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32 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
33 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
35 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
36 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
38 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
39 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
40 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
42 A few contributors may be cited in this file by their initials.
43 Each accounts for half of one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
44 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
46 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
47 it is not possible to add this information.
50 + change man_db.renames to template, to handle ncurses*-config script
51 with the extra-suffix configure option.
54 + fix another memory-leak in tic.
55 + update install-sh script from autoconf, to fix install problem for
56 Ada95 with Arch; as noted in
57 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2018-09/msg00005.html
58 there are unaddressed issues.
59 + update CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, adding GNU libc suffixes for abi64, abin32,
60 x32 (report by Sven Joachim):
61 + correct ifdef's for _nc_set_read_thread() (patch by Mikhail Korolev,
65 + correct a switch-statement case in configure script to allow for test
67 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to allow for the case where the library
68 directory does not yet exist, since this is processed before doing an
69 install (report by Michal Liszcz).
72 + modify configure/scripts to work around interference by GNU grep 3.8
73 (report by Sam James).
74 + update CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, adding variants "gnueabi" and "gnueabihf" to
75 get _DEFAULT_SOURCE special case (report by Adam Sampson)
78 + modify configure macro CF_BUILD_CC to check if the build-compiler
79 works, rather than that it is different from the cross-compiler, e.g.,
80 to accommodate a compiler which can be used for either purpose with
81 different flags (report by Mikhail Korolev).
82 + fix another memory-leak in tic.
83 + correct change for cppcheck in menu library (report/analysis by
84 "tuxway", cf: 20220903).
85 + update config.guess, config.sub
88 + reduce memory-leak in tic by separating allocations for struct entry
89 from TERMTYPE2 (cf: 20220430).
90 + improve interaction between tic -v option and NCURSES_TRACE, by
91 processing the latter only when -v option does not set _nc_tracing.
92 + modify curses_trace() to show the trace-mask as symbols, e.g.,
93 TRACE_ORDINARY, DEBUG_LEVEL(3).
96 + amend verbose-option change to make this affect level 3, e.g., using
98 + work around musl's nonstandard use of feature test macros by adding
99 a definition for NCURSES_WIDECHAR to the generated ".pc" and *-config
100 files (report by Sam James).
103 + modify verbose-option of infocmp, tic, toe to enable debug-tracing
104 if that is configured.
107 + modify configure scripts to use overlooked cases for LD and
108 PKG_CONFIG variables (report by Alan Webb, Gentoo #866398).
109 + modify nsterm to use xterm+alt1049 (report by Paul Handly) -TD
110 + modify putty to use xterm+alt1049 -TD
113 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses and c++
114 libraries and progs directory.
115 + add curses_trace to ifdef's for START_TRACE in test/test.priv.h
116 + update config.guess
119 + modify delscreen to more effectively delete all windows on the given
121 + amend portability note for delwin in manual page.
122 + adapt test/test_delwin.c from example by Bill Gray.
123 + account for prescreen data if freeing leaks in pthread-configuration
124 + split-out _nc_set_read_thread(), to reduce compiler warnings about
125 pthread_self(), which may/may not be a weak symbol.
126 + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c
129 + amend end_of_stream() to allow for input files without a final
131 + check for non-textfiles to tic.
134 + fixes to build with dietlibc:
135 + add configure check for fpathconf (report by Georg Lehner).
136 + add configure check for math sine/cosine, needed in test/tclock,
137 and eliminate pow() from test/hanoi (report by Georg Lehner).
138 + use wcsnlen as an alternative to wmemchr if it is not found
139 (adapted from patch by Georg Lehner).
140 + trim out some unwanted linker options from ncurses*config and .pc
141 files seen in Fedora 36+.
144 + add portability notes for delscreen and delwin in manual.
145 + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c, test/rain.c
146 + improve pointer/limit checks associated with deleting a screen
150 + build-fix for test_mouse.c, for non-standard cfmakeraw.
151 + improve shell-scripts with shellcheck
152 + fix typo in run_tic.in (report/patch by Jan Starke).
155 + lock the prescreen data consistently in newterm, etc., for the
156 pthreads configuration (report by Tom de Vries).
159 + add consistency check in tic for u6/u7/u8/u9 and NQ capabilities.
160 + use NQ to flag entries where the terminal does not support query and
162 + use ansi+enq and decid+cpr in cases where the terminal probably
163 supported the u6-u9 extension -TD
164 + add/use apollo+vt132, xterm+alt47 -TD
167 + improve man/curs_bkgd.3x, explaining that bkgdset can affect results
168 for bkgd (report by Anton Vidovic).
169 + correct dsl in dec+sl (report by Rajeev Pillai) -TD
170 + add/use ansi+cpr, decid+cpr -TD
173 + add a null-pointer check for term_names field in copy_termtype(),
174 needed for MinGW port (report by Peiyuan Song, cf: 20220521).
175 + revise kon/kon2/jfbterm to undo "linux2.6" change to
176 smacs/rmacs/enacs (Debian #1012800) -TD
177 + amended note for att610+cvis0, as per documentation for att610,
181 + modify waddch_literal() to allow for double-width base character when
182 merging a combining character (report by Gavin Troy).
183 + improve _tracecchar_t2() formatting of base+combining character.
186 + add note on portable memory-leak checking in man/curs_memleaks.3x
187 + remove u6-u9 from teken-2018 -TD
188 + set "xterm-new" to "xterm-p370", add "xterm-p371" -TD
191 + expanded notes for teken/syscons -TD
192 + fix overlooked copying of extended string-heap in copy_termtype
194 + update config.guess
197 + improve memory-leak checking in several test-programs.
198 + set trailing null on string passed from winsnstr() to wins_nwstr().
199 + modify del_curterm() to fix memory-leak introduced by change to
203 + further improvements to test/test_mouse.c; compare with ncurses test
207 + add test/test_mouse.c (patch by Leonid S Usov).
208 + add a few debug-traces for tic, fix a couple of memory-leaks.
211 + build-fix for debug-traces (report/patch by Chris Clayton).
214 + modify samples for xterm mouse 1002/1003 modes to use 1006 mode, and
215 also provide for focus in/out responses -TD
216 + modify default case in handle_wheel() to always report button-release
217 events, e.g., for xterm mouse mode 1003 (patch by Leonid S Usov).
218 + improve valid_entryname() to disallow characters used in terminfo
219 syntax: '#', '=', '|', '\'.
220 + alter copy_termtype() to allocate new str_table and ext_str_table
221 data rather than relying upon its callers.
222 + use calloc in _nc_init_entry() when allocating stringbuf, to ensure
224 + add library-level TYPE_CALLOC for consistency with TYPE_MALLOC.
225 + add some debug-traces for tic/infocmp.
228 + in-progress work on invalid_merge(), disable it (cf: 20220402).
229 + fix memory leak in _nc_tic_dir() when called from _nc_set_writedir().
230 + fix memory leak in tic when "-c" option is used.
233 + add a limit-check to guard against corrupt terminfo data
234 (report/testcase by NCNIPC of China).
235 + add check/warning in configure script if option --with-xterm-kbs is
236 missing or inconsistent (Arch #74379).
237 + add setlocale call to several test-programs.
238 + allow extended-color number in opts parameter of wattr_on.
