673 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
7674 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
7675 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
7676 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
7677 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
7680 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
7681 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
7682 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
7683 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
7684 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
7685 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
7686 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
7687 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
7688 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
7689 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
7690 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
7691 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
7692 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
7693 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
7694 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
7695 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
7696 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
7699 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
7700 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
7701 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
7702 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
7703 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
7704 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
7705 Frederic L W Meunier).
7707 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7708 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
7709 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
7710 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
7711 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
7712 the debug trace in that case.
7713 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
7714 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
7715 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
7716 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
7718 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
7719 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
7721 20021005 pre-release
7722 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
7723 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
7724 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
7725 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
7726 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
7727 formats such as "%.*s".
7728 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
7729 (report Floyd Davidson).
7730 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
7732 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
7733 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
7734 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
7736 20020928 pre-release
7737 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
7738 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
7739 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
7741 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
7742 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
7743 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
7744 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
7745 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
7746 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
7747 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
7748 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
7749 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
7750 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
7751 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
7752 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
7753 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
7754 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
7755 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
7756 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
7757 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
7758 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
7759 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
7761 20020921 pre-release
7762 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
7763 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
7764 result in core dump.
7765 + documented getbegx(), etc.
7766 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
7767 delimiter rather than '@'.
7768 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7769 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
7770 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
7771 to the lines given for the destination window.
7773 20020914 pre-release
7774 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
7775 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
7776 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
7777 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
7778 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
7779 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
7780 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
7781 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
7782 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7783 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
7784 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
7785 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
7787 20020907 pre-release
7788 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
7789 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
7790 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
7791 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
7792 html manpages on Debian.
7793 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
7794 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
7795 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
7796 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7797 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
7798 a variable from the stack.
7799 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
7801 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
7802 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
7803 _idcok window fields.
7804 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
7806 20020901 pre-release
7807 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
7808 + update config.guess, config.sub
7809 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
7810 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
7812 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
7813 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
7814 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
7815 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
7816 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
7817 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
7818 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
7819 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
7820 use in resizeterm().
7821 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
7822 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
7823 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
7824 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
7825 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7826 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
7827 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
7828 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
7829 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
7830 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
7831 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
7835 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
7836 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
7837 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
7838 + fix an overlooked case for Redhat #68199 (Philippe Blain).
7839 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
7840 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
7843 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
7844 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
7845 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
7847 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
7848 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
7849 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
7850 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
7851 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
7853 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
7854 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
7858 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
7859 when translating to termcap.
7860 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
7861 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
7862 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
7864 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
7866 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
7867 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
7869 + document TABSIZE variable.
7870 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
7871 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
7872 assume_default_colors().
7873 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
7875 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
7876 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
7877 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
7878 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
7879 window (completes Debian #87678, Debian #101699)
7882 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
7884 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
7885 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
7887 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
7888 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
7889 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
7892 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
7894 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
7897 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
7898 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
7899 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
7900 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
7901 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
7902 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
7903 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
7904 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
7905 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
7906 configure definitions.
7907 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
7908 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
7909 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
7910 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
7911 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
7912 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
7913 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
7914 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
7915 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
7916 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
7917 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
7920 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
7921 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
7922 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
7923 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
7924 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
7925 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
7926 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
7928 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
7929 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
7930 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
7931 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7934 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
7935 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
7936 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
7937 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
7939 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
7940 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
7941 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
7944 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
7945 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
7947 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
7948 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
7949 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
7951 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
7952 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
7953 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
7954 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
7956 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
7957 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
7958 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
7959 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
7963 + add charset to generated html.
7964 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
7965 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
7966 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
7967 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
7968 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
7969 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
7973 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
7974 key code in get_wch().
7975 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
7976 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
7977 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
7978 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
7979 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
7980 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
7983 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
7984 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
7986 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
7987 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
7988 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
7989 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
7992 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
7993 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
7994 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
7995 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
7996 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
7997 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
7998 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
7999 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
8000 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
8001 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
8004 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
8008 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
8009 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
8010 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
8011 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
8012 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
8013 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
8014 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
8017 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
8018 character versions as well.
8019 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
8021 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
8023 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
8024 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
8025 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
8026 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
8027 if gettimeofday() is available.
8030 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
8031 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
8034 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
8036 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
8037 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
8038 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
8039 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
8040 + update config.guess, config.sub
8043 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
8044 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
8045 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
8046 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
8047 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
8048 alias for 'function'.
8051 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
8052 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
8056 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
8057 + implement wgetn_wstr().
8058 + implement win_wchnstr().
8059 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
8060 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
8063 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
8064 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
8067 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
8068 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
8071 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
8072 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
8073 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
8075 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
8076 + implement unget_wch().
8077 + implement wget_wch().
8080 + regenerated html manpages.
8081 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
8082 + implement wins_wch().
8083 + implement win_wch().
8084 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
8087 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
8088 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
8091 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
8092 + document wunctrl, key_name.
8093 + implement key_name().
8094 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
8096 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
8100 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
8101 in spurious symlinks on install.
8104 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
8105 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
8106 box() and box_set() functions.
8107 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
8108 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
8109 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
8110 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
8111 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
8112 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
8113 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
8115 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
8117 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
8118 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
8119 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
8120 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
8122 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
8123 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
8126 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
8127 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
8129 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
8133 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
8135 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
8136 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
8137 Albert Chin-A-Young).
8138 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
8139 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
8140 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8141 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
8142 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
8143 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
8144 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
8145 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
8146 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
8147 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
8148 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
8149 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
8152 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
8153 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
8156 + update config.guess, config.sub
8157 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
8158 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
8161 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
8162 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
8163 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
8165 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
8166 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
8168 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
8169 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
8170 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
8171 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
8174 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
8177 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
8178 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
8179 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
8180 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
8181 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
8182 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
8183 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
8184 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
8185 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
8187 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
8188 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
8189 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
8191 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
8193 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
8194 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
8195 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
8196 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
8197 work with SunOS nawk.
8198 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
8200 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
8201 case it uses multiple tokens.
8204 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
8205 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
8206 interrupted by that signal.
8207 + updated configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
8208 not needed with autoconf 2.52
8209 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
8210 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
8212 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
8213 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
8214 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
8215 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
8216 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
8219 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
8221 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
8222 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
8223 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
8224 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
8225 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
8226 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
8227 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
8228 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
8231 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
8232 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
8233 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
8234 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
8235 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
8236 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
8237 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
8238 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
8239 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
8242 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
8243 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
8244 may have different keypad() settings.
8245 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
8246 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
8247 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
8248 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
8249 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
8250 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
8251 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
8252 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
8254 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
8255 + update config.guess, config.sub from
8256 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
8257 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
8261 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
8263 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
8264 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
8265 implementation in cygwin package).
8266 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
8267 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
8269 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
8270 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
8271 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
8272 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
8273 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
8274 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
8275 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
8276 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
8277 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
8279 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
8280 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
8281 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
8282 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
8283 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
8284 <jevans@apple.com>).
8285 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
8286 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
8287 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
8288 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
8289 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
8293 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
8294 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
8295 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
8296 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
8297 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
8298 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
8299 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
8300 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
8301 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
8302 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
8305 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
8308 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
8309 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
8310 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
8311 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
8312 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
8315 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
8316 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
8319 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
8320 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
8321 + implement wecho_wchar()
8322 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
8323 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
8324 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
8326 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
8327 in a trace by using curly braces.
8328 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
8329 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
8330 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
8331 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
8334 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
8335 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
8336 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
8337 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
8338 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
8342 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
8343 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
8344 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
8345 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
8346 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
8347 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
8348 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
8349 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
8353 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
8354 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
8355 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
8356 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
8357 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
8358 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
8359 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
8360 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
8361 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
8364 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
8365 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
8368 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
8369 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
8370 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
8371 <bbraun@synack.net>).
8372 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
8373 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
8375 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
8376 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
8378 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
8379 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
8382 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
8383 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
8384 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
8385 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
8386 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
8388 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
8389 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
8391 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
8392 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
8393 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
8394 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
8395 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
8398 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
8399 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
8401 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
8402 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
8403 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
8404 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
8407 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
8408 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
8409 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
8410 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
8411 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
8415 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
8416 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
8417 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
8419 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
8421 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
8423 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
8425 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
8426 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
8427 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
8428 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
8429 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
8430 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
8431 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
8432 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
8433 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
8437 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
8438 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
8439 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
8440 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
8441 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
8442 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
8443 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
8444 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
8445 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
8446 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
8448 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
8449 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
8450 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8451 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
8452 supports xterm mouse controls.
8453 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
8454 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
8455 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
8456 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
8457 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
8458 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
8459 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
8460 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
8461 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
8462 AX in a color xterm.
8463 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
8467 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
8468 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
8469 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
8470 + added llib-ncursesw.
8473 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
8474 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
8475 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
8476 header files (report by William P Setzer).
