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32 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
33 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
35 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
36 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
38 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
39 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
40 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
42 A few contributors may be cited in this file by their initials.
43 Each accounts for half of one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
44 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
46 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
47 it is not possible to add this information.
50 + fix errata in man/ncurses.3x from recent updates.
51 + improve quoting/escaping in configure script, uses some features of
52 autoconf 2.52.20210105
55 + update man/curs_memleaks.3x, to include <term.h> which declares
57 + clarify man/curs_terminfo.3x, to mention why the macro setterm is
58 defined in <curses.h>, and remove it from the list of prototypes
59 (prompted by patch by Graeme McCutcheon).
60 + amend man/curs_terminfo.3x, to note that <curses.h> is required
61 for certain functions, e.g., those using chtype or attr_t for
62 types, as well as mvcur (cf: 20201031).
63 + use parameter-names in prototypes in curs_sp_funcs.3x, for
64 consistency with other manpages.
67 + update terminology entry to 1.8.1 -TD
68 + fix some compiler-warnings which gcc8 reports incorrectly.
71 + suppress hyphenation in generated html for manpages, to address
72 regression in upgrade of groff 1.22.2 to 1.22.3.
73 + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages (report
77 + improve manual pages for form field-types.
80 + amend build-fixes for gnat 10 to work with certain systems lacking
81 gprbuild (cf: 20200627).
82 + eliminate an additional strlen and wsclen.
83 + eliminate an unnecessary strlen in waddnstr() (suggested by Benjamin
85 + modify inopts manpage, separating the items for nodelay and notimeout
86 (patch by Benno Schulenberg).
87 + correct mlterm3 kf1-kf4 (Debian #975322) -TD
88 + add flash to mlterm3 -TD
91 + add Smulx to alacritty (Christian Duerr).
92 + add rep to PuTTY -TD
93 + add putty+keypad -TD
94 + add another fflush(stdout) in _nc_flush() to handle time-delays in
95 the middle of strings such as flash when the application uses
96 low-level calls rather than curses (cf: 20161217).
97 + modify configure check for c89/c99 aliases of clang to use its
98 -std option instead, because some platforms, in particular macOS,
99 do not provide workable c89/c99 aliases.
102 + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver.
103 + add the definitions needed in recent configure-check for clang
104 (report by Steven Pitman).
107 + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver.
108 + modify a check for parameters in terminfo capabilities to handle the
109 special case where short extended capability strings were not
110 converted from terminfo to termcap format.
111 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro, adding darwin as special case
112 when cross-compiling (report by Eli Rykoff).
115 + update kitty+common -TD
116 + add putty+screen and putty-screen (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
117 + explain in ncurses.3x that functions in the tinfo library do not rely
118 upon wide-characters (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas).
121 + modify MKterm.h.in so that it is not necessary to include <curses.h>
122 before <term.h> (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas).
123 + review/improve synopsis for curs_sp_funcs.3x (prompted by discussion
125 + improve format of output in tic's check_infotocap() function, to
126 ensure that the messages contain only printable text.
127 + modify configure-check for clang to verify that -Qunused-arguments
128 is supported. IBM's xlclang does not support it (report by Steven
132 + provide workaround configure-check for bool when cross-compiling.
133 + fix a potential indexing error in _nc_parse_entry(), seen with
134 Herlim's test data using address-sanitizer.
135 + change a null-pointer check in set_curterm to a valid-string check,
136 needed in to tic's use-resolution when pad_char is cancelled
137 (report/testcase by Robert Sebastian Herlim)
138 + improve tic's -c option to validate the number and type of parameters
139 and compare against expected number/type before deciding which set of
140 parameter-lists to use in tparm calls (report/testcase by Robert
142 + fix a link for tabs.1 manpage in announce.html.in (report by Nick
143 Black), as well as some fixes via linklint.
146 + improve manpage typography.
147 + improve discussion in curs_addch.3x of the use of unctrl to display
148 nonprintable characters.
149 + add a note in terminfo.5 explaining that no-parameter strings such
150 as sgr0 or cnorm should not be used with tparm.
153 + correct sgr in aaa+rv (report by Florian Weimer) -TD
154 + fix some sgr inconsistencies in d230c, ibm6153, ibm6154,
156 + improve tic's check for errors detected in tparm (prompted by
157 discussion with Florian Weimer).
158 + set output-mode to binary in experimental Windows-10 driver (Juergen
162 + remove output-related checks for nl/nonl (report by Leon Winter).
163 + change tmux's kbs to ^? (report by Premysl Eric Janouch)
164 + simplify mlterm initialization with DECSTR -TD
165 + fix a typo in man/curs_terminfo.3 (Reuben Thomas).
166 + add tmux-direct (tmux #2370, Debian #895754)
167 + add user-defined capabilities from mintty to Caps-ncurses, for
168 checking consistency with tic.
171 + correct configure-check for gnurx library.
172 + regenerate llib-* files.
173 + modify tracemunch and the panel library to show readable traces for
174 panel- and user-pointers.
177 + update mlterm3 for 3.9.0 (report by Premysl Eric Janouch) -TD
180 + corrected condition for appending curses.events to the generated
181 curses.h (report by Sven Joachim, Debian #970545).
184 + add configure-check for systre/tre with mingw configuration, to get
185 the library-dependencies as seen in msys2 configuration for mingw64.
186 + build-fixes for the win32-driver configuration.
187 + use more defensive binary mode setting for Win32 (Juergen Pfeifer).
190 + fix regression in setupterm validating non-empty $TERM (report by
194 + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of
196 + correct description of vt330/vt340 (Ross Combs).
199 + build-fix for awk-scripts modified for win32-driver (report by Werner
203 + remove a redundant NCURSES_EXPORT as a build-fix for "Maarten
205 + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of
207 + modify configure script, moving gcc -Werror options to EXTRA_CFLAGS
208 to avoid breaking configure-checks (adapted from ongoing work on
210 > errata for terminfo.src (report by Florian Weimer):
211 + correct icl6404 csr
216 + improve version-number extraction in MKlib_gen.sh
217 + make the test-package for manpages installable by adjusting the
219 + correct an off-by-one loop-limit in convert_strings function
221 + add CF_SHARED_OPTS cases for HPE NonStop systems (Randall S Becker).
222 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS case for NetBSD to use the same "-shared"
223 option for the non-rpath case as for the rpath case, to allow gcc to
224 provide suitable runtime initialization (report by Rajeev V Pillai).
227 + reduce build-warnings by excluding ncurses-internals from deprecation
229 + mark wgetch-events feature as deprecated.
230 + add definition for $(LIBS) to ncurses/Makefile.in, to simplify builds
231 using the string-hacks option.
232 + prevent KEY_EVENT from appearing in curses.h unless the configure
233 option --enable-wgetch-events is used (report by Werner Fink).
236 + amend tic/infocmp check to allow for the respective tool's absence
237 (report by Steve Wills, cf: 20200808).
238 + improved some of the build-scripts with shellcheck
239 + filter out -MT/-MD/-MTd/-MDd options in script for Visual Studio C++
240 (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous").
243 + improve discussion of the system's tic utility when used as part
244 of cross-compiling (discussion with Keith Marshall).
245 + modify configuration checks for build-time tic/infocmp to use
246 AC_CHECK_TOOL. That can still be overridden by --with-tic-path and
247 --with-infocmp-path when fallbacks are used, but even if not using
248 fallbacks, the improved check may help with cross-compiling
249 (discussion with Keith Marshall).
250 + other build-fixes for Ada95 with MinGW.
251 + modify Ada95 source-generation utility to write to a file given as
252 parameter rather than to the standard output, allowing builds with
256 + remove remaining parts of checks for ISC Unix (cf: 20121006).
257 + add user32.lib to LDFLAGS for Visual Studio C++ configuration
258 (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous").
259 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to hide ncurses' definition of KEY_EVENTS to
260 reduce Visual Studio C++ redefinition warnings.
261 + improve/update checks for external functions in test/configure
264 + set LINK_TESTS in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msvc (patch by
266 + improved workaround for redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT.
267 + improve man/term.5 section on legacy storage format (report by
271 + reduce redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT when building with Visual
273 + define NCURSES_STATIC when compiling programs to link with static
274 libraries, to work with MinGW vs Visual Studio C++.
275 > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
276 (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
277 + modify c++/Makefile.in to set the current directory while compiling
278 the main program, so the linker can find related objects.
279 + several changes to allow the c++/demo program to compile/link.
280 + change an ifdef in test-directory, to use VC++ wide-character funcs.
283 + fix pound-sign mapping in acsc of linux2.6 entry (report by Ingo
285 + additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
286 (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
287 + build-improvements for Windows 10 and MinGW (patch by Juergen
289 + fix a typo in curs_printw.3x (patch by William Pursell).
290 + fix two errors in infotocap which allowed indexing outside the
291 buffer (report/testcases by Zhang Gan).
292 + update length of strings in infocmp's usage function to restore a
293 trailing null on the longest string (report/testcase by Zhang Gen).
296 + modify version-check with Ada generics to use the same pattern as in
297 the check for supported gnat versions (report by Pascal Pignard).
298 > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
299 (patches by "Maarten Anonymous"):
300 + adjust headers/declarations to provide for "dllimport" vs "dllexport"
301 declarations when constructing DLLs, to worko with Visual Studio C++.
304 + build-fixes for gnat 10.1.1, whose gnatmake drops integration with
306 + correct buffer-length in test/color_name.h
309 + update list of functions in ncurses.3x
310 + move dlclose() call from lib_mouse.c to delscreen() to avoid a case
311 in the former which could be called from SIGTSTP handler (Debian
315 + add xterm+256color2, xterm+88color2, to deprecate nonstandard usage
316 in xterm+256color, xterm+88color -TD
317 + add shifted Linux console keys in linux+sfkeys entry for
318 screen.linux (report by Alexandre Montaron).
319 + use vt100+enq in screen (report by Alexandre Montaron).
320 + add screen.linux-s alias (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
323 + correct configure version-check/warnng for g++ to allow for 10.x
324 + re-enable "bel" in konsole-base (report by Nia Huang)
325 + add linux-s entry (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
326 + drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl
327 + add test/test_parm.c, for checking tparm changes.
328 + improve parameter-checking for tparm, adding function _nc_tiparm() to
329 handle the most-used case, which accepts only numeric parameters
330 (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
331 + use a more conservative estimate of the buffer-size in lib_tparm.c's
332 save_text() and save_number(), in case the sprintf() function
333 passes-through unexpected characters from a format specifier
334 (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
335 + add a check for end-of-string in cvtchar to handle a malformed
336 string in infotocap (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
339 + update version-check for gnat to allow for gnat 10.x to 99.x
340 + fix an uninitialized variable in lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20200502)
341 + add a check in EmitRange to guard against repeat_char emitting digits
342 which could be interpreted as BSD-style padding when --enable-bsdpad
343 is configured (report/patch by Hiltjo Posthuma).
344 + add --disable-pkg-ldflags to suppress EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the
345 generated pkg-config and ncurses*-config files, to simplify
346 configuring in the case where rpath is used but the packager wants
347 to hide the feature (report by Michael Stapelberg).
348 > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
349 "Maarten Anonymous"):
350 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS to generate a script which translates linker
351 options into Visual Studio's dialect.
352 + omit parentheses around function-names in generated lib_gen.c to
353 work around a Visual Studio C++ limitation.
356 + add notes on termcap.h header in curs_termcap.3x
357 + update notes on vscode / xterm.js -TD
360 + add "-r" option to the dots test-programs, to help with scripting
361 a performance comparison.
362 + build-fix test/move_field.c for NetBSD curses, whose form headers
363 use different names than SVr4 or ncurses.
366 + add details on the change to Linux SGR 21 in 2018 -TD
367 + add xterm-direct16 and xterm-direct256 -TD
368 + modify lib_mouse.c to check for out-of-range button numbers, convert
369 those to position reports.
372 + use vt100+fnkeys in putty -TD
373 + fix a typo in tput.1; "columns" should be "cols".
376 + improve tracemunch logic for "RUN" compaction.
377 + fix a special case in wresize() where copying the old text did not
378 check if the last cell on a row was the beginning of a fullwidth
379 character (adapted from patch by Benno Schulenberg).
380 + use vt52+keypad in xterm-vt52, from xterm #354 -TD
381 + improve see-also section of user_caps.5
384 + fix find_pair(), overlooked when refactoring for _nc_reserve_pairs()
385 (report/testcase by Brad Town, cf: 20170812).
386 + add a trailing null for magic-string in putwin, flagged by gcc 10
387 + update check for gcc version versus gnat to work with gcc 10.x
390 + modify -fvisibility check to work with g++
391 > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
392 "Maarten Anonymous"):
393 + add configure option and check for gcc -fvisibility=hidden feature
394 + define NCURSES_NOMACROS in lib_gen.c to work around Visual Studio
395 C++ preprocessor limitations.
396 + modify some of the configure-macros, as well as mk-1st.awk to work
397 with Visual Studio C++ default filenaming.
400 + correct length of buffer copied in dup_field().
401 + remove "$(srcdir)/" from path of library.gpr, needed for out-of-tree
402 builds of Ada95 (patch by Adam Van Ymeren).
405 + improve configure-checks to reduce warnings about unused variables.
406 + improve description of error-returns in waddch and waddnstr manual
407 pages (prompted by patch by Benno Schulenberg).
408 + add test/move_field.c to demonstrate move_field(), and a stub for
409 a corresponding demo of dup_field().
412 + add history note to curs_scanw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
413 + add history note to curs_printw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
414 + add portability note to ncurses.3x regarding <stdarg.h>
417 + update copyright notices in test-packages.
418 + modify tracemunch to guard against errors in its known_p1 table.
419 + add several --with-xxx-libname options, to help with pkgsrc (prompted
420 by discussion with Thomas Klausner).
423 + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to avoid storing a null in the
424 background character, because it may be used in cases where the
425 corresponding 0x80 is not treated as a null (report by Marc Rechte,
429 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG to work around xcode's c99 "-W" option,
430 which conflicts with conventional use for passing linker options.
431 > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
432 "Maarten Anonymous"):
433 + check for pcre2posix.h instead of pcre2-posix.h
434 + add case in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msys2 + msvc
435 + add fallback definition for STDIN_FILENO in progs.priv.h
436 + modify win_driver.c to use _alloca() rather than gcc's variable
437 length array feature.
438 + add NCURSES_IMPEXP to ncurses wrapped-variable declarations
439 + remove NCURSES_IMPEXP from class variables in c++/cursslk.h
440 + remove fallback prototype for exit() from c++/etip.h.in
441 + use configured check for <sys/time.h> in a couple of places
442 + conditionally include winsock.h in ncurses/win32con/gettimeofday.c,
443 because Visual Studio needs this for the timestruct declaration.
444 + adjust syntax in a couple of files using the NCURSES_API symbol.
447 + expanded note in ncurses.3x regarding automatically-included headers
448 + improve vt50h and vt52 based on DECScope manual -TD
449 + add/use vt52+keypad and vt52-basic -TD
450 + check/workaround for line-too-long in Ada95 generate utility when
451 building out-of-tree.
452 + improve/update HEADER_DEPS in */Makefile.in
453 + add "check" rule to include/Makefile, to demonstrate that the headers
454 include all of the required headers for the types used.
457 + improve manual page for panel library, extending the portability
458 section as well as documenting error-returns.
459 + show tic's version when installing terminal database in run_tic.sh
460 + correct check for gcc vs other compilers used in ncurses 6.0, from
461 FreeBSD patch by Kyle Evans (cf: 20150725).
462 + add notes for 6.2 to INSTALL.
464 20200212 6.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
465 + update release notes
466 + minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts
469 + modify check for sizeof(wchar_t) to ensure it gives useful result
470 when cross-compiling.
471 + drop assumption in configure script that Cygwin's linker is broken.
472 + define NCURSES_BROKEN_LINKER if the broken-linker feature is used,
473 to simplify configure-checks for ncurses-examples.
476 + reassert copyright on ncurses, per discussion in ncurses FAQ:
477 https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#relicensed
480 + modify comparison in make_hash.c to correct a special case in
481 collision handling for Caps-hpux11
482 + add testing utility report_hashing to check hash-tables used for
483 terminfo and termcap names.
484 + fix a missing prototype for _nc_free_and_exit().
485 + update a few comments about tack 1.07
486 + use an awk script to split too-long pathnames used in Ada95 sample
487 programs for explain.txt
490 + expanded description of XM in user_caps.5
491 + improve xm example for xterm+x11mouse, xterm+sm+1006 -TD
492 + add history section to curs_slk.3x and curs_terminfo.3x manpages.
493 + update alacritty entries for 0.4.0 (prompted by patch by
495 + correct spelling errors found with codespell.
496 + fix for test/configure, from xterm #352.
499 + improve configure macros which check for the X11/Intrinsic.h header,
500 to accommodate recent MacOS changes.
501 + suppress gcc's -Winline warning; it has not been useful for some time
502 + update config.guess, config.sub
505 + modify a couple of macros in aclocal.m4 to allow autoconf 2.69 to
506 "work", to help illustrate discussion in
507 https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/my-autoconf.html
508 + fix some warnings from autoheader-252
511 + in gen-pkgconfig.in, move the RPATH_LIST and PRIVATE_LIBS assignments
512 past the various prefix/libdir assignments, to allow for using those
513 symbols, e.g., as done via CF_SHARED_OPTS.
514 + improve ncurses*-config and pc-files by filtering out linker-specs.
515 + modify test-package to more closely match Fedora's configuration
516 for PIE/PIC feature and debug-packages.
519 + correct pathname used in Ada95 sample programs for explain.txt, to
520 work with test-packages.
521 + improve tracemunch:
522 + keep track of TERMINAL* values
523 + if tracing was first turned on after initialization, attempt to
524 show distinct screen, window and terminal names anyway.
525 + ensure that GCC_NORETURN is defined in term.h, because the prototype
526 for exit_terminfo() uses it (report by Werner Fink).
529 + add exit_curses() and exit_terminfo() to replace internal symbols for
533 + fix a few warnings for test-package builds
534 + add curses_trace(), to replace trace().
537 + add portability section to curs_getcchar manpage (prompted by
538 discussion with Nick Black).
539 + improve portability discussion of ACS characters in curs_addch
541 + improve typography for double-quotes in manpages.
544 + fix typo for MinGW rpm test-package.
545 + workaround in rpm specs for NFS problems in Fedora 31.
548 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to fix a case where Debian/testing changes
549 to the ld --as-needed configuration broke ncurses-examples test
551 + drop library-dependency on psapi for MinGW port, since win_driver.c
552 defines PSAPI_VERSION to 2, making it use GetProcessImageFileName
553 from kernel32.dll (prompted by patch by Simon Sobish, cf: 20140503).
556 + add warning-check in tic for terminals with parm_dch vs parm_ich.
557 + drop ich1 from rxvt-basic, Eterm and mlterm to improve compatibility
558 with old non-curses programs -TD
559 + reviewed st 0.8.2, updated some details -TD
560 + use ansi+rep several places -TD
561 + corrected tic's check for ich1 (report by Sebastian J. Bronner,
565 + check parameter of set_escdelay, return ERR if negative.
566 + check parameter of set_tabsize, return ERR if not greater than zero
567 (report/patch by Anthony Sottile).
568 + revise CF_ADD_LIBS macro to prepend rather than append libraries.
569 + add "xterm-mono" to help packagers (report by Sven Joachim) -TD
572 + add a note in man/curs_add_wch.3x about Unicode terminology for the
573 line-drawing characters (report by Nick Black).
574 + improve comment in lib_tgoto.c regarding the use of \200 where a
575 \0 would be intended by the caller (report by "64 bit", cf: 20000923).
576 + modify linux-16color to accommodate Linux console driver change in
577 early 2018 (report by Dino Petrucci).
580 + modify make_hash to not require --disable-leaks, to simplify building
581 with address-sanitizer.
582 + modify tic to exit if it cannot remove a conflicting name, because
583 treating that as a partial success can cause an infinite loop in
584 use-resolution (report/testcase by Hongxu Chen, cf: 20111001).
587 + improve buffer-checks in captoinfo.c, for some cases when the
588 input string is shorter than expected.
589 > fix two errata in tic (report/testcases by Hongxu Chen):
590 + check for missing character after backslash in write_it
591 + check for missing characters after "%>" when converting from termcap
595 + amend recent changes to ncurses*-config and pc-files to filter out
596 Debian linker-flags (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150516).
597 + clarify relationship between tic, infocmp and captoinfo in manpage.
598 + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_type_entry and
600 > fix several errata in tic (reports/testcases by "zjuchenyuan"):
601 + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_entry.
602 + check for missing character after backslash in fmt_entry
603 + check for acsc with odd length in dump_entry in check for one-one
604 mapping (cf: 20060415);
605 + check length when converting from old AIX box_chars_1 capability,
606 overlooked in changes to eliminate strcpy (cf: 20001007).
609 + modify the ncurse*-config and pc-files to more closely match for the
613 + amend the ncurses*-config and pc-files to take into account the rpath
614 hack which differed between those files.
615 + improve -L option filtering in ncurses*-config
616 + improve recovery from error when reading command-character in
617 test/ncurses.c, showing the relevant error message and not exiting on
621 + add a note in resizeterm manpage about top-level windows which touch
622 the screen's borders.
623 + modify configure-checks for gnat to identify each of the tools path
627 + build-fixes for Ada95 configure-script and corresponding test package
630 + add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to
631 allow renaming the "AdaCurses" library (prompted by proposed changes
633 + modify configure script to distinguish gcc from icc and clang when
634 the --enable-warnings option is not used, to avoid unnecessary
635 warnings about unrecognized inline options (report by Sven Joachim).
638 + build-fixes for configuration using --program-suffix with Ada95,
639 noticed with MacOS but applicable to other platforms without
643 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
646 + amend 20181208 changes for wbkgd() and wbkgrnd(), fixing a few
647 details where it still differed from SVr4.
648 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
651 + fix a few more coverity warnings.
654 + improve loop limits in _nc_scroll_window() to handle a case where
655 the scrolled data is a pad which is taller than the window (patch
657 + amend the change to screen, because tmux relies upon that entry
658 and does not support that feature (Debian #933572) -TD
659 + updated ms-terminal entry & notes -TD
660 + updated kitty entry & notes -TD
661 + updated alacritty+common entry & notes -TD
662 + use xterm+sl-twm for consistency -TD
665 + fix a few more coverity warnings.
666 + more documentation updates based on tctest.
669 + fix a few coverity warnings.
670 + documentation updates based on tctest.
673 + fix a few warnings for gcc 4.x
674 + add some portability/historical details to the tic, toe and infocmp
676 + correct fix for broken link from terminfo(5) to tabs(1) manpage
677 (report by Sven Joachim).
680 + change reset's behavior for margins to simply clear soft-margins if
681 possible, rather than clearing and then setting them according to the
682 terminal's width (suggested by Thomas Wolff).
683 + correct order of one wbkgd versus start_color call in test/padview.c
687 + improve comments for recent changes, add alias xterm.js -TD
690 + add --with-tic-path and --with-infocmp-path to work around problems
691 building fallback source using pre-6.0 tic/infocmp.
692 + add a check in tic for paired indn/rin
693 + correct a buffer-limit in write_entry.c for systems that use caseless
695 + add ms-terminal -TD
696 + add vscode, vscode-direct -TD
699 + improve the tabs.1 manual page to distinguish the PWB/Unix and 7th
700 Edition versions of the tabs utility.
701 + add configure check for getenv() to work around implementation shown
702 in Emscripten #6766, use that to optionally suppress START_TRACE
703 macro, whose call to getenv() may not work properly (report by Ilya
705 + modify initialization functions to avoid relying upon persistent
706 data for the result from getenv().
707 + update config.guess, config.sub
710 + expand the portability section of the man/tabs.1 manual page.
711 + regenerate HTML manpages.
714 + add mintty, mintty-direct (adapted from patch by Thomas Wolff).
715 Some of the suggested user-defined capabilities are commented-out,
716 to allow builds with ncurses 5.9 and 6.0
717 + add Smol/Rmol for tmux, vte-2018 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
718 + add rs1 to konsole, mlterm -TD
719 + modify _nc_merge_entry() to make a copy of the data which it merges,
720 to avoid modifying the source-data when aligning extended names.
723 + modify an internal call to vid_puts to pass extended color pairs
724 e.g., from tty_update.c and lib_mvcur.c (report by Niegodziwy Beru).
725 + improve manual page description of init_tabs capability and TABSIZE
729 + modify reset_cmd.c to allow for tabstops at intervals other than 8
730 (report by Vincent Huisman).
733 + update xterm-new to xterm patch #345 -TD
734 + add/use xterm+keypad in xterm-new (report by Alain D D Williams) -TD
735 + update terminator entry -TD
736 + remove hard-tabs from ti703 (report by Robert Clausecker)
737 + mention meml/memu/box1 in user_caps manual page.
738 + mention user_caps.5 in tic and infocmp manual pages.
741 + fix a spurious blank line seen with "infocmp -1fx xterm+x11mouse"
742 + add checks in repair_subwindows() to keep the current position and
743 scroll-margins inside the resized subwindow.
744 + add a limit check in newline_forces_scroll() for the case where the
745 row is inside scroll-margins, but not at the end (report by Toshio
746 Kuratomi, cf: 20170729).
747 + corrected a warning message in tic for extended capabilities versus
748 number of parameters.
751 + improve workaround for Solaris wcwidth versus line-drawing characters
752 (report by Pavel Stehule).
753 + add special case in tic to validate RGB string-capability extension.
754 + corrected string/parameter-field for RGB in Caps-ncurses.
757 + corrected problem in terminfo load/realignment which prevented
758 infocmp from comparing extended capabilities with the same name
762 + improve ifdef's for TABSIZE variable, to help with AIX/HPUX ports.
765 + check for TABSIZE variable in test/configure script.
766 + used test/test_arrays.c to improve Caps.aix1 and Caps.hpux11
767 + corrected filtering of comments in MKparametrized.sh
768 + reduce duplication across Caps* files by moving some parts which do
769 not depend on order into Caps-ncurses.
772 + modify MKcaptab.sh, MKkey_defs.sh, and MKhashsize.sh to handle
774 + build-fixes if extended-functions are disabled.
777 + add "screen5", to mention italics (report by Stefan Assmann)
778 + modify description of xterm+x11hilite to eliminate unused p5 -TD
779 + add configure script checks to help with a port to Ultrix 3.1
780 (report by Dennis Grevenstein).
781 + check if "b" binary feature of fopen works
782 + check for missing feature of locale.h
783 + add fallback for strstr() in test-programs
784 + add fallback for STDOUT_FILENO in test-programs
785 + update config.guess, config.sub
788 + move macro for is_linetouched() inside NCURSES_NOMACROS ifndef.
789 + corrected prototypes in several manpages using script to extract
790 those in compilable form.
791 + use _nc_copy_termtype2() rather than direct assignment in setupterm,
792 in case it is called repeatedly using fallback terminfo descriptions
793 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
796 + regenerate llib-* files.
797 + modify tic to also use new function for user-defined capability info.
798 + modify _nc_parse_entry() to check if a user-defined capability has
799 an unexpected type; ignore it in that case.
800 + fix a special case of link-anchors in generated Ada html files.
801 + use newer rel=author tag in generated html rather than rev=made,
802 which did not become accepted.
805 + in-progress changes to add parameter-checking for common user-defined
807 + update MKcodes.awk and MKnames.awk to ignore the new "userdef"
808 data in Caps-ncurses (cf: 20190302).
811 + corrected some of the undocumented terminfo names in Caps.hpux11
812 + add "Caps-ncurses" file to help with checking inconsistencies in some
813 user-defined capabilities.
814 + amend check for repeat_char to handle a case where setlocale() was
815 called after initscr() (report by "Ampera").
818 + fix typo in adds200 -TD
819 + add tic check for consistent alternate character set capabilities.