241 + add test/test_unget_wch.c
244 + amend extended_captype(), returning CANCEL if a string is explicitly
246 + make description-fields distinct -TD
250 + add teken-16color, teken-vt and teken-sc -TD
251 + add a few missing details for vte-2018 (report by Robert Lange) -TD
255 + correct setal in mintty/tmux entries, add to vte-2018 (report by
257 + add blink to vte-2018 (report by Robert Lange)
258 + improve tic warning about XT versus redundant tsl, etc.
261 + add xterm+acs building-block -TD
262 + add xterm-p370, for use in older terminals -TD
263 + add dec+sl to xterm-new, per xterm patch #371 -TD
264 + add mosh and mosh-256color -TD
267 + replace obsolescent "-gnatg" option with "-gnatwa" and "-gnatyg", to
268 work around build problems with gnat 12.
269 + update external links in Ada95.html
270 + trim unused return-value from canonical_name().
273 + fix issues found with coverity:
274 + rewrite canonical_name() function of infocmp to ensure buffer size
275 + corrected use of original tty-modes in tput init/reset subcommands
276 + modify tabs program to limit tab-stop values to max-columns
277 + add limit-checks for palette rgb values in test/ncurses.c
278 + add a few null-pointer checks to help with static-analysis.
279 + enforce limit on number of soft-keys used in c++ binding.
280 + adjust a buffer-limit in write_entry.c to quiet a bogus warning from
284 + expanded description in man/resizeterm.3x
285 + additional workaround for ImageMagick in test/picsmap.c
288 + improve font-formatting in other manpages, for consistency.
289 + correct/improve font-formatting in curs_wgetch.3x (patch by Benno
293 + workaround in test/picsmap.c for use of floating point for rgb values
294 by ImageMagick 6.9.11, which appears to use the wrong upper limit.
295 + improve use of "trap" in shell scripts, using "fixup-trap".
298 + minor updates for test-packages
299 + improve handling of --with-pkg-config-libdir option, allowing for the
300 case where either $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR or the option value has a
301 colon-separated list of directories (report by Rudi Heitbaum,
306 + add ABI 7 defaults to configure script.
307 + add warning in configure script if file specified for "--with-caps"
309 + use fix for CF_FIX_WARNINGS from cdk-perl, ignoring error-exit on
311 + improve readability of long parameterized expressions with the
312 infocmp "-f" option by allowing split before a "%p" marker.
315 + improve checks for valid mouse events when an intermediate mouse
316 state is not part of the mousemask specified by the caller (report by
317 Anton Vidovic, cf: 20111022).
318 + use newer version 1.36 of gnathtml for generating Ada html files.
321 + add section on releasing memory to curs_termcap.3x and
322 curs_terminfo.3x manpages.
325 + improve markup, e.g., for external manpage links in the manpages
326 (prompted by report by Helge Kreutzmann).
329 + install ncurses-examples programs in libexecdir, adding a wrapper
330 script to invoke those.
331 + add help-screen and screen-dump to test/combine.c
334 + add test/combine.c, to demo/test combining characters.
337 + improve configure check for getttynam (report by Werner Fink).
340 + fix errata in description fields (report by Eric Lindblad) -TD
341 + add x10term+sl, aixterm+sl, ncr260vp+sl, ncr260vp+vt, wyse+sl -TD
344 + add dim, ecma+strikeout to st-0.6 -TD
345 + deallocate the tparm cache when del_curterm is called for the last
346 allocated TERMINAL structure (report/testcase by Bram Moolenaar,
348 + modify test-package to more closely conform to Debian multi-arch.
349 + if the --with-pkg-config-libdir option is not given, use
350 ${libdir}/pkgconfig as a default (prompted by discussion with Ross
354 + fix memory-leak in delwin for pads (report by Werner Fink, OpenSUSE
355 #1192668, cf: 20211106),
358 + minor clarification to clear.1 (Debian #999437).
359 + add xterm+sl-alt, use that in foot+base (report by Jonas Grosse
361 + improve search-path check for pkg-config, for Debian testing which
362 installs pkg-config with architecture-prefixes.
365 + improve check in misc/Makefile.in for empty $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
366 + modify wnoutrefresh to call pnoutrefresh if its parameter is a pad,
367 rather than treating it as an error, and modify new_panel to permit
368 its window-parameter to be a pad (report by Giorgos Xou).
369 + fix a memory-leak in del_curterm (prompted by discussion with Bram
370 Moolenaar, cf: 20210821).
373 + simplify some references to WINDOWS._flags using macros.
374 + add a "check" rule in Ada95 makefile, to help with test-packages.
375 + build-fix for cross-compiling to MingW, conditionally add -lssp
378 + corrected regex needed for older pkg-config used in Solaris 10.
379 + amend configure option's auto-search to account for systems where
380 none of the directories known to pkg-config exist, adapted from
381 mailing-list comment (report by Milan P. Stanic).
383 20211021 6.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
384 + update release notes
385 + add "ncu2openbsd" script, to illustrate how to update an OpenBSD
386 system to use a current ncurses release.
389 + check for screen size-change in scr_init() and scr_restore(), in case
390 a screen dump does not match the current screen dimensions (report by
394 + amend change for pkg-config to account for "none" being returned in
395 the libdir-path result rather than "no" (report by Gabriele Balducci).
398 + build-fix for pmake with libtool.
399 + improve make-tar.sh scripts, adding COPYING to tar file, and clean up
401 + add link for "reset6" manpage in test-package ncurses6-doc
402 + revise configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir, using the actual
403 search path from pkg-config or pkgconf using the output from --debug
404 (report by Pascal Pignard).
405 + freeze ABI in ".map" files.
408 + implement "+m" option in tabs program.
409 + fill in some details for infoton -TD
410 + fix spelling/consistency in several descriptions -TD
411 + use vt420+lrmm in vt420 -TD
412 + modify save_tty_settings() to avoid opening /dev/tty for cases other
413 than reset/init, e.g., for clear.
414 + modify output of "toe -as" to show first description found rather
416 + improve tic checks for number of parameters of smglp, smgrp, smgtp,
417 and smgbp (cf: 20020525).
418 + correct off-by-one comparison in last_char(), which did not allow
419 special case of ":" in a terminfo description field (cf: 20120407).
420 + remove check in tic that assumes that none or both parameterized and
421 non-parameterized margin-setting capabilities are present
425 + use return-value from vsnprintf to reallocate as needed to allow for
426 buffers larger than the screen size (report by "_RuRo_").
427 + modify tset "-q" option to refrain from modifying terminal modes, to
428 match the documentation.
429 + add section on margins to terminfo.5, adapted from X/Open Curses.
430 + make tput/tset warning messages consistently using alias names when
431 those are used, rather than the underlying program's name.
432 + improve tput usage message for aliases such as clear, by eliminating
433 tput-specific portions.
434 + add a check in toe to ensure that a "termcap file" is text rather
436 + further build-fixes for OpenBSD 6.9, whose header files differ from
440 + add kbeg to xterm+keypad to accommodate termcap applications -TD
441 + add smglp and smgrp to vt420+lrmm, to provide useful data for the
443 + build-fix for gcc 3.4.3 with Solaris10, which does not allow forward
444 reference of anonymous struct typedef.
445 + modify tput to allow multiple commands per line.
446 + minor fixes for tset manpage.
