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31 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
32 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
34 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
35 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
37 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
38 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
39 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
41 A few contributors are given in this file by their initials.
42 They each account for one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
49 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
50 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
51 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
52 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
54 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
56 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
57 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
58 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
59 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
60 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
63 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
64 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
66 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
67 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
68 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
69 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
70 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
71 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
72 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
73 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
74 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
75 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
76 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
79 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
80 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
81 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
82 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
83 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
84 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
85 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
88 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
89 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
90 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
91 Ada95 tree is not built.
94 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
95 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
96 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
97 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
98 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
99 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
101 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
102 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
103 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
104 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
105 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
106 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
107 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
108 > fixes based on Coverity report:
109 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
110 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
111 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
112 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
113 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
114 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
115 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
116 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
117 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
118 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
119 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
121 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
122 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
123 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
124 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
125 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
126 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
127 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
128 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
129 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
132 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
133 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
134 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
135 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
136 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
137 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
138 + improved install-sh's quoting.
139 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
143 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
144 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
145 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
146 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
147 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
151 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
152 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
153 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
154 in the configure script to an error.
155 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
156 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
157 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
158 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
159 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
161 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
162 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
165 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
166 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
169 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
170 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
172 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
173 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
174 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
175 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
176 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
177 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
178 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
179 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
182 + regenerated html documentation.
183 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
184 opaque in selected configurations.
185 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
186 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
187 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
188 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
189 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
190 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
191 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
192 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
193 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
194 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
195 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
197 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
198 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
201 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
202 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
203 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
204 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
205 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
206 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
207 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
208 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
209 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
210 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
211 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
212 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
215 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
217 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
218 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
219 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
221 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
222 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
223 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
224 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
225 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
226 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
227 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
228 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
230 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
231 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
234 + add test/inchs.c, test_inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
235 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
237 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
239 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
240 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
241 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
244 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
245 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
246 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
247 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
249 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
250 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
251 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
252 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
253 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
254 no longer relies on it.
255 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
256 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
257 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
260 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
261 (report by Rong-En Fan).
264 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
265 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
266 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
267 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
268 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
269 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
270 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
271 its license consistent with ncurses.
272 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
273 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
274 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
277 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
278 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
279 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
280 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
284 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
285 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
286 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
288 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
289 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
292 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
293 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
294 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
297 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
298 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
299 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
300 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
301 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
302 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
303 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
304 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
305 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
306 to manpages as needed.
307 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
308 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
311 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
312 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
313 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
314 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
315 + update config.guess, config.sub
317 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
320 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
321 definitions in <wchar.h>.
322 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
323 correct nor portable.
324 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
326 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
327 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
331 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
332 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
333 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
334 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
335 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
336 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
339 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
340 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
341 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
342 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
344 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
345 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
346 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
347 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
348 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
349 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
350 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
351 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
354 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
355 database configuration.
356 + updates for test/configure script.
357 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
358 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
360 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
361 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
362 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
363 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
365 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
367 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
368 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
371 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
372 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
374 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
375 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
379 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
380 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
383 + add test/echochar.c
384 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
385 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
388 + add AUTHORS file -TD
389 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
390 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
391 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
394 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
395 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
396 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
398 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
399 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
400 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
401 for rpath support in versions past 3.
402 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
403 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
405 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
406 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
407 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
408 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
411 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
412 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
413 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
416 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
417 and status line (Alain Bench).
418 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
419 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
420 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
421 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
424 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
425 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
426 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
427 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
428 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
431 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
432 + updated html documentation.
433 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
434 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
437 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
438 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
439 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
440 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
441 option (from lynx changes) -TD
442 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
443 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
444 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
445 by report by Christopher Parker).
449 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
450 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
451 since it does not really do this -TD
454 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
455 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
456 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
457 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
460 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
461 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
462 embedded into a termcap description.
463 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
464 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
465 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
466 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
468 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
471 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
473 + add test/foldkeys.c
476 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
477 source output (Debian #378783).
478 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
479 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
480 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
481 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
482 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
483 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
486 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
487 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
488 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
491 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
492 or as a text file if those are not available.
493 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
494 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
495 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
498 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
499 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
500 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
501 + update config.guess, config.sub
504 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
505 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
506 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
508 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
509 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
511 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
512 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
513 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
514 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
515 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
516 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
518 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
519 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
520 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
521 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
524 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
525 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
529 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
530 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
532 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
533 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
534 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
535 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
536 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
537 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
540 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
541 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
542 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
543 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
544 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
545 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
546 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
547 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
548 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
549 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
552 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
553 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
554 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
555 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
557 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
560 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
561 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
562 + minor copyright fixes.
563 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
566 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
567 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
568 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
569 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
570 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
571 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
572 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
573 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
575 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
576 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
577 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
578 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
580 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
583 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
584 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
586 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
587 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
588 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
589 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
591 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
592 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
593 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
594 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
597 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
598 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
599 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
600 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
601 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
602 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
603 + update config.guess, config.sub
604 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
605 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
606 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
607 function is broken in that implementation.
610 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
611 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
614 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
615 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
617 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
618 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
620 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
621 reported to implement this feature -TD
624 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
625 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
628 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
629 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
630 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
631 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
632 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
633 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
634 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
635 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
638 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
639 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
641 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
642 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
645 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
646 (report by Alain Bench).
647 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
648 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
649 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
650 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
652 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
653 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
654 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
658 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
659 and/or video attributes.
660 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
661 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
664 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
667 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
668 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
669 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
670 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
671 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
672 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
673 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
674 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
675 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
678 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
679 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
680 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
683 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
684 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
685 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
686 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
687 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
688 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
689 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
690 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
691 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
692 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
695 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
696 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
698 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
700 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
701 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
702 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
705 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
707 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
708 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
711 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
712 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
715 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
716 + suppress line-drawing
717 + implement max_attributes
719 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
720 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
724 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
725 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
727 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
729 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
730 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
731 etc., when allocating screens.
734 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
735 this in test/filter.c
736 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
740 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
741 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
742 + add extension nofilter().
743 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
744 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
745 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
746 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
747 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
750 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
751 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
752 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
753 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
754 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
755 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
756 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
757 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
758 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
760 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
761 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
762 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
764 + update config.guess and config.sub
767 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
768 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
769 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
771 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
772 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
773 that was never built in that directory).
774 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
777 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
779 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
780 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
784 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
785 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
786 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
787 effect of the different functions.
788 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
792 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
793 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
795 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
799 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
800 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
801 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
803 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
804 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
808 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
809 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
810 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
812 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
813 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
814 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
817 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
818 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
819 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
822 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
823 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
824 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
826 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
827 a derived window (Debian #316663).
830 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
831 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
832 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
833 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
834 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
835 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
836 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
839 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
840 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
841 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
843 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
844 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
845 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
846 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
847 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
849 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
852 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
855 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
856 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
860 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
861 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
862 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
863 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
864 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
866 + update config.guess and config.sub from
867 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
870 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
871 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
872 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
873 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
874 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
875 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
876 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
877 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
878 default if it is used.
879 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
880 --with-abi-version option was used.
881 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
882 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
883 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
886 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
887 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
888 handlers (Debian #326709).
891 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
892 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
894 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
897 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
898 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
899 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
900 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
902 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
903 (report by Frank van Vugt).
906 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
907 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
908 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
909 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
910 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
911 + update llib-l* files.
914 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
915 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
916 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
917 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
921 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
922 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
923 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
924 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
925 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
926 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
927 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
928 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
932 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
933 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
934 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
935 several related cases -TD
936 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
937 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
939 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
943 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
945 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
946 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
947 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
948 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
949 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
950 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
953 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
954 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
955 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
957 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
958 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
961 + update config.guess and config.sub from
962 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
963 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
964 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
965 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
966 "make install.data" step.
967 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
968 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
969 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
970 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
971 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
972 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
973 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
974 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
975 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
976 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
977 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
978 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
979 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
980 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
983 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
986 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
987 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
988 review of Debian package).
989 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
990 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
991 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
992 install using libtool 1.5.0):
993 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
995 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
996 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
997 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
998 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
999 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1002 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
1003 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
1004 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
1007 + fixes for termcap support:
1008 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
1009 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
1010 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
1011 extended names data will be freed consistently.
1012 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
1014 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
1015 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
1016 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
1017 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
1020 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
1021 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
1022 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
1023 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
1025 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
1029 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
1031 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
1032 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
1035 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
1036 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
1037 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
1038 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
1039 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1040 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
1041 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
1045 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
1046 shift-, control-cursor keys.
1047 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
1048 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
1049 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
1050 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
1051 it will automatically be treated as a key.
1052 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
1053 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
1054 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
1058 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
1059 + add configure option --enable-largefile
1060 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
1064 + update config.guess, config.sub
1065 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
1066 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
1067 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
1068 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
1069 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
1071 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
1072 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
1073 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
1076 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
1077 position the mouse to a particular item.
1078 + implement test/demo_menus.c
1079 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
1080 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
1081 --enable-const option.
1084 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
1085 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
1086 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
1087 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
1088 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
1089 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
1090 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
1091 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
1092 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
1093 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
1094 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
1097 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
1099 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
1100 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1103 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
1104 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
1105 anyone used that configuration.
1106 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
1108 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
1109 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1112 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
1113 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
1114 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
1116 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
1117 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
1118 WenRui, Debian #300512).
1121 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
1122 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
1123 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
1127 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
1128 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
1129 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
1130 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
1131 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
1134 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
1136 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
1138 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
1139 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1140 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
1143 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
1145 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
1146 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
1147 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
1148 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
1149 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
1150 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
1151 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
1152 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
1153 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
1154 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
1155 right (cf: 20040228).
1156 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
1157 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1160 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
1161 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
1162 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
1163 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
1164 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
1165 added (Debian #295083).
1166 + add traces to panel library.
1169 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
1170 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
1171 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
1172 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
1173 mouse events in this case.
1174 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
1175 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
1178 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
1179 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
1180 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
1181 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
1182 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
1183 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
1184 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
1185 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
1188 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
1189 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
1190 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
1191 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
1192 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
1193 already been started.
1194 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
1195 pair_content() and color_content().
1196 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
1197 if it corresponds to the default-color.
1198 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
1199 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
1200 color pairs which are allowed.
1201 + add a top-level tags rule.
1204 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
1205 first calling initscr().
1206 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
1207 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
1208 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
1209 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
1210 that are curses-specific.
1211 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
1212 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
1213 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
1214 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
1218 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
1219 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
1220 for leading whitespace.
1221 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
1222 where a following line begins in column 1.
1223 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
1224 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
1227 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1230 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1231 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
1232 + update config.guess, config.sub
1233 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
1234 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
1235 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
1236 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
1237 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
1238 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
1239 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
1242 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
1244 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
1245 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
1248 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
1249 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
1250 and attr_set functions.
1253 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
1254 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
1255 forms-demo to be one character short.
1256 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
1257 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
1258 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
1259 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
1262 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
1263 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
1264 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
1265 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
1267 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
1268 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
1271 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
1272 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
1273 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
1274 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
1275 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
1276 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
1277 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
1279 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
1280 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1282 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
1283 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
1286 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
1287 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
1288 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
1289 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
1290 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
1291 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
1292 wide-character configuration.