820 + improve check in mvcur() to decide whether to use hard-tabs, using
821 xt, tbc and hts as clues.
822 + replace check in reset command for obsolete "pt" capability using
823 tbc and hts capabilities as clues (report by Nicolas Marriott).
826 + improve manual page description of TABSIZE.
827 + add test/demo_tabs program.
830 + add check in tic to provide warnings for mismatched number of
831 parameters in the documented user-capability extensions.
834 + modify rpm test-package ".spec" file to work around naming conflict
835 with Redhat's package for ncurses6.
836 + modify no-leaks code in test/picsmap to avoid non-standard tdestroy.
837 + amend change to configure script which altered the top-level makefile
838 to avoid attempting to install the terminfo database when it was not
839 configured, to allow for installing the ".pc" files which are also
840 in the misc directory (report by Steve Wills).
843 + change some "%define" statements in test-packages for RPMs to
844 "%global" to work around changes in rpm 4.14 from recent Redhat.
845 + fixes for O_INPUT_FIELD extension (patch by Leon Winter).
846 + eliminate fixed buffer-size when reading $TERMCAP variable.
847 + correct logic in read_entry.c which prevented $TERMCAP variable from
848 being interpreted as a fallback to terminfo entry (prompted by
849 Savannah #54556, cf: 20110924).
852 + add a check in test/configure to work around non-ncurses termcap.h
854 + corrected flag for "seq" method of db 1.8.5 interface, needed by toe
856 + updated "string-hacks" feature.
857 + minor improvements to manpage typography.
858 + corrected conditionally-compiled limit on color pairs (report by
860 + add -x option to test/pair_content, test/color_content for testing
861 init_extended_pair, extended_pair_content, init_extended_color,
862 extended_color_content
863 + add -p option to test/pair_content, test/color_content to show the
864 return values from the tested functions.
865 + improve manual page curs_color.3x discussion of error returns and
867 + add O_INPUT_FIELD extension to form library (patch by Leon Winter).
868 + override/suppress --enable-db-install if --disable-database configure
870 + change a too-large terminal entry in tic from a fatal error to a
871 warning (prompted by discussion with Gabriele Balducci).
874 + fix typo in term(5), improve explanation of format (report by Otto
876 + add nsterm-direct -TD
877 + use SGR 1006 mouse for konsole-base -TD
878 + use SGR 1006 mouse for putty -TD
879 + add ti703/ti707, ti703-w/ti707-w (Robert Clausecker)
882 + add dummy "check" rule in top-level and test-Makefile to simply
883 building test-packages for Arch.
884 + modify configure script to avoid conflict with a non-POSIX feature
885 that enables all parts of the system headers by default. Some
886 packagers have come to rely upon this behavior (FreeBSD #234049).
887 + update config.guess, config.sub
890 + improve man/curs_mouse.3x with regard to xterm
891 + modify tracemunch to accept filename parameters in addition to use
893 + minor optimization to reduce calls to _nc_reserve_pairs (prompted by
894 discussion with Bryan Christ).
895 + add test/pair_content.c and test/color_content.c
896 + modify infocmp to omit filtering of "OTxx" names which are used for
897 obsolete capabilities, when the output is sorted by long-names.
898 Doing this helps when making a table of the short/long capability
902 + several fixes for gcc8 strict compiler warnings.
903 + fix a typo in comments (Aaron Gyes).
904 + add nsterm-build309 to replace nsterm-256color, assigning the latter
905 as an alias of nsterm, to make mouse work with nsterm-256color -TD
906 + base gnome-256color entry on "gnome", not "vte", for consistency -TD
907 + updates for configure macros from work on tin and xterm:
908 + CF_GNU_SOURCE, allow for Cygwin's newlib when checking for the
909 _DEFAULT_SOURCE symbol.
910 + CF_VA_COPY, add fallback check if neither va_copy/__va_copy is
911 supported, to try copying the pointers for va_list, or as an array.
912 Also add another fallback check, for __builtin_va_copy(), which
913 could be used with AIX xlc in c89 mode.
916 + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to improve compatibility with SVr4
917 curses, changing the way the window rendition is updated when the
918 background character is modified (report by Valery Ushakov).
921 + add midnightbsd to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro (patch by Urs Jansen).
922 + add "@" command to test/ncurses F-test, to allow rapid jump to
923 different character pages.
924 + update config.guess, config.sub from
925 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
928 + build-fix (reports by Chih-Hsuan Yen, Sven Joachim).
931 + check --with-fallbacks option to ensure there is a value, and add
932 the fallback information to top-level Makefile summary.
933 + add some traces in initialization to show whether a fallback entry is
935 + build-fix for test/movewindow with ncurses-examples on Solaris.
936 + add "-l" option to test/background, to dump screen contents in a form
937 that lets different curses implementations be compared.
938 + modify the initialization checks for mouse so that the xterm+sm+1006
939 block will work with terminal descriptions not mentioning xterm
940 (report by Tomas Janousek).
943 + ignore the hex/b64 $TERMINFO in toe's listing.
944 + correct a status-check in _nc_read_tic_entry() so that if reading
945 a hex/b64 $TERMINFO, and the $TERM does not match, fall-through to
946 the compiled-in search list.
949 + several workarounds to ensure proper C compiler used in parts of
951 + update config.guess, config.sub from
952 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
955 + add OpenGL clients alacritty and kitty -TD
956 + add Smulx for tmux, vte-2018 -Nicholas Marriott
959 + ignore $TERMINFO as a default value in configure script if it came
960 from the infocmp -Q option.
961 + allow value for --with-versioned-syms to be a relative pathname
962 + add a couple of broken-linker symbols to the list of versioned
963 symbols to help with link-time optimization versus weak symbols.
964 + apply shift/control/alt logic when decoding xterm's 1006 mode to
965 wheel-mouse events (Redhat #1610681).
968 + amend change from 20180818, which undid a fix for the $INSTALL value
969 to make it an absolute path.
972 + improve a configure check to work with newer optimizers (report by
973 Denis Pronin, Gentoo #606142).
974 + fix typo in tput.c (Sven Joachim, cf: 20180825).
977 + fix typo in tvi955 -TD
978 + corrected acsc for regent60 -TD
979 + add alias n7900 -TD
980 + corrected acsc for tvi950 -TD
981 + remove bogus kf0 from tvi950 -TD
982 + added function-key definitions to agree with Televideo 950 manual -TD
983 + add bel to tvi950 -TD
984 + add shifted function-keys to regent60 -TD
985 + renumber regent40 function-keys to match manual -TD
986 + add cd (clr_eos) to adds200 -TD
989 + build-fix: remove a _tracef call which was used for debugging (report
993 + ignore interrupted system-call in test/ncurses's command-line, e.g.,
994 if the terminal were resized.
995 + add shift/control/alt logic for decoding xterm's 1006 mode (Redhat
996 #1610681, cf: 20141011).
997 + modify rpm test-packages to not use --disable-relink with Redhat,
998 since Fedora 28's tools do not work with that feature.
1001 + document --with-pcre2 configure option in INSTALL.
1002 + improve workaround for special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is
1003 marked as alternate-character set, to handle a case where the
1004 character in the cell does not correspond to any of the ASCII
1005 fallbacks (report by Leon Winter, cf: 20180505).
1006 + amend change to form library which attempted to avoid unnecessary
1007 update of cursor position in non-public fields, to simply disable
1008 output in this case (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20180414).
1009 + improve check for LINE_MAX runtime limit, to accommodate broken
1010 implementations of sysconf().
1013 + improve manual page for wgetnstr, giving background for the length
1015 + define a limit for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr when length is negative or
1017 + update configure script to autoconf 2.52.20180819 (Debian #887390).
1020 + add a section to tput manual page clarifying how it determines the
1021 terminal size (prompted by discussion with Grant Jenks).
1022 + add "--disable-relink" to rpm test-packages, for consistency with the
1024 + split spec-file into ncurses6.spec and ncursest6.spec to work around
1025 toolset breakage in Fedora 28.
1026 + drop mention of "--disable-touching", which was not in the final
1030 + build-fix for PDCurses with ncurses-examples.
1031 + improved CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS.
1032 + modify configure scripts to reduce relinking/ranlib during library
1033 install (Debian #903790):
1034 + use "install -p" when available, to avoid need for ranlib of
1036 + modify scripts which use "--disable-relink" to add a 1-second
1037 sleep to work around tools which use whole-second timestamps, e.g.,
1038 in utime() rather than the actual file system resolution.
1041 + improve logic for clear with E3 extension, in case the terminal
1042 scrolls content onto its saved-lines before actually clearing
1043 the display, by clearing the saved-lines after clearing the
1044 display (report/patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1047 + improve documentation regarding feature-test macros in curses.h
1048 + improve documentation regarding the virtual and physical screens.
1049 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
1052 + build-fixes for gcc8.
1053 + corrected acsc for wy50 -TD
1054 + add wy50 and wy60 shifted function-keys as kF1 to kF16 -TD
1055 + remove ansi+rep mis-added to interix in 2018-02-23 -TD
1058 + add enum, regex examples to test/demo_forms
1059 + add configure check for pcre-posix library to help with MinGW port.
1062 + build-fixes for gcc8.
1063 + correct order of WINDOW._ttytype versus WINDOW._windowlist in
1065 + fix a case where tiparm could return null if the format-string was
1066 empty (Debian #902630).
1069 + add acsc string to vi200 (Nibby Nebbulous)
1070 add right/down-arrow to vi200's acsc -TD
1071 + add "x" to tput's getopt string so that "tput -x clear" works
1072 (Nicholas Marriott).
1073 + minor fixes prompted by anonymous report on stack overflow:
1074 + correct order of checks in _nc_get_locale(), for systems lacking
1076 + add "#error" in a few places to flag unsupported configurations
1079 + use _WIN32/_WIN64 in preference to __MINGW32__/__MINGW64__ symbols
1080 to simplify building with MSVC, since the former are defined in both
1081 compiler configurations (report by Ali Abdulkadir).
1082 + further improvements to configure-checks from work on dialog, i.e.,
1083 updated CF_ADD_INCDIR, CF_FIND_LINKAGE, CF_GCC_WARNINGS,
1084 CF_GNU_SOURCE, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE, CF_SIZECHANGE, and
1085 CF_TRY_XOPEN_SOURCE.
1086 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1087 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1090 + build-fix for ncurses-examples related to gcc8-fixes (cf: 20180526).
1091 + reduce use of _GNU_SOURCE for current glibc where _DEFAULT_SOURCE
1092 combines with _XOPEN_SOURCE (Debian #900987).
1093 + change target configure level for _XOPEN_SOURCE to 600 to address
1094 use of vsscanf and setenv.
1095 + improved configure-checks CF_SIZECHANGE and CF_STRUCT_TERMIOS from
1099 + modify generated ncurses*config and ncurses.pc, ncursesw.pc, etc.,
1100 to list helper libraries such as gpm for static linking (Debian
1102 + marked vwprintw and vwscanw as deprecated; recommend using vw_printw
1103 and vw_scanw, respectively.
1106 + add RPM test-package "ncursest-examples".
1107 + modified RPM test-package to work with Mageia6.
1110 + add note in curs_util.3x about unctrl.h
1111 + review/improve header files to ensure that those include necessary
1112 files except for the previously-documented cases (report by Isaac
1114 + improved test-package scripts, adapted from byacc 1.9 20180525.
1115 + fix some gcc8 warnings seen in Redhat package build, but
1116 work around bug in gcc8 compiler warnings in comp_parse.c
1119 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
1120 + trim spurious whitespace from tmux in 2018-02-24 changes;
1121 fix some inconsistencies in/between tmux- and iterm2-entries for SGR
1122 (report by C Anthony Risinger)
1123 + improve iterm2 using some xterm features which it has adapted -TD
1124 + add check in pair_content() to handle the case where caller asks
1125 for an uninitialized pair (Debian #898658).
1128 + remove trailing ';' from GCC_DEPRECATED definition.
1129 + repair a change from 20110730 which left an error-check/warning dead.
1130 + fix several minor Coverity warnings.
1133 + add deprecation warnings for internal functions called by older
1135 + fix a special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is marked as
1136 alternate-character set, but the terminal does not actually support
1137 the given graphic character. This would happen in an older terminal
1138 such as vt52, which lacks most line-drawing capability.
1139 + use configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
1140 conflict with Debian packages versus test-packages.
1141 + update tracemunch to work with perl 5.26.2, which changed the rules
1142 for escaping regular expressions.
1145 + document new form-extension O_EDGE_INSERT_STAY (report by Leon
1147 + correct error-returns listed in manual pages for a few form functions
1148 (report by Leon Winter).
1149 + add a check in form-library for null-pointer dereference:
1150 unfocus_current_field (form);
1151 form_driver (form, REQ_VALIDATION);
1152 (patch by Leon Winter).
1155 + modify form library to optionally delay cursor movement on a field
1156 edge/boundary (patch by Leon Winter).
1157 + modify form library to avoid unnecessary update of cursor position in
1158 non-public fields (patch by Leon Winter).
1159 + remove unused _nc_import_termtype2() function.
1160 + also add/improve null-pointer checks in other places
1161 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_parse_entry to handle an error when
1162 a use-name is invalid syntax (report by Chung-Yi Lin).
1165 + clarify in manual pages that vwprintw and vwscanw are obsolete,
1166 not part of X/Open Curses since 2007.
1167 + use "const" in some prototypes rather than NCURSES_CONST where X/Open
1168 Curses was updated to do this, e.g., wscanw, newterm, the terminfo
1169 interface. Also use "const" for consistency in the termcap
1170 interface, which was withdrawn by X/Open Curses in Issue 5 (2007).
1171 As of Issue 7, X/Open Curses still lacks "const" for certain return
1172 values, e.g., keyname().
1175 + improve terminfo write/read by modifying the fourth item of the
1176 extended header to denote the number of valid strings in the extended
1177 string table (prompted by a comment in unibilium's sources).
1180 + amend Scaled256() macro in test/picsmap.c to cover the full range
1181 0..1000 (report by Roger Pau Monne).
1182 + add some checks in tracemunch for undefined variables.
1183 + trim some redundant capabilities from st-0.7 -TD
1184 + trim unnecessary setf/setb from interix -TD
1187 + fix a check in infotocap which may not have detected a problem when
1189 + add a check in tic for the case where setf/setb are given using
1190 different strings, but provide identical results to setaf/setab.
1191 + further improve fix for terminfo.5 (patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
1192 + reorder loop-limit checks in winsnstr() in case the string has no
1193 terminating null and only the number of characters is used (patch
1197 + modify TurnOn/TurnOff macros in lib_vidattr.c and lib_vid_attr.c to
1198 avoid expansion of "CUR" in trace.
1199 + improve a few lintian warnings in test-packages.
1200 + modify lib_setup to avoid calling pthread_self() without first
1201 verifying that the address is valid, i.e., for weak symbols
1202 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
1203 + modify generated terminfo.5 to not use "expand" and related width
1204 on the last column of tables, making layout on wide terminals look
1205 better (adapted from patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
1206 + add a category to report_offsets, e.g., "w" for wide-character, "t"
1207 for threads to make the report more readable. Reorganized the
1208 structures reported to make the categories more apparent.
1209 + simplify some ifdef's for extended-colors.
1210 + add NCURSES_GLOBALS and NCURSES_PRESCREEN to report_offsets, to show
1211 how similar the different tinfo configurations are.
1214 + modify _nc_resolve_uses2() to detect incompatible types when merging
1215 a "use=" clause of extended capabilities. The problem was seen in a
1216 defective terminfo integrated from simpleterm sources in 20171111,
1217 compounded by repair in 20180121.
1218 + correct Ss/Ms interchange in st-0.7 entry (tmux #1264) -TD
1219 + fix remaining flash capabilities with trailing mandatory delays -TD
1220 + correct cut/paste in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
1223 + remove incorrect free() from 20170617 changes (report by David Macek).
1224 + correct type for "U8" in user_caps.5; it is a number not boolean.
1225 + add a null-pointer check in safe_sprintf.c (report by Steven Noonan).
1226 + improve fix for Debian #882620 by reusing limit2 variable (report by
1227 Julien Cristau, Sven Joachim).
1230 + modify misc/Makefile.in to install/uninstall explicit list in case
1231 the build-directory happens to have no ".pc" files when an uninstall
1232 is performed (report by Jeffrey Walton).
1233 + deprecate safe-sprintf, since the vsnprintf function, which does what
1234 was needed, was standardized long ago.
1235 + add several development/experimental options to development packages.
1236 + minor reordering of options in configure script to make the threaded
1237 and reentrant options distinct from the other extensions which are
1241 + minor fixes to test/*.h to make them idempotent.
1242 + add/use test/parse_rgb.h to show how the "RGB" capability works.
1243 + add a clarification in user_caps.5 regarding "RGB" capability.
1244 + add extended_slk_color{,_sp} symbols to the appropriate
1245 package/*.{map,sym} files (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20170401).
1248 + update "VERSION" file, used in shared-library naming.
1250 20180127 6.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1253 + updated release notes
1254 + amend a warning message from tic which should have flagged misuse
1255 of "XT" capability in "screen" terminal description.
1257 + trim "XT" from screen entry, add comments to explain why it was
1259 + modify iterm to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
1260 + mark konsole-420pc, konsole-vt100, konsole-xf3x obsolete reflecting
1261 konsole's removal in 2008 -TD
1262 + expanded the history section of konsole to explain its flawed
1263 imitation of xterm's keyboard -TD
1264 + use xterm+x11mouse in screen.* entries because screen does not yet
1265 support xterm's 1006 mode -TD
1266 + add nsterm-build400 for macOS 10.13 -TD
1267 + add ansi+idc1, use that in ansi+idc adding dch for consistency -TD
1268 + update vte to vte-2017 -TD
1269 + add ecma+strikeout to vte-2017 -TD
1270 + add iterm2-direct -TD
1271 + updated teraterm, added teraterm-256color -TD
1272 + add mlterm-direct -TD
1273 + add descriptions for ANSI building-blocks -TD
1275 20180121 pre-release
1277 + add xterm+noalt, xterm+titlestack, xterm+alt1049, xterm+alt+title
1278 blocks from xterm #331 -TD
1279 + add xterm+direct, xterm+indirect, xterm-direct entries from xterm
1281 + modify xterm+256color and xterm+256setaf to use correct number of
1282 color pairs, for ncurses 6.1 -TD
1283 + add rs1 capability to xterm-256color -TD
1284 + modify xterm-r5, xterm-r6 and xterm-xf86-v32 to use xterm+kbs to
1285 match xterm #272, reflecting packager's changes -TD
1286 + remove "boolean" Se, Ss from st-0.7 -TD
1287 + add konsole-direct and st-direct -TD
1288 + remove unsupported "Tc" capability from st-0.7; use st-direct if
1289 direct-colors are wanted -TD
1290 + add vte-direct -TD
1291 + add XT, hpa, indn, and vpa to screen, and invis, E3 to tmux (patch by
1293 + use xterm+sm+1006 in xterm-new, vte-2014 -TD
1294 + use xterm+x11mouse in iterm, iterm2, mlterm3 because xterm's 1006
1295 mode does not work with those programs. konsole is debatable -TD
1296 + add "termite" entry (report by Markus Pfeiffer) -TD
1297 > merge branch begun April 2, 2017 which provides these features:
1298 + support read/write new binary-format for terminfo which stores
1299 numeric capabilities as a signed 32-bit integer. The test programs
1300 such as picsmap, ncurses were created or updated during 2017 to use
1302 + the new format is written by the wide-character configuration of
1303 tic when it finds a numeric capability larger than 32767.
1304 + other applications such as infocmp built with the wide-character
1305 ncurses library work as expected.
1306 + applications built with the "narrow" (8-bit) configuration will
1307 read the new format, but will limit those extended values to 32767.
1308 + in either wide/narrow configuration, the structure defined in
1309 term.h still uses signed 16-bit values.
1310 + because it is incompatible with the legacy (mid-1980s) binary format,
1311 a new magic value is provided for the "file" program.
1312 + the term.5 manual page is updated to describe this new format.
1313 + the limit on file-size for compiled terminfo is increased in the
1314 wide-character configuration to 32768.
1317 + build-fix in picsmap.c for stdint.h existence.
1318 + add --disable-stripping option to configure scripts.
1319 + modify ncurses-examples to install test-scripts in the data directory.
1320 + work around tool-breakage in Debian 9 and later by invoking
1321 gprconfig to specify the C compiler to be used by gnatmake,
1322 and conditionally suppressing Library_Options line for static
1324 + bump the compat level for test-packages to 7, i.e., Debian 5.
1327 + fixes for writing extended color pairs in putwin.
1328 + modify test/savescreen.c to add test patterns that exercise 88-,
1330 + modify configure option --with-build-cc, adding clang, c89 and c99
1331 as possible default values.
1332 + modify ncurses-examples configure script to use pkg-config for the
1333 extra form/menu/panel libraries, to be more consistent with the
1334 handling of the curses/ncurses library.
1335 + modify test-packages for mingw to supply "pc" files.
1336 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to list -lpthread as a private library when
1337 configured to access it via weak symbols.
1338 + simplify gen-pkgconfig.in, adding -ltinfo without the special linker
1339 checks because some versions of the linker simply hard-code the
1341 + update URLs for ncurses website to use https.
1342 + modify CF_CURSES_LIBS to fill in $cf_nculib_root in case the
1343 ncurses-examples are built with a system ncurses that lacks the
1344 standard "curses" symbolic link, as done by SuSE. The symbol is
1345 needed to make a followup check for the pthread library work, and
1346 would be set properly using the options "--with-screen", etc.
1347 + generate misc/*.pc with "all" rule, as done for "sources" rule
1348 (report by Jeffrey Walton).
1351 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with Fedora27, adding check for
1352 reset_color_pairs() -- not yet in Fedora's package.
1353 + consistently add $CFLAGS to $MK_SHARED_LIB symbol in configure
1354 script when the latter happens to use the C compiler rather than
1355 directly using the loader (report by Jeffrey Walton).
1356 + set ABI for upcoming 6.1 release in "*.map" files. While there are
1357 some remaining internals to apply, no ABI-related changes are
1359 + add configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
1360 conflict with Redhat packages versus test-packages.
1363 + modify ncurses-examples to quiet const-warnings when building with
1365 + modify toe to not exit if unable to read a terminal description,
1366 e.g., if there is a permission problem.
1367 + minor fix for progs/toe.c, using _nc_free_termtype2.
1368 + assign 0 to pointer in _nc_tgetent_leak() after freeing it. Also
1369 avoid reusing pointer from previous successful call to tgetent
1370 if the latest call is unsuccessful (patch by Michael Schroeder,
1372 + minor fix for test/tracemunch, initialize $awaiting variable.
1375 + repair template in test/package/ncurses-examples.spec (cf: 20171111).
1376 + improve tic's warning about the number of parameters tparm might use
1377 for u1-u9 by making a special case for u6.
1378 + improve curs_attr.3x discussion of color pairs.
1381 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to make output with --includedir
1382 consistent with --cflags, i.e., when --disable-overwrite option was
1383 configured the output should show the subdirectory where headers
1385 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to suppress macros when calling an "implemented"
1386 function in link_test.c
1387 + updated ftp-url used in test-packages, etc.
1388 + modify order of -pie/-shared options in configure script in case
1389 LDFLAGS uses "-pie", working around a defect or limitation in the GNU
1390 linker (prompted by patch by Yogesh Prasad, forwarded by Jay Shah).
1391 + add entry in man_db.renames for user_caps.5
1394 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid tracing result from getstr/getnstr
1396 + add "-a" aspect-ratio option to picsmap.
1397 + add configure check for default path of rgb.txt, used in picsmap.
1398 + modify _nc_write_entry() to truncate too-long filename (report by
1399 Hosein Askari, Debian #882620).
1400 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses:
1401 + it lacks the use_env() function.
1402 + it lacks libpanel; a recent change used the wrong ifdef symbol.
1403 + add a macro for is_linetouched() and adjust the function's return
1404 value to make it possible for most applications to check for an
1405 error-return (report by Midolikawa H).
1406 + additional manpage cleanup.
1407 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1408 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1411 + add a note to curs_addch.3x on portability.
1412 + add a note to curs_pad.3x on the origin and portability of pads.
1413 + improve manpage description of getattrs (report by Midolikawa H).
1414 + improve manpage macros (prompted by discussion in Debian #880551.
1415 + reviewed test-programs using KEY_RESIZE, made fixes to test/worm.c
1416 + add a "-d" option to picsmap for default-colors.
1417 + modify old terminology entry and a few other terminal emulators to
1419 + correct sgr string for tmux, which used screen's "standout" code
1420 rather than the standard code (patch by Roman Kagan)
1421 + correct sgr/sgr0 strings in a few other cases reported by tic, making
1422 those correspond to the non-sgr settings where they differ, but
1423 otherwise use ECMA-48 consistently:
1424 jaixterm, aixterm, att5420_2, att4424, att500, decansi, d410-7b,
1425 dm80, hpterm, emu-220, hp2, iTerm2.app, mterm-ansi, ncrvt100an,
1426 st-0.7, vi603, vwmterm -TD
1427 + build-fix for diagnostics warning in lib_mouse.c for pre-5.0 versions
1428 of gcc which did not recognize the diagnostic "push" pragma (patch by
1432 + add "op" to xterm+256setaf -TD
1433 + reviewed terminology 1.0.0 -TD
1434 + reviewed st 0.7 -TD
1435 + suppress debug-package for ncurses-examples rpm build.
1438 + check for interrupt in color-pair initialization of dots_curses.c,
1440 + add z/Z zoom feature to test/ncurses.c C/c screens.
1441 + add '<' and '>' commands to test/ncurses.c S/s screens, to better
1442 test off-by-ones in the overlap/copywin functions.
1445 + improve man/curs_inwstr.3x, correct end-logic for lib_inwstr.c
1446 (report by Midolikawa H).
1447 + fix typo in a few places for "improvements" (patch by Sven Joachim).
1448 + clear the other half of a double-width character on which a line
1449 drawing character is drawn.
1450 + make test/ncurses.c "s" test easier to understand which subtests are
1451 available; add a "S" wide-character overlap test-screen.
1452 + modify test/ncurses.c C/c tests to allow for extended color pairs.
1453 + add endwin() call in error-returns from test/ncurses.c omitted in
1454 recent redesign of its menu (cf: 20170923).
1455 + improve install of hashed-db by removing the ".db" file as done for
1456 directory-tree terminal databases.
1457 + repair a few overlooked items in include/ncurses_defs from recent
1458 port/refactoring of test-programs (cf: 20170909).
1459 + add test/padview.c, to compare pads with direct updates in view.c
1462 + modify test/view.c to expand tabs using the ncurses library rather
1463 than in the test-program.
1464 + remove very old SIGWINCH example in test/view.c, just use KEY_RESIZE.
1465 + add -T, -e, -f -m options to "dots" test-programs.
1466 + fix a few typos in usage-messages for test-programs.
1469 + minor cleanup to test/view.c:
1470 + eliminate "-n" option by simply reading the whole file.
1471 + implement page up/down commands.
1472 + add check in tput for init/reset operands to ensure those use a
1474 + improve manual pages which discuss chtype, cchar_t types and the
1475 attribute values which can be stored in those types.
1476 + correct array-index when parsing "-T" command-line option in tabs
1478 + modify demo_new_pair.c to pass extended pairs to setcchar().
1479 + add test/dots_xcurses.c to illustrate a different approach used for
1480 extended colors which can be contrasted with dots_curses.c.
1481 + add a check in tic to note when a description uses non-mandatory
1482 delays without xon_xoff. This is not an error, but some descriptions
1483 for a terminal emulator may use the combination incorrectly.
1486 + modify "-T" option of clear and tput to call use_tioctl() to obtain
1487 the operating system's notion of the screensize if possible.
1488 + review/repair some exit-codes for tput, making usage-message exit
1489 with 2 rather than 1, and a failure to open terminal 4+errno.