8477 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
8478 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
8479 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
8480 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8481 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
8482 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
8483 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
8484 Albert Chin-A-Young).
8485 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
8486 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8487 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
8488 obsolete with QNX RTP.
8489 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
8490 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
8491 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
8492 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
8495 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
8496 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
8497 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
8500 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
8501 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
8502 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
8503 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
8504 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
8505 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
8506 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
8507 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
8508 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
8509 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
8510 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
8511 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
8515 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
8516 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
8517 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
8518 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
8519 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
8520 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
8521 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8524 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
8525 new wide-character structures.
8526 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
8527 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
8528 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
8529 compiling for wide-character configuration.
8530 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
8534 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
8536 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
8537 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
8538 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
8540 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
8541 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
8542 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
8545 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
8546 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
8547 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
8550 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
8551 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
8552 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
8553 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
8554 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
8555 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
8556 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
8559 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
8560 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
8561 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
8562 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
8563 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
8564 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
8565 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
8566 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
8567 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
8570 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
8571 which may be in libutf8.
8572 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
8573 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
8574 links (Debian #99550).
8575 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
8576 C++ vscan code (Debian #97945).
8577 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
8578 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
8579 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
8580 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
8581 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
8582 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
8585 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
8586 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
8589 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
8590 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
8591 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
8592 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
8593 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
8595 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
8596 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
8597 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
8598 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
8599 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
8600 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
8601 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
8602 are used to manipulate attributes.
8603 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
8604 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
8605 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
8606 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
8607 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
8608 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
8610 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
8611 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
8612 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
8613 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
8614 we are using chtype data.
8615 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
8617 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
8619 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
8620 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
8621 where a pointer would be more useful.
8622 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
8623 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
8624 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
8625 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
8626 passing cchar_t's by address.
8627 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
8628 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
8629 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
8630 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
8631 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
8632 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
8633 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
8634 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
8637 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
8638 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
8639 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
8640 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
8641 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
8643 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
8644 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
8645 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
8648 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
8649 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
8650 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
8651 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
8652 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
8653 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
8654 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
8655 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
8656 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
8657 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
8658 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
8659 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
8662 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
8663 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
8664 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
8667 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
8668 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
8671 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
8672 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
8673 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
8674 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
8675 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
8678 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
8679 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
8680 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
8681 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
8682 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
8683 <bsittler@iname.com>).
8684 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
8685 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
8686 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
8687 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
8688 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
8691 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
8692 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
8693 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
8694 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
8695 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
8696 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
8697 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
8698 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
8699 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
8700 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
8701 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
8702 any shots there, but the computer did.
8703 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
8704 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
8708 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
8709 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
8710 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
8711 3.09.08 (Debian #92215).
8712 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
8713 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8716 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
8717 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
8718 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
8719 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
8720 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
8722 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
8724 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
8725 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
8727 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
8729 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
8730 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian #89222).
8733 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
8734 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
8735 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
8736 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
8737 interface from C++ binding.
8738 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
8739 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
8740 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
8741 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
8743 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
8744 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
8745 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
8746 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
8749 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
8750 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
8751 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
8752 (patch by Todd C Miller).
8755 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
8758 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
8762 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
8763 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
8764 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
8765 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
8766 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
8767 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
8768 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
8769 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
8770 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
8771 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
8772 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
8773 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
8776 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
8777 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
8779 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
8780 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
8781 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
8782 did not do this already.
8783 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
8784 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8785 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
8786 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
8787 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
8788 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
8789 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
8790 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
8793 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
8794 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
8797 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
8798 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
8799 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
8800 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
8802 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
8804 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
8805 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
8807 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
8808 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
8809 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
8810 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
8811 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
8814 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
8815 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
8816 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
8817 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
8820 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
8821 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
8822 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
8825 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
8826 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
8827 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
8828 work with 'indent') -TD
8831 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
8832 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
8833 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8834 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
8835 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
8837 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
8838 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
8839 termcap and terminfo functions
8840 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
8844 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
8845 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
8846 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
8847 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
8848 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
8849 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
8851 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
8852 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
8853 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
8854 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
8855 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
8856 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
8857 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
8858 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
8861 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
8862 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
8863 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
8864 /usr rather than /usr/local.
8867 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
8868 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
8869 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
8870 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
8872 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
8873 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
8874 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
8875 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
8876 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
8877 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
8878 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
8879 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
8882 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
8883 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
8884 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
8885 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
8886 + change trace output to binary format.
8887 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
8888 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
8889 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
8890 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
8891 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
8892 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
8893 the overwrite logic.
8896 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
8897 + resync config.guess, config.sub
8898 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
8899 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
8900 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
8901 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
8903 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
8904 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
8907 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
8908 + update generated html files from manpages.
8909 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
8911 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
8912 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
8913 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
8914 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
8915 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8916 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
8917 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
8918 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
8921 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
8922 wrapping at the right margin.
8923 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
8924 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
8925 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
8927 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
8928 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
8929 understands how to run tbl automatically.
8930 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
8931 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
8932 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
8933 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
8934 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
8935 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
8936 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
8937 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
8938 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
8939 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
8940 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
8941 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
8942 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
8943 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
8944 option --with-libtool.
8945 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
8946 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
8947 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
8948 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
8949 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
8952 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
8953 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
8954 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
8955 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
8956 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
8957 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
8958 > patch by Todd C Miller:
8959 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
8960 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
8961 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
8962 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
8963 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
8964 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
8965 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
8966 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
8967 to set up a 3-button mouse.
8968 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
8969 replace select() call.
8972 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
8973 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
8974 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
8975 Albert Chin-A-Young).
8976 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
8977 cursor report before decoding.
8978 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
8979 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
8980 (see assume_default_colors()).
8981 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
8982 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
8984 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
8985 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
8986 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
8988 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
8989 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
8990 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
8991 for that capability.
8992 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
8993 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
8994 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
8995 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
8996 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
8997 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
9000 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
9001 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
9002 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
9003 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
9004 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
9005 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
9006 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
9007 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
9008 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
9010 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
9011 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
9012 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
9013 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
9014 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
9015 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
9016 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
9019 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
9020 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
9021 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
9022 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
9023 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
9025 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
9026 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
9027 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
9028 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
9029 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
9030 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
9031 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
9032 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
9033 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
9034 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
9035 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
9036 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
9037 the expected number of parameters.
9038 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
9039 the option value is indeed a number.
9040 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
9041 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
9042 from the other signals.
9045 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
9046 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
9047 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
9050 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
9051 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
9053 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
9054 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
9055 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
9057 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
9058 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
9059 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
9060 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
9061 character set attribute from the displayed text.
9062 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
9063 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
9064 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
9065 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
9066 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
9067 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
9070 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
9071 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
9072 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
9073 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
9074 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
9075 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
9076 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9077 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
9078 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
9079 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
9081 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
9082 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
9084 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
9085 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
9086 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
9087 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
9088 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
9089 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
9092 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
9093 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
9094 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
9095 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
9096 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
9097 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
9098 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
9099 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
9100 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
9101 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
9102 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
9103 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
9104 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
9105 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
9106 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
9108 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
9109 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
9110 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
9113 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
9114 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
9115 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
9116 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
9118 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
9119 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
9120 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
9121 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
9122 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
9123 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
9124 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
9126 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
9127 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
9128 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
9129 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
9130 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
9131 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
9132 a default program-prefix.
9133 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
9134 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
9137 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
9138 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
9139 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
9140 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
9141 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
9142 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
9143 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
9144 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
9145 although the name is misleading).
9146 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
9147 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
9148 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
9149 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
9152 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
9153 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
9154 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
9156 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
9157 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
9159 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
9160 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
9161 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
9163 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
9164 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
9165 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
9166 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
9167 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
9168 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
9169 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
9170 test/configure script.
9171 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
9172 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
9173 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
9176 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
9179 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
9180 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
9181 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
9182 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
9183 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
9185 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
9186 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
9187 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
9189 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
9190 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
9193 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
9194 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9195 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
9196 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
9197 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
9198 there's still the explicit configure option).
9199 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
9200 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
9201 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
9202 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
9203 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
9204 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
9205 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
9206 simplify working around implementations that define random
9207 combinations of the related macros to zero.
9208 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
9209 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
9210 > patches by Bruno Haible:
9211 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
9212 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
9213 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
9214 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
9218 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
9219 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
9220 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
9221 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
9222 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
9223 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
9224 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
9225 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
9226 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
9227 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
9228 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
9229 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
9230 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
9231 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
9234 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
9235 + document configure options in INSTALL.
9236 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
9237 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
9238 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
9239 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
9240 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
9241 list of generated functions.