1295 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
1296 or multicolumn characters.
1299 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
1300 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
1301 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
1302 use_default_colors() be called first.
1305 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
1306 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
1307 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
1308 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
1309 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
1310 must be wrapped to a new line.
1311 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
1312 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
1313 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
1314 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
1315 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
1319 + minor fixes for traces.
1320 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
1321 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
1322 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
1326 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
1327 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
1328 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
1329 and shift-out which seem to work.
1330 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
1331 at runtime (Debian #110586).
1334 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
1335 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1336 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
1337 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
1341 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
1342 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
1343 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
1344 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1347 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
1348 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
1349 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1350 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
1351 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1352 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
1353 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
1354 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
1355 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
1356 is no longer experimental.
1357 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
1358 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
1361 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
1364 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
1365 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
1366 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
1367 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
1368 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
1369 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
1370 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
1371 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
1374 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
1375 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
1376 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
1377 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
1378 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
1379 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
1380 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
1381 new ones do not require this change. -TD
1384 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
1385 and window managers (Debian #265631).
1386 > terminfo updates -TD
1387 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
1388 with the common usage of bce/ech
1389 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
1393 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
1394 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
1395 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
1396 a help window as well.
1397 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
1398 the -d option is set.
1399 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
1402 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
1404 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
1405 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
1409 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
1410 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
1411 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
1412 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
1413 patch by Hans de Goede)
1414 > terminfo updates -TD
1415 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
1416 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
1417 + add function-keys to decansi
1418 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
1419 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
1420 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
1423 > terminfo updates -TD
1424 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
1425 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
1427 + review/update konsole entries
1428 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
1429 + correct tsl string in kterm
1432 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
1435 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
1436 multibyte character.
1437 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
1439 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
1440 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
1441 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
1442 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
1443 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
1444 converting termcap to termcap format.
1445 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
1446 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
1447 > terminfo updates -TD
1448 + minor fixes for emu
1450 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
1455 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
1456 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
1457 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
1458 (report/patch by Tony Li).
1459 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
1460 > terminfo updates -TD
1461 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
1463 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
1464 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
1465 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
1468 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
1469 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
1471 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
1472 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
1473 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
1474 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
1475 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
1476 + update config.guess, config.sub
1477 > terminfo updates -TD
1479 + add xterm-xf86-v44
1480 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
1481 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
1486 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
1487 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
1488 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
1491 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
1492 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
1493 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
1495 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
1499 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
1500 field_buffer() results.
1501 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
1504 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
1506 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
1507 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
1508 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
1509 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
1510 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
1513 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
1514 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
1515 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
1519 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
1520 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
1522 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
1525 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
1526 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
1527 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
1528 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
1529 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
1530 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
1531 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
1532 information without an option.
1533 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
1534 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
1537 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
1540 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
1541 + free some memory leaks in tic.
1542 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
1543 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
1544 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
1545 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
1546 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
1548 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
1551 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
1552 to an unsigned char.
1553 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
1554 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
1557 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
1560 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
1561 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
1562 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
1563 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
1564 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
1565 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
1566 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
1567 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
1568 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
1569 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
1570 20030802 (Debian #237629).
1573 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
1574 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
1575 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
1576 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
1579 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
1581 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
1582 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
1585 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
1586 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
1587 mode is shown in that test.
1588 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
1589 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
1590 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
1593 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
1595 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
1596 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
1597 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
1598 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
1600 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
1601 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
1602 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
1603 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
1606 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
1607 (request by Mike Aubury).
1608 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
1610 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
1612 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
1615 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
1616 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
1617 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
1618 with Stanislav Ievlev).
1619 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
1620 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
1621 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
1622 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
1623 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
1624 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
1626 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1629 20040207 pre-release
1630 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
1631 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
1632 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
1633 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
1634 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
1636 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
1637 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
1638 verified by Scott Corscadden).
1640 20040131 pre-release
1641 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
1642 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
1643 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
1644 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
1645 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
1646 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
1647 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
1648 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
1649 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
1650 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
1651 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
1653 20040125 pre-release
1654 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
1655 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
1656 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
1657 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
1658 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
1659 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
1660 modifying the displayed value.
1662 20040124 pre-release
1663 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
1664 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
1665 that works better for cross-compiling.
1667 20040117 pre-release
1668 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
1669 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
1670 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
1671 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
1672 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
1673 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
1674 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
1676 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
1677 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
1679 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
1680 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
1681 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
1682 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
1683 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1684 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
1685 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
1686 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
1687 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
1688 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
1689 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
1690 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
1692 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
1693 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
1694 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
1695 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
1696 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
1697 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
1698 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
1699 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
1701 20040110 pre-release
1702 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
1703 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
1705 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
1706 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
1708 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
1710 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
1711 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
1712 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1713 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
1714 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1717 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
1718 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
1719 + add pecho_wchar().
1720 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
1721 available) on older platforms.
1724 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
1725 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
1726 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
1727 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
1728 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
1729 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
1730 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
1731 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
1732 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
1735 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
1736 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
1737 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
1738 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
1739 work with Tru64 4.0d.
1740 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
1744 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
1745 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
1746 applications do not.
1747 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
1748 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
1749 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
1750 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
1751 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
1752 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
1756 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
1757 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
1758 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
1759 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
1760 <inger@altlinux.org>).
1761 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
1762 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
1763 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
1764 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
1765 awkward for some cases.
1766 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
1767 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
1769 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
1770 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
1771 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
1772 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
1773 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
1777 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
1778 values (Philippe Blain).
1779 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
1780 restarting (Philippe Blain).
1781 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
1785 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
1786 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
1787 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
1788 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
1789 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
1790 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
1794 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
1795 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
1796 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
1798 + update config.guess, config.sub
1801 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
1802 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
1803 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
1804 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
1805 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
1806 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
1807 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
1809 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
1810 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
1811 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
1812 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
1813 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
1816 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
1817 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
1818 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
1819 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
1820 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
1821 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
1822 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
1823 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
1825 + regenerated html documentation.
1826 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
1827 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
1828 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
1831 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
1832 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
1833 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
1834 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
1835 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
1836 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
1837 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
1838 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
1842 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
1843 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
1846 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
1847 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
1848 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
1849 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
1851 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
1852 (report by Philippe Blain).
1855 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
1856 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
1857 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
1858 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
1859 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
1860 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
1861 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1862 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
1863 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
1865 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
1867 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
1868 in the clr_bol logic.
1871 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1872 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
1873 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
1874 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
1875 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
1876 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
1877 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
1878 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
1879 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
1880 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
1881 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
1882 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
1885 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
1886 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
1887 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
1888 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
1891 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
1892 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
1893 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
1894 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
1895 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
1896 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
1897 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
1898 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
1899 --with-install-prefix is used.
1902 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1903 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
1904 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
1905 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
1908 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
1909 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
1910 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
1911 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
1912 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
1913 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
1914 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1915 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
1916 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
1919 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
1920 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
1921 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
1922 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
1923 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
1924 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
1925 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
1928 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
1930 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1931 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
1932 the size of the scroll-region.
1933 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
1936 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
1937 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
1938 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
1942 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
1943 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
1944 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
1945 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
1946 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
1948 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
1949 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
1950 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
1951 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
1952 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
1953 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
1954 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
1955 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
1956 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
1957 usage and to prevent circular links.
1958 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
1959 (rxvt-color): new alias
1960 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
1961 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
1962 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
1963 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
1964 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
1965 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
1967 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
1971 + update config.guess, config.sub
1972 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
1973 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
1976 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
1977 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
1978 would not accept gcc warning options.
1979 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
1980 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
1981 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
1982 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
1983 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
1984 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
1985 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
1987 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
1990 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
1991 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
1992 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
1993 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
1994 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
1995 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
1996 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
1997 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2000 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
2002 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
2003 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
2004 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
2005 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
2008 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
2010 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
2011 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
2012 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
2013 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2014 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
2015 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
2018 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
2019 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
2020 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
2021 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
2022 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
2023 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
2024 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
2025 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
2027 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
2028 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2029 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
2030 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2033 + regenerated html manpages.
2034 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
2035 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
2037 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
2038 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
2040 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
2041 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
2044 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
2045 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2046 + add tkterm entry -TD
2047 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
2048 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
2049 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
2050 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
2052 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
2053 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
2054 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
2056 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
2057 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
2058 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
2061 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
2062 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
2063 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
2064 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
2066 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
2067 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
2068 current test programs.
2069 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
2070 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
2071 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
2072 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
2074 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
2075 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
2076 mentioned in the terminfo.
2077 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
2078 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
2081 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
2082 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
2083 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
2084 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
2085 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
2086 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
2087 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
2088 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
2091 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
2092 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
2093 the editing position before making modifications.
2094 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
2095 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
2096 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
2099 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
2100 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
2101 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
2102 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
2104 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
2105 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
2106 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
2107 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
2108 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
2109 terminfo as is done in "screen".
2112 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
2113 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
2114 code, from recent rewrite.
2115 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
2117 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
2118 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
2121 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
2122 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
2123 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
2124 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
2127 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
2128 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
2130 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
2133 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
2135 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
2136 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
2138 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
2139 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
2140 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
2143 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
2144 a file when ^W is given.
2145 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
2149 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
2150 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
2151 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
2152 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
2153 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
2154 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
2155 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
2156 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
2160 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
2161 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
2162 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
2165 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
2166 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
2167 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
2168 baudrate was not known.
2169 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
2170 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
2171 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
2172 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
2173 corresponding capability might be
2175 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
2176 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
2177 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
2178 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
2181 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
2182 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
2183 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
2184 apparently typedef'd.
2185 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
2186 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
2189 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
2190 + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
2191 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
2192 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
2193 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
2194 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
2195 cached for reallocating.
2198 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
2199 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
2200 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
2202 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
2203 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
2204 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
2205 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
2206 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
2207 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
2208 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
2209 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
2212 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
2213 emx-base to the latter -TD
2214 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
2215 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
2218 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
2219 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
2220 attributes, e.g., reverse.
2221 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
2222 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
2225 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
2226 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
2227 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
2228 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
2229 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
2230 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
2231 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
2233 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
2234 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
2235 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
2236 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
2237 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
2240 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
2241 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
2242 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
2243 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
2244 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
2245 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
2247 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2248 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
2249 is indeed a "blank".
2250 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
2251 sections as small as one line.
2252 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
2254 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
2255 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
2256 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
2259 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
2260 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
2263 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
2264 (report by Philippe Blain).
2265 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
2266 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
2267 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
2268 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
2269 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
2271 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
2272 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
2273 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
2274 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2275 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
2276 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
2279 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
2280 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
2282 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
2283 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
2285 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
2286 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
2287 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
2288 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
2291 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
2292 overridden from the environment.
2293 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
2294 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
2295 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
2296 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
2297 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
2298 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
2299 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
2300 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
2301 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
2302 by Sam Varshavchik).
2303 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
2304 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
2305 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
2306 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
2308 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
2309 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
2310 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
2311 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
2312 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
2315 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
2316 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
2317 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
2318 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
2319 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
2320 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
2321 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
2322 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
2323 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
2324 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
2325 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
2326 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
2327 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
2328 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
2329 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
2330 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
2331 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
2332 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
2333 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
2334 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
2335 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
2336 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
2337 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
2340 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
2341 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
2342 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
2343 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
2344 winsch() internal function.