1490 + amend check in tput, tabs and clear to allow those to use the
1491 database-only features in cron if a -T option gives a suitable
1492 terminal name (report by Lauri Tirkkonen).
1493 + correct an ifdef in test/ncurses.c for systems with soft-keys but
1495 + regenerate man-html documentation.
1498 + fix a symbol conflict that made ncurses.c C/c menu not work with
1499 Solaris xpg4 curses.
1500 + add refresh() call to dots_mvcur.c, needed to use mvcur() with
1501 Solaris xpg4 curses after calling newterm().
1502 + minor fixes for configure script from work on ncurses-examples and
1504 + improve animation in test/xmas.c by adding a time-delay in blinkit().
1505 + modify several test programs to reflect that ncurses honors existing
1506 signal handlers in initscr(), while other implementations do not.
1507 + modify bs.c to make it easier to quit.
1508 + change ncurses-examples to use attr_t vs chtype to follow X/Open
1509 documentation more closely since Solaris xpg4-curses uses different
1510 values for WA_xxx vs A_xxx that rely on attr_t being an unsigned
1511 short. Tru64 aka OSF1, HPUX, AIX did as ncurses does, equating the
1515 + modify menu for test/ncurses.c to fit on 24-line screen.
1516 + build-fix for configure --with-caps=uwin
1517 + add options to test_arrays.c, for selecting termcap vs terminfo, etc.
1520 + minor fix to test/filter.c to avoid clearing the command in one case.
1521 + modify filter() to discard clr_eos if back_color_erase is set.
1524 + improve wide-character implementation of myADDNSTR() in frm_driver.c,
1525 which was inconsistent with the normal implementation.
1526 + save/restore cursor position in Undo_Justification(), matching
1527 behavior of Buffer_To_Window() (report by Leon Winter).
1528 + modify test/knight to provide the "slow" solution for small screens
1529 using "R", noting that Warnsdorf's method is easily done with "a".
1530 + modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to
1531 consistently do this only if "-d" option is given.
1532 + additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses:
1533 + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absence of limit
1534 checks in some libraries.
1535 + fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does
1536 not return ERR on the lower-right corner.
1537 + add checks in test/configure for some functions not in 4.3BSD curses.
1538 + fix a regression in test/configure (cf: 20170826).
1541 + amend change for endwin-state for better consistency with the older
1542 logic (report/patch by Jeb Rosen, cf: 20170722).
1543 + modify check in fmt_entry() to handle a cancelled reset string
1544 (Debian #873746). Make similar fixes in other parts of dump_entry.c
1548 + fix a bug in repeat_char logic (cf: 20170729, report by Chris Clayton).
1551 + fixes for "iterm2" (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
1552 + corrected a warning from tic about keys which are the same, to skip
1553 over missing/cancelled values.
1554 + add check in tic for unnecessary use of "2" to denote a shifted
1556 + improve checks in trim_sgr0, comp_parse.c and parse_entry.c, for
1557 cancelled string capabilities.
1558 + add check in _nc_parse_entry() for invalid entry name, setting the
1559 name to "invalid" to avoid problems storing entries.
1560 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
1561 + add a check in comp_scan.c to handle the special case where a
1562 nontext file ending with a NUL rather than newline is given to tic
1563 as input (Redhat #1484274).
1564 + allow for cancelled capabilities in _nc_save_str (Redhat #1484276).
1565 + add validity checks for "use=" target in _nc_parse_entry (Redhat
1567 + check for invalid strings in postprocess_termcap (Redhat #1484285)
1568 + reset secondary pointers on EOF in next_char() (Redhat #1484287).
1569 + guard _nc_safe_strcpy() and _nc_safe_strcat() against calls using
1570 cancelled strings (Redhat #1484291).
1571 + correct typo in curs_memleaks.3x (Sven Joachim).
1572 + improve test/configure checks for some curses variants not based on
1574 + add options for test/configure to disable checks for form, menu and
1578 + update "iterm" entry -TD
1579 + add "iterm2" entry (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
1580 + regenerate llib-* files.
1581 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1582 + improve picsmap test-program:
1583 + reduce memory used for tsearch
1584 + add report in log file showing cumulative color coverage.
1585 + add -x option to clear/tput to make the E3 extension optional
1587 + add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput.
1588 + add usage message to clear command (Debian #371855).
1589 + improve usage messages for tset and tput.
1590 + minor fixes to "RGB" extension and reset_color_pairs().
1593 + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by
1595 + add reset_color_pairs() function.
1596 + add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used
1598 + improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure
1599 script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack.
1600 + modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in
1601 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
1602 + improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(),
1603 color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters.
1604 + minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the
1605 current screen is marked for clearing.
1606 + in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for
1607 loading image files.
1608 + modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow
1609 on demand up to the existing limit.
1610 + add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to
1611 improve color_content().
1612 + improve picsmap test-program:
1613 + if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM,
1614 checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat"
1615 suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g.,
1616 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
1617 + add "-l" option for logging
1618 + add "-d" option for debugging
1619 + add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images,
1621 + use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images.
1622 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1623 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1626 + update interix entry using tack and SFU on Windows 7 Ultimate -TD
1627 + use ^? for kdch1 in interix (reported by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard)
1628 + add "rep" to xterm-new, available since 1997/01/26 -TD
1629 + move SGR 24 and 27 from vte-2014 to vte-2012 (request by Alain
1631 + add a check in newline_forces_scroll() in case a program moves the
1632 cursor outside scrolling margins (report by Robert King).
1633 + improve _nc_tparm_analyze, using that to extend the checks made by
1634 tic for reporting inconsistencies between the expected number of
1635 parameters for a capability and the actual.
1636 + amend handling of repeat_char capability in EmitRange (adapted from
1637 report/patch by Dick Wesseling):
1638 + translate the character to the alternate character set when the
1639 alternate character set is enabled.
1640 + do not use repeat_char for characters past 255.
1641 + document "_nc_free_tinfo" in manual page, because it could be used in
1642 tack for memory-leak checking.
1643 + add "--without-tack" configure option to refine "--with-progs"
1644 configure option. Normally tack is no longer built in-tree, but
1645 a few packagers combine it during the build. If term_entry.h is
1646 installed, there is no advantage to in-tree builds.
1647 + adjust configure-script to define HAVE_CURSES_DATA_BOOLNAMES symbol
1648 needed for tack 1.08 when built in-tree. Rather than relying upon
1649 internal "_nc_" functions, tack now uses the boolean, number and
1650 string capability name-arrays provided by ncurses and SVr4 Unix
1651 curses. It still uses term_entry.h for the definitions of the
1652 extended capability arrays.
1653 + add an overlooked null-pointer check in mvcur changes from 20170722
1656 + improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian
1657 + modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where
1658 the screen was never initialized, using that to trigger a flush of
1659 ncurses' buffer for mvcur, e.g., in test/dots_mvcur.c for the
1660 term-driver configuration.
1661 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to a few other internal header
1662 files to allow each to be compiled separately.
1663 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program
1664 using tic-library will have to supply this file. Legacy tack
1665 versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the
1666 dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected.
1669 + modify command-line parameters for "convert" used in picsmap to work
1670 with ImageMagick 6.8 and newer.
1671 + fix build-problem with tack and ABI-5 (Debian #868328).
1672 + repair termcap-format from tic/infocmp broken in 20170701 fixes
1674 + reformat terminfo.src with 20170513 updates.
1675 + improve test-packages to address lintian warnings.
1678 + add a note to tic manual page about -W versus -f options.
1679 + correct a limit-check in fixes from 20170701 (report by Sven Joachim).
1682 + modify update_getenv() in db_iterator.c to ensure that environment
1683 variables which are not initially set will be checked later if an
1684 application happens to set them (patch by Guillaume Maudoux).
1685 + remove initialization-check for calling napms() in the term-driver
1686 configuration; none is needed.
1687 + add help-screen to test/test_getstr.c and test/test_get_wstr.c
1688 + improve compatibility between different configurations of new_prescr,
1689 fixing a case with threaded code and term-driver where c++/demo did
1690 not work (cf: 20160213).
1691 + the fixes for Redhat #1464685 obscured a problem subsequently
1692 reported in Redhat #1464687; the given test-case was no longer
1693 reproducible. Testing without the fixes for the earlier reports
1694 showed a problem with buffer overflow in dump_entry.c, which is
1695 addressed by reducing the use of a fixed-size buffer.
1696 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
1697 (Redhat #1464684, #1464685, #1464686, #1464691).
1698 + alloc_entry.c, add a check for a null-pointer.
1699 + parse_entry.c, add several checks for valid pointers as well as
1700 one check to ensure that a single character on a line is not
1701 treated as the 2-character termcap short-name.
1702 + fix a memory leak in delscreen() (report by Bai Junq).
1703 + improve tracemunch, showing thread identifiers as names.
1704 + fix a use-after-free in NCursesMenu::~NCursesMenu()
1705 + further amend incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
1706 (report by Allen Hewes).
1709 + modify c++/etip.h.in to accommodate deprecation of throw() and
1710 throws() in c++17 (prompted by patch by Romain Geissler).
1711 + remove some incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
1712 (report by Allen Hewes).
1713 + add test-programs for termattrs and term_attrs.
1714 + modify _nc_outc_wrapper to use the standard output if the screen was
1715 not initialized, rather than returning an error.
1716 + improve checks for low-level terminfo functions when the terminal
1717 has not been initialized (Redhat #1345963).
1718 + modify make_hash to allow building with address-sanitizer,
1719 assuming that --disable-leaks is configured.
1720 + amend changes for number_format() in 20170506 to avoid undefined
1721 behavior when shifting (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta).
1724 + fill in some places where TERMTYPE2 vs TERMTYPE was not used
1725 (report by Allen Hewes).
1726 + use ExitTerminfo() internally in error-exits for ncurses' setupterm
1727 to help with leak checking.
1728 + use ExitProgram() in error-exit from initscr() to help with leak
1730 + review test-programs, adding checks for cases where the terminal
1731 cannot be initialized.
1734 + add option "-xp" to picsmap.c, to use init_extended_pair().
1735 + make simple performance fixes for picsmap.c
1736 + improve aspect ratio of images read from "convert" in picsmap.c
1739 + add option to picsmap to use color-palette files, e.g., for mapping
1741 + move the data in SCREEN used for the alloc_pair() function to the
1742 end, to restore compatibility between ncurses/ncursesw libtinfo
1743 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1744 + add build-time utility "report_offsets" to help show when the various
1745 configurations of tinfo library are compatible or not.
1748 + improved test/picsmap.c:
1749 + lookup named colors for xpm files in rgb.txt
1750 + accept blanks in color-keys for xpm files.
1751 + if neither xbm/xpm work, try "convert", which may be available.
1754 + modify test/picsmap.c to read xpm files.
1755 + modify package/debian/* to create documentation packages, so the
1756 related files can be checked with lintian.
1757 + fix some typos in manpages (report/patch by Sven Joachim).
1760 + add test/picsmap.c to fill in some testing issues not met by dots.
1761 The initial version reads X bitmap (".xbm") files.
1762 + repair logic which forces a repaint where a color-pair's content is
1763 changed (cf: 20170311).
1764 + improve tracemunch, showing screenXX pointers as names.
1767 + modify tic/infocmp display of numeric values to use hexadecimal when
1768 they are "close" to a power of two, making the result more readable.
1769 + improve discussion of portability in curs_mouse.3x
1770 + change line-length for generated html/manpages to 78 columns from 65.
1771 + improve discussion of line-drawing characters in curs_add_wch.3x
1772 (prompted by discussion with Lorinczy Zsigmond).
1773 + cleanup formatting of hackguide.html and ncurses-intro.html
1774 + add examples for WACS_D_PLUS and WACS_T_PLUS to test/ncurses.c
1777 + corrected a case where $with_gpm was set to "maybe" after CF_WITH_GPM,
1778 overlooked in 20160528 fixes (report by Alexandre Bury).
1779 + improve a couple of test-program's help-messages.
1780 + corrected loop in rain.c from 20170415 changes.
1781 + modify winnstr and winchnstr to return error if the output pointer is
1782 null, as well as adding a null pointer check of the window pointer
1783 for better compatibility with other implementations.
1784 + improve discussion of NetBSD curses in scr_dump.5
1785 + modify LIMIT_TYPED macro in new_pair.h to avoid changing sign of the
1786 value to be limited (reports by Darby Payne, Rob Boudreau).
1787 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1788 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1791 + build-fix for termcap-configuration (report by Chi-Hsuan Yen).
1792 + improve terminfo manual page discussion of control- and graphics-
1794 + remove tic warning about "^?" in string capabilities, which was
1795 marked as an extension (cf: 20000610, 20110820); however all Unix
1796 implementations support this and X/Open Curses does not address it.
1797 On the other hand, termcap never did support this feature.
1798 + correct missing comma-separator between string capabilities in
1799 icl6402 and m2-nam -TD
1800 + restore rmir/smir in ansi+idc to better match original ansiterm+idc,
1801 add alias ansiterm (report by Robert King).
1802 + amend an old check for ambiguous use of "ma" in terminfo versus
1803 a termcap use, if the capability is cancelled to treat it as number.
1804 + correct a case in _nc_captoinfo() which read "%%" and emitted "%".
1805 + modify sscanf calls in _nc_infotocap() for patterns "%{number}%+%c"
1806 and "%'char'%+%c" to check that the final character is really 'c',
1807 avoiding a case in icl6404 which cannot be converted to termcap.
1808 + in _nc_infotocap(), add a check to ensure that terminfo "^?" is not
1809 written to termcap, because the BSDs did not implement that.
1810 + in _nc_tic_expand() and _nc_infotocap(), improve string-length check
1811 when deciding whether to use "^X" or "\xxx" format for control
1812 characters, to make the output of tic/infocmp more predictable.
1813 + limit termcap "%d" width to 2 digits on input, and use "%2" in
1814 preference to "%02" on output.
1815 + correct terminfo/termcap conversion of "%02" and "%03" into "%2" and
1816 "%3"; the result repeated the last character.
1817 + add man/scr_dump.5 to document screen-dump format.
1820 + modify several test programs to use new popup_msgs, adapted from
1821 help-screen used in test/edit_field.c
1822 + drop two symbols obsoleted in 2004: _nc_check_termtype, and
1824 + fix some old copyright dates (cf: 20031025).
1825 + build-fixes for test/savescreen.c to work with AIX and HPUX.
1826 + minor fix to configure script, adding a backslash/continuation.
1827 + extend TERMINAL structure for ABI 6 to store numbers internally as
1828 integers rather than short, by adding new data for this purpose.
1829 + more fixes for minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
1832 + change logic in wins_nwstr() to avoid addressing data past the output
1834 + correct a call to setcchar() in Data_Entry_w() from 20131207 changes.
1835 + fix minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
1836 + further improve ifdef in term_entry.h for internal definitions not
1840 + minor fixes for vt100+4bsd, e.g., delay in sgr for consistency -TD
1841 + add smso for env230, to match sgr -TD
1842 + remove p7/protect from sgr in fbterm -TD
1843 + drop setf/setb from fbterm; setaf/setab are enough -TD
1844 + make xterm-pcolor sgr consistent with other capabilities -TD
1845 + add rmxx/smxx ECMA-48 strikeout extension to tmux and xterm-basic
1846 (discussion with Nicholas Marriott)
1847 + add test-programs sp_tinfo and extended_color
1848 + modify no-leaks code for lib_cur_term.c to account for the tgetent()
1850 + modify setupterm() to save original tty-modes so that erasechar()
1851 works as expected. Also modify _nc_setupscreen() to avoid redundant
1852 calls to get original tty-modes.
1853 + modify set_curterm() to update ttytype[] data used by longname().
1854 + modify wattr_set() and wattr_get() to return ERR if win-parameter is
1855 null, as documented.
1856 + improve cast used for null-pointer checks in header macros, to
1857 reduce compiler warnings.
1858 + modify several functions, using the reserved "opts" parameter to pass
1859 color- and pair-values larger than 16-bits:
1860 + getcchar(), setcchar(), slk_attr_set(), vid_puts(), wattr_get(),
1861 wattr_set(), wchgat(), wcolor_set().
1862 + Other functions call these with the corresponding altered behavior,
1863 including chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat(), slk_color_on(),
1864 slk_color_off(), vid_attr().
1865 + add new functions for manipulating color- and pair-values larger
1866 than 16-bits. These are extended_color_content(),
1867 extended_pair_content(), extended_slk_color(), init_extended_color(),
1868 init_extended_pair(), and the corresponding sp-funcs.
1871 + fix a memory leak in the window-list when creating multiple screens
1872 (reports by Andres Martinelli, Debian #783486).
1873 + reviewed calls from link_test.c, added a few more null-pointer
1875 + add a null-pointer check in ungetmouse, in case mousemask was not
1876 called (report by "Kau").
1877 + updated curs_sp_funcs.3x for new functions.
1880 + change TERMINAL structure in term.h to make it opaque. Some
1881 applications misuse its members, e.g., directly modifying it
1882 rather than using def_prog_mode().
1883 + modify utility headers such as tic.h to make it clearer which are
1884 externals that are used by tack.
1885 + improve curs_slk.3x in particular its discussion of portability.
1886 + fix cut/paste in legacy_encoding.3x
1887 + add prototype for find_pair() to new_pair.3x (report by Branden
1889 + fix a couple of broken links in generated man-html documentation.
1890 + regenerate man-html documentation.
1893 + modify vt100 rs2 string to reset vt52 mode and scrolling regions
1894 (report/analysis by Robert King) -TD
1895 + add vt100+4bsd building block, use that for older terminals rather
1896 than "vt100" which is now mostly used as a building block for
1897 terminal emulators -TD
1898 + correct a few spelling errors in terminfo.src comments -TD
1900 + fix a typo in ncurses.c test_attr legend (patch by Petr Vanek).
1901 + changed internal colorpair_t to a struct, eliminating an internal
1902 8-bit limit on colors
1903 + add ncurses/new_pair.h
1904 + add ncurses/base/new_pair.c with alloc_pair(), find_pair() and
1905 free_pair() functions
1906 + add test/demo_new_pair.c
1909 + improve terminfo manual description of terminfo syntax.
1910 + clarify the use of wint_t vs wchar_t in curs_get_wstr.3x
1911 + improve description of endwin() in manual.
1912 + modify setcchar() and getcchar() to treat negative color-pair as an
1914 + fix a typo in include/hashed_db.h (Andre Sa).
1917 + fixes for CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS (report by Ross Burton).
1920 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
1921 + correct read of terminfo entry in which all strings are absent or
1922 explicitly cancelled. Before this fix, the result was that all were
1923 treated as only absent.
1924 + modify infocmp to suppress mixture of absent/cancelled capabilities
1925 that would only show as "NULL, NULL", unless the -q option is used,
1926 e.g., to show "-, @" or "@, -".
1929 + build-fixes for PGI compilers (report by Adam J. Stewart)
1930 + accept whitespace in sed expression for generating expanded.c
1931 + modify configure check that g++ compiler warnings are not used.
1932 + add configure check for -fPIC option needed for shared libraries.
1933 + let configure --disable-ext-funcs override the default for the
1934 --enable-sp-funcs option.
1935 + mark some structs in form/menu/panel libraries as potentially opaque
1936 without modifying API/ABI.
1937 + add configure option --enable-opaque-curses for ncurses library and
1938 similar options for the other libraries.
1941 + trim newlines, tabs and escaped newlines from terminfo "paths" passed
1943 + ignore zero-length files in db-iterator; these are useful for
1944 instance to suppress "$HOME/.terminfo" when not wanted.
1945 + amended "b64:" encoder to work with the terminfo reader.
1946 + modify terminfo reader to accept "b64:" format using RFC-3548 in
1947 as well as RFC-4648 url/filename-safe format.
1948 + modify terminfo reader to accept "hex:" format as generated by
1949 "infocmp -0qQ1" (cf: 20150905).
1950 + adjust authors comment to reflect drop below 1% for SV.
1953 + minor comment-fixes to help automate links to bug-urls -TD
1954 + add dvtm, dvtm-256color -TD
1955 + add settings corresponding to xterm-keys option to tmux entry to
1956 reflect upcoming change to make that option "on" by default
1957 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1958 + uncancel Ms in tmux entry (Harry Gindi, Nicholas Marriott).
1959 + add dumb-emacs-ansi -TD
1962 + improve discussion of early history of tput program.
1963 + incorporate A_COLOR mask into COLOR_PAIR(), in case user application
1964 provides an out-of-range pair number (report by Elijah Stone).
1965 + clarify description in tput manual page regarding support for
1966 termcap names (prompted by FreeBSD #214709).
1967 + remove a restriction in tput's support for termcap names which
1968 omitted capabilities normally not shown in termcap translations
1970 + modify configure script for clang as used on FreeBSD, to work around
1971 clang's differences in exit codes vs gcc.
1974 + improve discussion of early history of tset/reset programs.
1975 + clarify in manual pages that the optional verbose option level is
1976 available only when ncurses is configured for tracing.
1977 + amend change from 20161231 to avoid writing traces to the standard
1978 error after initializing the trace feature using the environment
1982 + amend changes for tput to reset tty modes to "sane" if the program
1983 is run as "reset", like tset. Likewise, ensure that tset sends
1984 either reset- or init-strings.
1985 + improve manual page descriptions of tput init/reset and tset/reset,
1986 to make it easier to see how they are similar and different.
1987 + move a static result from key_name() to _nc_globals
1988 + modify _nc_get_screensize to allow for use_env() and use_tioctl()
1989 state to be per-screen when sp-funcs are configured, better matching
1990 the behavior when using the term-driver configuration.
1991 + improve cross-references in manual pages for often used functions
1992 + move SCREEN field for use_tioctl() data before the ncursesw fields,
1993 and limit that to the sp-funcs configuration to improve termlib
1994 compatibility (cf: 20120714).
1995 + correct order of initialization for traces in use_env() and
1996 use_tioctl() versus first trace calls.
1999 + fix errata for ncurses-howto (report by Damien Ruscoe).
2000 + fix a few places in configure/build scripts where DESTDIR and rpath
2001 were combined (report by Thomas Klausner).
2002 + merge current st description (report by Harry Gindi) -TD
2003 + modify flash capability for linux and wyse entries to put the delay
2004 between the reverse/normal escapes rather than after -TD
2005 + modify program tabs to pass the actual tty file descriptor to
2006 setupterm rather than the standard output, making padding work
2008 + explain in clear's manual page that it writes to stdout.
2009 + add special case for verbose debugging traces of command-line
2010 utilities which write to stderr (cf: 20161126).
2011 + remove a trace with literal escapes from skip_DECSCNM(), added in
2013 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2014 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2017 + correct parameters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes()
2018 (patch by Leon Winter).
2019 + improve color-handling section in terminfo manual page (prompted by
2020 patch by Mihail Konev).
2021 + modify programs clear, tput and tset to pass the actual tty file
2022 descriptor to setupterm rather than the standard output, making
2026 + add tput-colorcube demo script.
2027 + add -r and -s options to tput-initc demo, to match usage in xterm.
2028 + flush the standard output in _nc_flush for the case where SP is zero,
2029 e.g., when called via putp. This fixes a scenario where "tput flash"
2030 did not work after changes in 20130112.
2033 + add configure script option --disable-wattr-macros for use in cases
2034 where one wants to use the same headers for ncurses5/ncurses6
2035 development, by suppressing the wattr* macros which differ due to
2036 the introduction of extended colors (prompted by comments in
2037 Debian #230990, Redhat #1270534).
2038 + add test/tput-initc to demonstrate tput used to initialize palette
2040 + modify test/xterm*.dat to use the newer color4/color12 values.
2043 + improve discussion of field validation in form_driver.3x manual page.
2044 + update curs_trace.3x manual page.
2047 + modify linux-16color to not mask dim, standout or reverse with the
2049 + add 0.1sec mandatory delay to flash capabilities using the VT100
2050 reverse-video control -TD
2051 + omit selection of ISO-8859-1 for G0 in enacs capability from linux2.6
2052 entry, to avoid conflict with the user-defined mapping. The reset
2053 feature will use ISO-8859-1 in any case (Mikulas Patocka).
2054 + improve check in tic for delays by also warning about beep/flash
2055 when a delay is not embedded, or if those use the VT100 reverse
2056 video escape without using a delay.
2057 + minor fix for syntax-check of delays from 20161119 changes.
2058 + modify trace() to avoid overwriting existing file (report by Maor
2062 + add check in tic for some syntax errors of delays, as well as use of
2063 proportional delays for non-line capabilities.
2064 + document history of the clear program and the E3 extension, prompted
2065 by various discussions including
2066 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87469/clearing-the-old-scrollback-buffer
2069 + improve -W option in tic/infocmp:
2070 + correct order of size-adjustments in wrapped lines
2071 + if -f option splits line, do not further split it with -W
2072 + begin a new line when adding "use=" after a wrapped line
2075 + fix typo in man/terminfo.tail (Alain Williams).
2076 + correct program-name in adacurses6-config.1 manual page.
2079 + add new function "unfocus_current_field" (Leon Winter)
2082 + modify tset -w (and tput reset) to update the program's copy of the
2083 screensize if it was already set in the system, to improve tabstop
2084 setting which relies upon knowing the actual screensize.
2085 + add functionality of tset -w to tput, like the "-c" feature this is
2086 not optional in tput.
2087 + add "clear" as a possible link/alias to tput.
2088 + improve tput's check for being called as "init" or "reset" to allow
2089 for transformed names.
2090 + split-out the "clear" function from progs/clear.c, share with
2091 tput to get the same behavior, e.g., the E3 extension.
2094 + amend internal use of tputs to consistently use the number of lines
2095 affected, e.g., for insert/delete character operations. While
2096 merging terminfo source early in 1995, several descriptions used the
2097 "*" proportional delay for these operations, prompting a change in
2099 + regenerate llib-* files.
2100 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2101 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
2104 + adjust size in infocmp/tic to work with strlcpy.
2105 + fix configure script to record when strlcat is found on OpenBSD.
2106 + build-fix for "recent" OpenBSD vs baudrate.
2109 + add -W option to tic/infocmp to force long strings to wrap. This is
2110 in addition to the -w option which attempts to fit capabilities into
2111 a given line-length.
2112 + add linux-m1 minitel entries (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
2113 + correct rs2 string for vt100-nam -TD
2116 + modify _nc_tic_expand to escape comma if it immediately follows a
2117 percent sign, to work with minitel change.
2118 + updated minitel and viewdata descriptions (Alexandre Montaron).
2121 + build-fix for gnat6, which unhelpfully attempts to compile C files.
2122 + fix typo in 20160910 changes (Debian #837892, patch by Sven Joachim).
2125 + trim dead code ifdef'd with HIDE_EINTR since 970830 (discussion with
2127 + trim some obsolete/incorrect wording about EINTR from wgetch manual
2128 page (patch by Leon Winter).
2129 + really correct 20100515 change (patch by Rich Coe).
2130 + add "--enable-string-hacks" option to test/configure
2131 + completed string-hacks for "sprintf", etc., including test-programs.
2132 + make "--enable-string-hacks" work with Debian by checking for the
2133 "bsd" library and its associated "<bsd/string.h>" header.
2136 + correct 20100515 change for weak signals versus sigprocmask (report
2138 + modify misc/Makefile.in to work around OpenBSD "make" which unlike
2139 all other versions of "make" does not recognize continuation lines
2141 + amend the last change to CF_C_ENV_FLAGS to move only the
2142 preprocessor, optimization and warning flags to CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS,
2143 leaving the residue in CC. That happens to work for gcc's various
2144 "model" options, but may require tuning for other compilers (report
2148 + add "v" menu entry to test/ncurses.c to show baudrate and other
2150 + add "newer" baudrate symbols from Linux and FreeBSD to progs/tset.c,
2152 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro:
2153 + add "uclinux" to case for "linux" (patch by Yann E. Morin)
2154 + modify _GNU_SOURCE for cygwin headers, tested with cygwin 2.3, 2.5
2155 (patch by Corinna Vinschen, from changes to tin).