9242 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
9243 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
9244 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
9246 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
9247 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
9248 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
9249 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
9250 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
9252 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
9253 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
9254 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
9255 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
9256 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
9257 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
9258 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
9259 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
9260 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
9261 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
9262 examples cited in announce.html
9263 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
9264 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
9265 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
9266 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
9267 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
9268 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
9269 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
9270 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
9273 20000701 pre-release
9274 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
9275 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
9276 $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
9277 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
9278 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
9279 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
9281 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
9283 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
9285 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
9286 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
9287 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
9288 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
9289 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
9291 20000624 pre-release
9292 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
9293 that happen to render the same display colors.
9294 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
9295 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
9296 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
9297 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
9298 normalized value for cursor_address.
9299 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
9302 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
9303 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
9304 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
9305 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
9306 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
9307 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
9308 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
9309 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
9310 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
9311 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
9312 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
9313 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
9314 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
9318 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
9319 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
9320 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
9321 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
9322 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
9323 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
9324 allows larger symbol tables.
9325 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
9326 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
9327 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
9328 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
9332 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
9333 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
9334 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
9335 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
9336 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
9337 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
9338 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
9339 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
9340 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
9341 + add a "make libs" rule.
9342 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
9343 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
9344 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
9345 with existing ncurses libraries.
9348 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
9349 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
9350 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
9351 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
9352 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
9353 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
9354 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
9355 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
9356 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
9357 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
9358 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
9359 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
9360 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
9361 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
9364 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
9365 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
9366 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
9367 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
9371 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
9372 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
9374 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
9375 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
9376 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
9379 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
9380 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
9381 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
9382 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
9383 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
9385 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
9386 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
9387 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
9388 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
9389 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
9390 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
9391 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
9392 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
9395 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
9397 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
9398 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
9399 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
9400 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
9401 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
9402 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
9403 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
9404 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
9405 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
9406 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
9407 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
9408 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
9411 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
9412 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
9413 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
9414 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
9415 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9416 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
9417 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
9418 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
9419 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
9420 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
9421 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
9422 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
9423 means that it will not recur for that special case.
9424 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
9425 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
9426 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
9427 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9430 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
9431 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
9432 bg300-rv in esr's version.
9433 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
9434 (fixes Debian #61088).
9435 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
9436 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
9437 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
9440 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
9441 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
9442 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
9443 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
9444 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
9447 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
9448 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
9449 improvement in setting default colors.
9450 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
9451 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
9452 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
9454 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
9455 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
9456 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
9457 check for buffer overflow.
9458 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
9459 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
9460 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
9461 such as "infocmp -Fa".
9464 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
9465 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
9466 is not permitted in termcap.
9467 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
9468 integrating 20000318.
9471 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
9472 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
9473 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
9474 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
9476 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
9477 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
9478 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
9479 result for OS/2 EMX.
9480 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
9481 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
9482 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
9483 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
9484 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
9485 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
9488 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
9489 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
9490 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
9492 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
9493 displaying string capabilities.
9494 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
9495 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
9496 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
9497 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
9498 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
9499 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
9501 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
9502 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
9504 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
9505 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
9506 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
9507 may not produce the same result as before.
9508 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
9510 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
9511 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
9513 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
9514 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
9516 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
9517 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9518 + drop support for gnat 3.10
9519 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
9520 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
9523 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
9524 made it check only one entry at a time.
9525 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
9527 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
9528 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
9529 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
9530 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
9531 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
9532 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
9533 address out of bounds.
9534 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
9535 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
9536 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
9537 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
9539 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
9540 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
9541 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
9543 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
9546 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
9547 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
9548 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
9549 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
9551 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
9552 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
9553 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
9554 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
9555 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
9556 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
9558 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
9559 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
9560 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
9561 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
9562 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
9563 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
9564 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
9565 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
9568 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
9569 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9570 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
9571 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
9572 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
9573 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
9577 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
9578 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
9579 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
9580 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
9581 colors are white on black.
9582 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
9583 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
9584 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
9585 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
9586 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
9589 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
9590 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
9591 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
9592 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
9593 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
9594 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
9595 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
9596 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
9597 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
9598 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
9599 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
9602 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
9603 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
9604 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
9605 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
9606 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
9607 to wait indefinitely.
9610 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
9611 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
9612 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
9613 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
9614 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
9615 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
9616 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
9617 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
9618 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
9619 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9620 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
9621 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
9625 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
9626 programs build with c++/g++.
9627 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
9628 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
9629 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
9630 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
9631 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
9632 + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and
9633 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
9634 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
9637 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
9639 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
9640 terminfo entries -TD
9641 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
9642 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
9643 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
9644 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
9646 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
9647 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
9649 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
9651 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
9652 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
9653 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
9654 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
9655 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
9656 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
9657 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
9658 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
9659 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
9663 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
9664 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
9665 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
9666 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
9667 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
9668 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
9669 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
9670 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
9671 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
9672 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
9673 use_extended_names().
9676 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
9677 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
9678 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
9679 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
9680 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
9681 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
9682 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
9683 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
9684 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
9685 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
9686 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
9687 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
9688 + add manpage for infotocap
9691 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
9692 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
9693 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
9694 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
9696 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
9697 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
9698 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
9699 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
9700 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
9701 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
9702 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
9703 initc for xterm-88color.
9704 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
9708 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
9709 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
9711 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
9712 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
9713 SP, since it is part of that struct.
9714 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
9716 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
9717 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
9718 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
9719 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
9720 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
9721 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
9722 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
9723 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
9724 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
9726 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
9727 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
9728 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9729 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
9731 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
9734 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
9735 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
9736 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
9737 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
9738 over the use of default colors.
9739 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
9740 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
9741 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
9742 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
9743 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
9744 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
9745 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
9746 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
9749 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
9750 <robert@progplus.com>)
9751 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
9752 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
9753 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
9756 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
9757 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
9758 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
9760 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
9761 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
9762 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
9763 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
9764 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
9765 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
9766 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
9767 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
9768 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
9769 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
9770 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
9771 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
9773 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
9774 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
9777 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
9778 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
9780 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
9781 (request by Bob van der Poel).
9782 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
9783 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
9784 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
9785 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
9786 libraries by default.
9787 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
9789 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
9790 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
9792 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
9793 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
9794 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
9795 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
9796 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
9797 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
9798 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
9800 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
9802 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
9803 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
9804 advice from Bela Lubkin).
9805 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
9806 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9807 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
9808 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
9809 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
9810 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
9813 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
9816 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
9817 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
9818 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
9819 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
9820 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
9821 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
9822 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
9823 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
9824 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
9825 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
9828 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
9829 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
9830 Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9831 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
9832 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
9833 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
9835 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
9836 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
9837 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
9838 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
9839 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
9840 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
9841 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
9842 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
9843 is used), and in color.
9844 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
9845 shared library rules.
9848 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
9849 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
9850 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
9851 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
9852 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
9853 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
9854 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
9855 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
9856 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
9857 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
9858 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
9859 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
9860 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
9861 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
9862 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
9863 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
9864 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9867 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
9868 <j@interface-business.de>).
9869 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
9870 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
9871 that hard-links work on Unix again.
9872 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
9873 Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
9874 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
9877 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
9878 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
9879 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
9880 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
9881 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
9882 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
9883 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
9884 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
9885 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
9886 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
9887 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
9888 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
9889 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
9892 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
9893 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
9894 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
9895 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
9896 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
9897 in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
9898 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
9899 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
9900 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
9901 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
9902 function works only for sockets.
9903 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
9904 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
9905 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
9906 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
9907 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
9908 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
9909 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
9910 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
9911 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
9912 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
9915 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
9916 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
9917 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
9918 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
9919 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
9920 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
9921 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
9924 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
9925 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
9926 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
9928 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
9929 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
9930 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
9931 nonfunctional link().
9932 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
9933 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
9936 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
9937 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
9938 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
9941 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
9942 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
9943 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
9944 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
9945 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
9946 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
9947 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9948 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
9949 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
9950 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
9951 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
9952 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
9953 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
9954 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
9955 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
9956 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
9957 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
9958 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
9959 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
9960 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
9963 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
9964 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
9965 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
9966 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
9967 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
9968 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
9969 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
9970 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
9971 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
9972 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
9973 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
9974 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
9975 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
9976 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
9977 short-circuit expression evaluation.
9978 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
9979 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
9981 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
9982 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
9983 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
9984 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
9985 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
9989 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
9990 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
9992 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
9993 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
9994 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
9997 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
9998 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
9999 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
10000 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
10001 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
10002 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
10003 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
10004 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
10006 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
10007 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
10008 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10011 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
10012 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
10013 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
10014 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
10015 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
10016 --with-rcs-ids option.