449 + adjust ifdef in test_opaque.c to fix build with ncurses 5.7
450 + add testing note for xterm-{hp|sco|sun} -TD
451 + corrected description for ansi.sys-old -TD
452 + add xterm+nopcfkeys, to fill in keys for xterm-hp, xterm-sun -TD
453 + use hp+arrows in a few places -TD
454 + use hp+pfk-cr in a few places -TD
457 + correct logic in filtering of redefinitions (report by Sven Joachim,
461 + modify linux3.0 entry to reflect default mapping of shift-tab by
462 kbd 1.14 (report by Jan Engelhardt) -TD
463 + add historical note to tput, curses-terminfo and curses-color
464 manpages based on source-code for SVr2, SVr3 and SVr4.
465 + minor grammatical fixes for "it's" vs "its" (report by Nick Black).
466 + amend fix for --disable-root-environ (report by Arnav Singh).
467 + build-fix for compiling link_test
468 + drop symbols GCC_PRINTF and GCC_SCANF from curses.h.in, to simplify
469 use (Debian #993179).
472 + correct reversed check for --disable-root-environ (report/analysis
473 by Arnav Singh, cf: 20210626).
474 + apply gcc format attribute to prototypes which use a va_list
475 parameter rather than a "..." variable-length parameter list
476 (prompted by discussion in a tmux pull-request).
477 + modify configure scripts to filter out redefinitions of _XOPEN_SOURCE,
478 e.g., for NetBSD which generally supports 500, but 600 is needed for
480 + improve documentation for tparm and static/dynamic variables.
481 + improve typography in terminfo.5 (patch by Branden Robinson).
484 + improve tparm implementation of %P and %g, more closely matching
486 + move internals of TERMINAL structure to new header term.priv.h
487 + add "check" rule for ncurses/Makefile
488 + corrected tsl capability for terminator -TD
489 + add check in tic to report instances where tparm would detect an
490 error in an expression (cf: 20201010).
491 + correct a few places where SP->_pair_limit was used rather than
492 SP->_pair_alloc (cf: 20170812).
493 + fix missing "%d" for setaf/setab code 8-15 in xterm+direct16 (report
494 by Florian Weimer) -TD
495 + fix some documentation errata from OpenBSD changes.
499 + add workaround for broken pcre2 package in Debian 10, from xterm #369.
502 + ignore "--dynamic-linker" option in generated pkg/config files,
503 adapted from "distr1" patch.
504 + add CF_SHARED_OPTS case for Haiku, from patch in haikuports.
507 + add extensions in xterm+tmux and ecma+strikeout to ms-terminal,
508 but cancel the non-working Cr and Ms capabilities -TD
509 + add foot and foot-direct -TD
512 + add workaround for Windows Terminal's problems with CR/LF mapping to
513 ms-terminal (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
514 + review/update current Windows Terminal vs ms-terminal -TD
517 + correct typo in "vip" comments (report by Nick Black), reviewed this
518 against Glink manual -TD
519 + fill in some missing pieces for pccons, to make it comparable to the
521 + modify mk-1st.awk to account for extra-suffix configure option
522 (report by Juergen Pfeifer).
523 + change default for --disable-wattr-macros option to help packagers
524 who reuse wide ncursesw header file with non-wide ncurses library.
525 + build-fix for test/test_opaque.c, for configurations without opaque
529 + improve history section for tset manpage based on the 1BSD tarball,
530 which preceded BSD's SCCS checkins by more than three years.
531 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure (report by Urs
533 + further improvement of libtool configuration, adding a dependency of
534 the install.tic rule, etc., on the library in the build-tree.
538 + amend libtool configuration to add dependency for install.tic, etc.,
539 in ncurses/Makefile on the lower-level libraries.
540 + modify configure script to support ".PHONY" make program feature.
543 + add configure option --disable-root-access, which tells ncurses to
544 disallow most file-opens by setuid processes.
545 + use default colors in pccon "op" -TD
546 + correct rmacs/smacs in aaa+dec, aaa+rv -TD
547 + add hpterm-color2 and hp98550-color (Martin Trusler)
548 + regenerate man-html documentation.
551 + improve configure-macro used for dependencies of --disable-leaks such
553 + trim trailing blanks from files
556 + fixes for scan-build, valgrind build/testing.
557 + update config.guess
560 + add a summary of ncurses-specific preprocessor symbols to curses.h
561 (prompted by discussion with Peter Farley, Bill Gray).
564 + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20210509 to eliminate
565 an unnecessary warning in config.log (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
566 + add a note in manual page to explain ungetch vs unget_wch (prompted
567 by discussion with Peter Farley).
568 + add sp-funcs for erasewchar, killwchar.
569 + modify wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr to improve compatibility with SVr4 curses
570 in its treatment of interrupt and quit characters (prompted by
571 report/testcase by Bill Gray)
572 + update config.guess, config.sub
575 + improve manual pages for wgetnstr, newwin (prompted by
576 report/testcase by Bill Gray).
579 + modify tputs' error check to allow it to be used without first
580 calling tgetent or setupterm, noting that terminfo initialization
581 is required for supporting the terminfo delay feature (report by
583 + fix several warnings from clang --analyze
584 + add null-pointer check in comp_parse.c, when a "use=" clause refers
585 to a nonexisting terminal description (report/patch by Miroslav
586 Lichvar, cf: 20210227).
589 + add a special case in the configure script to work around one of the
590 build-time breakages reported for OpenBSD 6 here:
591 https://www.mail-archive.com/bugs@openbsd.org/msg13200.html
592 There is no workaround for the other issue, a broken linker spec.
593 + modify configure check for libtool to prevent accidental use of an
594 OpenBSD program which uses the same name.
595 + update config.guess, config.sub
598 + avoid using broken system macros for snprintf which interfere with
599 _nc_SLIMIT's conditionally adding a parameter when the string-hacks
600 configure option is enabled.
601 + add a "all::" rule before the new "check" rule in test/Makefile.in
604 + improve CF_LINK_FUNCS by ensuring that the source-file is closed
605 before linking to the target.
606 + add "check" rules for headers in c++, progs and test-directories.
607 + build-fix for termsort module when configured with termcap (reports
608 by Rajeev V Pillai, Rudi Heitbaum).
611 + extend --disable-pkg-ldflags option to also control whether $LDFLAGS
612 from the build is provided in -config and .pc files (Debian #986764).
613 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses and c++
614 libraries and progs directory.
615 + fix off-by-one limit for tput's processing command-line arguments
616 (patch by Hadrien Lacour).
619 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library and
621 + improve description of BSD-style padding in curs_termcap.3x
622 + improved CF_C11_NORETURN macro, from byacc changes.
623 + fix "--enable-leak" in CF_DISABLE_LEAKS to allow turning
624 leak-checking off later in a set of options.
625 + relax modification-time comparison in CF_LINK_FUNCS to allow it to
626 accept link() function with NFS filesystems which change the mtime
627 on the link target, e.g., several BSD systems.
628 + call delay_output_sp to handle BSD-style padding when tputs_sp is
629 called, whether directly or internally, to ensure that the SCREEN
630 pointer is passed correctly (reports by Henric Jungheim, Juraj
634 + build-fixes for Solaris10 /bin/sh
635 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs,
636 form and menu libraries.
639 + add configure option --enable-stdnoreturn, making the _Noreturn
640 keyword optional to ease transition (prompted by report by
644 + improve parameter-checking in tput by forcing it to analyze any
645 extended string capability, e.g., as used in the Cs and Ms
646 capabilities of the tmux description (report by Brad Town,
648 + remove an incorrect free in the fallback (non-checking) version of
649 _nc_free_and_exit (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
650 + correct use-ordering in some xterm-direct flavors -TD
651 + add hterm, hterm-256color (Mike Frysinger)
652 + if the build-time compiler accepts c11's _Noreturn keyword, use that
653 rather than gcc's attribute.