2156 + improve CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS macro to allow for compiler wrappers such
2157 as "ccache" (report by Enrico Scholz).
2158 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2159 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2162 + update tput manual page to reflect changes to manipulate terminal
2163 modes by sharing functions with tset.
2164 + add the terminal-mode parts of "reset" (aka tset) to the "tput reset"
2165 command, making the two almost the same except for window-size.
2166 + adapt logic used in dialog "--keep-tite" option for test/filter.c as
2167 "-a" option. When set, test/filter attempts to suppress the
2169 + correct a typo in interix entry -TD
2172 + add a dependency upon generated-sources in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to
2173 handle a case of "configure && make install".
2174 + trim trailing blanks from include/Caps*, to work around a problem
2175 in sed (Debian #818067).
2178 + improve CF_GNU_SOURCE configure macro to optionally define
2179 _DEFAULT_SOURCE work around a nuisance in recent glibc releases.
2180 + move the terminfo-specific parts of tput's "reset" function into
2181 the shared reset_cmd.c, making the two forms of reset use the same
2183 + split-out the terminal initialization functions from tset as
2184 progs/reset_cmd.c, as part of changes to merge the reset-feature
2188 + change tset's initialization to allow it to get settings from the
2189 standard input as well as /dev/tty, to be more effective when
2190 output or error are redirected.
2191 + improve discussion of history and portability for tset/reset/tput
2195 + improve error message from tset/reset when both stderr/stdout are
2196 redirected to a file or pipe.
2197 + improve organization of curs_attr.3x, curs_color.3x
2200 + work around Debian's antique/unmaintained version of mawk when
2202 + improve test/list_keys.c, showing ncurses's convention of modifiers
2203 for special keys, based on xterm.
2206 + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters are given.
2209 + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule.
2210 + amend change to CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS in 20160521 to make multilib build
2211 work (report by Sven Joachim).
2214 + build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses.
2215 + improve test/list_keys.c, fixing column-widths and sorting the list
2216 to make it more readable.
2219 + revise fix for Debian #805618 (report by Vlado Potisk, cf: 20151128).
2220 + modify test/ncurses.c a/A screens to make exiting on an escape
2221 character depend on the start of keypad and timeout modes, to allow
2222 better testing of function-keys.
2223 + modify rs1 for xterm-16color, xterm-88color and xterm-256color to
2224 reset palette using "oc" string as in linux -TD
2225 + use ANSI reply for u8 in xterm-new, to reflect vt220-style responses
2226 that could be returned -TD
2227 + added a few capabilities fixed in recent vte -TD
2230 + correct logic for -f option in test/demo_terminfo.c
2231 + add test/list_keys.c
2234 + further workaround for PIE/PIC breakage which causes gpm to not link.
2235 + fix most cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library.
2238 + improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size.
2239 + fixes to work with a slightly broken compiler configuration which
2240 cannot compile "Hello World!" without adding compiler options
2241 (report by Ola x Nilsson):
2242 + pass appropriate compiler options to the CF_PROG_CC_C_O macro.
2243 + when separating compiler and options in CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, ensure
2244 that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS
2245 + restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared
2246 to be redundant. In fact, they are needed for a compiler that
2247 cannot combine -c and -o options.
2250 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2251 + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they
2252 might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426).
2253 + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD
2254 + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0
2255 entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD
2256 + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran).
2259 + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the
2260 special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,
2262 + modify test/ncurses.c:
2263 + check return-value of putwin
2264 + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes
2265 to keypad- and scroll-modes.
2266 + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).
2269 + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm
2270 color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE
2271 and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R.
2272 + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for
2276 + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs
2277 PIC builds documented in
2278 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
2279 + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages
2280 due to program-transformation configure options.
2281 + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset.
2284 + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when
2285 available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850.
2288 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2289 + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus
2293 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2294 + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers
2295 to switch the active menu. This requires a new extension option
2296 O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not
2297 apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application
2298 can handle the event.
2301 + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso).
2302 + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case
2303 that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for
2304 non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888).
2307 + modified test/filter.c to illustrate an alternative to getnstr, that
2308 polls for input while updating a clock on the right margin as well
2309 as responding to window size-changes.
2312 + omit a redefinition of "inline" when traces are enabled, since this
2313 does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912).
2316 + modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of
2317 ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g.,
2318 in case weak symbols are used.
2319 + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
2320 rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
2322 + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
2323 winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
2324 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2325 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2328 + amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work
2329 in threaded configuration.
2330 + move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h,
2331 since they are not part of the suggested ABI6.
2334 + define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN for MinGW port, making builds faster.
2335 + modify test/ditto.c to allow $XTERM_PROG environment variable to
2336 override "xterm" as the name of the program to run in the threaded
2340 + improve formatting of man/curs_refresh.3x and man/tset.1 manpages
2341 + regenerate HTML manpages using newer man2html to eliminate some
2342 unwanted blank lines.
2345 + ifdef'd header-file definition of mouse_trafo() with NCURSES_NOMACROS
2346 (report by Corey Minyard).
2347 + fix some strict compiler-warnings in traces.
2350 + tidy up comments about hardcoded 256color palette (report by
2351 Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
2352 + add putty-noapp entry, and amend putty entry to use application mode
2353 for better consistency with xterm (report by Leonardo Brondani
2355 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to trace wide-characters
2356 as a whole rather than their multibyte equivalents.
2357 + minor fix in wadd_wchnstr() to ensure that each cell has nonzero
2359 + move PUTC_INIT calls next to wcrtomb calls, to avoid carry-over of
2360 error status when processing Unicode values which are not mapped.
2363 + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
2364 screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
2365 + minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of
2366 SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.
2369 + add check in tic for use of bold, etc., video attributes in the
2370 color capabilities, accounting whether the feature is listed in ncv.
2371 + add check in tic for conflict between ritm, rmso, rmul versus sgr0.
2374 + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion
2375 with James Crippen).
2376 + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
2378 + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
2379 characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.
2382 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
2383 needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
2384 does not work. Also modified the test program to ensure that if
2385 building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
2386 normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
2387 + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
2388 in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
2389 drawing characters as double-width.
2392 + update form_cursor.3x, form_post.3x, menu_attributes.3x to list
2393 function names in NAME section (patch by Jason McIntyre).
2394 + minor fixes to manpage NAME/SYNOPSIS sections to consistently use
2395 rule that either all functions which are prototyped in SYNOPSIS are
2396 listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
2397 listed in the NAME section. The latter is used to reduce clutter,
2398 e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
2399 feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
2403 + add option to preserve leading whitespace in form fields (patch by
2405 + add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
2407 + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
2408 + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
2409 + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
2410 backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
2411 + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
2414 + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
2415 + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
2416 + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
2417 + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.
2420 + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
2421 which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
2422 name. That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
2423 tset from termcap to terminfo. The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
2424 this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
2426 + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
2427 are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
2428 + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
2429 renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
2430 normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).
2433 + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
2434 valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
2435 actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
2436 install time (cf: 20150822).
2437 + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
2438 clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
2439 empty "local" section.
2440 + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
2441 to incorrect attribute-masking.
2444 + modify MKexpanded.sh to update the expansion of a temporary filename
2445 to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
2446 + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
2447 annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
2448 did not display well.
2449 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
2450 + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
2451 + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
2452 the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
2453 Normand, Novell #946048).
2454 + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
2455 FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
2456 + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
2457 minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
2458 + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
2459 + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
2460 Internet Archive -TD
2461 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2462 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2465 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
2466 (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
2467 + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
2468 data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
2469 (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
2470 > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
2471 + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
2472 + support building with libtool on OS/2
2473 + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
2474 + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
2477 + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
2478 + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
2479 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
2480 + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
2482 + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
2483 fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
2484 (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
2487 + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
2489 + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
2490 + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
2493 + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
2495 + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
2496 read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
2497 + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
2498 configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
2501 + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
2503 + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
2504 solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
2505 of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
2506 + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
2507 "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
2508 + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
2510 + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS
2513 + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
2515 + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
2516 all comments from the "tic -I" output.
2517 + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
2519 + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
2520 form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.
2523 + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
2525 + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
2526 + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
2527 + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
2528 + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
2529 ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
2533 + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
2534 overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
2535 + update release notes in INSTALL.
2536 + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
2539 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
2540 releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
2541 https://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
2543 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2546 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
2547 + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
2548 + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
2549 more than 200 snapshots.
2550 + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
2554 + updated llib-* files.
2555 + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
2556 + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
2558 + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2559 + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
2560 + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
2561 curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
2562 curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
2563 curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
2564 curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
2567 + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
2568 + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
2569 curs_initscr.3x page.
2570 + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
2571 of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
2572 in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
2574 + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
2575 e.g., ncursestw library.
2578 + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
2579 configuration of ncurses6.
2580 + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
2581 demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
2582 the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
2583 versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
2584 + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
2587 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
2588 + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
2589 (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
2592 + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
2594 + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
2595 map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
2596 suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
2597 + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
2598 from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
2599 + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
2600 databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
2601 + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
2602 setupterm and restartterm functions.
2603 + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
2604 of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
2605 it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
2609 + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
2610 + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
2611 the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
2612 files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
2613 corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
2614 configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
2615 discussion with Sven Joachim).
2616 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
2618 20150606 pre-release
2619 + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
2620 intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
2621 "--with-abi-version=5" option.
2622 + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
2623 + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
2624 + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
2625 Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
2626 + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
2627 ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
2628 lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
2629 + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
2630 "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
2631 + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
2632 CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
2635 + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
2636 mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
2637 + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
2638 + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
2639 + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
2640 have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
2641 + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
2642 cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
2645 + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
2646 + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
2647 by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
2648 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
2649 + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
2651 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
2652 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
2655 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
2656 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
2657 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
2658 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
2660 + regenerate html manpages.
2661 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
2662 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
2663 Stack Overflow forum):
2666 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
2667 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
2668 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
2669 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
2670 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
2674 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
2675 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
2676 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
2677 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
2678 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
2680 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
2681 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2682 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
2683 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
2684 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
2685 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
2687 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
2688 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
2689 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
2690 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
2691 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
2692 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
2694 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
2695 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
2697 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
2698 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
2700 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
2701 the ncurses library aside from headers.
2702 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
2703 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
2704 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
2705 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
2706 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2707 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2710 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
2711 (report by Todd M Lewis).
2712 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
2713 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
2714 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
2715 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
2716 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
2717 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
2719 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
2720 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
2721 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
2722 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
2723 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
2724 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
2725 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
2728 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
2729 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
2730 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
2731 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
2732 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
2733 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
2734 with the shared libraries.
2735 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
2736 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
2737 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
2738 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
2739 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
2740 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
2741 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
2742 inherit into new windows.
2745 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
2746 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
2747 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
2748 readonly text segment.
2751 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
2752 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
2755 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
2756 the extended putwin/getwin.
2757 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
2759 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
2763 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
2764 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
2765 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
2766 for a magic code at the beginning:
2767 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
2770 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
2772 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
2773 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
2776 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
2777 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
2778 (report by Grady Martin).
2781 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
2782 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
2783 the wide-character libraries.
2784 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
2786 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
2787 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
2790 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
2791 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
2792 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
2796 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
2797 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
2800 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
2801 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
2802 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
2803 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
2804 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
2807 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
2808 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
2809 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
2812 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
2813 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
2814 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
2816 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
2817 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
2818 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
2819 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
2820 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
2821 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
2822 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
2823 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
2824 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
2825 (report by Pavel Balaev).
2828 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
2829 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
2830 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
2831 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
2832 variations in ABI 6.
2835 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
2836 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
2840 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
2844 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
2845 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
2846 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
2847 the ABI 5 libraries.
2848 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
2849 regenerate html-manpages.
2852 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
2853 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
2855 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
2856 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
2857 package for ncurses6.
2858 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
2859 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
2860 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
2861 in the corresponding ".map" files.
2862 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
2863 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
2867 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
2868 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
2869 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
2870 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
2871 gcc introduced here:
2872 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
2873 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
2874 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
2875 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
2878 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
2879 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
2880 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
2881 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
2882 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
2885 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
2886 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
2887 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
2888 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
2889 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
2890 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
2891 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
2895 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
2896 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
2900 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
2901 msys2 configuration.
2904 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
2905 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
2906 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
2907 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
2908 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
2910 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
2911 (report by Mike Gran).
2914 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
2915 demonstration of its limitations.
2916 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
2917 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
2918 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
2919 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
2920 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
2921 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
2922 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
2924 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
2925 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
2928 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
2929 + implement flash in win_driver.c
2930 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
2932 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
2933 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
2934 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
2935 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
2936 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
2937 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
2938 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
2939 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
2942 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
2943 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
2944 some older cross-compiler environments.
2945 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
2946 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
2947 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
2948 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
2949 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
2950 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
2951 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
2952 + update config.sub from
2953 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2956 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
2957 C++ cross-compilers.
2958 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
2961 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
2963 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
2966 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
2967 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
2968 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
2971 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
2972 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
2976 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
2977 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
2978 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
2981 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
2982 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
2983 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
2984 + regenerated html manpages.
2985 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
2986 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
2987 which reverses cause/effect.
2988 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
2989 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
2990 + fixes for win_driver.c:
2991 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
2996 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
2997 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
2998 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
2999 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
3001 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
3002 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
3003 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
3004 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
3008 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
3009 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
3010 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
3011 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
3012 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
3013 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
3014 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
3015 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
3016 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
3019 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
3020 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
3021 options, from xterm changes.
3024 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
3025 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
3029 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
3030 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
3033 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
3034 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
3035 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
3036 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
3037 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
3038 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
3039 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
3042 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
3043 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
3044 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
3045 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
3046 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
3047 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
3048 providing directly comparable screens.
3049 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
3052 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
3054 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
3055 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
3056 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
3057 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
3058 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
3059 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
3060 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
3063 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
3064 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
3065 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
3066 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
3067 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
3070 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
3071 overlap with sgr functionality.
3072 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
3073 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
3074 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
3075 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
3076 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
3077 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
3078 older ncurses than 20131207.
3079 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
3080 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
3081 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
3082 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
3083 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
3086 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
3087 environment variable.
3088 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
3089 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
3090 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
3091 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
3092 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
3093 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
3094 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
3095 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
3096 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
3097 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
3098 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
3099 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
3100 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
3101 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
3103 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
3105 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
3106 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
3107 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
3109 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
3110 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
3111 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
3112 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
3113 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
3114 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
3115 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
3117 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
3119 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
3120 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
3121 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
3122 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
3123 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
3124 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
3125 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
3126 to be consecutive anyway.
3127 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
3128 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
3129 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
3130 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
3133 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
3134 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
3135 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
3138 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
3139 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
3140 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
3141 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3144 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
3146 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
3147 simplify later merging:
3148 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
3149 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
3150 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
3151 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
3152 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
3156 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3157 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3160 + modify configure script:
3161 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
3162 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
3163 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
3164 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
3165 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
3166 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
3167 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
3168 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
3169 "#win32console", and
3170 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
3171 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
3174 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
3175 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
3176 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
3177 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
3178 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
3179 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
3183 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
3186 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
3187 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
3188 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
3189 + add terminology entry -TD
3190 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
3191 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
3194 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
3195 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
3196 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
3197 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
3198 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
3202 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
3203 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
3204 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
3205 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
3206 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
3209 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
3212 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
3213 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
3214 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
3218 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
3219 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
3220 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
3221 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
3222 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
3223 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
3225 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
3226 html emitted by docbook.
3229 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
3230 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
3231 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
3232 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
3235 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
3236 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
3237 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
3238 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
3239 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3240 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
3243 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
3244 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
3245 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
3246 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3249 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
3250 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
3253 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
3255 ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
3258 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
3259 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
3260 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
3261 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
3263 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
3265 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
3266 + updated llib-l* files.
3269 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
3270 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
3274 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
3275 recognized by clang.
3278 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
3279 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
3280 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
3281 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
3282 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
3283 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
3284 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
3285 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
3286 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
3287 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
3288 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
3289 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
3291 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
3293 + update config.sub from
3294 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3297 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
3300 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
3301 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
3302 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
3303 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
3305 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
3308 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
3309 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
3310 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
3311 them more consistent with other packages.
3314 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
3315 compiling ncurses-examples.
3316 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
3319 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
3322 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
3323 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
3324 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
3325 cross-compiles to MinGW.
3326 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
3330 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
3331 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
3335 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
3336 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
3338 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
3340 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
3341 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
3342 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
3343 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
3344 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
3347 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
3348 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
3349 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
3352 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
3354 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
3355 before/after Debian #700177.
3356 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
3357 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
3359 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
3360 of sort, improving portability.
3361 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
3362 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3363 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3366 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
3367 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
3369 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
3370 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
3371 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
3374 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
3375 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
3376 introduced by Debian #700177.
3377 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
3378 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
3381 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
3382 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
3384 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
3385 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
3386 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
3389 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
3390 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
3392 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
3393 cross-compile support packages.
3394 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
3397 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
3398 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
3399 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
3400 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
3401 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
3402 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
3403 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
3404 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
3405 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
3406 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
3407 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
3408 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
3411 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
3412 initialization of cur_term.
3415 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
3416 + minor compiler-warning fixes
3419 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
3420 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
3421 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
3422 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
3423 --enable-auto-import flag.
3424 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
3428 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
3429 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
3430 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
3431 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
3432 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
3434 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
3435 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
3436 (patch by Eric Raymond).
3439 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
3440 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
3441 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
3443 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
3444 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
3445 not printing the full pathname of the program.
3446 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
3447 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
3448 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
3451 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
3452 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
3454 + add test/dots_termcap.c
3455 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
3456 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
3457 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
3458 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
3459 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
3460 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
3461 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
3462 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
3463 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
3465 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
3466 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
3469 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
3470 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
3471 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
3472 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
3473 the left margin of the display.
3474 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
3475 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
3476 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
3477 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
3480 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
3481 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
3482 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
3483 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
3484 + regenerated html manpages.
3485 + update doctype used for html documentation.
3488 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
3489 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
3490 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
3491 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
3492 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
3493 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
3496 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
3497 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
3498 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
3499 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
3500 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
3503 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
3504 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
3507 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
3508 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
3509 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3510 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
3511 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
3513 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
3514 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
3515 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
3516 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
3519 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
3520 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
3521 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
3522 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
3524 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
3526 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
3528 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
3531 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
3535 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
3536 (report by Christian Ebert).
3537 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
3538 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
3539 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
3542 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
3543 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
3544 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
3545 add bold for consistency with sgr,
3546 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
3547 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
3548 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
3549 by Benjamin Sittler)
3550 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
3551 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
3552 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
3553 line split after "%;".
3554 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
3555 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
3558 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
3559 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
3560 + regenerated html manpages.
3561 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
3562 + updated some autoconf macros:
3563 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
3564 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
3565 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
3566 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
3567 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
3568 configuration (Redhat #911540).
3569 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
3570 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
3573 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
3574 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
3576 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
3577 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
3579 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
3580 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
3581 of raw input in MinGW port.
3584 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
3585 + update config.guess, config.sub
3588 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
3590 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
3592 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
3593 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
3594 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
3595 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
3596 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
3597 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
3598 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
3600 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
3601 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
3604 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
3605 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
3607 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
3608 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
3609 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
3612 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
3613 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
3614 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
3617 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
3618 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
3619 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
3620 help reduce flicker.
3621 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
3622 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
3623 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
3624 by Dennis Grevenstein).
3625 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
3626 Dennis Grevenstein).
3627 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
3628 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
3629 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
3632 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
3633 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
3634 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
3635 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
3636 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
3637 + improve error-checking in copywin
3638 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
3639 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
3640 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
3641 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
3642 matching capability names.
3643 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
3644 applications as well as to improve compatibility with BSD 4.2
3645 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
3648 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
3649 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
3650 are unused in the current driver model.
3651 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
3653 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
3654 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
3655 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
3656 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
3659 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
3660 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
3662 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
3663 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
3664 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
3665 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
3666 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
3669 + fix Coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
3670 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
3671 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
3675 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
3677 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
3678 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
3680 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
3681 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
3682 wide-character which can be used.
3685 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
3686 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
3687 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
3688 by Erwin Waterlander).
3689 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
3690 > fixes based on Coverity report:
3691 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
3692 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
3693 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
3694 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
3698 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
3699 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
3700 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
3701 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
3702 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
3703 > fixes based on Coverity report:
3704 + remove a few redundant checks.
3705 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
3707 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
3708 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
3709 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
3710 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
3712 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
3713 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
3714 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
3718 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
3719 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
3720 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
3724 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
3725 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
3726 > fixes based on Coverity report:
3727 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
3730 > fixes based on Coverity report:
3731 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
3732 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
3733 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
3734 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
3735 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
3736 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
3737 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
3739 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
3740 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
3741 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
3742 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
3745 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
3746 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
3747 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
3749 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
3750 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
3751 libraries or executables.
3754 + realign these related pages:
3759 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
3760 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
3761 (report by Reuben Thomas).
3762 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
3763 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
3764 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
3765 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
3766 based on testing with tack -TD
3767 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
3768 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
3771 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
3773 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
3774 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
3775 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
3778 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
3782 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
3783 (patch by Christian Persch).
3786 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
3788 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
3789 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
3790 has used that for a while.
3791 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
3792 for experimental use.
3793 + remove unused configure macros.
3794 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
3795 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
3796 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
3797 + update config.guess, config.sub
3800 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
3801 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
3802 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
3803 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
3804 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
3805 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
3806 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
3809 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
3810 to help with MinGW port.
3813 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
3815 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
3818 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
3821 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
3822 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
3823 might not be allocated.
3824 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
3827 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
3828 initial screen-sizes.
3829 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
3830 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
3834 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
3835 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
3839 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
3840 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
3841 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
3843 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
3844 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
3847 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
3848 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
3849 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
3850 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
3851 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
3852 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
3853 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
3857 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
3858 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
3859 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
3860 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
3861 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
3862 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
3863 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
3864 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
3868 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
3869 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
3870 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
3871 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
3872 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
3873 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
3876 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
3880 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
3882 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
3884 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
3885 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
3886 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
3887 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
3888 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
3889 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
3892 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
3894 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
3895 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
3896 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
3898 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
3899 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
3902 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
3903 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
3904 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
3907 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
3908 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
3910 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
3911 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
3913 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
3914 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
3917 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
3919 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
3920 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
3921 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
3922 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
3923 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
3924 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
3927 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
3928 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
3929 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
3930 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
3931 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
3932 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
3933 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
3934 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
3935 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
3937 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
3938 analysis by Martin Husemann).
3939 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
3940 Onno van der Linden).
3943 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
3945 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
3947 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
3948 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
3951 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
3952 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
3953 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
3954 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
3955 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
3956 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
3957 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
3960 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
3961 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
3962 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
3963 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
3964 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
3965 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
3966 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
3967 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
3968 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
3969 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
3970 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
3971 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
3972 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
3973 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
3974 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
3977 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
3978 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
3979 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
3980 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
3981 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
3982 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
3983 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
3984 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
3985 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
3986 are interpreted as key definitions.
3987 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
3988 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
3992 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
3993 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
3994 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
3995 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
3996 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
3997 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
3998 as building-blocks -TD
3999 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
4002 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
4003 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
4004 title is a status-line. -TD
4005 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
4006 of ordering and overrides -TD
4007 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
4008 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
4009 used in that file -TD
4012 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
4013 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
4014 definable capabilities.
4015 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
4016 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
4017 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
4018 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
4019 embedded in the description.
4020 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
4021 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
4022 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
4023 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
4024 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
4025 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
4028 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
4029 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
4030 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
4031 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
4032 Nicolas Boulenguez).
4033 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
4034 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
4035 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
4038 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
4039 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
4040 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
4041 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
4042 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
4043 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
4046 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
4047 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
4048 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
4050 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
4051 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
4052 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
4053 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
4056 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
4057 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
4058 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
4061 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
4062 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
4063 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
4065 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
4066 calls to setupterm().
4067 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
4069 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
4070 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
4071 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
4073 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
4077 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
4080 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
4082 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
4083 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
4084 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
4085 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
4086 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
4087 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
4089 + update config.guess, config.sub
4092 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
4093 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
4094 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
4095 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
4096 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
4097 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
4098 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
4099 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
4100 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
4103 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
4104 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
4105 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
4106 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
4107 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
4108 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
4109 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
4110 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
4111 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
4112 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
4113 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
4114 Linux versus most other systems.
4117 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
4121 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
4122 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
4123 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
4124 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
4125 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
4126 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
4127 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
4128 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
4129 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
4130 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
4131 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
4132 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
4133 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
4134 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
4137 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
4139 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
4141 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
4142 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
4143 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
4144 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).
4147 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
4149 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
4150 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
4151 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
4152 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
4153 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
4155 + regenerated html manpages.
4158 + various improvements for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
4159 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
4160 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
4161 + change recommended regular expression library.
4162 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuration.
4163 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
4166 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
4167 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
4168 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
4169 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
4170 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
4171 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
4172 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
4176 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
4177 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
4179 + add putty-sco entry -TD
4182 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
4184 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
4186 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
4187 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
4188 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
4190 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
4192 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
4195 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
4196 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
4197 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
4198 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
4200 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
4201 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
4202 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
4205 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
4206 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
4208 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
4211 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
4213 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
4215 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
4217 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
4218 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
4219 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
4220 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
4221 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
4222 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
4223 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
4226 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
4227 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
4229 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
4230 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
4231 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
4232 database (cf: 20111001).
4235 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
4236 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
4237 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
4239 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
4240 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
4242 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
4243 in older FreeBSD machines.
4244 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
4245 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
4246 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
4249 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
4250 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
4251 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
4252 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
4253 root's home directory.
4254 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
4255 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
4256 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
4257 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
4258 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
4260 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
4261 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
4262 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
4263 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
4264 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
4265 (report by Peter Kruse).
4268 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
4269 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
4271 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
4273 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
4274 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
4275 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
4278 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
4279 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
4280 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
4281 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
4282 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
4283 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
4286 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
4287 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
4288 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
4289 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
4290 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
4293 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
4294 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
4295 input and output of termcap source.
4296 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
4297 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
4298 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
4299 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
4300 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
4301 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
4302 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
4303 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
4304 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
4307 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
4310 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
4312 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
4313 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
4314 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
4315 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
4317 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
4320 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
4321 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
4323 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
4324 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
4327 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
4328 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
4330 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
4331 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
4333 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
4334 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
4335 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
4336 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
4338 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
4339 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
4340 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
4341 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
4343 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
4344 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
4347 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
4348 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
4349 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
4350 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
4353 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
4354 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
4355 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
4356 + add terminator entry -TD
4357 + add simpleterm entry -TD
4358 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
4359 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
4363 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
4364 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
4365 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
4366 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
4367 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
4368 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
4369 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
4370 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
4371 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
4372 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
4376 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
4377 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
4378 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
4379 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
4380 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
4381 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
4383 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
4384 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
4385 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
4387 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
4390 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
4391 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
4392 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
4393 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
4395 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
4396 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
4398 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
4399 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
4400 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
4401 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
4402 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
4403 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
4404 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
4405 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
4407 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
4408 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
4410 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
4411 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
4412 tctest (cf: 19991211).
4413 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
4414 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
4415 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
4416 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
4417 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
4418 translating to termcap.
4419 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
4420 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
4423 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
4424 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
4425 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
4426 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
4427 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
4428 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
4430 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
4431 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
4432 regarding Schilling's test program):
4433 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
4434 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
4435 + use \040 rather than \s
4436 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
4437 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
4440 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
4441 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
4442 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
4443 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
4444 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
4445 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
4446 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
4447 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
4448 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
4449 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
4450 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
4451 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
4454 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
4455 are not used in the $CC variable.