10019 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
10020 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
10022 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
10023 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
10024 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
10028 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
10029 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
10030 BeOS predefines a bool type.
10031 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
10032 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
10033 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
10034 option to infocmp -TD
10035 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10036 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
10037 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
10038 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
10039 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
10040 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
10041 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
10044 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10045 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
10046 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
10047 + change interface version-number to 1.0
10048 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
10051 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
10052 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
10053 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
10054 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
10055 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
10056 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
10057 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
10058 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
10059 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
10060 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
10062 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
10063 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (prompted by
10064 discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
10067 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
10068 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
10069 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
10071 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
10072 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
10075 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
10076 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10077 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
10078 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
10079 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
10082 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
10086 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
10087 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
10088 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
10089 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
10090 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
10092 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
10093 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
10094 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
10095 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
10098 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
10099 fields, and showing forms within panels.
10100 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
10101 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
10102 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
10103 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
10104 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
10105 ownership may change).
10108 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
10110 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
10111 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
10112 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10113 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
10114 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
10115 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
10116 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
10118 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
10119 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
10120 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
10121 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
10122 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
10123 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
10126 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
10127 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
10129 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
10130 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
10131 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
10132 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10135 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
10136 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
10137 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
10138 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
10139 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
10140 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
10144 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
10145 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10146 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
10147 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
10148 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
10149 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
10150 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
10151 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
10154 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
10155 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
10156 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
10157 Alexander V Lukyanov).
10160 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
10161 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
10164 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the "-g" option.
10165 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
10166 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
10167 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
10168 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10169 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
10170 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
10171 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
10172 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
10173 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
10174 reset for the next newterm.
10175 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
10176 terminal has true SLKs.
10177 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
10180 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
10181 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
10182 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
10183 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
10184 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
10185 read of the extended capabilities.
10186 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
10187 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
10188 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
10189 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
10190 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
10191 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
10192 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
10193 throughout ncurses library.
10194 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
10195 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
10197 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
10198 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
10199 + regenerate some of the html documentation
10200 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
10203 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
10204 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
10205 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
10206 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD
10207 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
10209 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
10211 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
10212 defined for a keycode.
10213 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
10214 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
10215 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
10216 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
10217 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
10219 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10220 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
10221 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
10222 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
10223 no longer required.
10224 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
10225 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
10227 + modify configuration scripts to
10228 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
10229 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
10230 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
10231 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
10232 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
10233 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
10234 + rename ada_include directory to src.
10237 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
10238 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
10239 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
10243 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
10244 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
10245 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
10246 though the problem is more general.
10247 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
10248 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
10249 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
10250 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
10252 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
10253 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
10254 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
10257 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
10258 Alexander V Lukyanov).
10259 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
10260 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
10261 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
10262 operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10263 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
10264 be any substring rather than the prefix.
10265 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
10266 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
10267 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
10268 has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
10269 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
10270 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
10271 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
10272 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
10273 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
10274 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
10275 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
10276 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
10277 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
10278 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
10279 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
10280 --with-shlib-version option.
10283 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
10284 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
10285 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
10286 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
10287 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
10288 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
10289 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
10290 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
10291 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
10292 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
10293 intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
10294 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
10295 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
10296 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
10297 source distribution.
10300 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
10301 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
10302 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
10304 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
10305 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
10306 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
10307 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
10308 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
10311 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
10314 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
10315 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
10316 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
10317 Alexander V Lukyanov).
10318 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
10319 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
10320 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
10321 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
10322 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10323 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
10324 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
10325 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
10326 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
10327 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
10329 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
10330 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
10331 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
10332 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
10335 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
10337 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
10338 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
10339 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
10340 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
10341 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
10342 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
10343 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
10344 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
10345 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
10346 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
10347 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
10348 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
10349 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
10350 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
10351 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
10352 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
10353 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
10357 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
10358 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
10359 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
10360 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
10361 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
10362 running screen built with ncurses.
10363 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
10364 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
10365 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
10368 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
10371 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
10372 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
10373 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
10374 by a Debian bug report).
10375 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
10376 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
10378 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
10379 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
10380 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
10381 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
10385 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
10386 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
10387 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
10388 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
10389 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
10390 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
10391 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
10392 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
10393 (reported by H.J.Lu).
10396 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
10397 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
10398 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
10399 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
10400 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
10401 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
10402 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
10403 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
10404 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
10405 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
10406 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
10407 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
10409 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
10410 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
10412 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
10414 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
10416 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
10417 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
10421 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
10422 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
10423 address rather than its length.
10424 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
10425 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
10426 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
10427 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
10428 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
10429 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
10430 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
10431 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
10432 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
10433 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
10436 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
10437 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
10439 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
10440 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
10441 for an older version of ncurses.
10442 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
10443 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
10444 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
10445 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
10446 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
10447 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
10448 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
10449 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
10450 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
10451 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
10452 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
10453 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
10455 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
10456 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
10459 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
10460 (request by Larry Virden).
10461 > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
10462 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
10463 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
10464 changes to ncurses library.
10465 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
10466 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
10467 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
10468 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
10469 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
10470 + some Ada95 cosmetics
10471 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
10472 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
10473 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
10476 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
10477 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
10478 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
10479 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
10480 proposed changes to ncurses library.
10481 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
10482 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
10483 broken configure scripts.
10486 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
10488 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
10489 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
10490 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
10492 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
10493 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
10497 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
10498 with --srcdir option.
10499 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
10500 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
10501 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
10502 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
10503 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
10504 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10507 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
10508 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
10509 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
10511 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
10512 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
10513 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
10514 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
10515 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
10516 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
10517 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
10518 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
10521 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
10522 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10525 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
10526 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
10527 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
10528 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
10529 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
10530 some older entries - TD
10531 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
10532 since that is a little more efficient.
10533 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
10534 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
10535 + add "-g" option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
10536 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
10537 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
10538 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
10540 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
10542 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
10543 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
10545 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
10546 + use format string for printing strings.
10547 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
10550 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
10551 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
10552 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
10553 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
10554 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
10555 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
10556 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
10557 > patches by Todd C Miller:
10558 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
10559 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
10560 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
10561 dealing with env variables again.
10562 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
10563 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
10564 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
10565 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
10566 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
10567 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
10568 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
10569 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
10570 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
10571 newhash data to SP struct.
10572 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
10573 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
10574 function's parameter which is deleted.
10575 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
10576 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
10577 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
10578 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
10582 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
10583 consistent treatment.
10584 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
10585 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
10586 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
10587 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
10590 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
10591 capability name, as in SVr4.
10592 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
10593 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
10594 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
10597 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
10598 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
10599 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
10600 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
10601 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
10602 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
10603 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
10604 > from esr's terminfo version:
10605 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
10606 + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
10607 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
10610 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
10611 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
10612 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
10613 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
10614 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
10615 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
10616 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
10617 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
10618 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
10619 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
10623 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
10624 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
10625 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
10626 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
10627 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
10630 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
10631 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
10635 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
10636 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
10637 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
10638 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
10639 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
10640 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
10641 as obtained via ioctl.
10644 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
10645 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
10646 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
10647 turning attributes off.
10648 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
10649 initializing multiple screens.
10650 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
10651 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
10652 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
10655 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
10656 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
10657 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
10658 with Solaris curses).
10659 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
10660 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
10661 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
10662 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
10663 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
10664 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
10665 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
10666 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
10669 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
10670 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
10671 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
10672 (request by QingLong).
10673 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
10674 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
10675 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
10676 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
10678 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
10679 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
10680 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
10681 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
10682 otherwise simply exit with an error.
10685 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
10686 "_g" for a debug build).
10687 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
10688 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
10689 compile/link working Ada95 program.
10690 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
10691 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
10692 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
10693 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
10694 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
10695 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
10699 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
10700 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
10701 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
10702 corresponds to vt100.
10703 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
10704 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
10707 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
10708 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
10709 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
10710 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
10711 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
10712 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
10713 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
10714 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
10715 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
10716 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10719 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
10720 several minor errors/omissions.
10721 + implement tparm %l format.
10722 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
10724 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
10727 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
10728 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
10729 to be written to large screens.
10730 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
10731 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
10732 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
10733 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
10734 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
10736 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
10737 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10738 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
10739 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
10742 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
10744 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
10746 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
10747 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
10748 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
10749 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
10750 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
10751 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
10752 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
10754 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
10755 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
10757 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
10760 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
10761 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
10762 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
10763 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
10764 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
10765 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
10766 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
10767 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
10768 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
10769 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
10772 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
10773 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10774 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty
10775 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
10776 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
10777 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
10778 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
10779 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
10780 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
10781 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
10782 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
10783 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
10784 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
10787 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
10788 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
10789 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
10790 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
10791 which contains a colon in the description field.
10792 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
10793 from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
10794 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
10796 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
10797 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
10800 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
10801 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
10802 color pair numbers.
10803 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
10804 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
10805 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
10806 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
10807 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
10808 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
10809 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
10810 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
10811 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
10812 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
10813 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
10814 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
10815 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
10816 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
10817 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
10818 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
10819 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
10820 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
10821 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
10822 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
10823 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
10824 comparisons out of inner loop.