2345 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
2346 more than one spacing character.
2349 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
2350 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
2351 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
2352 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
2353 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
2354 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
2355 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
2356 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
2357 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
2358 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
2361 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
2362 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
2363 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
2364 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
2365 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
2366 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
2367 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
2370 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
2371 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
2372 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
2373 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
2375 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
2376 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
2377 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
2378 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
2379 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
2382 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
2383 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
2384 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
2385 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
2386 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
2387 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
2388 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
2389 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
2390 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
2391 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
2392 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
2393 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
2394 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
2395 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
2396 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
2397 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
2398 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
2401 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
2402 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
2403 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
2404 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
2405 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
2406 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
2407 Frederic L W Meunier).
2409 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2410 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
2411 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
2412 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
2413 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
2414 the debug trace in that case.
2415 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
2416 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
2417 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
2418 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
2420 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
2421 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
2423 20021005 pre-release
2424 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
2425 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
2426 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
2427 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
2428 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
2429 formats such as "%.*s".
2430 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
2431 (report Floyd Davidson).
2432 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
2434 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
2435 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
2436 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
2438 20020928 pre-release
2439 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
2440 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
2441 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
2443 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
2444 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
2445 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
2446 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
2447 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
2448 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
2449 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
2450 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
2451 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
2452 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
2453 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
2454 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
2455 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
2456 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
2457 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
2458 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
2459 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
2460 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
2461 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
2463 20020921 pre-release
2464 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
2465 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
2466 result in core dump.
2467 + documented getbegx(), etc.
2468 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
2469 delimiter rather than '@'.
2470 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2471 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
2472 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
2473 to the lines given for the destination window.
2475 20020914 pre-release
2476 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
2477 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
2478 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
2479 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
2480 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
2481 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
2482 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
2483 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
2484 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2485 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
2486 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
2487 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
2489 20020907 pre-release
2490 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
2491 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
2492 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
2493 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
2494 html manpages on Debian.
2495 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
2496 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
2497 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
2498 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2499 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
2500 a variable from the stack.
2501 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
2503 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
2504 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
2505 _idcok window fields.
2506 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
2508 20020901 pre-release
2509 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
2510 + update config.guess, config.sub
2511 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
2512 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
2514 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
2515 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
2516 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
2517 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
2518 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
2519 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
2520 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
2521 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
2522 use in resizeterm().
2523 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
2524 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
2525 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
2526 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
2527 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2528 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
2529 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
2530 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
2531 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
2532 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
2533 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
2537 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
2538 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
2539 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
2540 + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
2541 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
2542 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
2545 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
2546 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
2547 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
2548 bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
2549 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
2550 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
2551 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
2552 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
2553 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
2555 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
2556 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
2560 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
2561 when translating to termcap.
2562 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
2563 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
2564 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
2566 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
2568 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
2569 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
2571 + document TABSIZE variable.
2572 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
2573 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
2574 assume_default_colors().
2575 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
2577 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
2578 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
2579 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
2580 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
2581 window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
2584 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
2586 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
2587 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
2589 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
2590 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
2591 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
2594 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
2596 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
2599 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
2600 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
2601 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
2602 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
2603 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
2604 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
2605 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
2606 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
2607 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
2608 configure definitions.
2609 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
2610 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
2611 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
2612 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
2613 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
2614 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
2615 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
2616 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
2617 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
2618 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
2619 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
2622 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
2623 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
2624 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
2625 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
2626 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
2627 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
2628 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
2630 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
2631 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
2632 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
2633 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2636 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
2637 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
2638 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
2639 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
2641 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
2642 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
2643 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
2646 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
2647 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
2649 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
2650 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
2651 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
2653 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
2654 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
2655 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
2656 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
2658 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
2659 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
2660 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
2661 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
2665 + add charset to generated html.
2666 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
2667 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
2668 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
2669 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
2670 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
2671 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
2675 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
2676 key code in get_wch().
2677 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
2678 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
2679 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
2680 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
2681 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
2682 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
2685 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
2686 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
2688 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
2689 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
2690 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
2691 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
2694 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
2695 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
2696 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
2697 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
2698 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
2699 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
2700 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
2701 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
2702 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
2703 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
2706 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
2710 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
2711 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
2712 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
2713 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
2714 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
2715 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
2716 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
2719 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
2720 character versions as well.
2721 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
2723 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
2725 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
2726 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
2727 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
2728 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
2729 if gettimeofday() is available.
2732 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
2733 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
2736 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
2738 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
2739 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
2740 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
2741 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
2742 + update config.guess, config.sub
2745 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
2746 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
2747 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
2748 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
2749 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
2750 alias for 'function'.
2753 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
2754 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
2758 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
2759 + implement wgetn_wstr().
2760 + implement win_wchnstr().
2761 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
2762 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
2765 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
2766 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
2769 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
2770 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
2773 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
2774 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
2775 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
2777 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
2778 + implement unget_wch().
2779 + implement wget_wch().
2782 + regenerated html manpages.
2783 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
2784 + implement wins_wch().
2785 + implement win_wch().
2786 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
2789 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
2790 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
2793 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
2794 + document wunctrl, key_name.
2795 + implement key_name().
2796 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
2798 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
2802 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
2803 in spurious symlinks on install.
2806 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
2807 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
2808 box() and box_set() functions.
2809 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
2810 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
2811 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
2812 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
2813 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
2814 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
2815 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
2817 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
2819 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
2820 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
2821 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
2822 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
2824 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
2825 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
2828 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
2829 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
2831 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
2835 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
2837 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
2838 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
2839 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2840 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
2841 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
2842 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2843 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
2844 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
2845 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
2846 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
2847 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
2848 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
2849 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
2850 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
2851 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
2854 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
2855 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
2858 + update config.guess, config.sub
2859 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
2860 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
2863 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
2864 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
2865 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
2867 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
2868 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
2870 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
2871 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
2872 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2873 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
2876 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
2879 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
2880 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
2881 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
2882 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
2883 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
2884 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
2885 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
2886 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
2887 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
2889 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
2890 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
2891 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
2893 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
2895 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
2896 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
2897 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
2898 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
2899 work with SunOS nawk.
2900 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
2902 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
2903 case it uses multiple tokens.
2906 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
2907 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
2908 interrupted by that signal.
2909 + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
2910 not needed with autoconf 2.52
2911 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
2912 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
2914 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
2915 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
2916 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
2917 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
2918 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
2921 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
2923 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
2924 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
2925 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
2926 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
2927 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
2928 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
2929 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
2930 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
2933 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
2934 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
2935 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
2936 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
2937 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
2938 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
2939 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
2940 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
2941 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
2944 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
2945 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
2946 may have different keypad() settings.
2947 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
2948 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
2949 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
2950 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
2951 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
2952 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
2953 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
2954 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
2956 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
2957 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2958 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
2959 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
2963 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
2965 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
2966 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
2967 implementation in cygwin package).
2968 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
2969 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
2971 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
2972 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
2973 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
2974 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
2975 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
2976 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
2977 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
2978 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
2979 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
2981 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
2982 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
2983 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
2984 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
2985 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
2986 <jevans@apple.com>).
2987 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
2988 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
2989 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
2990 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
2991 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
2995 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
2996 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
2997 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
2998 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
2999 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
3000 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
3001 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
3002 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
3003 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
3004 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
3007 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
3010 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3011 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3012 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
3013 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
3014 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
3017 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
3018 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
3021 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
3022 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
3023 + implement wecho_wchar()
3024 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
3025 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
3026 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
3028 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
3029 in a trace by using curly braces.
3030 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
3031 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
3032 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
3033 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
3036 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
3037 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
3038 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
3039 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
3040 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
3044 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
3045 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
3046 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
3047 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
3048 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
3049 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
3050 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
3051 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
3055 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
3056 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
3057 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
3058 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
3059 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
3060 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
3061 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
3062 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
3063 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
3066 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
3067 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
3070 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
3071 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
3072 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
3073 <bbraun@synack.net>).
3074 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
3075 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
3077 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
3078 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
3080 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
3081 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
3084 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
3085 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
3086 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3087 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
3088 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
3090 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
3091 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
3093 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
3094 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
3095 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
3096 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
3097 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
3100 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
3101 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
3103 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
3104 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
3105 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
3106 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
3109 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
3110 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
3111 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
3112 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
3113 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
3117 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
3118 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
3119 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
3121 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
3123 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
3125 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
3127 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
3128 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
3129 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
3130 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
3131 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
3132 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
3133 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
3134 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
3135 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
3139 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
3140 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
3141 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
3142 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
3143 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
3144 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
3145 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
3146 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
3147 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
3148 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
3150 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
3151 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
3152 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3153 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
3154 supports xterm mouse controls.
3155 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
3156 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
3157 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
3158 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
3159 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
3160 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
3161 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
3162 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
3163 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
3164 AX in a color xterm.
3165 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
3169 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
3170 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
3171 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
3172 + added llib-ncursesw.
3175 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
3176 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
3177 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
3178 header files (report by William P Setzer).
3179 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
3180 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
3181 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
3182 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3183 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
3184 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
3185 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
3186 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3187 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
3188 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3189 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
3190 obsolete with QNX RTP.
3191 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
3192 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
3193 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
3194 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
3197 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
3198 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
3199 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
3202 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
3203 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3204 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3205 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
3206 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
3207 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
3208 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
3209 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
3210 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
3211 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
3212 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
3213 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
3217 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
3218 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
3219 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
3220 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
3221 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
3222 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
3223 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3226 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
3227 new wide-character structures.
3228 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
3229 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
3230 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
3231 compiling for wide-character configuration.
3232 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
3236 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
3238 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
3239 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
3240 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
3242 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
3243 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
3244 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3247 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
3248 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
3249 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
3252 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
3253 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3254 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
3255 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
3256 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
3257 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
3258 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
3261 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
3262 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
3263 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
3264 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
3265 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
3266 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
3267 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
3268 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
3269 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
3272 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
3273 which may be in libutf8.
3274 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
3275 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
3276 links (Debian bug report #99550).
3277 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
3278 C++ vscan code (Debian bug report #97945).
3279 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3280 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
3281 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
3282 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
3283 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
3284 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
3287 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
3288 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
3291 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
3292 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
3293 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
3294 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
3295 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
3297 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
3298 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
3299 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
3300 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
3301 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
3302 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
3303 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
3304 are used to manipulate attributes.
3305 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
3306 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
3307 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
3308 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
3309 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
3310 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
3312 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
3313 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
3314 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
3315 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
3316 we are using chtype data.
3317 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
3319 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
3321 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
3322 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
3323 where a pointer would be more useful.
3324 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
3325 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
3326 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
3327 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
3328 passing cchar_t's by address.
3329 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
3330 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
3331 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
3332 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
3333 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
3334 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
3335 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
3336 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
3339 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
3340 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
3341 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
3342 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
3343 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
3345 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
3346 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
3347 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
3350 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
3351 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
3352 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
3353 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
3354 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
3355 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
3356 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
3357 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
3358 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
3359 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
3360 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
3361 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
3364 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
3365 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
3366 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
3369 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
3370 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
3373 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
3374 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3375 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
3376 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
3377 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
3380 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
3381 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
3382 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
3383 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
3384 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
3385 <bsittler@iname.com>).