4456 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
4457 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
4458 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
4459 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
4460 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
4461 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
4464 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
4465 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
4469 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
4470 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
4471 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
4472 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
4473 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
4475 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
4476 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
4478 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
4481 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
4482 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
4485 + fixes for MirBSD port:
4486 + set default prefix to /usr.
4487 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
4488 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
4489 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
4490 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
4493 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
4494 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
4495 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
4496 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
4498 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
4499 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
4503 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
4506 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
4507 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
4508 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
4510 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
4511 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
4512 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
4513 help work around weak-symbol issues.
4516 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
4517 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
4518 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
4519 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
4520 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
4521 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
4522 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
4523 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
4524 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
4525 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
4526 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
4529 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
4530 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
4532 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
4533 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
4534 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
4535 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
4538 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
4539 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
4540 as different types on some Unix systems.
4541 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
4542 function pointer passed to tputs().
4543 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
4544 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
4545 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
4546 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
4549 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
4550 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
4551 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
4552 + update config.guess, config.sub
4555 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
4557 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
4558 some ncurses packages.
4559 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
4560 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
4561 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
4563 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4566 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
4567 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
4568 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
4569 the in-tree build of sample programs.
4570 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
4571 needed for rpm script.
4572 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
4573 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
4574 options if building a shared library with gnat.
4577 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
4578 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
4579 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
4580 that sample program.
4581 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
4582 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
4583 which were added in 5.7 and later.
4584 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
4588 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
4590 + regen Ada html documentation.
4591 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
4592 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
4594 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
4596 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
4597 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
4598 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
4599 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
4600 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
4601 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
4603 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
4604 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
4606 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
4607 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
4610 + regen Ada html documentation.
4611 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
4612 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
4614 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
4615 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
4616 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
4617 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
4618 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
4619 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
4620 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
4621 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
4622 thread in comp.lang.ada).
4623 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
4624 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
4625 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
4626 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
4627 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
4628 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
4629 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
4630 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
4631 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
4632 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
4635 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
4636 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
4637 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
4639 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
4641 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
4642 explain.txt is not found.
4645 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
4646 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
4647 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
4648 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
4649 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
4651 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4654 + update release notes, for 5.8.
4655 + regenerated html manpages.
4656 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
4658 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
4659 a new install of hashed database.
4660 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
4663 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
4664 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
4665 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
4666 wide-character configuration.
4667 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
4668 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
4671 + regenerated html manpages.
4672 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
4673 special case of trace configuration.
4676 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
4677 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
4678 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
4679 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
4680 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
4684 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
4685 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
4686 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
4687 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
4688 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
4690 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
4691 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
4694 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
4695 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
4696 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
4697 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
4698 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
4699 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
4700 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
4701 file configuration if that is used.
4702 + update config.guess, config.sub
4705 + regenerated html manpages.
4706 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
4708 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
4709 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
4712 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
4713 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
4716 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
4717 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
4718 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
4721 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
4723 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
4724 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
4725 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
4726 wide-character configuration.
4727 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
4728 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
4729 referred to quitting with 'q'.
4732 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
4733 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
4734 version which works with termcap.
4735 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
4736 (request by Sven Joachim).
4737 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
4738 (report by Sven Joachim).
4741 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
4742 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
4743 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
4746 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
4748 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
4749 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
4752 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
4754 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
4755 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
4756 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
4757 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
4758 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
4759 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
4763 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
4764 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
4765 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
4767 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
4770 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
4772 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
4776 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
4778 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
4779 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
4780 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
4781 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
4782 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additional
4783 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
4784 tree (report by Werner Fink).
4785 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
4786 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
4787 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
4788 (report by John P. Hartmann)
4789 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
4792 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
4793 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
4794 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
4795 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
4796 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
4797 external package "cindent".
4800 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
4801 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
4802 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
4803 inconsistent printer-controls.
4804 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
4805 form is available -TD
4806 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
4808 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
4810 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
4811 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4812 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
4813 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
4814 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
4816 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
4817 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
4821 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
4822 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
4823 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
4824 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4825 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
4827 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
4830 + regenerated html manpages.
4831 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
4832 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
4833 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
4836 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
4838 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
4839 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
4840 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
4841 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
4845 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
4846 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
4849 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
4850 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
4851 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
4852 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
4853 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
4854 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
4855 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
4859 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
4860 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
4861 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
4862 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
4863 by Tim van der Molen).
4864 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
4865 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
4866 library configuration.
4867 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
4868 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
4869 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
4872 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
4874 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
4875 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
4876 e.g., for cross-compiling.
4877 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
4878 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
4881 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
4882 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
4883 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
4884 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
4885 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
4886 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
4887 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
4888 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
4891 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
4892 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
4893 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
4894 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
4895 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
4896 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
4897 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
4898 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
4901 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
4902 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
4903 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
4904 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
4907 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
4908 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
4909 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
4912 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
4913 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
4914 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
4917 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
4918 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
4919 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
4920 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
4923 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
4924 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
4925 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
4927 + update Ada95/configure.
4928 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
4929 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
4930 of updating LIBS variable.
4933 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
4934 work with 64-bit compiles.
4935 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
4939 + regenerated html documentation.
4940 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
4942 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
4943 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
4944 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
4945 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
4948 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
4949 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
4951 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
4952 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
4953 build- and target-machines differ.
4954 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
4955 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
4957 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
4958 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
4961 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
4962 new EINTR feature is enabled.
4963 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
4964 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
4965 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
4966 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
4967 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
4968 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
4969 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
4970 with the standard builds of ncurses.
4971 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
4972 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
4973 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
4974 found in predefined libraries.
4975 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
4978 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
4979 (patch by David Benjamin).
4980 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
4981 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
4982 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
4983 may be defined by that route.
4986 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
4987 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
4988 the predefined include directories.
4989 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
4990 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
4991 where older versions would produce an error.
4994 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
4995 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
4996 terminfo to termcap strings
4997 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
4998 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
4999 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
5000 directory was already added.
5001 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
5002 directories (which will be ignored).
5005 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
5006 + discard motion events
5007 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
5008 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
5009 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
5010 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
5013 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
5014 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
5015 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
5016 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
5017 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
5018 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
5019 extended-colors configuration.
5020 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
5021 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
5022 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
5025 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
5027 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
5028 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
5029 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
5031 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
5032 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
5033 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
5036 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
5037 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
5041 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
5042 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
5043 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
5044 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
5045 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
5046 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
5047 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
5048 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
5049 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
5053 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
5054 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
5055 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
5056 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
5059 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
5061 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
5062 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
5063 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
5066 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
5067 making those separately distributable.
5068 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
5069 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
5073 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
5076 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
5077 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
5078 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
5079 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
5083 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
5084 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
5085 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
5086 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
5089 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
5090 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
5091 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
5092 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
5094 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
5095 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
5096 by Miroslav Lichvar)
5097 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
5101 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
5102 that line-drawing works.
5103 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
5104 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
5105 capabilities can run.
5106 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
5110 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
5111 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
5112 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
5113 before older in the list.
5114 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
5115 + minor documentation cleanup.
5116 + update config.guess, config.sub from
5117 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
5118 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
5121 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
5122 most common case of SGR 0.
5123 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
5124 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
5125 events remain, it will return ERR.
5128 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
5129 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
5130 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
5131 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
5132 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
5135 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
5136 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
5137 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
5140 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
5141 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
5142 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
5143 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
5144 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
5145 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
5148 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
5149 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
5150 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
5151 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
5152 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
5154 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
5156 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
5158 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
5159 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
5160 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
5162 + update config.guess, config.sub from
5163 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
5166 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
5167 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
5169 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
5170 writing terminfo entries.
5171 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
5172 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
5173 by Nicholas Marriott).
5176 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
5178 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
5179 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
5183 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
5184 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
5185 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
5186 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
5187 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
5190 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
5191 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
5192 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
5193 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
5196 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
5197 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
5198 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
5199 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
5200 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5201 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
5202 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
5205 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
5206 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
5207 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
5208 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
5209 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
5210 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
5211 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
5212 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
5213 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
5214 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
5215 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
5218 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
5219 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
5220 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
5221 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
5224 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
5225 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
5228 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
5229 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
5230 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
5234 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
5235 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
5236 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
5237 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
5238 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
5240 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
5241 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
5244 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
5245 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
5246 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
5247 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
5248 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
5249 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
5251 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
5252 library (some work remains for forms library).
5255 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
5256 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
5257 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
5258 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
5260 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
5261 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
5262 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
5263 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
5266 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
5267 by sharing linedata.h functions):
5270 test/test_addchstr.c
5271 test/test_add_wchstr.c
5272 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
5273 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
5274 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
5277 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
5279 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
5280 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
5281 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
5282 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
5286 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
5287 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
5288 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
5289 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5292 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
5293 amd64 (Debian #542031).
5294 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
5297 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5300 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
5301 broken in 20090510 merging.
5302 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
5303 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
5304 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
5305 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
5306 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
5307 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
5308 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
5309 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
5311 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
5314 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
5315 implementation details of hash function.
5318 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
5319 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
5320 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
5323 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
5324 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
5325 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
5326 test/demo_terminfo.c
5327 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5328 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
5331 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
5332 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
5336 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5339 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
5341 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
5342 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
5343 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
5344 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
5345 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
5347 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
5348 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
5349 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
5352 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
5353 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
5354 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
5357 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
5358 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
5360 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5363 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
5364 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
5366 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
5367 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
5371 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
5372 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
5373 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5376 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
5379 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5382 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
5383 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
5384 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
5385 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5388 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5391 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
5392 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
5393 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
5394 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
5398 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5401 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5402 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
5405 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5408 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
5412 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5415 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5416 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
5417 part of the form library.
5420 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
5421 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
5424 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
5425 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
5426 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
5427 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
5428 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
5429 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
5430 a temporary variable.
5431 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
5432 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
5433 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
5434 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
5435 with Charles Wilson).
5436 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
5437 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
5438 > patches by Charles Wilson:
5439 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
5440 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
5441 digits, after the final '.').
5442 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
5443 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
5444 using that in the libtool link-commands.
5445 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
5446 from 20090321 changes.
5447 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
5448 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
5449 termlib) is to be linked.
5450 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
5451 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
5454 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
5455 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
5456 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
5457 (report by Charles Wilson).
5458 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
5459 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
5460 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
5461 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
5462 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
5465 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
5466 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
5467 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
5468 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
5469 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
5471 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
5472 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
5473 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
5474 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
5475 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
5476 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
5477 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
5478 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
5481 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5482 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
5483 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
5486 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5489 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
5491 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
5492 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
5493 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
5494 some internals work is needed to complete these).
5495 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
5498 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
5499 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
5500 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
5501 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
5502 + make it work with $DESTDIR
5503 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
5506 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
5507 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
5509 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
5510 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
5511 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
5514 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
5515 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
5516 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
5517 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
5518 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
5519 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
5520 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
5521 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
5522 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
5525 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
5526 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
5528 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
5530 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
5531 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
5534 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
5536 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
5537 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
5538 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
5539 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
5542 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
5543 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
5544 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
5546 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
5547 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
5550 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
5551 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
5552 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
5553 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
5554 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
5555 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
5557 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
5558 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
5560 + update config.guess, config.sub from
5561 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
5564 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
5565 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
5566 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
5569 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
5570 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
5571 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
5573 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
5574 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
5577 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
5579 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
5580 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
5581 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
5583 + fixes from NetBSD port at
5584 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
5585 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
5586 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
5587 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
5588 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
5590 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
5591 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
5594 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
5595 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
5596 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
5597 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
5598 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
5599 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
5600 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
5601 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
5602 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
5603 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
5604 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
5607 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
5608 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
5609 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
5610 passing color or video attributes.
5611 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
5612 display meta-characters.
5613 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
5614 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
5615 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
5616 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
5620 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
5621 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5622 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
5624 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
5627 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
5629 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
5630 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
5632 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5635 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
5636 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
5637 does not work well on that platform).
5638 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
5641 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
5642 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
5643 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
5645 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
5646 --disable-database is used.
5647 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
5648 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
5649 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
5650 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
5654 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
5655 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
5656 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
5657 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
5658 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
5659 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
5660 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
5664 + regenerated html documentation.
5665 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
5666 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
5667 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
5668 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
5669 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
5670 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
5671 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
5672 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
5675 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
5676 works for C/C++ parts).
5677 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
5678 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
5681 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
5682 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
5683 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
5684 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
5685 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
5686 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
5687 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
5688 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
5689 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
5691 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
5692 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5693 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
5694 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
5695 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
5696 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
5699 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
5700 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
5703 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
5704 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
5705 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
5706 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
5707 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
5708 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
5711 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
5712 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
5715 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
5719 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
5720 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
5721 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
5722 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
5724 + update test/configure script.
5725 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
5726 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
5727 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
5728 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
5729 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
5732 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
5733 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
5735 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
5737 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
5738 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
5739 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
5740 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
5741 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
5742 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
5743 + update config.guess, config.sub from
5744 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
5745 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
5748 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
5749 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
5750 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
5751 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
5752 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
5753 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
5754 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
5755 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
5756 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
5757 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
5758 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
5762 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
5763 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
5764 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
5765 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
5766 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
5768 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
5769 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
5770 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
5771 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
5772 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
5775 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
5776 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
5777 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
5778 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
5779 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
5780 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
5781 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
5784 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
5788 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
5791 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
5794 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
5795 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
5797 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
5798 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
5799 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
5803 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
5804 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
5806 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
5807 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
5808 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
5809 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
5812 + regenerated html documentation.
5813 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
5814 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
5815 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
5816 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
5817 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
5820 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
5821 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
5822 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
5826 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
5827 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
5828 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
5829 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
5830 window which is being used in a wgetch().
5831 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
5834 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
5835 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
5837 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
5838 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
5839 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
5840 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
5841 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
5842 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
5843 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
5844 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
5845 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
5848 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
5849 screen which must be updated.
5850 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
5851 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
5852 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
5856 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
5857 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
5859 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
5860 Emanuele Giaquinta).
5861 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
5862 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
5865 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
5866 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
5867 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
5869 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
5873 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
5874 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
5875 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
5878 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
5879 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
5880 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
5881 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
5884 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
5885 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
5887 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
5889 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
5892 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
5893 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
5894 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
5895 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
5896 python-dev2 mailing list).
5899 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
5900 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
5901 are not associated with a particular screen.
5902 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
5903 stdscr to the callback function.
5904 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
5905 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
5906 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
5907 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
5908 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
5909 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
5910 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
5914 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
5915 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
5916 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
5917 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
5919 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
5920 wide-characters with extended-colors.
5921 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
5922 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
5923 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
5926 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
5927 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
5928 that the 'F' accepts.
5929 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
5930 are working concurrently.
5931 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
5935 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
5936 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
5937 _nc_free_and_exit().
5940 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
5941 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
5944 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
5945 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
5948 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
5949 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open Curses
5950 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
5951 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
5954 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
5955 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
5956 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
5957 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
5958 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
5959 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
5961 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
5962 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
5966 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
5967 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
5968 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
5971 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
5972 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
5973 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
5976 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
5977 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
5978 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
5982 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
5983 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
5984 "link_test" builds properly.
5985 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
5986 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
5987 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
5988 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
5989 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
5990 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
5991 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
5993 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
5996 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
6000 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
6001 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
6004 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
6006 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
6007 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
6008 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
6011 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
6012 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
6013 pierre4d2 comments).
6014 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
6015 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
6016 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
6017 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
6021 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
6022 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
6023 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
6024 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
6025 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
6027 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
6028 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
6029 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
6033 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
6034 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
6037 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
6039 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
6041 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
6045 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
6046 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
6048 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
6049 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
6050 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
6051 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
6052 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
6054 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
6055 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
6058 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
6059 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
6060 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
6061 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
6064 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
6065 calls within the ncurses library.
6066 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
6068 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
6069 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
6070 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
6072 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
6073 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
6074 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
6075 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
6076 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
6079 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
6080 for threaded library (incomplete).
6081 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
6082 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
6086 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
6087 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
6088 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
6089 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
6090 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
6091 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
6092 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
6093 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
6094 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
6097 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
6099 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
6100 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
6103 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
6104 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
6105 "\0" followed by a digit.
6106 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
6107 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
6108 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
6109 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
6110 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
6111 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
6112 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
6113 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
6114 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
6117 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
6118 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
6119 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
6120 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
6121 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
6123 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
6124 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
6125 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
6129 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
6130 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
6131 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
6132 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
6133 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
6134 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
6135 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
6136 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
6137 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
6140 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
6141 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
6142 + add test/test_getstr.c
6143 + add test/test_inwstr.c
6144 + add test/test_instr.c
6147 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
6148 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
6149 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
6153 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
6154 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
6155 ".log" to the name and try again.
6156 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
6157 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
6158 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
6159 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
6160 --disable-echo option is used.
6161 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
6162 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
6163 + update config.guess, config.sub
6166 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
6167 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
6168 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
6172 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
6173 problems with multi-column characters.
6174 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
6175 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
6176 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
6177 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
6178 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
6179 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
6180 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
6183 + add test/demo_panels.c
6184 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
6187 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
6189 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
6190 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
6193 + add test/key_name.c
6194 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
6195 + update test/configure
6196 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
6197 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
6198 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
6202 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
6203 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
6204 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
6205 illustrate how to use mvcur().
6206 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
6207 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
6208 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
6209 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
6210 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
6213 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
6214 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
6215 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
6216 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
6217 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
6218 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
6221 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
6222 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
6224 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
6225 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
6226 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
6227 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
6230 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
6231 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
6232 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
6233 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
6235 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
6237 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
6238 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
6239 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
6240 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
6241 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
6244 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
6245 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
6247 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
6248 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
6249 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
6250 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
6251 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
6252 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
6253 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
6254 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
6255 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
6256 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
6257 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
6260 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
6261 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
6262 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
6263 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
6264 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
6265 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
6266 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
6269 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
6270 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
6271 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
6272 Ada95 tree is not built.
6275 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
6276 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
6277 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
6278 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
6279 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
6280 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
6282 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
6283 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
6284 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
6285 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
6286 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
6287 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
6288 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
6289 > fixes based on Coverity report:
6290 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
6291 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
6292 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
6293 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
6294 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
6295 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
6296 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
6297 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
6298 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
6299 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
6300 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
6302 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
6303 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
6304 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
6305 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
6306 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
6307 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
6308 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
6309 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
6310 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
6313 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
6314 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
6315 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
6316 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
6317 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
6318 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
6319 + improved install-sh's quoting.
6320 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
6324 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
6325 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
6326 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
6327 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
6328 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
6332 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
6333 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
6334 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
6335 in the configure script to an error.
6336 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
6337 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
6338 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
6339 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
6340 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
6342 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
6343 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
6346 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
6347 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
6350 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
6351 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
6353 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
6354 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
6355 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
6356 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
6357 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
6358 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
6359 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
6360 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
6363 + regenerated html documentation.
6364 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
6365 opaque in selected configurations.
6366 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
6367 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
6368 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
6369 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
6370 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
6371 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
6372 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
6373 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
6374 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
6375 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
6376 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
6378 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
6379 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
6382 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
6383 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
6384 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
6385 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
6386 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
6387 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
6388 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
6389 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
6390 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
6391 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
6392 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
6393 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
6396 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
6398 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
6399 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
6400 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
6402 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
6403 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
6404 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
6405 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
6406 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
6407 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
6408 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
6409 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
6411 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
6412 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
6415 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
6416 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
6418 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
6420 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
6421 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
6422 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
6425 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
6426 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
6427 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
6428 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
6430 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
6431 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
6432 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
6433 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
6434 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
6435 no longer relies on it.
6436 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
6437 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
6438 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
6441 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
6442 (report by Rong-En Fan).
6445 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
6446 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
6447 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
6448 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
6449 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
6450 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
6451 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
6452 its license consistent with ncurses.
6453 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
6454 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
6455 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
6458 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
6459 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
6460 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
6461 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
6465 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
6466 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
6467 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
6469 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
6470 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
6473 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
6474 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
6475 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
6478 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
6479 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
6480 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
6481 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
6482 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
6483 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
6484 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
6485 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
6486 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
6487 to manpages as needed.
6488 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
6489 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
6492 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
6493 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
6494 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
6495 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
6496 + update config.guess, config.sub
6498 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
6501 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
6502 definitions in <wchar.h>.
6503 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
6504 correct nor portable.
6505 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
6507 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
6508 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
6512 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
6513 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
6514 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
6515 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
6516 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
6517 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
6520 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
6521 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
6522 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
6523 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
6525 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
6526 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
6527 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
6528 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
6529 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
6530 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
6531 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
6532 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
6535 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
6536 database configuration.
6537 + updates for test/configure script.
6538 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
6539 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
6541 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
6542 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
6543 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
6544 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
6546 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
6547 _nc_printf_string().
6548 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
6549 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
6552 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
6553 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
6555 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
6556 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
6560 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
6561 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
6564 + add test/echochar.c
6565 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
6566 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
6569 + add AUTHORS file -TD
6570 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
6571 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
6572 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
6575 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
6576 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
6577 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
6579 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
6580 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
6581 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
6582 for rpath support in versions past 3.
6583 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
6584 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
6585 Ralf S Engelschall).
6586 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
6587 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
6588 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
6589 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
6592 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
6593 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
6594 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
6597 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
6598 and status line (Alain Bench).
6599 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
6600 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
6601 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
6602 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
6605 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
6606 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
6607 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
6608 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvements to "-f" option.
6609 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
6612 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
6613 + updated html documentation.
6614 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
6615 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
6618 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
6619 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
6620 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
6621 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
6622 option (from lynx changes) -TD
6623 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
6624 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
6625 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
6626 by report by Christopher Parker).
6630 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
6631 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
6632 since it does not really do this -TD
6635 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
6636 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
6637 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
6638 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
6641 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
6642 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
6643 embedded into a termcap description.
6644 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
6645 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
6646 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
6647 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
6648 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
6651 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
6653 + add test/foldkeys.c
6656 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
6657 source output (Debian #378783).
6658 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
6659 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
6660 variable is also used (Redhat #199369).
6661 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
6662 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
6663 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
6666 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
6667 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
6668 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
6671 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
6672 or as a text file if those are not available.
6673 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
6674 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
6675 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
6678 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
6679 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
6680 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
6681 + update config.guess, config.sub
6684 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
6685 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
6686 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
6688 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
6689 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
6691 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
6692 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
6693 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
6694 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
6695 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
6696 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
6698 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
6699 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
6700 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
6701 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
6704 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
6705 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
6709 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
6710 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
6712 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
6713 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
6714 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
6715 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
6716 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
6717 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
6720 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
6721 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
6722 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
6723 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
6724 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
6725 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
6726 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
6727 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
6728 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
6729 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
6732 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
6733 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
6734 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
6735 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
6737 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
6740 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
6741 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
6742 + minor copyright fixes.
6743 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
6746 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
6747 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
6748 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
6749 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
6750 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
6751 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
6752 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
6753 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
6755 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
6756 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
6757 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
6758 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
6760 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
6763 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
6764 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
6766 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
6767 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
6768 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
6769 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
6771 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
6772 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
6773 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
6774 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
6777 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
6778 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
6779 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
6780 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
6781 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
6782 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
6783 + update config.guess, config.sub
6784 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
6785 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
6786 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
6787 function is broken in that implementation.
6790 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
6791 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
6794 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
6795 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
6797 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
6798 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
6800 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
6801 reported to implement this feature -TD
6804 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
6805 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
6808 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
6809 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
6810 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
6811 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
6812 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
6813 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
6814 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
6815 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
6818 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
6819 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
6821 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
6822 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
6825 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
6826 (report by Alain Bench).
6827 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
6828 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
6829 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
6830 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
6832 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
6833 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
6834 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
6838 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
6839 and/or video attributes.
6840 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
6841 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
6844 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
6847 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
6848 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
6849 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
6850 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
6851 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
6852 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
6853 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
6854 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
6855 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
6858 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
6859 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
6860 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
6863 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
6864 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
6865 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
6866 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
6867 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
6868 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
6869 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
6870 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
6871 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
6872 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
6875 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
6876 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
6877 rather than delayed.
6878 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
6880 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
6881 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
6882 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
6885 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
6887 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
6888 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
6891 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
6892 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
6895 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
6896 + suppress line-drawing
6897 + implement max_attributes
6899 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
6900 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
6904 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
6905 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
6907 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
6909 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
6910 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
6911 etc., when allocating screens.
6914 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
6915 this in test/filter.c
6916 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
6920 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
6921 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
6922 + add extension nofilter().
6923 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
6924 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
6925 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
6926 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
6927 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
6930 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
6931 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
6932 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
6933 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
6934 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
6935 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
6936 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
6937 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
6938 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
6940 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
6941 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
6942 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
6944 + update config.guess and config.sub
6947 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
6948 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
6949 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
6951 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
6952 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
6953 that was never built in that directory).
6954 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
6957 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
6959 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
6960 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
6964 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
6965 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
6966 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
6967 effect of the different functions.
6968 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
6972 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
6973 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
6975 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
6979 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
6980 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
6981 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
6983 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
6984 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
6988 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
6989 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
6990 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
6992 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
6993 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
6994 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
6997 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
6998 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
6999 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
7002 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
7003 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
7004 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
7006 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
7007 a derived window (Debian #316663).
7010 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
7011 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
7012 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
7013 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
7014 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
7015 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
7016 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
7019 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
7020 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
7021 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
7023 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
7024 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7025 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
7026 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
7027 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
7029 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7032 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
7035 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
7036 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
7040 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
7041 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7042 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
7043 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7044 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
7046 + update config.guess and config.sub from
7047 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
7050 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
7051 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
7052 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
7053 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
7054 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
7055 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
7056 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
7057 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
7058 default if it is used.
7059 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
7060 --with-abi-version option was used.
7061 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
7062 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
7063 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
7066 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
7067 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
7068 handlers (Debian #326709).
7071 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
7072 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
7074 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
7077 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
7078 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
7079 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
7080 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
7082 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
7083 (report by Frank van Vugt).
7086 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
7087 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
7088 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
7089 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
7090 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
7091 + update llib-l* files.
7094 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
7095 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
7096 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
7097 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
7101 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
7102 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
7103 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
7104 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
7105 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
7106 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
7107 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
7108 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
7109 Konstantin Andreev).
7112 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
7113 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
7114 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
7115 several related cases -TD
7116 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
7117 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
7119 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
7120 resets line-drawing.
7123 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
7125 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
7126 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
7127 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
7128 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
7129 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
7130 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
7133 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
7134 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
7135 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
7137 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
7138 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
7141 + update config.guess and config.sub from
7142 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
7143 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
7144 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
7145 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
7146 "make install.data" step.
7147 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
7148 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
7149 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
7150 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
7151 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
7152 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
7153 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
7154 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
7155 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
7156 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
7157 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
7158 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
7159 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
7160 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
7163 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7166 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
7167 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
7168 review of Debian package).
7169 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
7170 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
7171 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
7172 install using libtool 1.5.0):
7173 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
7175 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
7176 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
7177 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
7178 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
7179 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7182 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
7183 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
7184 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
7187 + fixes for termcap support:
7188 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
7189 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
7190 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
7191 extended names data will be freed consistently.
7192 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
7194 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
7195 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
7196 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
7197 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
7200 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
7201 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
7202 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
7203 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
7205 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
7209 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
7211 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
7212 see ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
7215 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
7216 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
7217 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
7218 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
7219 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
7220 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
7221 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
7225 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
7226 shift-, control-cursor keys.
7227 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
7228 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
7229 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
7230 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
7231 it will automatically be treated as a key.
7232 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
7233 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
7234 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
7238 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
7239 + add configure option --enable-largefile
7240 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
7244 + update config.guess, config.sub
7245 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
7246 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
7247 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
7248 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
7249 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
7251 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
7252 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
7253 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
7256 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
7257 position the mouse to a particular item.
7258 + implement test/demo_menus.c
7259 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
7260 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
7261 --enable-const option.