10827 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
10828 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
10829 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
10830 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
10831 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
10832 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
10833 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
10834 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
10835 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
10837 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
10838 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
10839 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
10842 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
10843 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
10844 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
10845 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
10846 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
10847 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
10848 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
10849 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
10850 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
10851 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
10854 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
10855 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
10856 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
10857 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
10859 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
10860 avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
10861 by Juergen Pfeifer).
10864 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
10865 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
10868 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
10869 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
10870 uses them when they are available.
10871 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
10872 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
10873 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
10874 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
10876 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
10879 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
10880 declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
10881 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
10882 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
10884 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10885 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
10886 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
10887 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
10888 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
10889 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
10890 use --disable-overwrite).
10891 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
10892 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
10893 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
10894 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
10895 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
10896 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
10897 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
10898 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
10899 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
10903 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
10904 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10905 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
10906 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
10907 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
10908 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
10909 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
10910 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
10912 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
10913 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
10914 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
10915 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
10917 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
10918 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
10919 parameter according to XSI.
10920 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
10921 reflect above enhancements.
10924 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
10925 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
10926 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
10927 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
10929 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
10931 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
10933 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
10934 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
10935 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
10938 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
10939 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
10940 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10941 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
10942 <claesg@algonet.se>).
10943 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
10944 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
10947 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
10948 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
10949 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
10951 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
10952 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
10953 by Florian La Roche).
10954 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
10955 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
10956 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
10957 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10960 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
10961 distributions, though it is retained in development.
10962 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
10964 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
10965 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
10966 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
10967 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
10968 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
10971 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
10973 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
10974 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
10975 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
10976 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
10977 This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
10978 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
10980 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
10981 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
10982 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
10984 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
10985 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
10986 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
10989 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
10990 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
10992 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
10993 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
10995 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
10997 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
10999 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
11001 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
11002 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
11003 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
11004 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
11005 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
11007 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
11008 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
11010 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
11011 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
11012 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
11013 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
11014 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
11015 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
11016 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
11017 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
11018 turn off attributes inconsistently.
11021 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
11022 test for no_color_video.
11023 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
11025 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
11026 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
11027 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
11028 <brett@xylan.com>).
11029 > from reports by Fred Fish:
11030 + add configure-test for isascii
11031 + add configure-test for -lm library.
11032 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
11033 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
11034 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
11035 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
11036 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
11037 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
11038 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
11040 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
11041 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
11043 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
11044 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
11045 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
11046 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
11047 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
11050 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
11051 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
11053 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
11055 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
11056 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
11057 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
11059 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
11060 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
11062 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
11064 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
11065 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
11066 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
11067 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11068 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
11069 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
11070 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11071 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
11072 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
11073 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
11074 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
11075 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
11076 fields are also always inactive.
11077 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
11078 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
11081 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
11082 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
11083 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
11084 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
11085 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
11086 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
11087 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
11088 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
11089 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
11092 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
11093 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
11094 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
11095 defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
11096 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
11098 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
11099 Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
11100 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
11101 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
11102 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
11103 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
11104 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
11105 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
11106 cross-platform compatibility.
11107 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
11108 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
11109 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11110 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
11112 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
11116 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
11117 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
11118 EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
11119 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
11120 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
11121 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
11122 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
11123 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
11124 that simply cannot scroll.
11125 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
11126 embedded \200 characters are matched.
11127 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
11131 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
11132 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
11133 functions from the build.
11134 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
11135 functions as a separate library.
11136 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
11137 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
11138 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
11139 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
11140 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
11141 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
11142 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
11143 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
11144 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
11146 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11147 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
11148 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
11151 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
11152 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
11154 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
11155 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
11156 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
11157 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
11160 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
11161 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
11162 + add configure check for 'tack'.
11163 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
11164 for Debian configuration.
11165 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
11167 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
11168 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
11170 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
11171 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
11172 case of wide characters in chtype.
11173 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
11174 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
11175 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
11178 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
11179 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
11180 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
11181 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
11182 have set root's umask to 077.
11183 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
11184 end of output when they had embedded comments.
11185 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
11186 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
11187 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
11188 correct logic for handling backslashes.
11189 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
11190 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
11191 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
11192 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
11193 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
11194 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
11196 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11197 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
11199 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
11200 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
11202 + resync of the html version of the manpages
11205 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
11206 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
11208 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
11209 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
11210 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
11211 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
11212 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11213 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
11214 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
11215 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
11219 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
11221 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
11222 comments from Daniel Weaver.
11223 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
11224 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
11225 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
11226 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
11228 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
11229 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
11230 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
11232 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
11233 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
11236 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
11240 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
11241 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
11242 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
11243 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
11244 in call to delay_output().
11245 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
11246 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
11247 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
11248 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
11249 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
11251 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
11252 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
11253 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
11254 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
11255 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
11256 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
11257 so that will work on NeXT.
11258 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
11259 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
11262 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
11264 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
11266 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
11267 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
11268 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
11269 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
11270 when that feature is not configured.
11271 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
11272 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
11273 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
11274 (this dates back to 951102 in 1.9.7a).
11275 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
11276 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
11277 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
11278 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
11281 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
11283 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
11284 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
11286 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
11288 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
11289 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
11292 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
11293 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
11294 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
11295 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
11296 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
11297 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
11298 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
11299 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
11300 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
11302 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
11303 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
11304 tputs() if called from that function.
11305 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
11306 tputs works when SP is not set.
11307 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11308 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
11309 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
11310 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation
11311 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
11312 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
11315 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
11316 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
11317 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
11318 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
11319 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
11320 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
11321 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
11322 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
11323 _nc_update_screensize().
11324 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
11326 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
11327 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
11328 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
11329 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11330 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
11331 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11332 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
11333 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
11334 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
11335 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
11337 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
11341 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
11342 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
11343 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
11345 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
11346 click-interval without modifying it.
11347 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
11348 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
11350 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
11351 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
11352 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
11353 other ncurses headers.
11354 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
11355 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
11356 (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
11357 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
11358 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
11359 characters output in delay_output().
11360 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
11361 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
11362 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
11363 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11364 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
11366 + typo in configure --help.
11367 > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
11368 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
11369 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
11370 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
11373 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11374 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
11377 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
11378 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
11379 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
11380 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
11381 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
11383 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
11384 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
11385 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
11386 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
11387 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
11388 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
11389 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
11390 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
11391 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
11392 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
11393 form (sorted, unique mapping).
11394 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
11395 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
11396 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11397 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
11398 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11399 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11400 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
11401 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
11402 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
11403 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
11404 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
11405 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
11406 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11407 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
11408 NCursesPanel class.
11409 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
11410 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
11411 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
11412 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
11413 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
11414 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
11418 + add 'deinstall' rules.
11419 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
11420 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
11421 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
11422 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
11423 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
11424 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
11426 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
11427 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11428 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
11430 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
11431 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
11432 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
11433 scripts are also provided.
11436 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
11438 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
11439 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
11440 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
11441 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
11442 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
11443 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
11444 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
11445 generating lint library.
11446 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
11448 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
11449 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
11450 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
11451 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
11452 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
11453 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
11454 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
11455 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
11456 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
11457 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
11459 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11460 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
11462 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
11464 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
11465 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
11466 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
11467 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
11468 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
11469 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
11470 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11471 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
11472 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
11476 + modify rain.c to use color.
11477 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
11478 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
11479 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
11480 of configure cache variables in 970906.
11481 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
11482 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
11483 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
11484 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
11485 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
11486 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
11487 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
11488 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
11489 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
11490 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11491 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
11493 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
11494 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
11495 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
11496 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
11497 NCursesPanel class.
11498 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
11499 NCursesWindow class.
11500 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
11501 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
11502 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
11503 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
11505 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
11506 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
11507 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
11508 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
11509 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
11510 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
11512 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
11513 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
11514 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
11515 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
11516 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
11517 already disconnected.
11518 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
11519 navigation requests.
11520 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
11521 case-insensitiva comparision routine.
11522 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
11523 forms field by index.
11524 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
11526 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
11527 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
11528 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
11529 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
11530 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
11531 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
11532 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
11533 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
11534 move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
11536 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
11537 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
11538 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
11540 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
11541 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11542 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
11543 know that auto_right_margin is true.
11544 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
11545 shifting character to LR corner.
11546 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
11547 terminal right margin mode is known.
11548 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
11549 _nc_scroll_window().
11550 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
11551 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
11553 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
11554 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
11555 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
11556 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
11558 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
11559 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
11560 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
11561 the terminal window is resized.
11564 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
11565 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
11566 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
11567 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
11568 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
11569 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
11570 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
11571 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
11572 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11573 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
11574 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
11576 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
11577 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
11578 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
11580 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
11581 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
11583 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
11587 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
11588 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
11589 lib_printw.c functions.
11590 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
11591 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
11592 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
11593 force the screen to scroll.
11596 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
11598 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
11600 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
11601 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
11603 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
11604 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
11605 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11606 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
11607 was in the wrong order.