3386 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
3387 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
3388 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
3389 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
3390 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3393 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
3394 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
3395 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
3396 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
3397 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
3398 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
3399 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
3400 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3401 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
3402 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
3403 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
3404 any shots there, but the computer did.
3405 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
3406 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
3410 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
3411 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
3412 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
3413 3.09.08 (Debian bug report #92215).
3414 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
3415 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3418 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
3419 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
3420 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
3421 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
3422 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
3424 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
3426 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
3427 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
3429 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
3431 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
3432 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian bug #89222).
3435 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
3436 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
3437 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
3438 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
3439 interface from C++ binding.
3440 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
3441 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
3442 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
3443 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
3445 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
3446 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
3447 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
3448 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
3451 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
3452 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
3453 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
3454 (patch by Todd C Miller).
3457 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
3460 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
3464 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
3465 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
3466 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
3467 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
3468 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
3469 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
3470 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
3471 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
3472 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
3473 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
3474 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
3475 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
3478 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
3479 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
3481 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
3482 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
3483 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
3484 did not do this already.
3485 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
3486 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3487 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
3488 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
3489 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
3490 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
3491 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
3492 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
3495 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
3496 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
3499 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
3500 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
3501 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
3502 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
3504 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
3506 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
3507 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
3509 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
3510 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
3511 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
3512 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
3513 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
3516 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
3517 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
3518 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
3519 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
3522 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
3523 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
3524 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
3527 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
3528 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
3529 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
3530 work with 'indent') -TD
3533 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
3534 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
3535 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3536 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
3537 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
3539 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
3540 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
3541 termcap and terminfo functions
3542 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
3546 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
3547 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
3548 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
3549 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
3550 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
3551 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
3553 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
3554 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
3555 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
3556 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
3557 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
3558 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
3559 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
3560 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
3563 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
3564 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
3565 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
3566 /usr rather than /usr/local.
3569 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
3570 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
3571 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
3572 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
3574 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
3575 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
3576 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
3577 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
3578 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
3579 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
3580 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
3581 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
3584 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
3585 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
3586 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
3587 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
3588 + change trace output to binary format.
3589 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
3590 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
3591 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
3592 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
3593 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
3594 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
3595 the overwrite logic.
3598 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
3599 + resync config.guess, config.sub
3600 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
3601 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
3602 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
3603 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
3605 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
3606 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
3609 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3610 + update generated html files from manpages.
3611 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
3613 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
3614 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
3615 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
3616 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
3617 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3618 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
3619 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
3620 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
3623 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
3624 wrapping at the right margin.
3625 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
3626 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
3627 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
3629 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
3630 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
3631 understands how to run tbl automatically.
3632 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
3633 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
3634 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
3635 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
3636 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
3637 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
3638 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
3639 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
3640 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
3641 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
3642 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
3643 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
3644 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
3645 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
3646 option --with-libtool.
3647 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
3648 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
3649 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
3650 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
3651 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
3654 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
3655 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
3656 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
3657 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
3658 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
3659 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
3660 > patch by Todd C Miller:
3661 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
3662 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
3663 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
3664 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
3665 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
3666 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
3667 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
3668 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
3669 to set up a 3-button mouse.
3670 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
3671 replace select() call.
3674 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
3675 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
3676 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
3677 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3678 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
3679 cursor report before decoding.
3680 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
3681 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
3682 (see assume_default_colors()).
3683 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
3684 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
3686 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
3687 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
3688 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
3690 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
3691 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
3692 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
3693 for that capability.
3694 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
3695 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
3696 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
3697 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
3698 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
3699 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
3702 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
3703 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
3704 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
3705 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
3706 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
3707 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
3708 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
3709 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
3710 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
3712 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
3713 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
3714 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
3715 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
3716 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
3717 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
3718 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3721 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
3722 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
3723 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
3724 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
3725 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
3727 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
3728 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
3729 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
3730 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
3731 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
3732 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
3733 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
3734 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
3735 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
3736 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
3737 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
3738 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
3739 the expected number of parameters.
3740 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
3741 the option value is indeed a number.
3742 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
3743 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
3744 from the other signals.
3747 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
3748 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
3749 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
3752 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
3753 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
3755 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
3756 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
3757 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
3759 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
3760 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
3761 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
3762 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
3763 character set attribute from the displayed text.
3764 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
3765 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
3766 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
3767 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
3768 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
3769 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3772 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
3773 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
3774 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
3775 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
3776 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
3777 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
3778 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3779 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
3780 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
3781 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
3783 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
3784 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
3786 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
3787 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
3788 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
3789 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
3790 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
3791 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
3794 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
3795 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
3796 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
3797 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
3798 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
3799 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
3800 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
3801 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
3802 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
3803 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3804 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
3805 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
3806 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
3807 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
3808 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
3810 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
3811 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
3812 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
3815 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
3816 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
3817 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
3818 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
3820 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
3821 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
3822 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
3823 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
3824 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
3825 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
3826 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
3828 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
3829 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
3830 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
3831 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
3832 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
3833 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
3834 a default program-prefix.
3835 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
3836 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
3839 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
3840 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
3841 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
3842 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
3843 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
3844 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
3845 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
3846 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
3847 although the name is misleading).
3848 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
3849 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
3850 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
3851 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
3854 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
3855 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
3856 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
3858 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
3859 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
3861 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
3862 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
3863 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
3865 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
3866 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
3867 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
3868 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
3869 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
3870 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
3871 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
3872 test/configure script.
3873 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
3874 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
3875 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
3878 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
3881 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
3882 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
3883 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
3884 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
3885 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
3887 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
3888 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
3889 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
3891 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
3892 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
3895 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
3896 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3897 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
3898 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
3899 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
3900 there's still the explicit configure option).
3901 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
3902 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
3903 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
3904 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
3905 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
3906 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
3907 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
3908 simplify working around implementations that define random
3909 combinations of the related macros to zero.
3910 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
3911 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
3912 > patches by Bruno Haible:
3913 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
3914 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
3915 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
3916 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
3920 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
3921 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3922 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
3923 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
3924 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
3925 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
3926 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
3927 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
3928 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
3929 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
3930 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
3931 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
3932 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
3933 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
3936 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3937 + document configure options in INSTALL.
3938 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
3939 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
3940 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
3941 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
3942 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
3943 list of generated functions.
3944 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
3945 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
3946 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
3948 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
3949 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
3950 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
3951 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
3952 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
3954 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
3955 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
3956 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
3957 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
3958 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
3959 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
3960 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
3961 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
3962 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
3963 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
3964 examples cited in announce.html
3965 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
3966 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
3967 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
3968 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
3969 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
3970 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
3971 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
3972 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
3975 20000701 pre-release
3976 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
3977 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
3978 $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
3979 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
3980 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
3981 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
3983 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
3985 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
3987 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
3988 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
3989 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
3990 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
3991 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
3993 20000624 pre-release
3994 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
3995 that happen to render the same display colors.
3996 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
3997 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
3998 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
3999 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
4000 normalized value for cursor_address.
4001 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
4004 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
4005 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
4006 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
4007 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
4008 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
4009 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
4010 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
4011 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
4012 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
4013 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
4014 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
4015 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
4016 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
4020 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
4021 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
4022 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
4023 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
4024 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
4025 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
4026 allows larger symbol tables.
4027 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
4028 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
4029 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
4030 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
4034 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
4035 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
4036 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
4037 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
4038 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
4039 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
4040 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
4041 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
4042 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
4043 + add a "make libs" rule.
4044 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
4045 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
4046 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
4047 with existing ncurses libraries.
4050 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
4051 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
4052 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
4053 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
4054 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
4055 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
4056 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
4057 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
4058 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
4059 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
4060 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
4061 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
4062 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
4063 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
4066 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
4067 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
4068 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
4069 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
4073 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
4074 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
4076 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
4077 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
4078 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
4081 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
4082 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
4083 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
4084 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
4085 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
4087 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
4088 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
4089 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
4090 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
4091 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
4092 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
4093 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
4094 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
4097 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
4099 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
4100 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
4101 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
4102 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
4103 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
4104 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
4105 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
4106 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
4107 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
4108 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
4109 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
4110 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
4113 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
4114 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
4115 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
4116 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
4117 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
4118 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
4119 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
4120 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
4121 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
4122 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
4123 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
4124 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
4125 means that it will not recur for that special case.
4126 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
4127 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
4128 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
4129 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4132 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
4133 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
4134 bg300-rv in esr's version.
4135 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
4136 (fixes Debian bug report #61088).
4137 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
4138 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
4139 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
4142 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
4143 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
4144 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
4145 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
4146 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
4149 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
4150 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
4151 improvement in setting default colors.
4152 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
4153 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
4154 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
4156 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
4157 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
4158 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
4159 check for buffer overflow.
4160 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
4161 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
4162 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
4163 such as "infocmp -Fa".
4166 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
4167 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
4168 is not permitted in termcap.
4169 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
4170 integrating 20000318.
4173 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
4174 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
4175 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
4176 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
4178 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
4179 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
4180 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
4181 result for OS/2 EMX.
4182 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
4183 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
4184 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
4185 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
4186 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
4187 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
4190 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
4191 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
4192 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
4194 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
4195 displaying string capabilities.
4196 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
4197 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
4198 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
4199 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
4200 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
4201 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
4203 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
4204 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
4206 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
4207 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
4208 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
4209 may not produce the same result as before.
4210 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
4212 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
4213 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
4215 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
4216 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
4218 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
4219 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4220 + drop support for gnat 3.10
4221 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
4222 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
4225 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
4226 made it check only one entry at a time.
4227 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
4229 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
4230 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
4231 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
4232 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
4233 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
4234 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
4235 address out of bounds.
4236 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
4237 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
4238 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
4239 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
4241 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
4242 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
4243 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
4245 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
4248 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
4249 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
4250 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
4251 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
4253 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
4254 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
4255 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
4256 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
4257 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
4258 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
4260 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
4261 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
4262 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
4263 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
4264 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
4265 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
4266 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
4267 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
4270 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
4271 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
4272 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
4273 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
4274 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
4275 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
4279 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
4280 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
4281 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
4282 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
4283 colors are white on black.
4284 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
4285 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
4286 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
4287 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
4288 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
4291 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
4292 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
4293 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
4294 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
4295 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
4296 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
4297 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
4298 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
4299 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
4300 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
4301 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
4304 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
4305 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
4306 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
4307 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
4308 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
4309 to wait indefinitely.
4312 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
4313 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
4314 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
4315 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
4316 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
4317 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
4318 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
4319 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
4320 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
4321 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4322 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
4323 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
4327 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
4328 programs build with c++/g++.
4329 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
4330 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
4331 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
4332 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
4333 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
4334 + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and
4335 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
4336 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
4339 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
4341 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
4342 terminfo entries -TD
4343 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
4344 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
4345 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
4346 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
4348 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
4349 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
4351 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
4353 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
4354 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
4355 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
4356 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
4357 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
4358 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
4359 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
4360 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
4361 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
4365 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
4366 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
4367 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
4368 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
4369 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
4370 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
4371 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
4372 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
4373 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
4374 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
4375 use_extended_names().