7264 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
7265 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
7266 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
7267 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
7268 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
7269 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
7270 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
7271 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
7272 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
7273 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
7274 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
7277 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
7279 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
7280 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
7283 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
7284 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
7285 anyone used that configuration.
7286 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
7288 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
7289 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
7292 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
7293 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
7294 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
7296 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
7297 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
7298 WenRui, Debian #300512).
7301 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
7302 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
7303 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
7307 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
7308 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
7309 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
7310 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
7311 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
7314 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
7316 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
7318 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
7319 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
7320 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
7323 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
7325 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
7326 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
7327 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
7328 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
7329 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
7330 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
7331 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
7332 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
7333 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
7334 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
7335 right (cf: 20040228).
7336 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
7337 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
7340 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
7341 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
7342 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
7343 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
7344 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
7345 added (Debian #295083).
7346 + add traces to panel library.
7349 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
7350 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
7351 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
7352 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
7353 mouse events in this case.
7354 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
7355 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
7358 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
7359 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
7360 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
7361 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
7362 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
7363 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
7364 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
7365 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
7368 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
7369 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
7370 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
7371 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
7372 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
7373 already been started.
7374 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
7375 pair_content() and color_content().
7376 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
7377 if it corresponds to the default-color.
7378 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
7379 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
7380 color pairs which are allowed.
7381 + add a top-level tags rule.
7384 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
7385 first calling initscr().
7386 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
7387 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
7388 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
7389 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
7390 that are curses-specific.
7391 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
7392 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
7393 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
7394 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
7398 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
7399 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
7400 for leading whitespace.
7401 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
7402 where a following line begins in column 1.
7403 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
7404 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
7407 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
7410 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
7411 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
7412 + update config.guess, config.sub
7413 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
7414 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
7415 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
7416 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
7417 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
7418 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
7419 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
7422 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
7424 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
7425 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
7428 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
7429 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
7430 and attr_set functions.
7433 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
7434 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
7435 forms-demo to be one character short.
7436 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
7437 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
7438 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
7439 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
7442 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
7443 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
7444 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
7445 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
7447 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
7448 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
7451 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
7452 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
7453 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
7454 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
7455 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat #140326).
7456 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
7457 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
7459 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
7460 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
7462 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
7463 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
7466 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
7467 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
7468 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
7469 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
7470 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
7471 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
7472 wide-character configuration.
7475 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
7476 or multicolumn characters.
7479 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
7480 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
7481 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
7482 use_default_colors() be called first.
7485 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
7486 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
7487 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
7488 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
7489 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
7490 must be wrapped to a new line.
7491 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
7492 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
7493 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
7494 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
7495 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
7499 + minor fixes for traces.
7500 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
7501 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
7502 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
7506 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
7507 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
7508 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
7509 and shift-out which seem to work.
7510 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
7511 at runtime (Debian #110586).
7514 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
7515 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
7516 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
7517 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
7521 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
7522 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
7523 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
7524 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
7527 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
7528 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
7529 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
7530 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
7531 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
7532 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
7533 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
7534 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
7535 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
7536 is no longer experimental.
7537 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
7538 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
7541 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
7544 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
7545 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
7546 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
7547 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
7548 using "tic -C" (Redhat #130921).
7549 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
7550 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
7551 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
7554 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
7555 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
7556 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
7557 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
7558 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
7559 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637).
7560 The xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and
7561 the new ones do not require this change. -TD
7564 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
7565 and window managers (Debian #265631).
7566 > terminfo updates -TD
7567 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
7568 with the common usage of bce/ech
7569 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
7573 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
7574 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
7575 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
7576 a help window as well.
7577 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
7578 the -d option is set.
7579 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
7582 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
7584 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
7585 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
7589 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
7590 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
7591 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
7592 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat #122815, patch by
7594 > terminfo updates -TD
7595 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
7596 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
7597 + add function-keys to decansi
7598 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
7599 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
7600 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
7603 > terminfo updates -TD
7604 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
7605 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
7607 + review/update konsole entries
7608 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
7609 + correct tsl string in kterm
7612 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
7615 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
7616 multibyte character.
7617 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
7619 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
7620 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
7621 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
7622 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
7623 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
7624 converting termcap to termcap format.
7625 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
7626 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
7627 > terminfo updates -TD
7628 + minor fixes for emu
7630 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
7635 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
7636 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
7637 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
7638 (report/patch by Tony Li).
7639 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
7640 > terminfo updates -TD
7641 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
7643 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
7644 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
7645 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
7648 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
7649 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
7651 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
7652 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
7653 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
7654 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
7655 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
7656 + update config.guess, config.sub
7657 > terminfo updates -TD
7659 + add xterm-xf86-v44
7660 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
7661 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
7666 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
7667 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
7668 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
7671 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
7672 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
7673 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
7675 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
7679 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
7680 field_buffer() results.
7681 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
7684 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
7686 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
7687 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
7688 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
7689 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
7690 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
7693 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
7694 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
7695 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
7699 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
7700 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
7702 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
7705 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
7706 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
7707 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
7708 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
7709 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
7710 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
7711 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
7712 information without an option.
7713 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
7714 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
7717 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
7720 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
7721 + free some memory leaks in tic.
7722 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
7723 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
7724 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
7725 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
7726 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
7728 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
7731 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
7732 to an unsigned char.
7733 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
7734 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
7737 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
7740 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
7741 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
7742 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
7743 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
7744 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
7745 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
7746 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
7747 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
7748 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
7749 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
7750 20030802 (Debian #237629).
7753 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
7754 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
7755 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
7756 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
7759 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
7761 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
7762 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
7765 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
7766 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
7767 mode is shown in that test.
7768 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
7769 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
7770 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
7773 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
7775 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
7776 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
7777 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
7778 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
7780 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
7781 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
7782 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
7783 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
7786 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
7787 (request by Mike Aubury).
7788 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
7790 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
7792 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
7795 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
7796 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
7797 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
7798 with Stanislav Ievlev).
7799 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
7800 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
7801 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
7802 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
7803 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
7804 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
7806 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7809 20040207 pre-release
7810 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
7811 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
7812 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
7813 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
7814 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
7816 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
7817 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
7818 verified by Scott Corscadden).
7820 20040131 pre-release
7821 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
7822 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
7823 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
7824 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
7825 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
7826 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
7827 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
7828 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
7829 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
7830 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
7831 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
7833 20040125 pre-release
7834 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
7835 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
7836 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
7837 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
7838 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
7839 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
7840 modifying the displayed value.
7842 20040124 pre-release
7843 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
7844 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
7845 that works better for cross-compiling.
7847 20040117 pre-release
7848 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
7849 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
7850 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
7851 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
7852 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
7853 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
7854 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
7856 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
7857 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
7859 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
7860 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
7861 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
7862 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
7863 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
7864 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
7865 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
7866 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
7867 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
7868 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
7869 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
7870 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
7872 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
7873 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
7874 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
7875 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
7876 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
7877 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
7878 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
7879 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
7881 20040110 pre-release
7882 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
7883 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
7885 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
7886 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
7888 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
7890 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
7891 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
7892 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
7893 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
7894 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
7897 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
7898 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
7899 + add pecho_wchar().
7900 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
7901 available) on older platforms.
7904 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
7905 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
7906 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
7907 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
7908 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
7909 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
7910 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
7911 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
7912 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
7915 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
7916 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
7917 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
7918 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
7919 work with Tru64 4.0d.
7920 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
7924 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
7925 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
7926 applications do not.
7927 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
7928 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
7929 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
7930 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
7931 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
7932 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
7936 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
7937 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
7938 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
7939 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
7940 <inger@altlinux.org>).
7941 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
7942 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
7943 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
7944 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
7945 awkward for some cases.
7946 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
7947 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
7949 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
7950 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
7951 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
7952 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
7953 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
7957 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
7958 values (Philippe Blain).
7959 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
7960 restarting (Philippe Blain).
7961 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
7965 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
7966 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
7967 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
7968 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
7969 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
7970 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
7974 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
7975 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
7976 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
7978 + update config.guess, config.sub
7981 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
7982 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
7983 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
7984 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
7985 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
7986 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
7987 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
7989 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
7990 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
7991 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
7992 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
7993 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
7996 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
7997 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
7998 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
7999 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
8000 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
8001 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
8002 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
8003 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
8005 + regenerated html documentation.
8006 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
8007 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
8008 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
8011 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
8012 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
8013 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
8014 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
8015 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
8016 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
8017 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
8018 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
8022 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
8023 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
8026 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
8027 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
8028 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
8029 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
8031 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
8032 (report by Philippe Blain).
8035 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
8036 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
8037 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
8038 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
8039 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
8040 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
8041 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8042 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
8043 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
8045 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
8047 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
8048 in the clr_bol logic.
8051 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8052 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
8053 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
8054 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
8055 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
8056 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
8057 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
8058 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
8059 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
8060 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
8061 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
8062 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
8065 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
8066 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
8067 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
8068 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
8071 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
8072 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
8073 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
8074 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
8075 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
8076 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
8077 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
8078 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
8079 --with-install-prefix is used.
8082 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8083 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
8084 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
8085 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
8088 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
8089 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
8090 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
8091 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
8092 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
8093 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
8094 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8095 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
8096 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
8099 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
8100 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
8101 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
8102 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
8103 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
8104 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
8105 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
8108 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
8110 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8111 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
8112 the size of the scroll-region.
8113 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
8116 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
8117 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
8118 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
8122 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
8123 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
8124 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
8125 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
8126 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
8128 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
8129 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
8130 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
8131 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
8132 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
8133 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
8134 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
8135 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
8136 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
8137 usage and to prevent circular links.
8138 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
8139 (rxvt-color): new alias
8140 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
8141 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
8142 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
8143 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
8144 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
8145 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
8147 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
8151 + update config.guess, config.sub
8152 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
8153 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
8156 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
8157 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
8158 would not accept gcc warning options.
8159 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
8160 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
8161 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
8162 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
8163 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
8164 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
8165 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
8167 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
8170 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
8171 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
8172 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
8173 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
8174 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
8175 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
8176 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
8177 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
8180 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
8182 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
8183 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
8184 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
8185 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
8188 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
8190 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
8191 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
8192 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
8193 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
8194 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
8195 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
8198 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
8199 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
8200 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
8201 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
8202 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
8203 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
8204 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
8205 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
8207 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
8208 Albert Chin-A-Young).
8209 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
8210 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8213 + regenerated html manpages.
8214 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
8215 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
8217 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
8218 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
8220 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
8221 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
8224 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
8225 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
8226 + add tkterm entry -TD
8227 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
8228 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
8229 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
8230 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
8232 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
8233 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
8234 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
8236 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
8237 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
8238 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
8241 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
8242 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
8243 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
8244 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
8246 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
8247 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
8248 current test programs.
8249 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
8250 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
8251 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
8252 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
8254 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
8255 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
8256 mentioned in the terminfo.
8257 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
8258 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
8261 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
8262 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
8263 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
8264 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
8265 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
8266 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
8267 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
8268 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
8271 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
8272 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
8273 the editing position before making modifications.
8274 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
8275 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
8276 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
8279 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
8280 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
8281 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
8282 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
8284 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
8285 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
8286 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
8287 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
8288 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
8289 terminfo as is done in "screen".
8292 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
8293 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
8294 code, from recent rewrite.
8295 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
8297 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
8298 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
8301 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
8302 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
8303 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
8304 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
8307 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
8308 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
8310 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
8313 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
8315 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
8316 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
8318 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
8319 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
8320 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
8323 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
8324 a file when ^W is given.
8325 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
8329 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
8330 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
8331 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
8332 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
8333 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
8334 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
8335 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
8336 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
8340 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
8341 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
8342 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
8345 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
8346 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
8347 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
8348 baudrate was not known.
8349 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
8350 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
8351 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
8352 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
8353 corresponding capability might be
8355 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
8356 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
8357 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
8358 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
8361 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
8362 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
8363 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
8364 apparently typedef'd.
8365 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
8366 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
8369 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
8370 + updated configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
8371 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
8372 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
8373 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
8374 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
8375 cached for reallocating.
8378 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
8379 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
8380 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
8382 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
8383 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
8384 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
8385 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
8386 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
8387 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
8388 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
8389 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
8392 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
8393 emx-base to the latter -TD
8394 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
8395 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
8398 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
8399 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
8400 attributes, e.g., reverse.
8401 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
8402 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
8405 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
8406 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
8407 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
8408 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
8409 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
8410 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
8411 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
8413 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
8414 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
8415 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
8416 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
8417 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
8420 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
8421 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
8422 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
8423 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
8424 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
8425 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
8427 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8428 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
8429 is indeed a "blank".
8430 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
8431 sections as small as one line.
8432 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
8434 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
8435 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
8436 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
8439 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
8440 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
8443 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
8444 (report by Philippe Blain).
8445 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
8446 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
8447 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
8448 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
8449 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
8451 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
8452 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
8453 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
8454 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8455 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
8456 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
8459 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
8460 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
8462 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
8463 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
8465 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
8466 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
8467 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
8468 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
8471 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
8472 overridden from the environment.
8473 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
8474 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
8475 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
8476 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
8477 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
8478 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
8479 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
8480 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
8481 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
8482 by Sam Varshavchik).
8483 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
8484 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
8485 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
8486 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
8488 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
8489 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
8490 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
8491 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
8492 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
8495 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
8496 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
8497 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
8498 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
8499 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
8500 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
8501 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
8502 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
8503 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
8504 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
8505 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
8506 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
8507 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
8508 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
8509 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
8510 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
8511 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
8512 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
8513 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
8514 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
8515 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
8516 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
8517 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
8520 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
8521 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
8522 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
8523 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
8524 winsch() internal function.
8525 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
8526 more than one spacing character.
8529 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
8530 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
8531 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
8532 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
8533 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
8534 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
8535 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
8536 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
8537 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
8538 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
8541 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
8542 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
8543 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
8544 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
8545 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
8546 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
8547 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
8550 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
8551 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
8552 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
8553 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
8555 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
8556 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
8557 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
8558 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
8559 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
8562 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
8563 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
8564 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
8565 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
8566 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
8567 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
8568 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
8569 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
8570 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
8571 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
8572 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
8573 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
8574 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
8575 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
8576 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
8577 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
8578 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
8581 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
8582 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
8583 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
8584 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
8585 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
8586 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
8587 Frederic L W Meunier).
8589 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
8590 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
8591 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
8592 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
8593 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
8594 the debug trace in that case.
8595 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
8596 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
8597 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
8598 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
8600 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
8601 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
8603 20021005 pre-release
8604 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
8605 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
8606 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
8607 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
8608 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
8609 formats such as "%.*s".
8610 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
8611 (report Floyd Davidson).
8612 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
8614 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
8615 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
8616 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
8618 20020928 pre-release
8619 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
8620 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
8621 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
8623 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
8624 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
8625 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
8626 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
8627 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
8628 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
8629 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
8630 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
8631 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
8632 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
8633 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
8634 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
8635 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
8636 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
8637 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
8638 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
8639 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
8640 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
8641 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
8643 20020921 pre-release
8644 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
8645 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
8646 result in core dump.
8647 + documented getbegx(), etc.
8648 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
8649 delimiter rather than '@'.
8650 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8651 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
8652 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
8653 to the lines given for the destination window.
8655 20020914 pre-release
8656 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
8657 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
8658 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
8659 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
8660 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
8661 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
8662 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
8663 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
8664 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8665 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
8666 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
8667 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
8669 20020907 pre-release
8670 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
8671 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
8672 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
8673 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
8674 html manpages on Debian.
8675 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
8676 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
8677 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
8678 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8679 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
8680 a variable from the stack.
8681 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
8683 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
8684 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
8685 _idcok window fields.
8686 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
8688 20020901 pre-release
8689 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
8690 + update config.guess, config.sub
8691 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
8692 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
8694 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
8695 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
8696 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
8697 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
8698 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
8699 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
8700 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
8701 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
8702 use in resizeterm().
8703 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
8704 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
8705 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
8706 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
8707 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8708 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
8709 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
8710 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
8711 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
8712 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
8713 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
8717 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
8718 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
8719 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
8720 + fix an overlooked case for Redhat #68199 (Philippe Blain).
8721 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
8722 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
8725 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
8726 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
8727 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
8729 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
8730 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
8731 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
8732 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
8733 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
8735 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
8736 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
8740 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
8741 when translating to termcap.
8742 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
8743 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
8744 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
8746 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
8748 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
8749 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
8751 + document TABSIZE variable.
8752 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
8753 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
8754 assume_default_colors().
8755 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
8757 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
8758 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
8759 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
8760 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
8761 window (completes Debian #87678, Debian #101699)
8764 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
8766 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
8767 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
8769 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
8770 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
8771 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
8774 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
8776 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
8779 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
8780 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
8781 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
8782 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
8783 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
8784 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
8785 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
8786 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
8787 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
8788 configure definitions.
8789 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
8790 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
8791 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
8792 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
8793 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
8794 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
8795 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
8796 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
8797 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
8798 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
8799 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
8802 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
8803 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
8804 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
8805 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
8806 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
8807 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
8808 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
8810 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
8811 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
8812 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
8813 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8816 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
8817 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
8818 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
8819 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
8821 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
8822 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
8823 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
8826 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
8827 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
8829 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
8830 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
8831 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
8833 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
8834 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
8835 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
8836 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
8838 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
8839 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
8840 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
8841 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
8845 + add charset to generated html.
8846 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
8847 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
8848 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
8849 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
8850 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
8851 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
8855 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
8856 key code in get_wch().
8857 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
8858 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
8859 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
8860 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
8861 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
8862 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
8865 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
8866 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
8868 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
8869 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
8870 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
8871 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
8874 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
8875 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
8876 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
8877 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
8878 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
8879 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
8880 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
8881 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
8882 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
8883 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
8886 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
8890 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
8891 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
8892 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
8893 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
8894 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
8895 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
8896 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
8899 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
8900 character versions as well.
8901 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
8903 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
8905 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
8906 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
8907 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
8908 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
8909 if gettimeofday() is available.
8912 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
8913 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
8916 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
8918 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
8919 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
8920 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
8921 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
8922 + update config.guess, config.sub
8925 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
8926 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
8927 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
8928 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
8929 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
8930 alias for 'function'.
8933 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
8934 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
8938 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
8939 + implement wgetn_wstr().
8940 + implement win_wchnstr().
8941 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
8942 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
8945 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
8946 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
8949 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
8950 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
8953 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
8954 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
8955 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
8957 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
8958 + implement unget_wch().
8959 + implement wget_wch().
8962 + regenerated html manpages.
8963 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
8964 + implement wins_wch().
8965 + implement win_wch().
8966 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
8969 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
8970 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
8973 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
8974 + document wunctrl, key_name.
8975 + implement key_name().
8976 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
8978 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
8982 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
8983 in spurious symlinks on install.
8986 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
8987 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
8988 box() and box_set() functions.
8989 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
8990 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
8991 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
8992 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
8993 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
8994 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
8995 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
8997 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
8999 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
9000 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
9001 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
9002 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
9004 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
9005 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
9008 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
9009 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
9011 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
9015 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
9017 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
9018 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
9019 Albert Chin-A-Young).
9020 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
9021 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
9022 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
9023 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
9024 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
9025 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
9026 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
9027 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
9028 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
9029 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
9030 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
9031 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
9034 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
9035 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
9038 + update config.guess, config.sub
9039 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
9040 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
9043 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
9044 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
9045 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
9047 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
9048 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
9050 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
9051 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
9052 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
9053 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
9056 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
9059 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
9060 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
9061 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
9062 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
9063 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
9064 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
9065 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
9066 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
9067 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
9069 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
9070 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
9071 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
9073 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
9075 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
9076 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
9077 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
9078 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
9079 work with SunOS nawk.
9080 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
9082 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
9083 case it uses multiple tokens.
9086 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
9087 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
9088 interrupted by that signal.
9089 + updated configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
9090 not needed with autoconf 2.52
9091 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
9092 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
9094 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
9095 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
9096 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
9097 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
9098 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
9101 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
9103 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
9104 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
9105 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
9106 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
9107 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
9108 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
9109 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
9110 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
9113 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
9114 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
9115 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
9116 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
9117 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
9118 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
9119 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
9120 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
9121 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
9124 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
9125 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
9126 may have different keypad() settings.
9127 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
9128 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
9129 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
9130 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
9131 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
9132 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
9133 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
9134 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
9136 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
9137 + update config.guess, config.sub from
9138 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
9139 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
9143 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
9145 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
9146 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
9147 implementation in cygwin package).
9148 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
9149 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
9151 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
9152 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
9153 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
9154 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
9155 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
9156 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
9157 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
9158 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
9159 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
9161 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
9162 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
9163 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
9164 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
9165 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
9166 <jevans@apple.com>).
9167 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
9168 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
9169 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
9170 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
9171 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
9175 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
9176 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
9177 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
9178 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
9179 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
9180 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
9181 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
9182 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
9183 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
9184 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
9187 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
9190 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
9191 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
9192 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
9193 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
9194 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
9197 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
9198 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
9201 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
9202 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
9203 + implement wecho_wchar()
9204 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
9205 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
9206 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
9208 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
9209 in a trace by using curly braces.
9210 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
9211 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
9212 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
9213 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
9216 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
9217 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
9218 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
9219 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
9220 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
9224 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
9225 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
9226 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
9227 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
9228 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
9229 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
9230 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
9231 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
9235 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
9236 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
9237 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
9238 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
9239 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
9240 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
9241 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
9242 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
9243 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
9246 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
9247 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
9250 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
9251 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
9252 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
9253 <bbraun@synack.net>).
9254 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
9255 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
9257 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
9258 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
9260 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
9261 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
9264 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
9265 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
9266 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
9267 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
9268 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
9270 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
9271 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
9273 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
9274 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
9275 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
9276 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
9277 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
9280 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
9281 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
9283 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
9284 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
9285 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
9286 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
9289 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
9290 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
9291 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
9292 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
9293 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
9297 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
9298 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
9299 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
9301 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
9303 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
9305 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
9307 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
9308 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
9309 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
9310 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
9311 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
9312 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
9313 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
9314 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
9315 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
9319 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
9320 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
9321 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
9322 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
9323 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
9324 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
9325 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
9326 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
9327 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
9328 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
9330 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
9331 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
9332 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
9333 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
9334 supports xterm mouse controls.
9335 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
9336 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
9337 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
9338 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
9339 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
9340 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
9341 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
9342 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
9343 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
9344 AX in a color xterm.
9345 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
9349 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
9350 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
9351 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
9352 + added llib-ncursesw.
9355 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
9356 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
9357 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
9358 header files (report by William P Setzer).
9359 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
9360 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
9361 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
9362 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
9363 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
9364 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
9365 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
9366 Albert Chin-A-Young).
9367 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
9368 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
9369 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
9370 obsolete with QNX RTP.
9371 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
9372 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
9373 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
9374 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
9377 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
9378 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
9379 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
9382 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
9383 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
9384 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
9385 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
9386 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
9387 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
9388 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
9389 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
9390 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
9391 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
9392 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
9393 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
9397 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
9398 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
9399 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
9400 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
9401 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
9402 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
9403 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9406 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
9407 new wide-character structures.
9408 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
9409 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
9410 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
9411 compiling for wide-character configuration.
9412 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
9416 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
9418 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
9419 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
9420 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
9422 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
9423 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
9424 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
9427 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
9428 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
9429 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
9432 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
9433 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
9434 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
9435 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
9436 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
9437 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
9438 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
9441 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
9442 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
9443 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
9444 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
9445 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
9446 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
9447 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
9448 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
9449 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
9452 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
9453 which may be in libutf8.
9454 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
9455 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
9456 links (Debian #99550).
9457 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
9458 C++ vscan code (Debian #97945).
9459 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
9460 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
9461 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
9462 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
9463 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
9464 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
9467 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
9468 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
9471 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
9472 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
9473 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
9474 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
9475 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
9477 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
9478 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
9479 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
9480 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
9481 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
9482 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
9483 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
9484 are used to manipulate attributes.
9485 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
9486 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
9487 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
9488 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
9489 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
9490 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
9492 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
9493 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
9494 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
9495 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
9496 we are using chtype data.
9497 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
9499 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
9501 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
9502 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
9503 where a pointer would be more useful.
9504 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
9505 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
9506 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
9507 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
9508 passing cchar_t's by address.
9509 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
9510 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
9511 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
9512 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
9513 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
9514 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
9515 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
9516 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
9519 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
9520 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
9521 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
9522 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
9523 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
9525 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
9526 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
9527 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
9530 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
9531 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
9532 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
9533 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
9534 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
9535 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
9536 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
9537 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
9538 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
9539 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
9540 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
9541 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
9544 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
9545 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
9546 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
9549 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
9550 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
9553 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
9554 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
9555 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
9556 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
9557 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
9560 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
9561 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
9562 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
9563 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
9564 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
9565 <bsittler@iname.com>).
9566 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
9567 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
9568 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
9569 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
9570 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
9573 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
9574 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
9575 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
9576 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
9577 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
9578 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
9579 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
9580 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
9581 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
9582 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
9583 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
9584 any shots there, but the computer did.
9585 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
9586 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
9590 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
9591 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
9592 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
9593 3.09.08 (Debian #92215).
9594 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
9595 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9598 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
9599 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
9600 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
9601 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
9602 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
9604 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
9606 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
9607 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
9609 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
9611 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
9612 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian #89222).
9615 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
9616 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
9617 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
9618 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
9619 interface from C++ binding.
9620 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
9621 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
9622 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
9623 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
9625 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
9626 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
9627 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
9628 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
9631 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
9632 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
9633 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
9634 (patch by Todd C Miller).
9637 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
9640 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
9644 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
9645 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
9646 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
9647 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
9648 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
9649 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
9650 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
9651 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
9652 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
9653 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
9654 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
9655 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
9658 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
9659 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
9661 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
9662 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
9663 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
9664 did not do this already.
9665 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
9666 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9667 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
9668 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
9669 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
9670 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
9671 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
9672 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
9675 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
9676 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
9679 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
9680 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
9681 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
9682 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
9684 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
9686 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
9687 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
9689 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
9690 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
9691 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
9692 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
9693 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
9696 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
9697 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
9698 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
9699 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
9702 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
9703 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
9704 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
9707 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
9708 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
9709 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
9710 work with 'indent') -TD
9713 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
9714 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
9715 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9716 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
9717 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
9719 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
9720 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
9721 termcap and terminfo functions
9722 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
9726 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
9727 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
9728 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
9729 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
9730 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
9731 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
9733 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
9734 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
9735 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
9736 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
9737 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
9738 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
9739 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
9740 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
9743 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
9744 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
9745 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
9746 /usr rather than /usr/local.
9749 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
9750 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
9751 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
9752 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
9754 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
9755 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
9756 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
9757 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
9758 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
9759 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
9760 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
9761 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
9764 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
9765 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
9766 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
9767 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
9768 + change trace output to binary format.
9769 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
9770 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
9771 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
9772 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
9773 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
9774 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
9775 the overwrite logic.
9778 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
9779 + resync config.guess, config.sub
9780 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
9781 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
9782 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
9783 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
9785 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
9786 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
9789 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
9790 + update generated html files from manpages.
9791 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
9793 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
9794 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
9795 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
9796 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
9797 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9798 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
9799 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
9800 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
9803 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
9804 wrapping at the right margin.
9805 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
9806 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
9807 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
9809 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
9810 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
9811 understands how to run tbl automatically.
9812 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
9813 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
9814 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
9815 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
9816 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
9817 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
9818 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
9819 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
9820 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
9821 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
9822 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
9823 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
9824 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
9825 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
9826 option --with-libtool.
9827 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
9828 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
9829 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
9830 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
9831 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
9834 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
9835 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
9836 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
9837 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
9838 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
9839 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
9840 > patch by Todd C Miller:
9841 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
9842 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
9843 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
9844 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
9845 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
9846 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
9847 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
9848 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
9849 to set up a 3-button mouse.
9850 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
9851 replace select() call.
9854 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
9855 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
9856 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
9857 Albert Chin-A-Young).
9858 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
9859 cursor report before decoding.