654 + change configure-check for gcc's noreturn attribute to assume it is
655 a prefix rather than suffix, matching c11's _Noreturn convention.
656 + add "lint" rule to c++/Makefile, e.g., with cppcheck.
659 + improve configure CF_LD_SEARCHPATH macro used for ncurses*-config and
660 ".pc" files, from dialog changes.
661 + reduce dependency of math-library in test programs.
662 + minor fixes for test_tparm.c (cf: 20210306)
663 + mention "ncurses" prefix in curses_version() manpage (report by
667 + improved test/test_tparm.c, by limiting the tests to capabilities
668 that might have parameters or padding, and combined with tputs test.
669 + improve discussion of padding versus tparm and tputs in
671 + update portability note for FreeBSD in man/tput.1
674 + modify tic/infocmp to eliminate unnecessary "\" to escape ":" in
676 + add check in tic for duplicate "use=" clauses.
679 + improve tic warning when oc/op do not mention SGR 39/49 for xterm
681 + revert change to lib_addch.c in waddch_literal() from 20210130, since
682 the followup fix in PutCharLR() actually corrects the problem while
683 this change causes too-early filling/wrapping (report by Johannes
685 + add/use vt220+pcedit and vt220+vtedit -TD
686 + add scrt/securecrt and absolute -TD
687 + add nel to xterm-new, though supported since X11R5 -TD
688 + add/use xterm+nofkeys -TD
689 + move use of ecma+italics from xterm-basic to xterm+nofkeys -TD
692 + add test/back_ground.c, to exercise the wide-character background
694 + add a check in _nc_build_wch() in case the background character is a
695 wide-character, rather than a new part of a multibyte character.
696 + improve tracemunch's coverage of form/menu/panel libraries.
697 + improve tracemunch's checking/reporting the type for the first
698 parameter, e.g., "WINDOW*" rather than "#1".
701 + provide for wide-characters as background character in wbkgrnd
702 (report/testcase by Anton Vidovic)
703 + add name for Fedora's pcre2 to configure check for "--with-pcre2"
704 option, from xterm #363 -TD
705 + modify adjustment in PutCharLR to restore the cursor position before
706 writing to the lower-right corner, rather than decrementing the
707 cursor column, in case it was a double-width character (cf: 20210130).
710 + correct an off-by-one in comparison in waddch_literal() which caused
711 scrolling when a double-cell character would not fit at the lower
712 right corner of the screen (report by Benno Schulenberg).
713 + split-out att610+cvis, vt220+cvis, vt220+cvis8 -TD
714 + add vt220-base, for terminal emulators which generally have not
715 supported att610's blinking cursor control -TD
716 + use vt220+cvis in vt220, etc -TD
717 + use att610+cvis, xterm+tmux and ansi+enq in kitty -TD
718 + use vt220+cvis in st, terminology, termite since they ignore
719 blinking-cursor detail in att610+cvis -TD
722 + modify package/config scripts to provide an explicit -L option for
723 cases when the loader search path has other directories preceding
724 the one in which ncurses is installed (report by Yuri Victorovich).
725 + minor build-fixes in configure script and makefiles to work around
729 + add comment for linux2.6 regarding CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS
730 (report by Patrick McDermott) -TD
731 + make opts extension for getcchar work as documented for ncurses 6.1,
732 adding "-g" flag to test/demo_new_pair to illustrate.
735 + fix errata in man/ncurses.3x from recent updates.
736 + improve quoting/escaping in configure script, uses some features of
737 autoconf 2.52.20210105
740 + update man/curs_memleaks.3x, to include <term.h> which declares
742 + clarify man/curs_terminfo.3x, to mention why the macro setterm is
743 defined in <curses.h>, and remove it from the list of prototypes
744 (prompted by patch by Graeme McCutcheon).
745 + amend man/curs_terminfo.3x, to note that <curses.h> is required
746 for certain functions, e.g., those using chtype or attr_t for
747 types, as well as mvcur (cf: 20201031).
748 + use parameter-names in prototypes in curs_sp_funcs.3x, for
749 consistency with other manpages.
752 + update terminology entry to 1.8.1 -TD
753 + fix some compiler-warnings which gcc8 reports incorrectly.
756 + suppress hyphenation in generated html for manpages, to address
757 regression in upgrade of groff 1.22.2 to 1.22.3.
758 + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages (report
762 + improve manual pages for form field-types.
765 + amend build-fixes for gnat 10 to work with certain systems lacking
766 gprbuild (cf: 20200627).
767 + eliminate an additional strlen and wsclen.
768 + eliminate an unnecessary strlen in waddnstr() (suggested by Benjamin
770 + modify inopts manpage, separating the items for nodelay and notimeout
771 (patch by Benno Schulenberg).
772 + correct mlterm3 kf1-kf4 (Debian #975322) -TD
773 + add flash to mlterm3 -TD
776 + add Smulx to alacritty (Christian Duerr).
777 + add rep to PuTTY -TD
778 + add putty+keypad -TD
779 + add another fflush(stdout) in _nc_flush() to handle time-delays in
780 the middle of strings such as flash when the application uses
781 low-level calls rather than curses (cf: 20161217).
782 + modify configure check for c89/c99 aliases of clang to use its
783 -std option instead, because some platforms, in particular macOS,
784 do not provide workable c89/c99 aliases.
787 + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver.
788 + add the definitions needed in recent configure-check for clang
789 (report by Steven Pitman).
792 + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver.
793 + modify a check for parameters in terminfo capabilities to handle the
794 special case where short extended capability strings were not
795 converted from terminfo to termcap format.
796 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro, adding darwin as special case
797 when cross-compiling (report by Eli Rykoff).
800 + update kitty+common -TD
801 + add putty+screen and putty-screen (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
802 + explain in ncurses.3x that functions in the tinfo library do not rely
803 upon wide-characters (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas).
806 + modify MKterm.h.in so that it is not necessary to include <curses.h>
807 before <term.h> (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas).
808 + review/improve synopsis for curs_sp_funcs.3x (prompted by discussion
810 + improve format of output in tic's check_infotocap() function, to
811 ensure that the messages contain only printable text.
812 + modify configure-check for clang to verify that -Qunused-arguments
813 is supported. IBM's xlclang does not support it (report by Steven
817 + provide workaround configure-check for bool when cross-compiling.
818 + fix a potential indexing error in _nc_parse_entry(), seen with
819 Herlim's test data using address-sanitizer.
820 + change a null-pointer check in set_curterm to a valid-string check,
821 needed in to tic's use-resolution when pad_char is cancelled
822 (report/testcase by Robert Sebastian Herlim)
823 + improve tic's -c option to validate the number and type of parameters
824 and compare against expected number/type before deciding which set of
825 parameter-lists to use in tparm calls (report/testcase by Robert
827 + fix a link for tabs.1 manpage in announce.html.in (report by Nick
828 Black), as well as some fixes via linklint.
831 + improve manpage typography.
832 + improve discussion in curs_addch.3x of the use of unctrl to display
833 nonprintable characters.
834 + add a note in terminfo.5 explaining that no-parameter strings such
835 as sgr0 or cnorm should not be used with tparm.