11608 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
11610 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
11612 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
11613 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
11614 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
11615 invoke wechochar() instead.
11616 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
11619 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
11620 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
11621 work properly when we add calls to that function.
11622 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
11623 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
11624 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11625 + several fixes to getch:
11626 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
11627 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
11628 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
11629 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
11631 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
11632 6. correctly handle the case of receiption of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
11633 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
11634 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
11635 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
11637 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
11638 line-breakout optimization
11639 + improve hashmap.c by
11640 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
11641 2. not marking lines with offset 0
11642 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
11643 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
11644 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
11645 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
11647 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
11648 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
11649 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
11650 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
11652 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
11654 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
11655 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
11656 stored/retrieved via set_term().
11657 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
11661 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
11662 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
11663 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
11665 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
11666 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
11667 before looking for (n)curses library.
11668 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
11669 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
11670 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
11671 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
11672 include ncurses_cfg.h
11673 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
11674 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
11675 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11676 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
11677 example firstlast.c
11678 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
11679 common subexpressions.
11680 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
11681 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
11682 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
11683 against the background character.
11684 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
11685 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
11686 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
11687 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
11688 > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
11689 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
11690 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
11691 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
11692 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
11695 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
11696 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
11697 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
11698 terminal type ncr7900).
11699 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
11700 package is built with an install-prefix.
11701 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
11702 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
11703 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
11704 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
11705 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
11706 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
11707 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
11708 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
11709 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
11710 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11711 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
11712 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
11713 by Juergen Pfeifer).
11716 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
11717 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
11718 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
11719 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
11720 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
11721 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
11722 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
11723 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
11724 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
11725 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
11726 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
11729 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
11730 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
11731 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
11732 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
11733 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
11734 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
11735 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
11736 configuration of wide-characters.
11737 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
11738 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
11739 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
11740 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
11741 does not have getttynam().
11742 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
11743 + add table entries for B230400 and B460800 to baudrate() function.
11744 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
11745 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11746 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
11747 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11748 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
11749 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
11750 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
11751 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
11752 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
11756 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
11757 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11758 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
11759 options should be accompanied by a message.
11760 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
11761 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
11763 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
11765 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11766 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
11767 better when csr is not available.
11768 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
11769 after failure to scroll one.
11770 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
11771 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
11772 case and wrong string in TRACE.
11773 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11774 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
11778 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
11779 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
11781 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
11782 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
11783 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
11784 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
11785 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
11788 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
11789 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
11790 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
11792 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
11795 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
11796 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
11797 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
11798 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
11799 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
11800 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
11801 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
11802 (reported by Larry Virden).
11803 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
11804 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
11806 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11807 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
11808 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
11809 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
11813 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
11814 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
11815 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
11816 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
11817 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
11819 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
11820 terminfo description to the stored strings.
11821 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
11822 terminfo descriptions.
11823 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
11824 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
11825 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
11826 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
11827 option is a stopgap.
11828 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
11829 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
11832 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
11833 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
11834 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
11835 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
11836 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
11837 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
11841 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
11842 lines in curscr that are shifted.
11843 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
11844 than a series of function calls.
11845 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
11846 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
11847 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
11848 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
11849 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
11850 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
11851 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
11852 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11853 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11856 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
11857 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
11858 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
11859 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
11860 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
11861 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
11862 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
11863 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
11864 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
11865 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
11866 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
11867 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
11868 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
11869 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
11870 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11871 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
11872 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11873 + improve threshhold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
11874 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11877 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
11878 use only the fallback data.
11879 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
11880 terminal descriptions.
11881 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
11882 still assume there's an ncurses.h
11883 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
11884 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
11885 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
11886 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
11887 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
11888 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
11890 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
11891 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
11892 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
11893 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
11894 <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
11895 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
11896 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
11898 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
11900 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
11901 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
11903 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
11905 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
11906 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
11907 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
11908 original implementation (1.9.6).
11909 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
11910 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
11911 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
11912 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
11914 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
11915 SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
11916 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
11917 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
11918 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
11919 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11920 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
11921 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
11923 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
11924 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
11925 field is not possible.
11926 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
11927 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
11928 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
11929 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
11931 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
11932 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
11933 in forms/menus libraries.
11936 + add description of xterm-16color.
11937 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
11938 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
11940 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
11941 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
11942 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
11943 works properly w/o first doing "make".
11944 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
11945 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
11947 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
11948 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
11949 bounding box without tidying up).
11950 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
11951 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
11952 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
11954 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
11955 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11956 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
11957 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
11958 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11961 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
11962 option is specified.
11963 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
11964 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
11966 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
11967 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
11968 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
11969 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
11970 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
11971 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
11972 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
11973 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
11974 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
11975 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
11976 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
11977 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
11978 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
11979 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
11981 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
11982 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
11983 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11984 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
11985 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
11986 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11987 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
11988 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
11989 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11990 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
11991 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
11993 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
11995 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
11997 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
11998 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
12001 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
12002 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
12003 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
12004 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
12006 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
12007 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
12008 during a call to newwin.
12009 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
12010 is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
12011 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
12012 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
12013 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
12014 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12015 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
12016 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
12019 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
12020 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
12021 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
12022 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
12024 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
12027 970505 4.1 pre-release
12028 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
12030 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
12031 unnecessary recompiles.
12032 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
12033 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
12034 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
12035 overwrite of symbolic links.
12036 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
12037 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
12038 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
12039 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
12040 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
12041 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
12042 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
12043 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
12044 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
12045 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
12046 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
12047 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
12048 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
12049 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
12053 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
12054 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
12055 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
12057 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
12058 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
12059 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
12060 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
12061 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
12062 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
12063 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
12064 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
12065 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
12067 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
12068 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
12069 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
12070 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
12072 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
12073 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
12074 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12075 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
12076 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12077 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
12078 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12079 + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
12080 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
12081 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
12082 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
12085 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
12086 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
12087 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
12088 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
12089 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
12090 original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
12091 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
12092 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
12093 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
12094 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
12095 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
12096 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
12097 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
12098 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
12099 or redefinition within an acsc string.
12100 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
12101 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
12102 regression testing.
12103 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
12104 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
12107 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
12108 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
12109 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
12110 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
12111 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
12112 match SVr4 documentation.
12113 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
12114 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
12115 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
12118 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
12119 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
12120 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
12121 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
12122 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
12123 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
12124 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
12125 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
12128 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
12129 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
12130 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
12132 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
12133 --enable/--with values.
12134 + add configure option --enable-big-core
12135 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
12136 + check for C++ builtin.h header
12137 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
12138 parameter from the expression.
12139 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
12140 ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted from diffs by
12142 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
12143 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
12144 was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
12145 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
12146 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
12147 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
12150 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
12151 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
12152 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
12153 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
12154 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
12157 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
12158 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
12159 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
12160 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
12161 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
12162 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
12163 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
12164 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
12165 (reported by Ward Horner).
12166 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
12167 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
12170 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
12171 even if "make all" is not done first.
12172 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
12173 expanded functions with ATAC.
12174 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
12175 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
12179 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
12181 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
12183 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
12186 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
12187 addressing request by Ward Horner.
12188 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
12189 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
12190 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
12191 a pointer-increment.
12192 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
12196 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
12197 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
12199 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
12200 (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
12201 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
12202 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
12203 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
12204 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
12205 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
12206 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
12208 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
12209 (reported by Ward Horner)
12210 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
12211 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
12212 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
12213 (reported by Gary Johnson).
12214 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
12215 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
12216 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
12217 wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
12218 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
12219 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
12220 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
12221 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
12225 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
12226 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
12227 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
12228 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
12229 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
12230 (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12231 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
12232 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
12233 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
12234 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
12237 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
12239 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
12240 the returned buffer.
12241 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
12242 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
12243 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
12244 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
12246 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
12247 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
12250 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
12251 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
12252 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
12253 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
12255 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
12256 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
12259 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
12260 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
12262 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
12264 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
12265 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
12266 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
12267 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
12269 + modify _tracedump() to pad colors & attrs lines to match change
12270 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
12271 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
12272 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
12275 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
12276 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
12277 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
12278 that machine - T.Dickey.
12279 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
12280 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
12281 linking against static libraries.
12282 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
12284 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
12285 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
12286 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
12287 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
12289 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
12290 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
12291 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
12292 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
12293 Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
12296 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
12297 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
12298 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
12300 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
12301 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
12302 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
12303 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
12304 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
12305 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
12308 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
12310 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
12311 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
12312 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
12313 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
12314 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
12315 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
12316 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
12317 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
12318 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
12319 insert/delete line method.
12320 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
12321 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
12322 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
12323 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
12325 961229 (internal alpha)
12326 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
12327 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
12328 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
12329 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
12330 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
12331 there is data on stdin.
12332 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
12333 descriptors, needed for GPM.