9860 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
9861 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
9862 (see assume_default_colors()).
9863 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
9864 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
9866 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
9867 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
9868 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
9870 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
9871 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
9872 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
9873 for that capability.
9874 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
9875 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
9876 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
9877 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
9878 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
9879 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
9882 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
9883 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
9884 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
9885 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
9886 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
9887 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
9888 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
9889 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
9890 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
9892 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
9893 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
9894 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
9895 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
9896 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
9897 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
9898 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
9901 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
9902 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
9903 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
9904 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
9905 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
9907 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
9908 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
9909 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
9910 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
9911 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
9912 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
9913 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
9914 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
9915 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
9916 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
9917 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
9918 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
9919 the expected number of parameters.
9920 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
9921 the option value is indeed a number.
9922 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
9923 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
9924 from the other signals.
9927 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
9928 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
9929 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
9932 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
9933 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
9935 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
9936 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
9937 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
9939 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
9940 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
9941 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
9942 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
9943 character set attribute from the displayed text.
9944 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
9945 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
9946 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
9947 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
9948 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
9949 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
9952 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
9953 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
9954 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
9955 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
9956 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
9957 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
9958 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9959 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
9960 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
9961 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
9963 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
9964 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
9966 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
9967 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
9968 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
9969 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
9970 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
9971 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
9974 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
9975 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
9976 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
9977 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
9978 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
9979 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
9980 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
9981 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
9982 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
9983 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
9984 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
9985 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
9986 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
9987 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
9988 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
9990 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
9991 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
9992 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
9995 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
9996 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
9997 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
9998 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
10000 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
10001 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
10002 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
10003 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
10004 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
10005 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
10006 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
10007 rules in makefiles.
10008 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
10009 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
10010 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
10011 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
10012 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
10013 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
10014 a default program-prefix.
10015 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
10016 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
10019 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
10020 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
10021 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
10022 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
10023 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
10024 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
10025 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
10026 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
10027 although the name is misleading).
10028 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
10029 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
10030 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
10031 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
10034 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
10035 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
10036 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
10038 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
10039 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
10041 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
10042 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
10043 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
10045 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
10046 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
10047 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
10048 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
10049 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
10050 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
10051 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
10052 test/configure script.
10053 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
10054 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
10055 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
10058 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
10061 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
10062 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
10063 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
10064 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
10065 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
10067 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
10068 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
10069 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
10071 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
10072 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
10075 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
10076 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10077 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
10078 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
10079 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
10080 there's still the explicit configure option).
10081 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
10082 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
10083 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
10084 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
10085 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
10086 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
10087 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
10088 simplify working around implementations that define random
10089 combinations of the related macros to zero.
10090 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
10091 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
10092 > patches by Bruno Haible:
10093 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
10094 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
10095 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
10096 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
10097 out-of-range value.
10100 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
10101 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10102 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
10103 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
10104 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
10105 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
10106 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
10107 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
10108 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
10109 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
10110 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
10111 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
10112 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
10113 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
10116 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
10117 + document configure options in INSTALL.
10118 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
10119 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
10120 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
10121 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
10122 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
10123 list of generated functions.
10124 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
10125 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
10126 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
10128 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
10129 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
10130 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
10131 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
10132 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
10134 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
10135 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
10136 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
10137 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
10138 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
10139 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
10140 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
10141 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
10142 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
10143 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
10144 examples cited in announce.html
10145 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
10146 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
10147 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
10148 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
10149 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
10150 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
10151 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
10152 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
10155 20000701 pre-release
10156 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
10157 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
10158 $COLORFGBG variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
10159 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
10160 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
10161 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
10163 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
10165 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
10167 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
10168 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
10169 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
10170 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
10171 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
10173 20000624 pre-release
10174 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
10175 that happen to render the same display colors.
10176 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
10177 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
10178 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
10179 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
10180 normalized value for cursor_address.
10181 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
10184 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
10185 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
10186 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
10187 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
10188 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
10189 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
10190 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
10191 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
10192 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
10193 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
10194 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
10195 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
10196 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
10200 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
10201 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
10202 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
10203 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
10204 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
10205 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
10206 allows larger symbol tables.
10207 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
10208 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
10209 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
10210 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
10214 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
10215 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
10216 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
10217 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
10218 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
10219 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
10220 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
10221 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
10222 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
10223 + add a "make libs" rule.
10224 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
10225 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
10226 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
10227 with existing ncurses libraries.
10230 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
10231 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
10232 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
10233 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
10234 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
10235 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
10236 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
10237 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
10238 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
10239 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
10240 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
10241 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
10242 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
10243 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
10246 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
10247 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
10248 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
10249 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
10253 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
10254 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
10255 <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>).
10256 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
10257 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
10258 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
10261 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
10262 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
10263 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
10264 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
10265 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
10267 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
10268 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
10269 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
10270 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
10271 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
10272 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
10273 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
10274 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
10277 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
10278 aixterm entries -TD
10279 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
10280 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
10281 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
10282 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
10283 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
10284 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
10285 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
10286 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
10287 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
10288 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
10289 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
10290 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
10293 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
10294 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
10295 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
10296 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
10297 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10298 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
10299 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
10300 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
10301 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
10302 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
10303 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
10304 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
10305 means that it will not recur for that special case.
10306 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
10307 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
10308 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
10309 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10312 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
10313 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
10314 bg300-rv in esr's version.
10315 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
10316 (fixes Debian #61088).
10317 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
10318 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
10319 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
10322 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
10323 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
10324 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
10325 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
10326 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
10329 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
10330 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
10331 improvement in setting default colors.
10332 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
10333 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
10334 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
10336 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
10337 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
10338 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
10339 check for buffer overflow.
10340 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
10341 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
10342 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
10343 such as "infocmp -Fa".
10346 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
10347 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
10348 is not permitted in termcap.
10349 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
10350 integrating 20000318.
10353 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
10354 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
10355 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
10356 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
10358 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
10359 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
10360 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
10361 result for OS/2 EMX.
10362 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
10363 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
10364 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
10365 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
10366 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
10367 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
10370 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
10371 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
10372 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
10374 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
10375 displaying string capabilities.
10376 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
10377 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
10378 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
10379 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
10380 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
10381 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
10383 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
10384 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
10386 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
10387 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
10388 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
10389 may not produce the same result as before.
10390 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
10391 _nc_resolve_uses().
10392 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
10393 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
10395 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
10396 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
10398 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
10399 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10400 + drop support for gnat 3.10
10401 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
10402 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
10405 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
10406 made it check only one entry at a time.
10407 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
10409 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
10410 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
10411 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
10412 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
10413 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
10414 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
10415 address out of bounds.
10416 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
10417 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
10418 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
10419 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
10421 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
10422 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
10423 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
10425 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
10428 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
10429 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
10430 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
10431 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
10433 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
10434 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
10435 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
10436 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
10437 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
10438 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
10440 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
10441 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
10442 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
10443 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
10444 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
10445 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
10446 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
10447 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
10450 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
10451 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10452 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
10453 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
10454 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
10455 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
10459 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
10460 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
10461 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
10462 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
10463 colors are white on black.
10464 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
10465 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
10466 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
10467 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
10468 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
10471 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
10472 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
10473 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
10474 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
10475 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
10476 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
10477 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
10478 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
10479 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
10480 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
10481 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
10484 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
10485 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
10486 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
10487 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
10488 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
10489 to wait indefinitely.
10492 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
10493 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
10494 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
10495 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
10496 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
10497 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
10498 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
10499 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
10500 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
10501 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10502 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
10503 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
10507 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
10508 programs build with c++/g++.
10509 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
10510 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
10511 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
10512 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
10513 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
10514 + document a special case of incompatibility between ncurses 4.2 and
10515 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
10516 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
10519 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
10520 for ncurses 5.0 -TD
10521 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
10522 terminfo entries -TD
10523 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
10524 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
10525 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
10526 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
10528 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
10529 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
10531 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
10533 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
10534 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
10535 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
10536 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
10537 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
10538 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
10539 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
10540 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
10541 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
10545 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
10546 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
10547 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
10548 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
10549 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
10550 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
10551 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
10552 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
10553 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
10554 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
10555 use_extended_names().
10558 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
10559 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
10560 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
10561 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
10562 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
10563 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
10564 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
10565 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
10566 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
10567 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
10568 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
10569 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
10570 + add manpage for infotocap
10573 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
10574 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
10575 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
10576 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
10577 than terminfo only.
10578 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
10579 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
10580 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
10581 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
10582 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
10583 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
10584 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
10585 initc for xterm-88color.
10586 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
10590 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
10591 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
10593 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
10594 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
10595 SP, since it is part of that struct.
10596 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
10598 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
10599 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
10600 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
10601 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
10602 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
10603 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
10604 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
10605 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
10606 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
10608 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
10609 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
10610 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10611 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
10613 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
10616 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
10617 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
10618 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
10619 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
10620 over the use of default colors.
10621 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
10622 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
10623 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
10624 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
10625 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
10626 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
10627 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
10628 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
10631 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
10632 <robert@progplus.com>)
10633 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
10634 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
10635 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
10638 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
10639 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
10640 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
10642 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
10643 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
10644 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
10645 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
10646 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
10647 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
10648 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
10649 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
10650 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
10651 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
10652 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
10653 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
10655 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
10656 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
10659 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
10660 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
10662 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
10663 (request by Bob van der Poel).
10664 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
10665 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
10666 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
10667 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
10668 libraries by default.
10669 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
10671 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
10672 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
10674 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
10675 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
10676 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
10677 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
10678 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
10679 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
10680 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
10682 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
10684 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
10685 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
10686 advice from Bela Lubkin).
10687 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
10688 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10689 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
10690 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
10691 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
10692 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
10695 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
10698 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
10699 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
10700 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
10701 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
10702 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
10703 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
10704 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
10705 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
10706 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
10707 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
10710 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
10711 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
10712 Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10713 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
10714 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
10715 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
10716 <bledp@voila.fr>)).
10717 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
10718 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
10719 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
10720 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
10721 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
10722 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
10723 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
10724 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
10725 is used), and in color.
10726 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
10727 shared library rules.
10730 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
10731 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
10732 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
10733 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
10734 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
10735 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
10736 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
10737 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
10738 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
10739 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
10740 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
10741 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
10742 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
10743 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
10744 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
10745 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
10746 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10749 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
10750 <j@interface-business.de>).
10751 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
10752 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
10753 that hard-links work on Unix again.
10754 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
10755 Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
10756 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
10759 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
10760 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
10761 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
10762 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
10763 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
10764 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
10765 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
10766 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
10767 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
10768 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
10769 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
10770 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
10771 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
10774 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
10775 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
10776 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
10777 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
10778 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
10779 in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
10780 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
10781 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
10782 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
10783 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
10784 function works only for sockets.
10785 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
10786 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
10787 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
10788 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
10789 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
10790 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
10791 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
10792 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
10793 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
10794 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
10797 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
10798 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
10799 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
10800 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
10801 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
10802 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
10803 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
10806 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
10807 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
10808 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
10810 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
10811 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
10812 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
10813 nonfunctional link().
10814 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
10815 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
10818 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
10819 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
10820 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
10823 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
10824 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
10825 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
10826 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
10827 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
10828 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
10829 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
10830 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
10831 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
10832 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
10833 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
10834 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
10835 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
10836 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
10837 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
10838 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
10839 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
10840 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
10841 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
10842 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
10845 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
10846 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
10847 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
10848 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
10849 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
10850 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
10851 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
10852 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
10853 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
10854 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
10855 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
10856 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
10857 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
10858 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
10859 short-circuit expression evaluation.
10860 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
10861 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
10863 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
10864 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
10865 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
10866 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
10867 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
10871 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
10872 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
10874 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
10875 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
10876 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
10879 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
10880 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
10881 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
10882 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
10883 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
10884 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
10885 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
10886 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
10888 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
10889 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
10890 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10893 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
10894 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
10895 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
10896 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
10897 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
10898 --with-rcs-ids option.
10901 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
10902 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
10904 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
10905 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
10906 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
10910 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
10911 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
10912 BeOS predefines a bool type.
10913 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
10914 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
10915 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
10916 option to infocmp -TD
10917 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10918 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
10919 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
10920 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
10921 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
10922 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
10923 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
10926 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10927 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
10928 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
10929 + change interface version-number to 1.0
10930 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
10933 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
10934 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
10935 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
10936 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
10937 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
10938 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
10939 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
10940 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
10941 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
10942 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
10944 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
10945 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (prompted by
10946 discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
10949 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
10950 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
10951 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
10953 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
10954 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
10957 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
10958 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10959 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
10960 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
10961 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
10964 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
10968 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
10969 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
10970 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
10971 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
10972 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
10974 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
10975 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
10976 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
10977 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
10980 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
10981 fields, and showing forms within panels.
10982 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
10983 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
10984 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
10985 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
10986 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
10987 ownership may change).
10990 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
10992 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
10993 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
10994 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10995 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
10996 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
10997 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
10998 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
11000 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
11001 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
11002 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
11003 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
11004 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
11005 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
11008 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
11009 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
11011 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
11012 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
11013 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
11014 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11017 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
11018 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
11019 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
11020 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
11021 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
11022 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
11026 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
11027 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11028 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
11029 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
11030 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
11031 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
11032 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
11033 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
11036 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
11037 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
11038 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
11039 Alexander V Lukyanov).
11042 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
11043 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
11046 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the "-g" option.
11047 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
11048 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
11049 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
11050 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11051 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
11052 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
11053 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
11054 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
11055 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
11056 reset for the next newterm.
11057 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
11058 terminal has true SLKs.
11059 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
11062 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
11063 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
11064 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
11065 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
11066 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
11067 read of the extended capabilities.
11068 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
11069 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
11070 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
11071 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
11072 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
11073 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
11074 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
11075 throughout ncurses library.
11076 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
11077 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
11079 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
11080 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
11081 + regenerate some of the html documentation
11082 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
11085 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
11086 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
11087 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
11088 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatibility - TD
11089 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
11091 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
11093 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
11094 defined for a keycode.
11095 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
11096 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
11097 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
11098 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
11099 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
11101 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11102 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
11103 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
11104 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
11105 no longer required.
11106 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
11107 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
11109 + modify configuration scripts to
11110 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
11111 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
11112 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
11113 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
11114 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
11115 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
11116 + rename ada_include directory to src.
11119 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
11120 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
11121 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
11125 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
11126 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
11127 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
11128 though the problem is more general.
11129 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
11130 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
11131 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
11132 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
11134 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
11135 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
11136 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
11139 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
11140 Alexander V Lukyanov).
11141 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
11142 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
11143 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
11144 operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11145 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
11146 be any substring rather than the prefix.
11147 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
11148 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
11149 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
11150 has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
11151 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
11152 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
11153 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
11154 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
11155 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
11156 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
11157 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
11158 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
11159 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
11160 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
11161 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
11162 --with-shlib-version option.
11165 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
11166 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
11167 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
11168 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
11169 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
11170 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
11171 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
11172 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
11173 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
11174 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
11175 intended for compatibility upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
11176 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
11177 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
11178 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
11179 source distribution.
11182 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
11183 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
11184 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
11186 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
11187 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
11188 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
11189 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
11190 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
11193 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
11196 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
11197 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
11198 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
11199 Alexander V Lukyanov).
11200 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
11201 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
11202 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
11203 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
11204 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11205 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
11206 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
11207 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
11208 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
11209 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
11211 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
11212 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
11213 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
11214 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
11217 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
11219 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
11220 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
11221 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
11222 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
11223 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
11224 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
11225 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
11226 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
11227 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
11228 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
11229 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
11230 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
11231 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
11232 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
11233 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
11234 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
11235 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
11239 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
11240 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
11241 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
11242 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
11243 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
11244 running screen built with ncurses.
11245 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
11246 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
11247 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
11250 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
11253 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
11254 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
11255 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
11256 by a Debian bug report).
11257 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
11258 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
11260 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
11261 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
11262 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
11263 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
11267 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
11268 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
11269 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
11270 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
11271 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
11272 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
11273 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
11274 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
11275 (reported by H.J.Lu).
11278 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
11279 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
11280 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
11281 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
11282 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
11283 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
11284 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
11285 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
11286 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
11287 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
11288 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11289 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
11291 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
11292 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
11294 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
11296 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
11298 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
11299 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
11303 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
11304 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
11305 address rather than its length.
11306 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
11307 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
11308 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
11309 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
11310 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
11311 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
11312 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
11313 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
11314 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
11315 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
11318 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
11319 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
11321 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
11322 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
11323 for an older version of ncurses.
11324 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
11325 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
11326 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
11327 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
11328 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
11329 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
11330 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
11331 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
11332 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11333 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
11334 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
11335 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
11337 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
11338 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
11341 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
11342 (request by Larry Virden).
11343 > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
11344 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
11345 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
11346 changes to ncurses library.
11347 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
11348 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
11349 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
11350 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11351 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
11352 + some Ada95 cosmetics
11353 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
11354 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
11355 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
11358 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
11359 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
11360 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
11361 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
11362 proposed changes to ncurses library.
11363 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
11364 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
11365 broken configure scripts.
11368 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
11370 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
11371 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
11372 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
11374 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
11375 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
11379 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
11380 with --srcdir option.
11381 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
11382 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
11383 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
11384 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
11385 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
11386 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11389 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
11390 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
11391 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
11393 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
11394 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
11395 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
11396 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
11397 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
11398 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
11399 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
11400 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
11403 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
11404 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11407 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
11408 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
11409 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
11410 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
11411 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
11412 some older entries - TD
11413 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
11414 since that is a little more efficient.
11415 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
11416 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
11417 + add "-g" option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
11418 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
11419 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
11420 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
11422 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
11424 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
11425 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
11427 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
11428 + use format string for printing strings.
11429 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
11432 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
11433 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
11434 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
11435 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
11436 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
11437 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
11438 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
11439 > patches by Todd C Miller:
11440 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
11441 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
11442 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
11443 dealing with env variables again.
11444 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
11445 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
11446 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
11447 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
11448 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
11449 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
11450 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
11451 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
11452 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
11453 newhash data to SP struct.
11454 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
11455 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
11456 function's parameter which is deleted.
11457 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
11458 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
11459 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
11460 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
11464 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
11465 consistent treatment.
11466 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
11467 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
11468 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
11469 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
11472 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
11473 capability name, as in SVr4.
11474 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
11475 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
11476 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
11479 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
11480 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
11481 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
11482 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
11483 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
11484 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
11485 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
11486 > from esr's terminfo version:
11487 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
11488 + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
11489 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
11492 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
11493 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
11494 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
11495 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
11496 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
11497 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
11498 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
11499 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
11500 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
11501 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
11505 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
11506 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
11507 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
11508 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
11509 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
11512 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
11513 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
11517 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
11518 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
11519 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
11520 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
11521 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
11522 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
11523 as obtained via ioctl.
11526 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
11527 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
11528 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
11529 turning attributes off.
11530 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
11531 initializing multiple screens.
11532 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
11533 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
11534 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
11537 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
11538 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
11539 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
11540 with Solaris curses).
11541 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
11542 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
11543 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
11544 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
11545 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
11546 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
11547 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
11548 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
11551 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
11552 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
11553 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
11554 (request by QingLong).
11555 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
11556 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
11557 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
11558 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
11560 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
11561 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
11562 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
11563 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
11564 otherwise simply exit with an error.
11567 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
11568 "_g" for a debug build).
11569 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
11570 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
11571 compile/link working Ada95 program.
11572 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
11573 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
11574 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
11575 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
11576 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
11577 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
11581 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
11582 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
11583 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
11584 corresponds to vt100.
11585 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
11586 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
11589 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
11590 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
11591 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
11592 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
11593 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
11594 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
11595 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
11596 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
11597 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
11598 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11601 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
11602 several minor errors/omissions.
11603 + implement tparm %l format.
11604 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
11606 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
11609 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
11610 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
11611 to be written to large screens.
11612 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
11613 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
11614 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
11615 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
11616 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
11618 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
11619 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11620 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
11621 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
11624 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
11626 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
11628 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
11629 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
11630 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
11631 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
11632 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
11633 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
11634 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
11636 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
11637 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
11639 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
11642 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
11643 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
11644 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
11645 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
11646 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
11647 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
11648 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
11649 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
11650 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
11651 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
11654 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
11655 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11656 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibility
11657 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
11658 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
11659 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
11660 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
11661 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
11662 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
11663 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
11664 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
11665 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
11666 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
11669 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
11670 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
11671 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
11672 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
11673 which contains a colon in the description field.
11674 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
11675 from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
11676 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
11678 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
11679 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
11682 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
11683 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
11684 color pair numbers.
11685 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
11686 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
11687 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
11688 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
11689 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
11690 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
11691 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
11692 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
11693 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
11694 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
11695 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
11696 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
11697 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
11698 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
11699 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
11700 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
11701 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
11702 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
11703 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
11704 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
11705 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
11706 comparisons out of inner loop.
11709 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
11710 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
11711 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
11712 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
11713 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
11714 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
11715 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
11716 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
11717 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
11719 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
11720 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
11721 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
11724 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
11725 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
11726 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
11727 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
11728 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
11729 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
11730 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
11731 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
11732 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
11733 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
11736 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
11737 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
11738 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
11739 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
11741 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
11742 avoid ambiguous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
11743 by Juergen Pfeifer).
11746 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
11747 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
11750 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
11751 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
11752 uses them when they are available.
11753 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
11754 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
11755 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
11756 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
11758 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
11761 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
11762 declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
11763 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
11764 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
11766 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11767 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
11768 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
11769 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
11770 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
11771 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
11772 use --disable-overwrite).
11773 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
11774 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
11775 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
11776 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
11777 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
11778 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
11779 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
11780 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
11781 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
11785 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
11786 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11787 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
11788 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
11789 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
11790 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
11791 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
11792 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
11794 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
11795 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
11796 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
11797 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
11799 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
11800 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
11801 parameter according to XSI.
11802 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
11803 reflect above enhancements.
11806 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
11807 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
11808 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
11809 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
11811 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
11813 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
11815 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
11816 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
11817 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
11820 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
11821 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
11822 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11823 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
11824 <claesg@algonet.se>).
11825 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
11826 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
11829 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
11830 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
11831 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
11833 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
11834 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
11835 by Florian La Roche).
11836 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
11837 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
11838 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
11839 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11842 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
11843 distributions, though it is retained in development.
11844 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
11846 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
11847 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
11848 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
11849 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
11850 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
11853 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
11855 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
11856 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
11857 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
11858 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
11859 This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
11860 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
11862 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
11863 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
11864 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
11866 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
11867 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
11868 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
11871 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
11872 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
11874 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
11875 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
11877 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
11879 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
11881 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
11883 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
11884 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
11885 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
11886 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
11887 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
11889 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
11890 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
11892 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
11893 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
11894 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
11895 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
11896 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
11897 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
11898 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
11899 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
11900 turn off attributes inconsistently.
11903 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
11904 test for no_color_video.
11905 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
11907 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
11908 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
11909 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
11910 <brett@xylan.com>).
11911 > from reports by Fred Fish:
11912 + add configure-test for isascii
11913 + add configure-test for -lm library.
11914 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
11915 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
11916 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
11917 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
11918 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
11919 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
11920 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
11922 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
11923 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
11925 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
11926 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
11927 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
11928 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
11929 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
11932 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
11933 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
11935 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
11937 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
11938 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
11939 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
11941 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
11942 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
11944 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
11946 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
11947 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
11948 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
11949 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11950 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
11951 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
11952 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11953 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
11954 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
11955 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
11956 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
11957 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
11958 fields are also always inactive.
11959 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
11960 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
11963 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
11964 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
11965 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
11966 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
11967 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
11968 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
11969 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
11970 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
11971 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
11974 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
11975 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
11976 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
11977 defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
11978 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
11980 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
11981 Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
11982 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
11983 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
11984 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
11985 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
11986 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
11987 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
11988 cross-platform compatibility.
11989 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
11990 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
11991 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11992 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
11994 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
11998 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
11999 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
12000 EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
12001 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
12002 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
12003 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
12004 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
12005 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
12006 that simply cannot scroll.
12007 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
12008 embedded \200 characters are matched.
12009 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
12013 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
12014 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
12015 functions from the build.
12016 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
12017 functions as a separate library.
12018 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
12019 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
12020 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
12021 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
12022 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
12023 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
12024 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
12025 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
12026 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
12028 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12029 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
12030 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
12033 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
12034 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
12036 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
12037 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
12038 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
12039 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
12042 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
12043 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
12044 + add configure check for 'tack'.
12045 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
12046 for Debian configuration.
12047 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
12049 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
12050 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
12052 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
12053 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
12054 case of wide characters in chtype.
12055 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
12056 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
12057 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
12060 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
12061 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
12062 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
12063 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
12064 have set root's umask to 077.
12065 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
12066 end of output when they had embedded comments.
12067 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
12068 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
12069 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
12070 correct logic for handling backslashes.
12071 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
12072 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
12073 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
12074 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
12075 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
12076 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
12078 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12079 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
12081 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
12082 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
12084 + resync of the html version of the manpages
12087 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
12088 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
12090 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
12091 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
12092 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
12093 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
12094 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12095 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
12096 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
12097 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
12101 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
12103 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
12104 comments from Daniel Weaver.
12105 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
12106 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
12107 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
12108 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
12110 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
12111 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
12112 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
12114 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
12115 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
12118 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
12122 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
12123 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
12124 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
12125 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
12126 in call to delay_output().
12127 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
12128 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
12129 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
12130 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
12131 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
12133 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
12134 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
12135 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
12136 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
12137 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
12138 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
12139 so that will work on NeXT.
12140 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
12141 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
12144 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
12146 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
12148 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
12149 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
12150 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
12151 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
12152 when that feature is not configured.
12153 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
12154 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
12155 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
12156 (this dates back to 951102 in 1.9.7a).
12157 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
12158 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
12159 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
12160 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
12163 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
12165 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
12166 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
12168 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
12170 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
12171 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
12174 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
12175 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
12176 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
12177 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
12178 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
12179 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
12180 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
12181 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
12182 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
12184 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
12185 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
12186 tputs() if called from that function.
12187 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
12188 tputs works when SP is not set.
12189 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12190 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
12191 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
12192 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implementation
12193 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
12194 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
12197 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
12198 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
12199 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
12200 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
12201 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
12202 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
12203 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
12204 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
12205 _nc_update_screensize().
12206 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
12208 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
12209 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
12210 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
12211 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
12212 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
12213 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12214 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
12215 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
12216 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
12217 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
12219 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
12223 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
12224 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
12225 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
12227 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
12228 click-interval without modifying it.
12229 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
12230 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
12232 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
12233 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
12234 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
12235 other ncurses headers.
12236 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
12237 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
12238 (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
12239 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
12240 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
12241 characters output in delay_output().
12242 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
12243 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
12244 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
12245 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
12246 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
12248 + typo in configure --help.
12249 > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
12250 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
12251 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
12252 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
12255 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12256 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
12259 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
12260 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
12261 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
12262 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
12263 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
12265 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
12266 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
12267 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
12268 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
12269 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
12270 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
12271 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
12272 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
12273 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
12274 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
12275 form (sorted, unique mapping).
12276 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
12277 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
12278 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12279 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
12280 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12281 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
12282 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
12283 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
12284 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
12285 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
12286 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
12287 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
12288 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
12289 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
12290 NCursesPanel class.
12291 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
12292 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
12293 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
12294 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
12295 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
12296 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
12300 + add 'deinstall' rules.
12301 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
12302 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
12303 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
12304 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
12305 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
12306 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
12308 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
12309 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
12310 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
12312 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
12313 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
12314 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
12315 scripts are also provided.
12318 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
12320 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
12321 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
12322 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
12323 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
12324 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
12325 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
12326 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
12327 generating lint library.