838 + correct sgr in aaa+rv (report by Florian Weimer) -TD
839 + fix some sgr inconsistencies in d230c, ibm6153, ibm6154,
841 + improve tic's check for errors detected in tparm (prompted by
842 discussion with Florian Weimer).
843 + set output-mode to binary in experimental Windows-10 driver (Juergen
847 + remove output-related checks for nl/nonl (report by Leon Winter).
848 + change tmux's kbs to ^? (report by Premysl Eric Janouch)
849 + simplify mlterm initialization with DECSTR -TD
850 + fix a typo in man/curs_terminfo.3 (Reuben Thomas).
851 + add tmux-direct (tmux #2370, Debian #895754)
852 + add user-defined capabilities from mintty to Caps-ncurses, for
853 checking consistency with tic.
856 + correct configure-check for gnurx library.
857 + regenerate llib-* files.
858 + modify tracemunch and the panel library to show readable traces for
859 panel- and user-pointers.
862 + update mlterm3 for 3.9.0 (report by Premysl Eric Janouch) -TD
865 + corrected condition for appending curses.events to the generated
866 curses.h (report by Sven Joachim, Debian #970545).
869 + add configure-check for systre/tre with mingw configuration, to get
870 the library-dependencies as seen in msys2 configuration for mingw64.
871 + build-fixes for the win32-driver configuration.
872 + use more defensive binary mode setting for Win32 (Juergen Pfeifer).
875 + fix regression in setupterm validating non-empty $TERM (report by
879 + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of
881 + correct description of vt330/vt340 (Ross Combs).
884 + build-fix for awk-scripts modified for win32-driver (report by Werner
888 + remove a redundant NCURSES_EXPORT as a build-fix for "Maarten
890 + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of
892 + modify configure script, moving gcc -Werror options to EXTRA_CFLAGS
893 to avoid breaking configure-checks (adapted from ongoing work on
895 > errata for terminfo.src (report by Florian Weimer):
896 + correct icl6404 csr
901 + improve version-number extraction in MKlib_gen.sh
902 + make the test-package for manpages installable by adjusting the
904 + correct an off-by-one loop-limit in convert_strings function
906 + add CF_SHARED_OPTS cases for HPE NonStop systems (Randall S Becker).
907 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS case for NetBSD to use the same "-shared"
908 option for the non-rpath case as for the rpath case, to allow gcc to
909 provide suitable runtime initialization (report by Rajeev V Pillai).
912 + reduce build-warnings by excluding ncurses-internals from deprecation
914 + mark wgetch-events feature as deprecated.
915 + add definition for $(LIBS) to ncurses/Makefile.in, to simplify builds
916 using the string-hacks option.
917 + prevent KEY_EVENT from appearing in curses.h unless the configure
918 option --enable-wgetch-events is used (report by Werner Fink).
921 + amend tic/infocmp check to allow for the respective tool's absence
922 (report by Steve Wills, cf: 20200808).
923 + improved some of the build-scripts with shellcheck
924 + filter out -MT/-MD/-MTd/-MDd options in script for Visual Studio C++
925 (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous").
928 + improve discussion of the system's tic utility when used as part
929 of cross-compiling (discussion with Keith Marshall).
930 + modify configuration checks for build-time tic/infocmp to use
931 AC_CHECK_TOOL. That can still be overridden by --with-tic-path and
932 --with-infocmp-path when fallbacks are used, but even if not using
933 fallbacks, the improved check may help with cross-compiling
934 (discussion with Keith Marshall).
935 + other build-fixes for Ada95 with MinGW.
936 + modify Ada95 source-generation utility to write to a file given as
937 parameter rather than to the standard output, allowing builds with
941 + remove remaining parts of checks for ISC Unix (cf: 20121006).
942 + add user32.lib to LDFLAGS for Visual Studio C++ configuration
943 (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous").
944 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to hide ncurses' definition of KEY_EVENTS to
945 reduce Visual Studio C++ redefinition warnings.
946 + improve/update checks for external functions in test/configure
949 + set LINK_TESTS in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msvc (patch by
951 + improved workaround for redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT.
952 + improve man/term.5 section on legacy storage format (report by
956 + reduce redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT when building with Visual
958 + define NCURSES_STATIC when compiling programs to link with static
959 libraries, to work with MinGW vs Visual Studio C++.
960 > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
961 (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
962 + modify c++/Makefile.in to set the current directory while compiling
963 the main program, so the linker can find related objects.
964 + several changes to allow the c++/demo program to compile/link.
965 + change an ifdef in test-directory, to use VC++ wide-character funcs.
968 + fix pound-sign mapping in acsc of linux2.6 entry (report by Ingo
970 + additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
971 (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
972 + build-improvements for Windows 10 and MinGW (patch by Juergen
974 + fix a typo in curs_printw.3x (patch by William Pursell).
975 + fix two errors in infotocap which allowed indexing outside the
976 buffer (report/testcases by Zhang Gan).
977 + update length of strings in infocmp's usage function to restore a
978 trailing null on the longest string (report/testcase by Zhang Gen).
981 + modify version-check with Ada generics to use the same pattern as in
982 the check for supported gnat versions (report by Pascal Pignard).
983 > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
984 (patches by "Maarten Anonymous"):
985 + adjust headers/declarations to provide for "dllimport" vs "dllexport"
986 declarations when constructing DLLs, to worko with Visual Studio C++.
989 + build-fixes for gnat 10.1.1, whose gnatmake drops integration with
991 + correct buffer-length in test/color_name.h
994 + update list of functions in ncurses.3x
995 + move dlclose() call from lib_mouse.c to delscreen() to avoid a case
996 in the former which could be called from SIGTSTP handler (Debian
1000 + add xterm+256color2, xterm+88color2, to deprecate nonstandard usage
1001 in xterm+256color, xterm+88color -TD
1002 + add shifted Linux console keys in linux+sfkeys entry for
1003 screen.linux (report by Alexandre Montaron).
1004 + use vt100+enq in screen (report by Alexandre Montaron).
1005 + add screen.linux-s alias (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
1008 + correct configure version-check/warnng for g++ to allow for 10.x
1009 + re-enable "bel" in konsole-base (report by Nia Huang)
1010 + add linux-s entry (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
1011 + drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl
1012 + add test/test_tparm.c, for checking tparm changes.
1013 + improve parameter-checking for tparm, adding function _nc_tiparm() to
1014 handle the most-used case, which accepts only numeric parameters
1015 (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
1016 + use a more conservative estimate of the buffer-size in lib_tparm.c's
1017 save_text() and save_number(), in case the sprintf() function
1018 passes-through unexpected characters from a format specifier
1019 (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
1020 + add a check for end-of-string in cvtchar to handle a malformed
1021 string in infotocap (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
1024 + update version-check for gnat to allow for gnat 10.x to 99.x
1025 + fix an uninitialized variable in lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20200502)
1026 + add a check in EmitRange to guard against repeat_char emitting digits
1027 which could be interpreted as BSD-style padding when --enable-bsdpad
1028 is configured (report/patch by Hiltjo Posthuma).
1029 + add --disable-pkg-ldflags to suppress EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the
1030 generated pkg-config and ncurses*-config files, to simplify
1031 configuring in the case where rpath is used but the packager wants
1032 to hide the feature (report by Michael Stapelberg).
1033 > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
1034 "Maarten Anonymous"):
1035 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS to generate a script which translates linker
1036 options into Visual Studio's dialect.