12334 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
12335 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
12336 prevented patch from working properly -TD
12337 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
12338 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
12339 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
12340 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
12343 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
12344 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
12346 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
12349 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
12350 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
12351 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
12352 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
12354 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
12355 solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
12356 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
12357 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
12358 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
12359 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
12361 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
12362 i.e., set current directory before linking.
12363 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
12364 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
12365 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
12366 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
12367 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
12368 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
12369 Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
12370 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
12373 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
12374 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
12375 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
12376 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
12377 Solaris curses, which does this.
12380 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
12381 work with wider range of screen sizes.
12382 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
12383 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
12384 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
12386 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
12387 resize between endwin/refresh.
12388 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
12389 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
12390 terminal modes in 960907.
12391 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
12392 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
12394 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
12395 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
12396 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
12397 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
12398 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
12399 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
12400 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
12401 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
12402 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
12404 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
12405 (requested by Florian La Roche).
12406 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
12407 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
12408 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
12409 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
12410 by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12413 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
12416 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
12417 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
12418 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
12419 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
12420 data used in ncurses library.
12421 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
12422 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
12423 Alexander V Lukyanov).
12424 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
12425 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
12426 beta may not be interchangeable).
12427 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
12429 961130 1.9.9g release
12430 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
12434 > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
12435 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
12436 to avoid warning messages.
12437 + the panel overlap detection was broken
12438 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
12440 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
12444 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12445 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
12446 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
12447 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
12448 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
12451 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
12452 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
12453 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
12457 + change ABI to 3.4
12458 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
12460 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
12462 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
12464 > patch #324 (ESR):
12465 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
12466 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
12467 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
12468 + add entry for color_xterm
12471 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
12472 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
12473 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
12474 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
12475 CANCELLED_STRING values.
12476 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
12477 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
12478 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
12479 delays when in autoplay mode.
12480 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
12481 Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
12482 > patch #322 (ESR):
12483 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
12486 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
12487 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
12488 a spurious clear-screen.
12489 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
12490 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
12492 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
12493 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
12494 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
12495 <perf@efd.lth.se>).
12498 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
12499 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
12500 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
12501 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
12502 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
12503 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
12505 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
12506 distribution, as stated)
12507 + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
12508 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
12509 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
12510 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
12511 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
12512 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
12513 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
12515 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
12516 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
12520 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
12521 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
12522 file (lib_screen.c).
12523 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
12524 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
12525 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
12526 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
12527 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
12528 rendered as octal constants.
12529 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
12530 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
12531 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
12532 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
12533 in the top-level command-parser.
12534 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
12535 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
12537 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
12538 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
12539 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
12542 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
12543 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
12544 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
12545 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
12546 (reported by Tim Mooney).
12547 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
12549 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
12553 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
12554 that are available.
12555 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
12556 the pointer was -1.
12559 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
12560 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
12561 lower-right corner.
12562 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
12563 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
12564 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
12565 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
12566 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
12567 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
12568 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
12569 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
12570 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
12571 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
12573 + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
12574 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
12575 > patch #321 (ESR):
12576 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
12577 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
12578 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
12579 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
12582 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
12583 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
12584 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
12585 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
12586 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
12588 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
12589 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
12590 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
12591 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
12592 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
12593 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
12594 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
12595 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
12596 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
12597 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
12598 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
12599 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
12600 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
12602 + change ABI to 3.3
12603 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
12604 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
12605 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
12607 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
12608 Michael Elkins) - untested
12610 + correction to #317.
12612 + re-add _nc_hash_map
12613 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design
12614 (patch by A. Lukyanov).
12615 + modify test/ncurses.c and tputs, etc., to allow trace counting
12617 + add hashtest.c program to time the hashmap optimization.
12619 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
12621 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
12623 + merge changes to lib_doupdate.c to use ech and rep - untested
12624 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12625 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
12626 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
12627 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
12628 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
12631 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
12633 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
12634 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
12635 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
12636 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
12637 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
12639 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
12642 + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
12643 (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12644 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
12645 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12646 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
12647 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
12650 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
12651 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
12652 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
12653 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
12654 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
12655 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
12656 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
12657 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
12658 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
12659 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
12660 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
12661 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
12662 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
12663 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
12664 + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
12668 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12669 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
12670 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
12671 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
12673 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
12674 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
12675 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
12678 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
12679 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
12680 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
12683 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
12684 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12685 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
12686 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12689 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
12690 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
12691 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
12692 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
12693 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
12695 + add dtterm description
12696 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop mvwscanw subtest)
12699 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
12700 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
12701 + refine configure-test for "-g" option (Tim Mooney).
12702 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
12703 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
12706 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
12708 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
12710 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch (report
12714 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
12715 (reported by William P Setzer)
12716 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
12717 (reported by Tim Mooney).
12719 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
12720 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
12721 + updated qnx terminfo entry (patch by Michael Hunter)
12724 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
12726 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
12730 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
12731 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
12733 + terminfo changes (9.3.9), from BRL
12734 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
12735 + add more symbols to infocmp.
12738 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
12739 Juergen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
12740 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
12742 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
12743 null), and tests that use it.
12744 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
12745 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
12746 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
12748 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
12750 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
12751 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
12752 + fix option-processing bug in toe.
12755 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
12756 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
12757 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
12758 by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
12759 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
12760 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
12762 + enable more translations of nonstandard caps, and document them.
12763 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.8
12765 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
12766 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
12767 + cosmetic fixes to test/ncurses.c
12768 + modify open() call in ncurses/read_entry.c to use O_RDONLY symbol
12769 rather than constant (report by mib).
12770 + misc/terminfo.src sgr0 and acsc changes (report by Philippe De
12772 + modify ncurses/comp_parse.c so that entries containing a "+" can
12773 have missing rmcup vs smcup.
12776 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
12777 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
12778 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
12780 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
12781 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
12782 Philippe De Muyter).
12785 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
12786 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
12788 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
12789 (reported by Zeyd).
12790 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
12791 (reported by David MacKenzie).
12792 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
12793 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
12794 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
12795 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
12796 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
12797 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
12798 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
12801 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes.
12802 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.7 (report by A. Lukyanov).
12803 + modify man/Makefile.in to make terminfo.5 during normal build.
12805 + corrected allocation-length for $HOME/.terminfo path.
12808 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
12809 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
12810 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
12811 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
12812 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
12813 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
12814 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
12815 than function keys in 'g' test.
12816 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
12817 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
12818 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
12819 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
12821 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
12823 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
12824 msgwin needed scrollok set.
12825 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
12826 between PutRange and InsStr
12827 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
12828 MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
12830 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
12833 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
12834 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
12835 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
12837 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
12838 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
12839 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
12840 _yoffset to WINDOW).
12841 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
12842 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
12843 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
12844 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
12845 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
12846 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
12847 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
12848 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
12849 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
12852 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
12853 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
12854 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
12855 first entry in a list).
12856 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
12857 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
12860 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
12861 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
12862 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
12863 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
12864 with a shared-library configuration.
12865 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
12866 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
12867 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
12868 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
12869 builders to install into staging locations (requested by
12870 Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
12871 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
12873 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
12874 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
12875 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
12876 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
12877 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
12879 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
12880 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
12881 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
12882 invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12884 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
12885 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
12886 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
12888 + misc/ncurses-intro.html syntax fix (Kajiyama Tamito).
12891 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
12892 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
12893 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
12894 + added rules for lintlib, lint
12895 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
12896 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
12897 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
12898 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
12899 checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
12900 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
12901 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
12902 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
12903 + typos, don't use inline with "-g" (Philippe De Muyter)
12904 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
12907 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
12908 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
12909 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
12910 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
12911 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
12912 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
12914 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
12915 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
12916 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
12917 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
12919 + improve hash function (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12920 + 9.13.4 update for terminfo.src
12923 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
12924 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
12925 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
12926 <lav@yars.free.net>).
12927 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
12928 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
12929 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
12930 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
12932 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
12933 + html fixes (Phillippe de Muyter).
12934 + fix typo in ncurses-intro.html (report by Fabrizio Polacco).
12936 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
12937 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
12938 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
12939 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
12942 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
12946 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
12947 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
12948 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
12949 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
12950 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
12951 > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
12952 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
12953 + added TRACE_IEVENT
12954 + fix REQ_TOGGLE_ITEM in menu/menu_driver.c; it could select but not
12956 + added lib_print.c (request by Rick Marshall).
12957 + added has_key() (request by Juergen Pfeifer).
12958 + do not issue clrtoeol or clrtobot if the relevant portion of the line
12959 is already blank (analysis by Keith Bostic).
12960 + add parentheses for parameters of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER macros
12961 (analysis by Jurgen Eidt).
12962 + update screen's notion of cursor position in endwin() (analysis by
12963 Alexander Lukyanov).
12964 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
12965 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
12966 + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
12967 is not part of X/Open Curses).