4378 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
4379 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
4380 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
4381 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
4382 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
4383 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
4384 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
4385 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
4386 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
4387 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
4388 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
4389 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
4390 + add manpage for infotocap
4393 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
4394 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
4395 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
4396 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
4398 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
4399 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
4400 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
4401 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
4402 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
4403 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
4404 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
4405 initc for xterm-88color.
4406 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
4410 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
4411 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
4413 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
4414 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
4415 SP, since it is part of that struct.
4416 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
4418 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
4419 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
4420 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
4421 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
4422 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
4423 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
4424 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
4425 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
4426 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
4428 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
4429 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
4430 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4431 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
4433 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
4436 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
4437 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
4438 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
4439 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
4440 over the use of default colors.
4441 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
4442 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
4443 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
4444 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
4445 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
4446 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
4447 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
4448 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
4451 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
4452 <robert@progplus.com>)
4453 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
4454 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
4455 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
4458 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
4459 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
4460 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
4462 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
4463 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
4464 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
4465 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
4466 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
4467 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
4468 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
4469 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
4470 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
4471 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
4472 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
4473 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
4475 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
4476 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
4479 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4480 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
4482 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
4483 (request by Bob van der Poel).
4484 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
4485 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
4486 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
4487 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
4488 libraries by default.
4489 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
4491 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
4492 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
4494 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
4495 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
4496 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
4497 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
4498 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
4499 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
4500 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
4502 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
4504 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
4505 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
4506 advice from Bela Lubkin).
4507 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
4508 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4509 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
4510 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
4511 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
4512 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
4515 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
4518 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
4519 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
4520 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
4521 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
4522 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
4523 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
4524 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
4525 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
4526 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
4527 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
4530 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
4531 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
4532 Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
4533 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
4534 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
4535 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
4537 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
4538 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
4539 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
4540 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
4541 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
4542 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
4543 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
4544 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
4545 is used), and in color.
4546 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
4547 shared library rules.
4550 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
4551 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
4552 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
4553 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
4554 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
4555 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
4556 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
4557 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
4558 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
4559 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
4560 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
4561 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
4562 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
4563 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
4564 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
4565 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
4566 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4569 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
4570 <j@interface-business.de>).
4571 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
4572 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
4573 that hard-links work on Unix again.
4574 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
4575 Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
4576 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
4579 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
4580 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
4581 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
4582 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
4583 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
4584 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
4585 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
4586 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
4587 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
4588 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
4589 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
4590 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
4591 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
4594 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
4595 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
4596 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
4597 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
4598 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
4599 in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
4600 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
4601 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
4602 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
4603 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
4604 function works only for sockets.
4605 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
4606 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
4607 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
4608 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
4609 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
4610 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
4611 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
4612 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
4613 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
4614 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
4617 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
4618 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
4619 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
4620 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
4621 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
4622 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
4623 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
4626 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
4627 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
4628 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
4630 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
4631 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
4632 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
4633 nonfunctional link().
4634 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
4635 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
4638 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
4639 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
4640 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
4643 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
4644 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
4645 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
4646 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
4647 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
4648 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
4649 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
4650 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
4651 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
4652 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
4653 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
4654 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
4655 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
4656 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
4657 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
4658 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
4659 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
4660 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
4661 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
4662 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
4665 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
4666 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
4667 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
4668 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
4669 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
4670 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
4671 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
4672 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
4673 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
4674 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
4675 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
4676 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
4677 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
4678 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
4679 short-circuit expression evaluation.
4680 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
4681 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
4683 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
4684 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
4685 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
4686 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
4687 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
4691 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
4692 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
4694 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
4695 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
4696 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
4699 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
4700 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
4701 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
4702 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
4703 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
4704 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
4705 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
4706 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
4708 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
4709 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
4710 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4713 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
4714 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
4715 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
4716 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
4717 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
4718 --with-rcs-ids option.
4721 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
4722 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
4724 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
4725 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
4726 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
4730 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
4731 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
4732 BeOS predefines a bool type.
4733 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
4734 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
4735 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
4736 option to infocmp -TD
4737 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4738 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
4739 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
4740 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
4741 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
4742 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
4743 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
4746 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4747 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
4748 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
4749 + change interface version-number to 1.0
4750 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
4753 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
4754 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
4755 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
4756 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
4757 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
4758 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
4759 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
4760 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
4761 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
4762 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
4764 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
4765 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (prompted by
4766 discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
4769 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
4770 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
4771 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
4773 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
4774 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
4777 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
4778 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4779 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
4780 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
4781 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
4784 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
4788 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
4789 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
4790 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
4791 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
4792 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
4794 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
4795 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
4796 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
4797 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
4800 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
4801 fields, and showing forms within panels.
4802 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
4803 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
4804 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
4805 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
4806 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
4807 ownership may change).
4810 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
4812 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
4813 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
4814 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4815 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
4816 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
4817 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
4818 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
4820 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
4821 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
4822 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
4823 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
4824 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
4825 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
4828 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
4829 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
4831 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
4832 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
4833 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
4834 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
4837 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
4838 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
4839 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
4840 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
4841 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
4842 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
4846 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
4847 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
4848 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
4849 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
4850 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
4851 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
4852 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
4853 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
4856 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
4857 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
4858 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
4859 Alexander V Lukyanov).
4862 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
4863 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
4866 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the -g option.
4867 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
4868 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
4869 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
4870 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4871 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
4872 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
4873 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
4874 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
4875 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
4876 reset for the next newterm.
4877 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
4878 terminal has true SLKs.
4879 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
4882 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
4883 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
4884 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
4885 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
4886 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
4887 read of the extended capabilities.
4888 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
4889 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
4890 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
4891 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
4892 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
4893 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
4894 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
4895 throughout ncurses library.
4896 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
4897 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
4899 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
4900 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
4901 + regenerate some of the html documentation
4902 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
4905 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
4906 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
4907 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
4908 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD
4909 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
4911 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
4913 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
4914 defined for a keycode.
4915 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
4916 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
4917 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
4918 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
4919 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
4921 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
4922 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
4923 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
4924 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
4926 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
4927 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
4929 + modify configuration scripts to
4930 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
4931 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
4932 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
4933 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
4934 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
4935 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
4936 + rename ada_include directory to src.
4939 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
4940 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
4941 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
4945 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
4946 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
4947 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
4948 though the problem is more general.
4949 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
4950 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
4951 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
4952 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
4954 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
4955 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
4956 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
4959 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
4960 Alexander V Lukyanov).
4961 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
4962 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
4963 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
4964 operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
4965 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
4966 be any substring rather than the prefix.
4967 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
4968 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
4969 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
4970 has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
4971 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
4972 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
4973 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
4974 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
4975 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
4976 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
4977 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
4978 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
4979 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
4980 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
4981 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
4982 --with-shlib-version option.
4985 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
4986 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
4987 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
4988 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
4989 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
4990 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
4991 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
4992 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
4993 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
4994 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
4995 intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
4996 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
4997 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
4998 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
4999 source distribution.
5002 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
5003 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
5004 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
5006 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
5007 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
5008 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
5009 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
5010 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
5013 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
5016 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
5017 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
5018 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
5019 Alexander V Lukyanov).
5020 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
5021 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
5022 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
5023 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
5024 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5025 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
5026 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
5027 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
5028 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
5029 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
5031 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
5032 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
5033 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
5034 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
5037 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
5039 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
5040 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
5041 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
5042 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
5043 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
5044 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
5045 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
5046 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
5047 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
5048 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
5049 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
5050 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
5051 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
5052 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
5053 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
5054 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
5055 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
5059 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
5060 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
5061 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
5062 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
5063 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
5064 running screen built with ncurses.
5065 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
5066 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
5067 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
5070 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
5073 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
5074 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
5075 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
5076 by a Debian bug report).
5077 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
5078 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
5080 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
5081 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
5082 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
5083 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
5087 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
5088 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
5089 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
5090 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
5091 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
5092 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
5093 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
5094 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
5095 (reported by H.J.Lu).
5098 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
5099 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
5100 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
5101 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
5102 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
5103 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
5104 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
5105 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
5106 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
5107 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
5108 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
5109 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
5111 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
5112 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
5114 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
5116 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
5118 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
5119 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
5123 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
5124 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
5125 address rather than its length.
5126 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
5127 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
5128 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
5129 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
5130 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
5131 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
5132 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
5133 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
5134 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
5135 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
5138 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
5139 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
5141 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
5142 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
5143 for an older version of ncurses.
5144 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
5145 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
5146 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
5147 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
5148 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
5149 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
5150 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
5151 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
5152 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
5153 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
5154 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
5155 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
5157 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
5158 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
5161 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
5162 (request by Larry Virden).
5163 > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
5164 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
5165 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
5166 changes to ncurses library.
5167 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
5168 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
5169 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
5170 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
5171 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
5172 + some Ada95 cosmetics
5173 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
5174 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
5175 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
5178 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
5179 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
5180 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
5181 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
5182 proposed changes to ncurses library.
5183 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
5184 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
5185 broken configure scripts.
5188 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
5190 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
5191 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
5192 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
5194 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
5195 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
5199 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
5200 with --srcdir option.
5201 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
5202 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
5203 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
5204 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
5205 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
5206 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5209 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
5210 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
5211 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
5213 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
5214 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
5215 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
5216 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
5217 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
5218 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
5219 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
5220 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
5223 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
5224 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5227 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
5228 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
5229 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
5230 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
5231 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
5232 some older entries - TD
5233 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
5234 since that is a little more efficient.
5235 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
5236 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
5237 + add -g option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
5238 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
5239 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
5240 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
5242 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
5244 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
5245 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
5247 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
5248 + use format string for printing strings.
5249 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
5252 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
5253 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
5254 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
5255 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
5256 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
5257 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
5258 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
5259 > patches by Todd C Miller:
5260 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
5261 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
5262 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
5263 dealing with env variables again.
5264 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
5265 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
5266 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
5267 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
5268 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
5269 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
5270 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
5271 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
5272 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
5273 newhash data to SP struct.
5274 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
5275 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
5276 function's parameter which is deleted.
5277 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
5278 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
5279 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
5280 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
5284 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
5285 consistent treatment.
5286 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
5287 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
5288 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
5289 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
5292 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
5293 capability name, as in SVr4.
5294 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
5295 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
5296 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
5299 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
5300 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
5301 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
5302 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
5303 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
5304 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
5305 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
5306 > from esr's terminfo version:
5307 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
5308 + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
5309 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
5312 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
5313 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
5314 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
5315 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
5316 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
5317 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
5318 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
5319 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
5320 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
5321 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
5325 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
5326 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
5327 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
5328 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
5329 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
5332 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
5333 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
5337 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
5338 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
5339 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
5340 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
5341 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
5342 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
5343 as obtained via ioctl.
5346 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
5347 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
5348 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
5349 turning attributes off.
5350 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
5351 initializing multiple screens.
5352 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
5353 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
5354 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
5357 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
5358 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
5359 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
5360 with Solaris curses).
5361 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
5362 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
5363 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
5364 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
5365 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
5366 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
5367 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
5368 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
5371 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
5372 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
5373 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
5374 (request by QingLong).