1037 + omit parentheses around function-names in generated lib_gen.c to
1038 work around a Visual Studio C++ limitation.
1041 + add notes on termcap.h header in curs_termcap.3x
1042 + update notes on vscode / xterm.js -TD
1045 + add "-r" option to the dots test-programs, to help with scripting
1046 a performance comparison.
1047 + build-fix test/move_field.c for NetBSD curses, whose form headers
1048 use different names than SVr4 or ncurses.
1051 + add details on the change to Linux SGR 21 in 2018 -TD
1052 + add xterm-direct16 and xterm-direct256 -TD
1053 + modify lib_mouse.c to check for out-of-range button numbers, convert
1054 those to position reports.
1057 + use vt100+fnkeys in putty -TD
1058 + fix a typo in tput.1; "columns" should be "cols".
1061 + improve tracemunch logic for "RUN" compaction.
1062 + fix a special case in wresize() where copying the old text did not
1063 check if the last cell on a row was the beginning of a fullwidth
1064 character (adapted from patch by Benno Schulenberg).
1065 + use vt52+keypad in xterm-vt52, from xterm #354 -TD
1066 + improve see-also section of user_caps.5
1069 + fix find_pair(), overlooked when refactoring for _nc_reserve_pairs()
1070 (report/testcase by Brad Town, cf: 20170812).
1071 + add a trailing null for magic-string in putwin, flagged by gcc 10
1072 + update check for gcc version versus gnat to work with gcc 10.x
1075 + modify -fvisibility check to work with g++
1076 > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
1077 "Maarten Anonymous"):
1078 + add configure option and check for gcc -fvisibility=hidden feature
1079 + define NCURSES_NOMACROS in lib_gen.c to work around Visual Studio
1080 C++ preprocessor limitations.
1081 + modify some of the configure-macros, as well as mk-1st.awk to work
1082 with Visual Studio C++ default filenaming.
1085 + correct length of buffer copied in dup_field().
1086 + remove "$(srcdir)/" from path of library.gpr, needed for out-of-tree
1087 builds of Ada95 (patch by Adam Van Ymeren).
1090 + improve configure-checks to reduce warnings about unused variables.
1091 + improve description of error-returns in waddch and waddnstr manual
1092 pages (prompted by patch by Benno Schulenberg).
1093 + add test/move_field.c to demonstrate move_field(), and a stub for
1094 a corresponding demo of dup_field().
1097 + add history note to curs_scanw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
1098 + add history note to curs_printw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
1099 + add portability note to ncurses.3x regarding <stdarg.h>
1102 + update copyright notices in test-packages.
1103 + modify tracemunch to guard against errors in its known_p1 table.
1104 + add several --with-xxx-libname options, to help with pkgsrc (prompted
1105 by discussion with Thomas Klausner).
1108 + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to avoid storing a null in the
1109 background character, because it may be used in cases where the
1110 corresponding 0x80 is not treated as a null (report by Marc Rechte,
1114 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG to work around xcode's c99 "-W" option,
1115 which conflicts with conventional use for passing linker options.
1116 > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
1117 "Maarten Anonymous"):
1118 + check for pcre2posix.h instead of pcre2-posix.h
1119 + add case in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msys2 + msvc
1120 + add fallback definition for STDIN_FILENO in progs.priv.h
1121 + modify win_driver.c to use _alloca() rather than gcc's variable
1122 length array feature.
1123 + add NCURSES_IMPEXP to ncurses wrapped-variable declarations
1124 + remove NCURSES_IMPEXP from class variables in c++/cursslk.h
1125 + remove fallback prototype for exit() from c++/etip.h.in
1126 + use configured check for <sys/time.h> in a couple of places
1127 + conditionally include winsock.h in ncurses/win32con/gettimeofday.c,
1128 because Visual Studio needs this for the timestruct declaration.
1129 + adjust syntax in a couple of files using the NCURSES_API symbol.
1132 + expanded note in ncurses.3x regarding automatically-included headers
1133 + improve vt50h and vt52 based on DECScope manual -TD
1134 + add/use vt52+keypad and vt52-basic -TD
1135 + check/workaround for line-too-long in Ada95 generate utility when
1136 building out-of-tree.
1137 + improve/update HEADER_DEPS in */Makefile.in
1138 + add "check" rule to include/Makefile, to demonstrate that the headers
1139 include all of the required headers for the types used.
1142 + improve manual page for panel library, extending the portability
1143 section as well as documenting error-returns.
1144 + show tic's version when installing terminal database in run_tic.sh
1145 + correct check for gcc vs other compilers used in ncurses 6.0, from
1146 FreeBSD patch by Kyle Evans (cf: 20150725).
1147 + add notes for 6.2 to INSTALL.
1149 20200212 6.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1150 + update release notes
1151 + minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts
1154 + modify check for sizeof(wchar_t) to ensure it gives useful result
1155 when cross-compiling.
1156 + drop assumption in configure script that Cygwin's linker is broken.
1157 + define NCURSES_BROKEN_LINKER if the broken-linker feature is used,
1158 to simplify configure-checks for ncurses-examples.
1161 + reassert copyright on ncurses, per discussion in ncurses FAQ:
1162 https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#relicensed
1165 + modify comparison in make_hash.c to correct a special case in
1166 collision handling for Caps-hpux11
1167 + add testing utility report_hashing to check hash-tables used for
1168 terminfo and termcap names.
1169 + fix a missing prototype for _nc_free_and_exit().
1170 + update a few comments about tack 1.07
1171 + use an awk script to split too-long pathnames used in Ada95 sample
1172 programs for explain.txt
1175 + expanded description of XM in user_caps.5
1176 + improve xm example for xterm+x11mouse, xterm+sm+1006 -TD
1177 + add history section to curs_slk.3x and curs_terminfo.3x manpages.
1178 + update alacritty entries for 0.4.0 (prompted by patch by
1180 + correct spelling errors found with codespell.
1181 + fix for test/configure, from xterm #352.
1184 + improve configure macros which check for the X11/Intrinsic.h header,
1185 to accommodate recent MacOS changes.
1186 + suppress gcc's -Winline warning; it has not been useful for some time
1187 + update config.guess, config.sub
1190 + modify a couple of macros in aclocal.m4 to allow autoconf 2.69 to
1191 "work", to help illustrate discussion in
1192 https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/my-autoconf.html
1193 + fix some warnings from autoheader-252
1196 + in gen-pkgconfig.in, move the RPATH_LIST and PRIVATE_LIBS assignments
1197 past the various prefix/libdir assignments, to allow for using those
1198 symbols, e.g., as done via CF_SHARED_OPTS.
1199 + improve ncurses*-config and pc-files by filtering out linker-specs.
1200 + modify test-package to more closely match Fedora's configuration
1201 for PIE/PIC feature and debug-packages.
1204 + correct pathname used in Ada95 sample programs for explain.txt, to
1205 work with test-packages.
1206 + improve tracemunch:
1207 + keep track of TERMINAL* values
1208 + if tracing was first turned on after initialization, attempt to
1209 show distinct screen, window and terminal names anyway.
1210 + ensure that GCC_NORETURN is defined in term.h, because the prototype
1211 for exit_terminfo() uses it (report by Werner Fink).
1214 + add exit_curses() and exit_terminfo() to replace internal symbols for
1218 + fix a few warnings for test-package builds
1219 + add curses_trace(), to replace trace().