12968 + removed boolean version of 'getm'.
12969 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
12972 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
12973 + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
12974 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
12975 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
12976 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
12977 "#include" if needed.
12980 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
12981 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
12984 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
12985 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
12986 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
12990 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
12991 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
12992 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
12993 > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
12994 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
12995 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
12996 + new "-e" and "-h" options of tic (request by Tony Nugent).
12997 + fix bug in mandatory-delay logic in lib_tputs.c (report by Sven
12999 + fix for "infocmp -e" to emit correct initializers (reported by Manual
13001 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c (report by Kayvan
13003 + use "-h" option on Solaris when generating shared libraries on
13004 Solaris 2.5 to record the library name in the file, for assisting
13005 the loader (patch by Scott Kramer).
13006 + undo patch #294 changes to form and menu libraries (request by
13011 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
13012 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
13013 K&R-style substitution)
13014 > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
13015 + rewrite wsyncup(), wsyncdown(), as well as small fixes to form and
13016 menu libraries to fix echo-breakage introduced by 1.8.9, 1.9.9e
13017 changes (patches by Juergen Pfeifer).
13018 + fix compile under QNX 4.2 by defining ONLCR in lib_raw.c when
13019 __QNX__ is defined (patch by Michael Hunter).
13020 + modify setupterm() to match documentation for its return value, fix
13021 newterm to work with this change (report by Emmet Lazich).
13022 + add checks in getch() for error, return ERR as appropriate (report by
13024 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode (report by Pete Seebach).
13025 + corrected askuser() logic in tset (patch by Remco Treffkorn).
13026 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing (report by
13028 + added trace support for TTY flags
13029 + update terminfo.src to 9.13.1
13030 + FreeBSD console entries (patch by Andrew Chernov).
13033 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
13034 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
13035 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
13036 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
13037 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
13039 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
13040 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
13042 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
13044 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
13045 copy-changed-lines behavior.
13046 * added and documented wresize() function.
13047 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
13048 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
13049 emitted before the first check.
13050 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
13051 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
13052 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
13053 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
13054 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
13055 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
13057 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
13058 * support for ESCDELAY.
13059 * small fixes for menu/form code.
13060 * the test directory has its own configure.
13061 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
13062 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
13063 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
13066 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
13068 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
13069 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
13070 * support infocmp -RBSD.
13071 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
13072 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
13073 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
13074 catastrophies or acts of God.
13075 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
13077 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
13078 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
13081 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
13083 * corrected return values of setupterm()
13084 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
13085 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
13086 one `use' capability.
13087 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
13088 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
13089 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
13090 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
13091 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
13092 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
13093 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
13094 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
13095 * added -h option to toe(1).
13096 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
13097 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
13098 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
13099 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
13101 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
13103 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
13104 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
13106 * mouse support for xterm.
13107 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
13108 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initally off.
13109 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
13110 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
13111 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
13112 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
13113 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
13114 * infocmp -T option added.
13115 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
13117 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
13119 * menus library is now included with documentation.
13120 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
13121 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
13122 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
13123 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
13124 * tweaks for compiling in seperate directories.
13125 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
13126 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
13127 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
13129 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
13131 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
13132 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
13133 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
13134 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
13136 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
13138 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
13139 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
13140 * added tracemunch to the test tools
13141 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
13143 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
13145 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
13146 profile and shared object models.
13148 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
13150 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
13151 * panels support added
13152 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
13153 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
13155 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
13157 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
13158 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
13159 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
13160 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
13162 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
13163 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
13164 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
13165 are consistent (they weren't).
13166 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
13167 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
13168 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
13169 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
13170 warnings from gcc).
13171 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
13172 * more spelling fixes
13173 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
13174 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
13175 core in init_acs()).
13176 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
13179 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
13181 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
13182 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
13183 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
13185 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
13186 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
13187 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
13188 resolution of traces.
13189 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
13190 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
13191 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
13192 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
13193 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
13194 is much less flaky.
13195 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
13196 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
13197 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
13198 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
13200 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
13201 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
13202 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
13203 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
13204 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
13205 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This wil mostly happen if
13206 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
13207 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
13208 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
13209 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
13210 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
13211 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
13212 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
13213 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
13214 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
13215 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
13217 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
13218 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
13219 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
13220 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
13221 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
13222 the correct alternate character set.
13223 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
13224 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
13225 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
13226 a terminal is undefined.
13227 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
13228 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
13229 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
13230 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
13231 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
13232 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
13234 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
13235 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
13236 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
13237 if other attributes are turned off.
13238 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
13239 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
13240 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
13242 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
13243 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
13244 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
13247 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
13248 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
13249 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
13250 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
13252 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
13253 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
13255 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
13257 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
13258 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
13259 break operation with any emulators.
13260 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
13261 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
13262 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
13263 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
13264 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
13265 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
13266 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
13267 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
13269 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
13270 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
13272 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
13273 unpredictable results.
13274 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
13276 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
13277 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
13278 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
13279 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
13280 take note of the terminfo directory.
13281 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
13282 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
13285 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
13286 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
13287 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
13288 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
13289 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
13290 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
13291 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
13292 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
13293 performs more testing.
13294 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
13295 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
13297 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
13298 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
13300 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
13301 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
13302 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
13304 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
13306 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
13307 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
13308 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
13309 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
13310 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
13311 will probably continue to work ok.
13313 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
13314 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
13315 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
13316 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
13317 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
13319 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
13320 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
13321 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
13323 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
13324 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
13325 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
13326 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
13327 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
13328 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
13329 changed accordingly.
13330 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
13331 bottom-right corner.
13332 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
13333 pads I'd love a copy.
13334 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
13335 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
13336 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
13337 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
13338 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
13339 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
13340 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
13342 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
13343 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
13344 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
13346 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
13347 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
13348 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
13349 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
13350 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
13351 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
13352 * See src/README for porting notes.
13353 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
13354 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
13355 rows instead of lines, etc.)
13356 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
13357 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
13358 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
13359 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
13360 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
13361 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
13362 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
13364 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
13365 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
13366 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
13367 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
13368 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
13369 fact was exposed by hanoi.
13370 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
13371 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
13372 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
13373 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
13374 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
13375 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
13377 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
13379 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
13380 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
13381 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
13382 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
13383 Config.* files through an awk script.
13384 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
13385 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
13386 * a few minor cleanups.
13387 * added more prototypes in curses.h
13389 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
13391 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
13392 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
13393 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
13394 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
13395 * a couple of bug fixes.
13396 * a few code cleanups.
13398 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
13400 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
13401 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
13402 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
13403 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
13404 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
13405 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
13406 * Cleaner Makefile.
13407 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
13408 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
13410 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
13411 (doesn't work on Linux)
13412 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
13413 screen before working.
13414 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
13415 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
13417 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
13418 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
13419 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
13420 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
13421 * several minor bug fixes.
13423 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
13425 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
13426 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
13427 * changes related to Config
13429 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
13431 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
13432 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
13433 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
13434 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
13435 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
13436 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
13437 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
13438 * added halfdelay()
13439 * fixed problems with asc_init()
13440 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
13441 * cleaned up vidputs()
13442 * general cleanup of the code
13443 * more attention to portability to other systems
13444 * added terminfos for hp70092 (wont work until changes to lib_update.c are
13445 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
13447 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
13448 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
13450 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
13451 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
13452 the rationale drop me a line.
13454 Included are several test programs in test/.
13455 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
13456 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
13458 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
13460 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
13461 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
13462 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
13463 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
13464 * keyname() is added.
13465 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
13466 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
13467 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
13468 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
13469 * included fixes from 0.6.1
13470 * added a few more missing functions.
13471 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
13472 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
13475 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
13477 1) Included the missing data/console.
13479 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
13481 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
13483 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
13484 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
13485 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
13487 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
13488 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
13489 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
13490 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
13491 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
13492 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
13493 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
13494 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
13495 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
13496 * added notimeout().
13497 * added timeout() define in curses.h
13498 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
13500 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
13501 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
13502 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
13503 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
13504 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
13505 * added slk_* support.
13506 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
13507 * added PANEL library.
13508 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
13509 * terminfo.h is really term.h
13511 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
13512 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
13513 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
13514 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
13515 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
13516 another key is pressed.
13517 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
13518 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
13519 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
13521 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
13522 * fixed bug in wvline().
13523 * added curs_set().
13524 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
13525 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
13527 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
13528 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
13529 * Addition of function prototypes.
13530 * Addition of several missing functions.
13531 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
13532 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
13533 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
13534 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
13535 * New scrolling code.
13536 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
13538 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
13539 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
13540 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
13541 * more fixes for updates.
13542 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
13543 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
13544 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
13545 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
13547 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
13548 * support for color.
13549 * support for PC graphic characters.
13550 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
13551 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
13553 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
13554 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
13555 * ANSIfication of some functions.
13556 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
13557 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.
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