5375 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
5376 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
5377 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
5378 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
5380 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
5381 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
5382 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
5383 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
5384 otherwise simply exit with an error.
5387 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
5388 "_g" for a debug build).
5389 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
5390 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
5391 compile/link working Ada95 program.
5392 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
5393 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
5394 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
5395 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
5396 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
5397 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
5401 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
5402 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
5403 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
5404 corresponds to vt100.
5405 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
5406 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
5409 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
5410 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
5411 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
5412 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
5413 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
5414 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
5415 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
5416 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
5417 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
5418 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5421 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
5422 several minor errors/omissions.
5423 + implement tparm %l format.
5424 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
5426 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
5429 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
5430 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
5431 to be written to large screens.
5432 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
5433 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
5434 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
5435 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
5436 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
5438 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
5439 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5440 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
5441 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
5444 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
5446 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
5448 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
5449 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
5450 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
5451 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
5452 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
5453 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
5454 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
5456 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
5457 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
5459 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
5462 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
5463 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
5464 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
5465 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
5466 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
5467 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
5468 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
5469 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
5470 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
5471 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
5474 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
5475 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5476 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty
5477 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
5478 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
5479 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
5480 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
5481 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
5482 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
5483 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
5484 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
5485 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
5486 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
5489 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
5490 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
5491 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
5492 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
5493 which contains a colon in the description field.
5494 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
5495 from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
5496 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
5498 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
5499 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
5502 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
5503 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
5505 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
5506 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
5507 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
5508 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
5509 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
5510 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
5511 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
5512 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
5513 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
5514 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
5515 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
5516 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
5517 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
5518 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
5519 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
5520 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
5521 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
5522 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
5523 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
5524 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
5525 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
5526 comparisons out of inner loop.
5529 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
5530 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
5531 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
5532 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
5533 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
5534 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
5535 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
5536 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
5537 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
5539 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
5540 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
5541 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
5544 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
5545 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
5546 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
5547 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
5548 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
5549 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
5550 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
5551 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
5552 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
5553 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
5556 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
5557 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
5558 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
5559 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
5561 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
5562 avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
5563 by Juergen Pfeifer).
5566 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
5567 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
5570 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
5571 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
5572 uses them when they are available.
5573 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
5574 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
5575 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
5576 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
5578 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
5581 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
5582 declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
5583 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
5584 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
5586 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
5587 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
5588 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
5589 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
5590 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
5591 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
5592 use --disable-overwrite).
5593 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
5594 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
5595 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
5596 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
5597 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
5598 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
5599 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
5600 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
5601 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
5605 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
5606 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
5607 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
5608 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
5609 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
5610 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
5611 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
5612 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
5614 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
5615 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
5616 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
5617 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
5619 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
5620 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
5621 parameter according to XSI.
5622 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
5623 reflect above enhancements.
5626 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
5627 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
5628 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
5629 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
5631 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
5633 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
5635 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
5636 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
5637 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
5640 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
5641 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
5642 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5643 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
5644 <claesg@algonet.se>).
5645 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
5646 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
5649 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
5650 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
5651 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
5653 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
5654 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
5655 by Florian La Roche).
5656 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
5657 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
5658 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
5659 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5662 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
5663 distributions, though it is retained in development.
5664 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
5666 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
5667 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
5668 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
5669 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
5670 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
5673 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
5675 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
5676 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
5677 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
5678 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
5679 This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
5680 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
5682 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
5683 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
5684 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
5686 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
5687 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
5688 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
5691 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
5692 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
5694 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
5695 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
5697 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
5699 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
5701 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
5703 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
5704 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
5705 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
5706 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
5707 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
5709 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
5710 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
5712 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
5713 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
5714 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
5715 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
5716 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
5717 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
5718 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
5719 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
5720 turn off attributes inconsistently.
5723 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
5724 test for no_color_video.
5725 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
5727 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
5728 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
5729 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
5731 > from reports by Fred Fish:
5732 + add configure-test for isascii
5733 + add configure-test for -lm library.
5734 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
5735 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
5736 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
5737 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
5738 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
5739 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
5740 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
5742 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
5743 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
5745 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
5746 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
5747 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
5748 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
5749 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
5752 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
5753 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
5755 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
5757 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
5758 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
5759 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
5761 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
5762 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
5764 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
5766 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
5767 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
5768 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
5769 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
5770 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
5771 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
5772 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
5773 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
5774 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
5775 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
5776 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
5777 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
5778 fields are also always inactive.
5779 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
5780 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
5783 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
5784 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
5785 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
5786 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
5787 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
5788 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
5789 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
5790 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
5791 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
5794 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
5795 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
5796 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
5797 defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
5798 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
5800 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
5801 Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
5802 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
5803 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
5804 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
5805 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
5806 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
5807 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
5808 cross-platform compatibility.
5809 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
5810 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
5811 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5812 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
5814 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
5818 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
5819 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
5820 EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
5821 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
5822 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
5823 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
5824 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
5825 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
5826 that simply cannot scroll.
5827 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
5828 embedded \200 characters are matched.
5829 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
5833 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
5834 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
5835 functions from the build.
5836 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
5837 functions as a separate library.
5838 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
5839 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
5840 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
5841 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
5842 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
5843 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
5844 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
5845 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
5846 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
5848 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5849 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
5850 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
5853 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
5854 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
5856 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
5857 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
5858 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
5859 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
5862 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
5863 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
5864 + add configure check for 'tack'.
5865 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
5866 for Debian configuration.
5867 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
5869 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
5870 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
5872 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
5873 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
5874 case of wide characters in chtype.
5875 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
5876 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
5877 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
5880 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
5881 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
5882 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
5883 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
5884 have set root's umask to 077.
5885 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
5886 end of output when they had embedded comments.
5887 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
5888 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
5889 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
5890 correct logic for handling backslashes.
5891 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
5892 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
5893 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
5894 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
5895 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
5896 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
5898 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5899 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
5901 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
5902 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
5904 + resync of the html version of the manpages
5907 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
5908 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
5910 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
5911 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
5912 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
5913 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
5914 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5915 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
5916 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
5917 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
5921 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
5923 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
5924 comments from Daniel Weaver.
5925 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
5926 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
5927 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
5928 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
5930 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
5931 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
5932 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
5934 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
5935 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
5938 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
5942 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
5943 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
5944 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
5945 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
5946 in call to delay_output().
5947 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
5948 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
5949 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
5950 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
5951 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
5953 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
5954 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
5955 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
5956 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
5957 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
5958 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
5959 so that will work on NeXT.
5960 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
5961 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
5964 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
5966 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
5968 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
5969 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
5970 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
5971 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
5972 when that feature is not configured.
5973 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
5974 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
5975 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
5976 (this dates back to 951102, in 1.9.7a).
5977 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
5978 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
5979 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
5980 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
5983 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
5985 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
5986 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
5988 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
5990 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
5991 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
5994 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
5995 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
5996 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
5997 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
5998 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
5999 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
6000 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
6001 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
6002 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
6004 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
6005 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
6006 tputs() if called from that function.
6007 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
6008 tputs works when SP is not set.
6009 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6010 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
6011 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
6012 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation
6013 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
6014 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
6017 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
6018 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
6019 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
6020 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
6021 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
6022 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
6023 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
6024 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
6025 _nc_update_screensize().
6026 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
6028 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
6029 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
6030 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
6031 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6032 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
6033 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6034 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
6035 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
6036 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
6037 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
6039 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
6043 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
6044 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
6045 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
6047 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
6048 click-interval without modifying it.
6049 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
6050 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
6052 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
6053 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
6054 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
6055 other ncurses headers.
6056 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
6057 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
6058 (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
6059 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
6060 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
6061 characters output in delay_output().
6062 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
6063 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
6064 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
6065 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6066 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
6068 + typo in configure --help.
6069 > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
6070 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
6071 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
6072 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
6075 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6076 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
6079 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
6080 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
6081 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
6082 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
6083 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
6085 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
6086 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
6087 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
6088 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
6089 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
6090 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
6091 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
6092 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
6093 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
6094 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
6095 form (sorted, unique mapping).
6096 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
6097 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
6098 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6099 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
6100 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6101 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6102 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
6103 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
6104 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
6105 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
6106 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
6107 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
6108 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6109 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
6111 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
6112 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
6113 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
6114 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
6115 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
6116 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
6120 + add 'deinstall' rules.
6121 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
6122 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
6123 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
6124 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
6125 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
6126 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
6128 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
6129 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6130 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
6132 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
6133 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
6134 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
6135 scripts are also provided.
6138 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
6140 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
6141 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
6142 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
6143 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
6144 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
6145 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
6146 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
6147 generating lint library.
6148 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
6150 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
6151 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
6152 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
6153 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
6154 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
6155 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
6156 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
6157 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
6158 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
6159 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
6161 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6162 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
6164 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
6166 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
6167 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
6168 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
6169 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
6170 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
6171 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
6172 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6173 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
6174 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
6178 + modify rain.c to use color.
6179 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
6180 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
6181 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
6182 of configure cache variables in 970906.
6183 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
6184 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
6185 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
6186 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
6187 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
6188 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
6189 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
6190 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
6191 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
6192 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6193 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
6195 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
6196 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
6197 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
6198 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
6200 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
6201 NCursesWindow class.
6202 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
6203 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
6204 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
6205 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
6207 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
6208 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
6209 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
6210 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
6211 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
6212 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
6214 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
6215 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
6216 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
6217 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
6218 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
6219 already disconnected.
6220 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
6221 navigation requests.
6222 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
6223 case-insensitiva comparision routine.
6224 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
6225 forms field by index.
6226 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
6228 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
6229 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
6230 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
6231 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
6232 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
6233 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
6234 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
6235 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
6236 move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
6238 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
6239 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
6240 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
6242 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
6243 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6244 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
6245 know that auto_right_margin is true.
6246 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
6247 shifting character to LR corner.
6248 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
6249 terminal right margin mode is known.
6250 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
6251 _nc_scroll_window().
6252 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
6253 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
6255 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
6256 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
6257 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
6258 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
6260 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
6261 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
6262 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
6263 the terminal window is resized.
6266 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
6267 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
6268 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
6269 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
6270 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
6271 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
6272 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
6273 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
6274 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6275 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
6276 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
6278 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
6279 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
6280 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
6282 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
6283 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
6285 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
6289 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
6290 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
6291 lib_printw.c functions.
6292 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
6293 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
6294 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
6295 force the screen to scroll.
6298 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
6300 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
6302 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
6303 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
6305 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
6306 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
6307 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6308 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
6309 was in the wrong order.
6310 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
6312 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
6314 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
6315 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
6316 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
6317 invoke wechochar() instead.
6318 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
6321 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
6322 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
6323 work properly when we add calls to that function.
6324 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
6325 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
6326 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6327 + several fixes to getch:
6328 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
6329 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
6330 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
6331 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
6333 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
6334 6. correctly handle the case of receiption of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
6335 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
6336 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
6337 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
6339 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
6340 line-breakout optimization
6341 + improve hashmap.c by
6342 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
6343 2. not marking lines with offset 0
6344 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
6345 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
6346 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
6347 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
6349 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
6350 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
6351 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
6352 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
6354 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
6356 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
6357 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
6358 stored/retrieved via set_term().