1222 + add portability section to curs_getcchar manpage (prompted by
1223 discussion with Nick Black).
1224 + improve portability discussion of ACS characters in curs_addch
1226 + improve typography for double-quotes in manpages.
1229 + fix typo for MinGW rpm test-package.
1230 + workaround in rpm specs for NFS problems in Fedora 31.
1233 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to fix a case where Debian/testing changes
1234 to the ld --as-needed configuration broke ncurses-examples test
1236 + drop library-dependency on psapi for MinGW port, since win_driver.c
1237 defines PSAPI_VERSION to 2, making it use GetProcessImageFileName
1238 from kernel32.dll (prompted by patch by Simon Sobish, cf: 20140503).
1241 + add warning-check in tic for terminals with parm_dch vs parm_ich.
1242 + drop ich1 from rxvt-basic, Eterm and mlterm to improve compatibility
1243 with old non-curses programs -TD
1244 + reviewed st 0.8.2, updated some details -TD
1245 + use ansi+rep several places -TD
1246 + corrected tic's check for ich1 (report by Sebastian J. Bronner,
1250 + check parameter of set_escdelay, return ERR if negative.
1251 + check parameter of set_tabsize, return ERR if not greater than zero
1252 (report/patch by Anthony Sottile).
1253 + revise CF_ADD_LIBS macro to prepend rather than append libraries.
1254 + add "xterm-mono" to help packagers (report by Sven Joachim) -TD
1257 + add a note in man/curs_add_wch.3x about Unicode terminology for the
1258 line-drawing characters (report by Nick Black).
1259 + improve comment in lib_tgoto.c regarding the use of \200 where a
1260 \0 would be intended by the caller (report by "64 bit", cf: 20000923).
1261 + modify linux-16color to accommodate Linux console driver change in
1262 early 2018 (report by Dino Petrucci).
1265 + modify make_hash to not require --disable-leaks, to simplify building
1266 with address-sanitizer.
1267 + modify tic to exit if it cannot remove a conflicting name, because
1268 treating that as a partial success can cause an infinite loop in
1269 use-resolution (report/testcase by Hongxu Chen, cf: 20111001).
1272 + improve buffer-checks in captoinfo.c, for some cases when the
1273 input string is shorter than expected.
1274 > fix two errata in tic (report/testcases by Hongxu Chen):
1275 + check for missing character after backslash in write_it
1276 + check for missing characters after "%>" when converting from termcap
1277 syntax (cf: 980530).
1280 + amend recent changes to ncurses*-config and pc-files to filter out
1281 Debian linker-flags (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150516).
1282 + clarify relationship between tic, infocmp and captoinfo in manpage.
1283 + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_type_entry and
1284 _nc_find_name_entry.
1285 > fix several errata in tic (reports/testcases by "zjuchenyuan"):
1286 + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_entry.
1287 + check for missing character after backslash in fmt_entry
1288 + check for acsc with odd length in dump_entry in check for one-one
1289 mapping (cf: 20060415);
1290 + check length when converting from old AIX box_chars_1 capability,
1291 overlooked in changes to eliminate strcpy (cf: 20001007).
1294 + modify the ncurse*-config and pc-files to more closely match for the
1298 + amend the ncurses*-config and pc-files to take into account the rpath
1299 hack which differed between those files.
1300 + improve -L option filtering in ncurses*-config
1301 + improve recovery from error when reading command-character in
1302 test/ncurses.c, showing the relevant error message and not exiting on
1303 EINTR (cf: 20180922)
1306 + add a note in resizeterm manpage about top-level windows which touch
1307 the screen's borders.
1308 + modify configure-checks for gnat to identify each of the tools path
1312 + build-fixes for Ada95 configure-script and corresponding test package
1315 + add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to
1316 allow renaming the "AdaCurses" library (prompted by proposed changes
1318 + modify configure script to distinguish gcc from icc and clang when
1319 the --enable-warnings option is not used, to avoid unnecessary
1320 warnings about unrecognized inline options (report by Sven Joachim).
1323 + build-fixes for configuration using --program-suffix with Ada95,
1324 noticed with MacOS but applicable to other platforms without
1328 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
1331 + amend 20181208 changes for wbkgd() and wbkgrnd(), fixing a few
1332 details where it still differed from SVr4.
1333 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
1336 + fix a few more coverity warnings.
1339 + improve loop limits in _nc_scroll_window() to handle a case where
1340 the scrolled data is a pad which is taller than the window (patch
1342 + amend the change to screen, because tmux relies upon that entry
1343 and does not support that feature (Debian #933572) -TD
1344 + updated ms-terminal entry & notes -TD
1345 + updated kitty entry & notes -TD
1346 + updated alacritty+common entry & notes -TD
1347 + use xterm+sl-twm for consistency -TD
1350 + fix a few more coverity warnings.
1351 + more documentation updates based on tctest.
1354 + fix a few coverity warnings.
1355 + documentation updates based on tctest.
1358 + fix a few warnings for gcc 4.x
1359 + add some portability/historical details to the tic, toe and infocmp
1361 + correct fix for broken link from terminfo(5) to tabs(1) manpage
1362 (report by Sven Joachim).
1365 + change reset's behavior for margins to simply clear soft-margins if
1366 possible, rather than clearing and then setting them according to the
1367 terminal's width (suggested by Thomas Wolff).
1368 + correct order of one wbkgd versus start_color call in test/padview.c
1372 + improve comments for recent changes, add alias xterm.js -TD
1375 + add --with-tic-path and --with-infocmp-path to work around problems
1376 building fallback source using pre-6.0 tic/infocmp.
1377 + add a check in tic for paired indn/rin
1378 + correct a buffer-limit in write_entry.c for systems that use caseless
1380 + add ms-terminal -TD
1381 + add vscode, vscode-direct -TD
1384 + improve the tabs.1 manual page to distinguish the PWB/Unix and 7th
1385 Edition versions of the tabs utility.
1386 + add configure check for getenv() to work around implementation shown
1387 in Emscripten #6766, use that to optionally suppress START_TRACE
1388 macro, whose call to getenv() may not work properly (report by Ilya
1390 + modify initialization functions to avoid relying upon persistent
1391 data for the result from getenv().
1392 + update config.guess, config.sub
1395 + expand the portability section of the man/tabs.1 manual page.
1396 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1399 + add mintty, mintty-direct (adapted from patch by Thomas Wolff).
1400 Some of the suggested user-defined capabilities are commented-out,
1401 to allow builds with ncurses 5.9 and 6.0
1402 + add Smol/Rmol for tmux, vte-2018 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1403 + add rs1 to konsole, mlterm -TD
1404 + modify _nc_merge_entry() to make a copy of the data which it merges,
1405 to avoid modifying the source-data when aligning extended names.
1408 + modify an internal call to vid_puts to pass extended color pairs
1409 e.g., from tty_update.c and lib_mvcur.c (report by Niegodziwy Beru).
1410 + improve manual page description of init_tabs capability and TABSIZE
1414 + modify reset_cmd.c to allow for tabstops at intervals other than 8
1415 (report by Vincent Huisman).
1418 + update xterm-new to xterm patch #345 -TD
1419 + add/use xterm+keypad in xterm-new (report by Alain D D Williams) -TD
1420 + update terminator entry -TD
1421 + remove hard-tabs from ti703 (report by Robert Clausecker)
1422 + mention meml/memu/box1 in user_caps manual page.
1423 + mention user_caps.5 in tic and infocmp manual pages.