12328 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
12330 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
12331 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
12332 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
12333 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
12334 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
12335 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
12336 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
12337 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
12338 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
12339 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
12341 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
12342 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
12344 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
12346 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
12347 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
12348 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
12349 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
12350 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
12351 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
12352 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
12353 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
12354 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
12358 + modify rain.c to use color.
12359 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
12360 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
12361 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
12362 of configure cache variables in 970906.
12363 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
12364 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
12365 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
12366 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
12367 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
12368 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
12369 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
12370 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
12371 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
12372 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
12373 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
12375 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
12376 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
12377 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
12378 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
12379 NCursesPanel class.
12380 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
12381 NCursesWindow class.
12382 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
12383 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
12384 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
12385 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
12387 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
12388 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
12389 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
12390 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
12391 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
12392 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
12394 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
12395 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
12396 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
12397 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
12398 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
12399 already disconnected.
12400 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
12401 navigation requests.
12402 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
12403 case-insensitiva comparison routine.
12404 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
12405 forms field by index.
12406 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
12408 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
12409 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
12410 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
12411 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
12412 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
12413 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
12414 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
12415 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
12416 move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
12418 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
12419 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
12420 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
12422 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
12423 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
12424 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
12425 know that auto_right_margin is true.
12426 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
12427 shifting character to LR corner.
12428 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
12429 terminal right margin mode is known.
12430 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
12431 _nc_scroll_window().
12432 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
12433 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
12435 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
12436 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
12437 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
12438 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
12440 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
12441 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
12442 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
12443 the terminal window is resized.
12446 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
12447 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
12448 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
12449 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
12450 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
12451 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
12452 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
12453 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
12454 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
12455 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
12456 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
12458 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
12459 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
12460 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
12462 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
12463 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
12465 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
12469 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
12470 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
12471 lib_printw.c functions.
12472 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
12473 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
12474 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
12475 force the screen to scroll.
12478 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
12480 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
12482 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
12483 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
12485 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
12486 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
12487 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
12488 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
12489 was in the wrong order.
12490 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
12492 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
12494 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
12495 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
12496 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
12497 invoke wechochar() instead.
12498 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
12501 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
12502 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
12503 work properly when we add calls to that function.
12504 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
12505 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
12506 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
12507 + several fixes to getch:
12508 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
12509 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
12510 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
12511 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
12513 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
12514 6. correctly handle the case of reception of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
12515 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
12516 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
12517 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
12519 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
12520 line-breakout optimization
12521 + improve hashmap.c by
12522 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
12523 2. not marking lines with offset 0
12524 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
12525 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
12526 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
12527 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
12529 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
12530 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
12531 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
12532 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
12534 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
12536 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
12537 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
12538 stored/retrieved via set_term().
12539 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
12543 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
12544 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
12545 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
12547 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
12548 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
12549 before looking for (n)curses library.
12550 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
12551 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
12552 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
12553 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
12554 include ncurses_cfg.h
12555 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
12556 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
12557 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
12558 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
12559 example firstlast.c
12560 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
12561 common subexpressions.
12562 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
12563 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
12564 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
12565 against the background character.
12566 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
12567 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
12568 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
12569 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
12570 > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
12571 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
12572 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
12573 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
12574 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
12577 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
12578 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
12579 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
12580 terminal type ncr7900).
12581 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
12582 package is built with an install-prefix.
12583 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
12584 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
12585 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
12586 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
12587 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
12588 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
12589 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
12590 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
12591 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
12592 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12593 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
12594 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
12595 by Juergen Pfeifer).
12598 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
12599 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
12600 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
12601 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
12602 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
12603 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
12604 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
12605 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
12606 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
12607 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
12608 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
12611 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
12612 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
12613 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
12614 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
12615 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
12616 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
12617 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
12618 configuration of wide-characters.
12619 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
12620 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
12621 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
12622 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
12623 does not have getttynam().
12624 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
12625 + add table entries for B230400 and B460800 to baudrate() function.
12626 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
12627 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12628 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
12629 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12630 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
12631 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
12632 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
12633 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
12634 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
12638 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
12639 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12640 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
12641 options should be accompanied by a message.
12642 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
12643 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
12645 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
12647 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
12648 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
12649 better when csr is not available.
12650 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
12651 after failure to scroll one.
12652 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
12653 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
12654 case and wrong string in TRACE.
12655 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12656 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
12660 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
12661 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
12663 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
12664 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
12665 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
12666 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
12667 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
12670 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
12671 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
12672 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
12674 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
12677 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
12678 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
12679 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
12680 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
12681 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
12682 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
12683 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
12684 (reported by Larry Virden).
12685 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
12686 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
12688 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12689 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
12690 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
12691 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
12695 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
12696 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
12697 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
12698 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
12699 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
12701 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
12702 terminfo description to the stored strings.
12703 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
12704 terminfo descriptions.
12705 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
12706 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
12707 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
12708 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
12709 option is a stopgap.
12710 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
12711 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
12714 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
12715 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
12716 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
12717 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
12718 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
12719 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
12723 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
12724 lines in curscr that are shifted.
12725 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
12726 than a series of function calls.
12727 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
12728 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
12729 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
12730 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
12731 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
12732 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
12733 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
12734 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
12735 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
12738 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
12739 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
12740 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
12741 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
12742 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
12743 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
12744 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
12745 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
12746 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
12747 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
12748 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
12749 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
12750 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
12751 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
12752 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12753 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
12754 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
12755 + improve threshold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
12756 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12759 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
12760 use only the fallback data.
12761 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
12762 terminal descriptions.
12763 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
12764 still assume there's an ncurses.h
12765 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
12766 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
12767 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
12768 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
12769 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
12770 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
12772 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
12773 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
12774 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
12775 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
12776 <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
12777 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
12778 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
12780 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
12782 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
12783 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
12785 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
12787 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
12788 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
12789 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
12790 original implementation (1.9.6).
12791 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
12792 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
12793 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
12794 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
12796 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
12797 SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
12798 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
12799 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
12800 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
12801 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12802 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
12803 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
12805 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
12806 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
12807 field is not possible.
12808 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
12809 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
12810 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
12811 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
12813 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
12814 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
12815 in forms/menus libraries.
12818 + add description of xterm-16color.
12819 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
12820 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
12822 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
12823 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
12824 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
12825 works properly w/o first doing "make".
12826 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
12827 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
12829 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
12830 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
12831 bounding box without tidying up).
12832 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
12833 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
12834 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
12836 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
12837 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
12838 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
12839 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
12840 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12843 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
12844 option is specified.
12845 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
12846 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
12848 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
12849 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
12850 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
12851 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
12852 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
12853 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
12854 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
12855 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
12856 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
12857 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
12858 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
12859 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
12860 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
12861 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
12863 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
12864 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
12865 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12866 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
12867 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
12868 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12869 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
12870 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
12871 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12872 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
12873 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
12875 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
12877 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
12879 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
12880 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
12883 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
12884 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
12885 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
12886 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
12888 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
12889 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
12890 during a call to newwin.
12891 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
12892 is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
12893 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
12894 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
12895 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
12896 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12897 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
12898 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
12901 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
12902 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
12903 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
12904 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
12906 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
12909 970505 4.1 pre-release
12910 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
12912 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
12913 unnecessary recompiles.
12914 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
12915 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
12916 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
12917 overwrite of symbolic links.
12918 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
12919 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
12920 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
12921 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
12922 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
12923 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
12924 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
12925 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
12926 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
12927 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
12928 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
12929 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
12930 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
12931 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
12935 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
12936 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
12937 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
12939 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
12940 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
12941 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
12942 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
12943 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
12944 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
12945 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
12946 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
12947 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
12949 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
12950 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
12951 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
12952 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
12954 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
12955 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
12956 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12957 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
12958 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12959 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
12960 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12961 + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
12962 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
12963 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
12964 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
12967 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
12968 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
12969 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
12970 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
12971 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
12972 original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
12973 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
12974 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
12975 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
12976 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
12977 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
12978 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
12979 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
12980 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
12981 or redefinition within an acsc string.
12982 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
12983 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
12984 regression testing.
12985 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
12986 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
12989 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
12990 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
12991 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
12992 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
12993 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
12994 match SVr4 documentation.
12995 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
12996 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
12997 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
13000 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
13001 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
13002 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
13003 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
13004 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
13005 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
13006 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
13007 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
13010 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
13011 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
13012 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
13014 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
13015 --enable/--with values.
13016 + add configure option --enable-big-core
13017 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
13018 + check for C++ builtin.h header
13019 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
13020 parameter from the expression.
13021 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
13022 ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted from diffs by
13024 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
13025 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
13026 was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
13027 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
13028 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
13029 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
13032 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
13033 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
13034 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
13035 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
13036 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
13039 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
13040 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
13041 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
13042 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
13043 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
13044 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
13045 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
13046 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
13047 (reported by Ward Horner).
13048 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
13049 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
13052 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
13053 even if "make all" is not done first.
13054 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
13055 expanded functions with ATAC.
13056 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
13057 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
13061 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
13063 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
13065 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
13068 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
13069 addressing request by Ward Horner.
13070 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
13071 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
13072 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
13073 a pointer-increment.
13074 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
13078 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
13079 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
13081 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
13082 (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
13083 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
13084 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
13085 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
13086 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
13087 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
13088 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
13090 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
13091 (reported by Ward Horner)
13092 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
13093 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
13094 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
13095 (reported by Gary Johnson).
13096 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
13097 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
13098 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
13099 wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
13100 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
13101 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
13102 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
13103 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
13107 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
13108 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
13109 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
13110 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
13111 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
13112 (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
13113 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
13114 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
13115 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
13116 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
13119 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
13121 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
13122 the returned buffer.
13123 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
13124 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
13125 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
13126 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
13128 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
13129 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
13132 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
13133 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
13134 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
13135 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
13137 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
13138 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
13141 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
13142 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
13144 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
13146 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
13147 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
13148 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
13149 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
13151 + modify _tracedump() to pad colors & attrs lines to match change
13152 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
13153 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
13154 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
13157 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
13158 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
13159 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
13160 that machine - T.Dickey.
13161 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
13162 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
13163 linking against static libraries.
13164 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
13166 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
13167 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
13168 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
13169 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
13171 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
13172 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
13173 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
13174 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
13175 Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
13178 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
13179 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
13180 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
13182 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
13183 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
13184 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
13185 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
13186 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
13187 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
13190 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
13192 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
13193 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
13194 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
13195 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
13196 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
13197 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
13198 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
13199 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
13200 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
13201 insert/delete line method.
13202 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
13203 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
13204 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
13205 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
13207 961229 (internal alpha)
13208 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
13209 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
13210 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
13211 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
13212 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
13213 there is data on stdin.
13214 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
13215 descriptors, needed for GPM.
13216 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
13217 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
13218 prevented patch from working properly -TD
13219 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
13220 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
13221 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
13222 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
13225 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
13226 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
13228 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
13231 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
13232 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
13233 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
13234 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
13236 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
13237 solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
13238 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
13239 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
13240 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
13241 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
13243 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
13244 i.e., set current directory before linking.
13245 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
13246 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
13247 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
13248 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
13249 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
13250 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
13251 Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
13252 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
13255 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
13256 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
13257 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
13258 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
13259 Solaris curses, which does this.
13262 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
13263 work with wider range of screen sizes.
13264 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
13265 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
13266 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
13268 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
13269 resize between endwin/refresh.
13270 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
13271 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
13272 terminal modes in 960907.
13273 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
13274 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
13276 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
13277 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
13278 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
13279 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
13280 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
13281 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
13282 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
13283 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
13284 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
13286 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
13287 (requested by Florian La Roche).
13288 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
13289 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
13290 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
13291 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
13292 by Alexander V Lukyanov).
13295 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
13298 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
13299 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
13300 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
13301 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
13302 data used in ncurses library.
13303 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
13304 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
13305 Alexander V Lukyanov).
13306 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
13307 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
13308 beta may not be interchangeable).
13309 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
13311 961130 1.9.9g release
13312 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
13316 > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
13317 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
13318 to avoid warning messages.
13319 + the panel overlap detection was broken
13320 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
13322 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
13326 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
13327 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
13328 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
13329 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
13330 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
13333 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
13334 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
13335 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
13339 + change ABI to 3.4
13340 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
13342 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
13344 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
13346 > patch #324 (ESR):
13347 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
13348 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
13349 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
13350 + add entry for color_xterm
13353 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
13354 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
13355 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
13356 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
13357 CANCELLED_STRING values.
13358 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
13359 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
13360 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
13361 delays when in autoplay mode.
13362 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
13363 Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
13364 > patch #322 (ESR):
13365 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
13368 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
13369 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
13370 a spurious clear-screen.
13371 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
13372 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
13374 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
13375 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
13376 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
13377 <perf@efd.lth.se>).
13380 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
13381 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
13382 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
13383 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
13384 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
13385 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
13387 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
13388 distribution, as stated)
13389 + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
13390 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
13391 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
13392 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
13393 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
13394 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
13395 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
13397 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
13398 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
13402 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
13403 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
13404 file (lib_screen.c).
13405 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
13406 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
13407 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
13408 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
13409 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
13410 rendered as octal constants.
13411 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
13412 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
13413 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
13414 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
13415 in the top-level command-parser.
13416 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
13417 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
13419 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
13420 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
13421 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
13424 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
13425 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
13426 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
13427 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
13428 (reported by Tim Mooney).
13429 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
13431 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
13435 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
13436 that are available.
13437 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
13438 the pointer was -1.
13441 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
13442 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
13443 lower-right corner.
13444 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
13445 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
13446 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
13447 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
13448 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
13449 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
13450 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
13451 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
13452 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
13453 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
13455 + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
13456 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
13457 > patch #321 (ESR):
13458 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
13459 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
13460 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
13461 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
13464 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
13465 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
13466 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
13467 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
13468 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
13470 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
13471 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
13472 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
13473 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
13474 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
13475 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
13476 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
13477 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
13478 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
13479 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
13480 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
13481 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
13482 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
13484 + change ABI to 3.3
13485 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
13486 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
13487 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
13489 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
13490 Michael Elkins) - untested
13492 + correction to #317.
13494 + re-add _nc_hash_map
13495 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design
13496 (patch by A. Lukyanov).
13497 + modify test/ncurses.c and tputs, etc., to allow trace counting
13499 + add hashtest.c program to time the hashmap optimization.
13501 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
13503 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
13505 + merge changes to lib_doupdate.c to use ech and rep - untested
13506 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
13507 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
13508 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
13509 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
13510 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
13513 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
13515 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
13516 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
13517 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
13518 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
13519 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
13521 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
13524 + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
13525 (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
13526 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
13527 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
13528 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
13529 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
13532 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
13533 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
13534 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
13535 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
13536 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
13537 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
13538 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
13539 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
13540 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
13541 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
13542 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
13543 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
13544 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
13545 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
13546 + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
13550 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13551 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
13552 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
13553 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
13555 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
13556 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
13557 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
13560 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
13561 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
13562 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
13565 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
13566 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13567 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
13568 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13571 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
13572 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
13573 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
13574 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
13575 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
13577 + add dtterm description
13578 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop mvwscanw subtest)
13581 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
13582 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
13583 + refine configure-test for "-g" option (Tim Mooney).
13584 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
13585 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
13588 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
13590 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
13592 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch (report
13596 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
13597 (reported by William P Setzer)
13598 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
13599 (reported by Tim Mooney).
13601 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
13602 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
13603 + updated qnx terminfo entry (patch by Michael Hunter)
13606 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
13608 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
13612 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
13613 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
13615 + terminfo changes (9.3.9), from BRL
13616 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
13617 + add more symbols to infocmp.
13620 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
13621 Juergen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
13622 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
13624 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
13625 null), and tests that use it.
13626 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
13627 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
13628 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
13630 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
13632 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
13633 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
13634 + fix option-processing bug in toe.
13637 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
13638 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
13639 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
13640 by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
13641 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
13642 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
13644 + enable more translations of nonstandard caps, and document them.
13645 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.8
13647 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
13648 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
13649 + cosmetic fixes to test/ncurses.c
13650 + modify open() call in ncurses/read_entry.c to use O_RDONLY symbol
13651 rather than constant (report by mib).
13652 + misc/terminfo.src sgr0 and acsc changes (report by Philippe De
13654 + modify ncurses/comp_parse.c so that entries containing a "+" can
13655 have missing rmcup vs smcup.
13658 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
13659 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
13660 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
13662 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
13663 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
13664 Philippe De Muyter).
13667 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
13668 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
13670 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
13671 (reported by Zeyd).
13672 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
13673 (reported by David MacKenzie).
13674 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
13675 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
13676 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
13677 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
13678 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
13679 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
13680 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
13683 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes.
13684 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.7 (report by A. Lukyanov).
13685 + modify man/Makefile.in to make terminfo.5 during normal build.
13687 + corrected allocation-length for $HOME/.terminfo path.
13690 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
13691 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
13692 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
13693 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
13694 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
13695 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
13696 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
13697 than function keys in 'g' test.
13698 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
13699 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
13700 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
13701 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
13703 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
13705 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
13706 msgwin needed scrollok set.
13707 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
13708 between PutRange and InsStr
13709 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
13710 MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
13712 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
13715 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
13716 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
13717 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
13719 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
13720 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
13721 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
13722 _yoffset to WINDOW).
13723 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
13724 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
13725 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
13726 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
13727 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
13728 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
13729 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
13730 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
13731 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
13734 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
13735 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
13736 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
13737 first entry in a list).
13738 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
13739 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
13742 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
13743 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
13744 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
13745 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
13746 with a shared-library configuration.
13747 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
13748 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
13749 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
13750 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
13751 builders to install into staging locations (requested by
13752 Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
13753 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
13755 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
13756 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
13757 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
13758 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
13759 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
13761 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
13762 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
13763 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
13764 invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
13766 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
13767 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
13768 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
13770 + misc/ncurses-intro.html syntax fix (Kajiyama Tamito).
13773 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
13774 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
13775 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
13776 + added rules for lintlib, lint
13777 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
13778 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
13779 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
13780 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
13781 checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
13782 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
13783 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
13784 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
13785 + typos, don't use inline with "-g" (Philippe De Muyter)
13786 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
13789 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
13790 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
13791 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
13792 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
13793 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
13794 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
13796 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
13797 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
13798 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
13799 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
13801 + improve hash function (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
13802 + 9.13.4 update for terminfo.src
13805 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
13806 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
13807 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
13808 <lav@yars.free.net>).
13809 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
13810 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
13811 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
13812 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
13814 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
13815 + html fixes (Phillippe de Muyter).
13816 + fix typo in ncurses-intro.html (report by Fabrizio Polacco).
13818 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
13819 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
13820 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
13821 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
13824 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
13828 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
13829 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
13830 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
13831 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
13832 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
13833 > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
13834 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
13835 + added TRACE_IEVENT
13836 + fix REQ_TOGGLE_ITEM in menu/menu_driver.c; it could select but not
13838 + added lib_print.c (request by Rick Marshall).
13839 + added has_key() (request by Juergen Pfeifer).
13840 + do not issue clrtoeol or clrtobot if the relevant portion of the line
13841 is already blank (analysis by Keith Bostic).
13842 + add parentheses for parameters of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER macros
13843 (analysis by Jurgen Eidt).
13844 + update screen's notion of cursor position in endwin() (analysis by
13845 Alexander Lukyanov).
13846 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
13847 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
13848 + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
13849 is not part of X/Open Curses).
13850 + removed boolean version of 'getm'.
13851 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
13854 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
13855 + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
13856 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
13857 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
13858 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
13859 "#include" if needed.
13862 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
13863 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
13866 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
13867 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
13868 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
13872 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
13873 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
13874 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
13875 > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
13876 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
13877 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
13878 + new "-e" and "-h" options of tic (request by Tony Nugent).
13879 + fix bug in mandatory-delay logic in lib_tputs.c (report by Sven
13881 + fix for "infocmp -e" to emit correct initializers (reported by Manual
13883 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c (report by Kayvan
13885 + use "-h" option on Solaris when generating shared libraries on
13886 Solaris 2.5 to record the library name in the file, for assisting
13887 the loader (patch by Scott Kramer).
13888 + undo patch #294 changes to form and menu libraries (request by
13893 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
13894 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
13895 K&R-style substitution)
13896 > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
13897 + rewrite wsyncup(), wsyncdown(), as well as small fixes to form and
13898 menu libraries to fix echo-breakage introduced by 1.8.9, 1.9.9e
13899 changes (patches by Juergen Pfeifer).
13900 + fix compile under QNX 4.2 by defining ONLCR in lib_raw.c when
13901 __QNX__ is defined (patch by Michael Hunter).
13902 + modify setupterm() to match documentation for its return value, fix
13903 newterm to work with this change (report by Emmet Lazich).
13904 + add checks in getch() for error, return ERR as appropriate (report by
13906 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode (report by Pete Seebach).
13907 + corrected askuser() logic in tset (patch by Remco Treffkorn).
13908 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing (report by
13910 + added trace support for TTY flags
13911 + update terminfo.src to 9.13.1
13912 + FreeBSD console entries (patch by Andrew Chernov).
13915 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
13916 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
13917 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
13918 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
13919 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
13921 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
13922 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
13924 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
13926 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
13927 copy-changed-lines behavior.
13928 * added and documented wresize() function.
13929 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
13930 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
13931 emitted before the first check.
13932 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
13933 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
13934 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
13935 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
13936 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
13937 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
13939 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
13940 * support for ESCDELAY.
13941 * small fixes for menu/form code.
13942 * the test directory has its own configure.
13943 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
13944 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
13945 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
13948 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
13950 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
13951 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
13952 * support infocmp -RBSD.
13953 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
13954 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
13955 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
13956 catastrophies or acts of God.
13957 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
13959 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
13960 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
13963 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
13965 * corrected return values of setupterm()
13966 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
13967 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
13968 one `use' capability.
13969 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
13970 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
13971 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
13972 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
13973 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
13974 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
13975 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
13976 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
13977 * added -h option to toe(1).
13978 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
13979 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
13980 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
13981 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
13983 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
13985 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
13986 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
13988 * mouse support for xterm.
13989 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
13990 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initially off.
13991 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
13992 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
13993 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
13994 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
13995 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
13996 * infocmp -T option added.
13997 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
13999 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
14001 * menus library is now included with documentation.
14002 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
14003 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
14004 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
14005 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
14006 * tweaks for compiling in separate directories.
14007 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
14008 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
14009 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
14011 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
14013 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
14014 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
14015 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
14016 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
14018 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
14020 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
14021 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
14022 * added tracemunch to the test tools
14023 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
14025 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
14027 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
14028 profile and shared object models.
14030 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
14032 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
14033 * panels support added
14034 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
14035 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
14037 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
14039 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
14040 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
14041 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
14042 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
14044 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
14045 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
14046 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
14047 are consistent (they weren't).
14048 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
14049 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
14050 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
14051 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
14052 warnings from gcc).
14053 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
14054 * more spelling fixes
14055 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
14056 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
14057 core in init_acs()).
14058 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
14061 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
14063 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
14064 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
14065 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
14067 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
14068 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
14069 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
14070 resolution of traces.
14071 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
14072 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
14073 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
14074 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
14075 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
14076 is much less flaky.
14077 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
14078 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
14079 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
14080 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
14082 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
14083 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
14084 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
14085 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
14086 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
14087 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This will mostly happen if
14088 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
14089 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
14090 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
14091 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
14092 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
14093 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
14094 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
14095 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
14096 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
14097 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
14099 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
14100 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
14101 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
14102 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
14103 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
14104 the correct alternate character set.
14105 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
14106 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
14107 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
14108 a terminal is undefined.
14109 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
14110 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
14111 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
14112 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
14113 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
14114 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
14116 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
14117 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
14118 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
14119 if other attributes are turned off.
14120 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
14121 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
14122 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
14124 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
14125 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
14126 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
14129 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
14130 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
14131 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
14132 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
14134 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
14135 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
14137 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
14139 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
14140 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
14141 break operation with any emulators.
14142 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
14143 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
14144 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
14145 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
14146 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
14147 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
14148 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
14149 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
14151 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
14152 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
14154 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
14155 unpredictable results.
14156 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
14158 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
14159 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
14160 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
14161 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
14162 take note of the terminfo directory.
14163 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
14164 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
14167 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
14168 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
14169 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
14170 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
14171 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
14172 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
14173 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
14174 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
14175 performs more testing.
14176 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
14177 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
14179 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
14180 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
14182 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
14183 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
14184 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
14186 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
14188 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
14189 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
14190 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
14191 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
14192 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
14193 will probably continue to work ok.
14195 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
14196 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
14197 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
14198 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
14199 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
14201 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
14202 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
14203 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
14205 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
14206 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
14207 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
14208 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
14209 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
14210 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
14211 changed accordingly.
14212 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
14213 bottom-right corner.
14214 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
14215 pads I'd love a copy.
14216 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
14217 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
14218 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
14219 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
14220 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
14221 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
14222 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
14224 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
14225 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
14226 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
14228 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
14229 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
14230 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
14231 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
14232 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
14233 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
14234 * See src/README for porting notes.
14235 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
14236 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
14237 rows instead of lines, etc.)
14238 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
14239 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
14240 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
14241 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
14242 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
14243 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
14244 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
14246 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
14247 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
14248 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
14249 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
14250 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
14251 fact was exposed by hanoi.
14252 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
14253 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
14254 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
14255 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
14256 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
14257 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
14259 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
14261 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
14262 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
14263 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
14264 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
14265 Config.* files through an awk script.
14266 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
14267 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
14268 * a few minor cleanups.
14269 * added more prototypes in curses.h
14271 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
14273 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
14274 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
14275 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
14276 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
14277 * a couple of bug fixes.
14278 * a few code cleanups.
14280 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
14282 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
14283 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
14284 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
14285 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
14286 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
14287 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
14288 * Cleaner Makefile.
14289 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
14290 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
14292 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
14293 (doesn't work on Linux)
14294 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
14295 screen before working.
14296 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
14297 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
14299 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
14300 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
14301 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
14302 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
14303 * several minor bug fixes.
14305 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
14307 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
14308 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
14309 * changes related to Config
14311 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
14313 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
14314 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
14315 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
14316 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
14317 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
14318 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
14319 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
14320 * added halfdelay()
14321 * fixed problems with asc_init()
14322 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
14323 * cleaned up vidputs()
14324 * general cleanup of the code
14325 * more attention to portability to other systems
14326 * added terminfos for hp70092 (won't work until changes to lib_update.c are
14327 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
14329 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
14330 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
14332 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
14333 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
14334 the rationale drop me a line.
14336 Included are several test programs in test/.
14337 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
14338 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
14340 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
14342 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
14343 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
14344 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
14345 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
14346 * keyname() is added.
14347 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
14348 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
14349 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
14350 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
14351 * included fixes from 0.6.1
14352 * added a few more missing functions.
14353 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
14354 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
14357 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
14359 1) Included the missing data/console.
14361 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
14363 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
14365 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
14366 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
14367 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
14369 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
14370 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
14371 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
14372 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
14373 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
14374 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
14375 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
14376 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
14377 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
14378 * added notimeout().
14379 * added timeout() define in curses.h
14380 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
14382 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
14383 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
14384 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
14385 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
14386 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
14387 * added slk_* support.
14388 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
14389 * added PANEL library.
14390 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
14391 * terminfo.h is really term.h
14393 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
14394 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
14395 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
14396 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
14397 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
14398 another key is pressed.
14399 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
14400 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
14401 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
14403 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
14404 * fixed bug in wvline().
14405 * added curs_set().
14406 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
14407 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
14409 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
14410 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
14411 * Addition of function prototypes.
14412 * Addition of several missing functions.
14413 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
14414 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
14415 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
14416 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
14417 * New scrolling code.
14418 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
14420 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
14421 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
14422 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
14423 * more fixes for updates.
14424 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
14425 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
14426 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
14427 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
14429 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
14430 * support for color.
14431 * support for PC graphic characters.
14432 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
14433 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
14435 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
14436 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
14437 * ANSIfication of some functions.
14438 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
14439 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.
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