6359 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
6363 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
6364 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
6365 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
6367 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
6368 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
6369 before looking for (n)curses library.
6370 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
6371 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
6372 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
6373 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
6374 include ncurses_cfg.h
6375 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
6376 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
6377 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6378 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
6380 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
6381 common subexpressions.
6382 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
6383 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
6384 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
6385 against the background character.
6386 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
6387 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
6388 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
6389 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
6390 > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
6391 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
6392 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
6393 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
6394 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
6397 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
6398 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
6399 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
6400 terminal type ncr7900).
6401 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
6402 package is built with an install-prefix.
6403 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
6404 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
6405 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
6406 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
6407 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
6408 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
6409 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
6410 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
6411 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
6412 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6413 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
6414 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
6415 by Juergen Pfeifer).
6418 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
6419 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
6420 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
6421 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
6422 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
6423 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
6424 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
6425 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
6426 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
6427 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
6428 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
6431 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
6432 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
6433 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
6434 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
6435 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
6436 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
6437 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
6438 configuration of wide-characters.
6439 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
6440 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
6441 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
6442 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
6443 does not have getttynam().
6444 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
6445 + add table entries for 230400 and 460800 bd to baudrate() function.
6446 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
6447 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6448 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
6449 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6450 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
6451 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
6452 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
6453 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
6454 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
6458 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
6459 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6460 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
6461 options should be accompanied by a message.
6462 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
6463 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
6465 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
6467 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6468 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
6469 better when csr is not available.
6470 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
6471 after failure to scroll one.
6472 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
6473 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
6474 case and wrong string in TRACE.
6475 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6476 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
6480 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
6481 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
6483 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
6484 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
6485 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
6486 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
6487 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
6490 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
6491 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
6492 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
6494 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
6497 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
6498 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
6499 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
6500 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
6501 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
6502 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
6503 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
6504 (reported by Larry Virden).
6505 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
6506 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
6508 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6509 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
6510 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
6511 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
6515 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
6516 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
6517 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
6518 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
6519 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
6521 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
6522 terminfo description to the stored strings.
6523 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
6524 terminfo descriptions.
6525 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
6526 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
6527 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
6528 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
6529 option is a stopgap.
6530 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
6531 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
6534 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
6535 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
6536 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
6537 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
6538 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
6539 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
6543 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
6544 lines in curscr that are shifted.
6545 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
6546 than a series of function calls.
6547 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
6548 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
6549 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
6550 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
6551 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
6552 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
6553 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
6554 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6555 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6558 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
6559 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
6560 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
6561 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
6562 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
6563 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
6564 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
6565 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
6566 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
6567 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
6568 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
6569 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
6570 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
6571 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
6572 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6573 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
6574 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6575 + improve threshhold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
6576 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6579 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
6580 use only the fallback data.
6581 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
6582 terminal descriptions.
6583 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
6584 still assume there's an ncurses.h
6585 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
6586 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
6587 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
6588 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
6589 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
6590 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
6592 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
6593 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
6594 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
6595 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
6596 <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
6597 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
6598 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
6600 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
6602 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
6603 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
6605 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
6607 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
6608 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
6609 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
6610 original implementation (1.9.6).
6611 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
6612 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
6613 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
6614 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
6616 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
6617 SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
6618 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
6619 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
6620 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
6621 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6622 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
6623 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
6625 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
6626 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
6627 field is not possible.
6628 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
6629 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
6630 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
6631 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
6633 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
6634 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
6635 in forms/menus libraries.
6638 + add description of xterm-16color.
6639 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
6640 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
6642 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
6643 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
6644 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
6645 works properly w/o first doing "make".
6646 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
6647 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
6649 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
6650 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
6651 bounding box without tidying up).
6652 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
6653 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
6654 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
6656 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
6657 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6658 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
6659 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
6660 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6663 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
6664 option is specified.
6665 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
6666 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
6668 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
6669 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
6670 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
6671 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
6672 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
6673 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
6674 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
6675 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
6676 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
6677 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
6678 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
6679 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
6680 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
6681 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
6683 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
6684 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
6685 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6686 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
6687 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
6688 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6689 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
6690 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
6691 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6692 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
6693 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
6695 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
6697 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
6699 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
6700 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
6703 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
6704 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
6705 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
6706 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
6708 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
6709 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
6710 during a call to newwin.
6711 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
6712 is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
6713 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
6714 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
6715 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
6716 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6717 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
6718 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
6721 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
6722 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
6723 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
6724 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
6726 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
6729 970505 4.1 pre-release
6730 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
6732 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
6733 unnecessary recompiles.
6734 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
6735 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
6736 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
6737 overwrite of symbolic links.
6738 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
6739 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
6740 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
6741 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
6742 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
6743 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
6744 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
6745 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
6746 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
6747 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
6748 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
6749 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
6750 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
6751 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
6755 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
6756 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
6757 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
6759 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
6760 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
6761 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
6762 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
6763 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
6764 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
6765 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
6766 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
6767 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
6769 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
6770 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
6771 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
6772 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
6774 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
6775 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
6776 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6777 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
6778 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6779 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
6780 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6781 + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
6782 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
6783 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
6784 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6787 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
6788 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
6789 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
6790 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
6791 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
6792 original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
6793 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
6794 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
6795 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
6796 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
6797 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
6798 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
6799 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
6800 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
6801 or redefinition within an acsc string.
6802 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
6803 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
6805 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
6806 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
6809 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
6810 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
6811 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
6812 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
6813 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
6814 match SVr4 documentation.
6815 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
6816 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
6817 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
6820 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
6821 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
6822 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
6823 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
6824 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
6825 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
6826 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
6827 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
6830 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
6831 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
6832 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
6834 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
6835 --enable/--with values.
6836 + add configure option --enable-big-core
6837 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
6838 + check for C++ builtin.h header
6839 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
6840 parameter from the expression.
6841 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
6842 ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted from diffs by
6844 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
6845 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
6846 was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
6847 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
6848 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
6849 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
6852 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
6853 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
6854 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
6855 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
6856 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
6859 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
6860 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
6861 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
6862 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
6863 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
6864 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
6865 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
6866 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
6867 (reported by Ward Horner).
6868 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
6869 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
6872 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
6873 even if "make all" is not done first.
6874 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
6875 expanded functions with ATAC.
6876 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
6877 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
6881 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
6883 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
6885 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
6888 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
6889 addressing request by Ward Horner.
6890 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
6891 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
6892 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
6893 a pointer-increment.
6894 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
6898 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
6899 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
6901 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
6902 (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
6903 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
6904 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
6905 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
6906 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
6907 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
6908 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
6910 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
6911 (reported by Ward Horner)
6912 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
6913 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
6914 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
6915 (reported by Gary Johnson).
6916 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
6917 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
6918 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
6919 wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
6920 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
6921 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
6922 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
6923 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
6927 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
6928 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
6929 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
6930 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
6931 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
6932 (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6933 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
6934 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
6935 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
6936 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
6939 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
6941 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
6942 the returned buffer.
6943 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
6944 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
6945 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
6946 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
6948 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
6949 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
6952 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
6953 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
6954 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
6955 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
6957 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
6958 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
6961 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
6962 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
6964 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
6966 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
6967 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
6968 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
6969 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
6971 + modify _tracedump() to pad pad colors & attrs lines to match change
6972 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
6973 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
6974 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
6977 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
6978 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
6979 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
6980 that machine - T.Dickey.
6981 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
6982 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
6983 linking against static libraries.
6984 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
6986 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
6987 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
6988 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
6989 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
6991 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
6992 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
6993 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
6994 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
6995 Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
6998 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
6999 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
7000 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
7002 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
7003 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
7004 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
7005 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
7006 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
7007 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
7010 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
7012 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
7013 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
7014 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
7015 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
7016 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
7017 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
7018 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
7019 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
7020 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
7021 insert/delete line method.
7022 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
7023 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
7024 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
7025 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
7027 961229 (internal alpha)
7028 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
7029 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
7030 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
7031 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
7032 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
7033 there is data on stdin.
7034 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
7035 descriptors, needed for GPM.
7036 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
7037 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
7038 prevented patch from working properly -TD
7039 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
7040 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
7041 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
7042 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
7045 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
7046 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
7048 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
7051 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
7052 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
7053 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
7054 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
7056 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
7057 solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
7058 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
7059 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
7060 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
7061 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
7063 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
7064 i.e., set current directory before linking.
7065 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
7066 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
7067 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
7068 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
7069 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
7070 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
7071 Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
7072 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
7075 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
7076 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
7077 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
7078 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
7079 Solaris curses, which does this.
7082 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
7083 work with wider range of screen sizes.
7084 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
7085 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
7086 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
7088 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
7089 resize between endwin/refresh.
7090 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
7091 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
7092 terminal modes in 960907.
7093 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
7094 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
7096 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
7097 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
7098 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
7099 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
7100 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
7101 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
7102 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
7103 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
7104 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
7106 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
7107 (requested by Florian La Roche).
7108 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
7109 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
7110 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
7111 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
7112 by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7115 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
7118 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
7119 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
7120 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
7121 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
7122 data used in ncurses library.
7123 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
7124 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
7125 Alexander V Lukyanov).
7126 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
7127 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
7128 beta may not be interchangeable).
7129 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
7131 961130 1.9.9g release
7132 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
7136 > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
7137 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
7138 to avoid warning messages.
7139 + the panel overlap detection was broken
7140 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
7142 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
7146 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7147 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
7148 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
7149 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
7150 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
7153 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
7154 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
7155 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
7160 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
7162 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
7164 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
7167 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
7168 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
7169 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
7170 + add entry for color_xterm
7173 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
7174 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
7175 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
7176 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
7177 CANCELLED_STRING values.
7178 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
7179 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
7180 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
7181 delays when in autoplay mode.
7182 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
7183 Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
7185 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
7188 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
7189 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
7190 a spurious clear-screen.
7191 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
7192 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
7194 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
7195 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
7196 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
7200 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
7201 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
7202 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
7203 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
7204 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
7205 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
7207 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
7208 distribution, as stated)
7209 + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
7210 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
7211 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
7212 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
7213 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
7214 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
7215 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
7217 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
7218 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
7222 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
7223 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
7224 file (lib_screen.c).
7225 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
7226 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
7227 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
7228 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
7229 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
7230 rendered as octal constants.
7231 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
7232 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
7233 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
7234 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
7235 in the top-level command-parser.
7236 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
7237 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
7239 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
7240 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
7241 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
7244 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
7245 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
7246 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
7247 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
7248 (reported by Tim Mooney).
7249 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
7251 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
7255 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
7257 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
7261 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
7262 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
7264 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
7265 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
7266 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
7267 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
7268 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
7269 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
7270 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
7271 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
7272 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
7273 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
7275 + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
7276 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
7278 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
7279 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
7280 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
7281 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
7284 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
7285 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
7286 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
7287 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
7288 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
7290 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
7291 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
7292 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
7293 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
7294 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
7295 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
7296 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
7297 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
7298 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
7299 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
7300 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
7301 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
7302 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
7305 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
7306 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
7307 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
7309 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
7310 Michael Elkins) - untested
7312 + correction to #317.
7314 + re-add _nc_hash_map
7315 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design.
7316 + add hashtest.c, program to time the hashmap optimization.
7318 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
7320 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
7322 + merged Alexander V Lukyanov's patch to use ech and rep - untested
7324 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
7325 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
7326 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
7327 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
7330 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
7332 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
7333 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
7334 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
7335 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
7336 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
7338 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
7341 + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
7342 (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7343 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
7344 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7345 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
7346 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
7349 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
7350 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
7351 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
7352 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
7353 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
7354 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
7355 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
7356 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
7357 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
7358 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
7359 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
7360 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
7361 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
7362 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
7363 + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
7367 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7368 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
7369 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
7370 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
7372 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
7373 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
7374 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
7377 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
7378 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
7379 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
7382 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
7383 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7384 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
7385 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7388 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
7389 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
7390 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
7391 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
7392 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
7394 + add dtterm description
7395 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop vscanf subtest)
7398 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
7399 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
7400 + refine configure-test for -g option (Tim Mooney).
7401 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
7402 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
7405 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
7407 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
7409 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch.
7412 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
7413 (reported by William P Setzer)
7414 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
7415 (reported by Tim Mooney).
7417 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
7418 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
7419 + updated qnx terminfo entry (by Michael Hunter)
7422 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
7424 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
7428 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
7429 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
7431 + terminfo changes (9.3.10), from BRL
7432 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
7433 + add more symbols to infocmp.
7436 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
7437 Juergen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
7438 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
7440 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
7441 null), and tests that use it.
7442 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
7443 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
7444 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
7446 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
7448 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
7449 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
7452 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
7453 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
7454 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
7455 by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
7456 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
7457 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
7458 + terminfo patches #306/307 (ESR).
7459 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
7460 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
7463 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
7464 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
7465 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
7467 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
7468 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
7469 Philippe De Muyter).
7472 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
7473 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
7475 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes (ESR).
7476 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
7478 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
7479 (reported by David MacKenzie).
7480 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
7481 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
7482 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
7483 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
7484 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
7485 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
7486 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
7490 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
7491 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
7492 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
7493 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
7494 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
7495 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
7496 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
7497 than function keys in 'g' test.
7498 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
7499 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
7500 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
7501 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
7503 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
7505 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
7506 msgwin needed scrollok set.
7507 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
7508 between PutRange and InsStr
7509 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
7510 MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
7512 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
7515 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
7516 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
7517 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
7519 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
7520 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
7521 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
7522 _yoffset to WINDOW).
7523 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
7524 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
7525 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
7526 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
7527 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
7528 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
7529 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
7530 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
7531 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
7534 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
7535 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
7536 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
7537 first entry in a list).
7538 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
7539 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
7542 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
7543 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
7544 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
7545 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
7546 with a shared-library configuration.
7547 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
7548 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
7549 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
7550 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
7551 builders to install into staging locations (requested by
7552 Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
7553 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
7555 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
7556 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
7557 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
7558 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
7559 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
7561 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
7562 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
7563 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
7564 invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7566 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
7567 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
7568 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
7572 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
7573 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
7574 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
7575 + added rules for lintlib, lint
7576 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
7577 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
7578 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
7579 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
7580 checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
7581 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
7582 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
7583 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
7584 + typos, don't use inline with -g (Philippe De Muyter)
7585 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
7588 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
7589 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
7590 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
7591 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
7592 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
7593 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
7595 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
7596 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
7597 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
7598 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
7601 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
7602 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
7603 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
7604 <lav@yars.free.net>).
7605 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
7606 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
7607 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
7608 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
7610 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
7612 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
7613 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
7614 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
7615 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
7618 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
7622 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
7623 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
7624 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
7625 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
7626 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
7627 > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
7628 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
7629 + added TRACE_IEVENT
7630 + removed boolean version of 'getm'
7631 + added lib_print.c (for Rick Marshall)
7633 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
7634 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
7635 + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
7636 is not part of X/Open Curses).
7637 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
7640 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
7641 + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
7642 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
7643 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
7644 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
7645 "#include" if needed.
7648 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
7649 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
7652 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
7653 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
7654 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
7658 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
7659 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
7660 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
7661 > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
7662 + new "-e" option of tic.
7663 + fix for "infocmp -e".
7664 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c
7665 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
7666 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
7670 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
7671 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
7672 K&R-style substitution)
7673 > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
7674 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode
7675 + corrected askuser() logic in tset
7676 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing
7677 + added trace support for TTY flags
7680 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
7681 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
7682 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
7683 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
7684 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
7686 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
7687 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
7689 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
7691 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
7692 copy-changed-lines behavior.
7693 * added and documented wresize() function.
7694 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
7695 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
7696 emitted before the first check.
7697 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
7698 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
7699 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
7700 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
7701 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
7702 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
7704 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
7705 * support for ESCDELAY.
7706 * small fixes for menu/form code.
7707 * the test directory has its own configure.
7708 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
7709 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
7710 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
7713 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
7715 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
7716 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
7717 * support infocmp -RBSD.
7718 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
7719 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
7720 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
7721 catastrophies or acts of God.
7722 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
7724 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
7725 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
7728 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
7730 * corrected return values of setupterm()
7731 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
7732 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
7733 one `use' capability.
7734 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
7735 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
7736 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
7737 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
7738 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
7739 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
7740 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
7741 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
7742 * added -h option to toe(1).
7743 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
7744 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
7745 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
7746 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
7748 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
7750 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
7751 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
7753 * mouse support for xterm.
7754 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
7755 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initally off.
7756 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
7757 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
7758 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
7759 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
7760 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
7761 * infocmp -T option added.
7762 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
7764 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
7766 * menus library is now included with documentation.
7767 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
7768 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
7769 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
7770 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
7771 * tweaks for compiling in seperate directories.
7772 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
7773 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
7774 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
7776 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
7778 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
7779 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
7780 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
7781 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
7783 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
7785 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
7786 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
7787 * added tracemunch to the test tools
7788 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
7790 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
7792 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
7793 profile and shared object models.
7795 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
7797 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
7798 * panels support added
7799 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
7800 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
7802 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
7804 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
7805 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
7806 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
7807 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
7809 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
7810 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
7811 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
7812 are consistent (they weren't).
7813 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
7814 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
7815 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
7816 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
7818 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
7819 * more spelling fixes
7820 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
7821 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
7822 core in init_acs()).
7823 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
7826 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
7828 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
7829 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
7830 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
7832 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
7833 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
7834 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
7835 resolution of traces.
7836 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
7837 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
7838 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
7839 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
7840 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
7842 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
7843 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
7844 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
7845 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
7847 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
7848 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
7849 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
7850 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
7851 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
7852 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This wil mostly happen if
7853 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
7854 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
7855 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
7856 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
7857 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
7858 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
7859 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
7860 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
7861 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
7862 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
7864 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
7865 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
7866 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
7867 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
7868 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
7869 the correct alternate character set.
7870 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
7871 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
7872 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
7873 a terminal is undefined.
7874 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
7875 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
7876 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
7877 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
7878 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
7879 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
7881 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
7882 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
7883 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
7884 if other attributes are turned off.
7885 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
7886 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
7887 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
7889 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
7890 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
7891 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
7894 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
7895 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
7896 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
7897 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
7899 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
7900 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
7902 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
7904 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
7905 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
7906 break operation with any emulators.
7907 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
7908 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
7909 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
7910 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
7911 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
7912 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
7913 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
7914 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
7916 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
7917 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
7919 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
7920 unpredictable results.
7921 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
7923 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
7924 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
7925 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
7926 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
7927 take note of the terminfo directory.
7928 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
7929 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
7932 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
7933 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
7934 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
7935 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
7936 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
7937 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
7938 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
7939 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
7940 performs more testing.
7941 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
7942 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
7944 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
7945 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
7947 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
7948 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
7949 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
7951 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
7953 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
7954 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
7955 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
7956 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
7957 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
7958 will probably continue to work ok.
7960 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
7961 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
7962 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
7963 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
7964 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
7966 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
7967 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
7968 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
7970 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
7971 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
7972 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
7973 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
7974 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
7975 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
7976 changed accordingly.
7977 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
7978 bottom-right corner.
7979 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
7980 pads I'd love a copy.
7981 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
7982 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
7983 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
7984 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
7985 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
7986 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
7987 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
7989 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
7990 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
7991 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
7993 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
7994 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
7995 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
7996 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
7997 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
7998 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
7999 * See src/README for porting notes.
8000 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
8001 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
8002 rows instead of lines, etc.)
8003 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
8004 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
8005 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
8006 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
8007 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
8008 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
8009 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
8011 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
8012 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
8013 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
8014 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
8015 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
8016 fact was exposed by hanoi.
8017 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
8018 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
8019 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
8020 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
8021 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
8022 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
8024 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
8026 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
8027 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
8028 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
8029 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
8030 Config.* files through an awk script.
8031 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
8032 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
8033 * a few minor cleanups.
8034 * added more prototypes in curses.h
8036 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
8038 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
8039 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
8040 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
8041 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
8042 * a couple of bug fixes.
8043 * a few code cleanups.
8045 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
8047 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
8048 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
8049 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
8050 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
8051 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
8052 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
8054 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
8055 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
8057 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
8058 (doesn't work on Linux)
8059 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
8060 screen before working.
8061 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
8062 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
8064 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
8065 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
8066 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
8067 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
8068 * several minor bug fixes.
8070 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
8072 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
8073 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
8074 * changes related to Config
8076 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
8078 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
8079 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
8080 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
8081 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
8082 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
8083 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
8084 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
8086 * fixed problems with asc_init()
8087 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
8088 * cleaned up vidputs()
8089 * general cleanup of the code
8090 * more attention to portability to other systems
8091 * added terminfos for hp70092 (wont work until changes to lib_update.c are
8092 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
8094 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
8095 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
8097 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
8098 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
8099 the rationale drop me a line.
8101 Included are several test programs in test/.
8102 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
8103 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
8105 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
8107 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
8108 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
8109 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
8110 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
8111 * keyname() is added.
8112 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
8113 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
8114 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
8115 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
8116 * included fixes from 0.6.1
8117 * added a few more missing functions.
8118 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
8119 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
8122 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
8124 1) Included the missing data/console.
8126 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
8128 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
8130 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
8131 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
8132 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
8134 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
8135 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
8136 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
8137 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
8138 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
8139 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
8140 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
8141 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
8142 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
8143 * added notimeout().
8144 * added timeout() define in curses.h
8145 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
8147 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
8148 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
8149 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
8150 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
8151 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
8152 * added slk_* support.
8153 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
8154 * added PANEL library.
8155 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
8156 * terminfo.h is really term.h
8158 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
8159 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
8160 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
8161 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
8162 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
8163 another key is pressed.
8164 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
8165 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
8166 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
8168 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
8169 * fixed bug in wvline().
8171 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
8172 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
8174 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
8175 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
8176 * Addition of function prototypes.
8177 * Addition of several missing functions.
8178 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
8179 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
8180 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
8181 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
8182 * New scrolling code.
8183 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
8185 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
8186 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
8187 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
8188 * more fixes for updates.
8189 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
8190 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
8191 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
8192 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
8194 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
8195 * support for color.
8196 * support for PC graphic characters.
8197 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
8198 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
8200 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
8201 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
8202 * ANSIfication of some functions.
8203 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
8204 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.
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