1426 + fix a spurious blank line seen with "infocmp -1fx xterm+x11mouse"
1427 + add checks in repair_subwindows() to keep the current position and
1428 scroll-margins inside the resized subwindow.
1429 + add a limit check in newline_forces_scroll() for the case where the
1430 row is inside scroll-margins, but not at the end (report by Toshio
1431 Kuratomi, cf: 20170729).
1432 + corrected a warning message in tic for extended capabilities versus
1433 number of parameters.
1436 + improve workaround for Solaris wcwidth versus line-drawing characters
1437 (report by Pavel Stehule).
1438 + add special case in tic to validate RGB string-capability extension.
1439 + corrected string/parameter-field for RGB in Caps-ncurses.
1442 + corrected problem in terminfo load/realignment which prevented
1443 infocmp from comparing extended capabilities with the same name
1444 but different types.
1447 + improve ifdef's for TABSIZE variable, to help with AIX/HPUX ports.
1450 + check for TABSIZE variable in test/configure script.
1451 + used test/test_arrays.c to improve Caps.aix1 and Caps.hpux11
1452 + corrected filtering of comments in MKparametrized.sh
1453 + reduce duplication across Caps* files by moving some parts which do
1454 not depend on order into Caps-ncurses.
1457 + modify MKcaptab.sh, MKkey_defs.sh, and MKhashsize.sh to handle
1458 split-up Caps-files.
1459 + build-fixes if extended-functions are disabled.
1462 + add "screen5", to mention italics (report by Stefan Assmann)
1463 + modify description of xterm+x11hilite to eliminate unused p5 -TD
1464 + add configure script checks to help with a port to Ultrix 3.1
1465 (report by Dennis Grevenstein).
1466 + check if "b" binary feature of fopen works
1467 + check for missing feature of locale.h
1468 + add fallback for strstr() in test-programs
1469 + add fallback for STDOUT_FILENO in test-programs
1470 + update config.guess, config.sub
1473 + move macro for is_linetouched() inside NCURSES_NOMACROS ifndef.
1474 + corrected prototypes in several manpages using script to extract
1475 those in compilable form.
1476 + use _nc_copy_termtype2() rather than direct assignment in setupterm,
1477 in case it is called repeatedly using fallback terminfo descriptions
1478 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
1481 + regenerate llib-* files.
1482 + modify tic to also use new function for user-defined capability info.
1483 + modify _nc_parse_entry() to check if a user-defined capability has
1484 an unexpected type; ignore it in that case.
1485 + fix a special case of link-anchors in generated Ada html files.
1486 + use newer rel=author tag in generated html rather than rev=made,
1487 which did not become accepted.
1490 + in-progress changes to add parameter-checking for common user-defined
1491 capabilities in tic.
1492 + update MKcodes.awk and MKnames.awk to ignore the new "userdef"
1493 data in Caps-ncurses (cf: 20190302).
1496 + corrected some of the undocumented terminfo names in Caps.hpux11
1497 + add "Caps-ncurses" file to help with checking inconsistencies in some
1498 user-defined capabilities.
1499 + amend check for repeat_char to handle a case where setlocale() was
1500 called after initscr() (report by "Ampera").
1503 + fix typo in adds200 -TD
1504 + add tic check for consistent alternate character set capabilities.
1505 + improve check in mvcur() to decide whether to use hard-tabs, using
1506 xt, tbc and hts as clues.
1507 + replace check in reset command for obsolete "pt" capability using
1508 tbc and hts capabilities as clues (report by Nicolas Marriott).
1511 + improve manual page description of TABSIZE.
1512 + add test/demo_tabs program.
1515 + add check in tic to provide warnings for mismatched number of
1516 parameters in the documented user-capability extensions.
1519 + modify rpm test-package ".spec" file to work around naming conflict
1520 with Redhat's package for ncurses6.
1521 + modify no-leaks code in test/picsmap to avoid non-standard tdestroy.
1522 + amend change to configure script which altered the top-level makefile
1523 to avoid attempting to install the terminfo database when it was not
1524 configured, to allow for installing the ".pc" files which are also
1525 in the misc directory (report by Steve Wills).
1528 + change some "%define" statements in test-packages for RPMs to
1529 "%global" to work around changes in rpm 4.14 from recent Redhat.
1530 + fixes for O_INPUT_FIELD extension (patch by Leon Winter).
1531 + eliminate fixed buffer-size when reading $TERMCAP variable.
1532 + correct logic in read_entry.c which prevented $TERMCAP variable from
1533 being interpreted as a fallback to terminfo entry (prompted by
1534 Savannah #54556, cf: 20110924).
1537 + add a check in test/configure to work around non-ncurses termcap.h
1539 + corrected flag for "seq" method of db 1.8.5 interface, needed by toe
1540 on some of the BSDs.
1541 + updated "string-hacks" feature.
1542 + minor improvements to manpage typography.
1543 + corrected conditionally-compiled limit on color pairs (report by
1545 + add -x option to test/pair_content, test/color_content for testing
1546 init_extended_pair, extended_pair_content, init_extended_color,
1547 extended_color_content
1548 + add -p option to test/pair_content, test/color_content to show the
1549 return values from the tested functions.
1550 + improve manual page curs_color.3x discussion of error returns and
1552 + add O_INPUT_FIELD extension to form library (patch by Leon Winter).
1553 + override/suppress --enable-db-install if --disable-database configure
1555 + change a too-large terminal entry in tic from a fatal error to a
1556 warning (prompted by discussion with Gabriele Balducci).
1559 + fix typo in term(5), improve explanation of format (report by Otto
1561 + add nsterm-direct -TD
1562 + use SGR 1006 mouse for konsole-base -TD
1563 + use SGR 1006 mouse for putty -TD
1564 + add ti703/ti707, ti703-w/ti707-w (Robert Clausecker)
1567 + add dummy "check" rule in top-level and test-Makefile to simply
1568 building test-packages for Arch.
1569 + modify configure script to avoid conflict with a non-POSIX feature
1570 that enables all parts of the system headers by default. Some
1571 packagers have come to rely upon this behavior (FreeBSD #234049).
1572 + update config.guess, config.sub
1575 + improve man/curs_mouse.3x with regard to xterm
1576 + modify tracemunch to accept filename parameters in addition to use
1578 + minor optimization to reduce calls to _nc_reserve_pairs (prompted by
1579 discussion with Bryan Christ).
1580 + add test/pair_content.c and test/color_content.c
1581 + modify infocmp to omit filtering of "OTxx" names which are used for
1582 obsolete capabilities, when the output is sorted by long-names.
1583 Doing this helps when making a table of the short/long capability
1587 + several fixes for gcc8 strict compiler warnings.
1588 + fix a typo in comments (Aaron Gyes).
1589 + add nsterm-build309 to replace nsterm-256color, assigning the latter
1590 as an alias of nsterm, to make mouse work with nsterm-256color -TD
1591 + base gnome-256color entry on "gnome", not "vte", for consistency -TD
1592 + updates for configure macros from work on tin and xterm:
1593 + CF_GNU_SOURCE, allow for Cygwin's newlib when checking for the
1594 _DEFAULT_SOURCE symbol.
1595 + CF_VA_COPY, add fallback check if neither va_copy/__va_copy is
1596 supported, to try copying the pointers for va_list, or as an array.
1597 Also add another fallback check, for __builtin_va_copy(), which
1598 could be used with AIX xlc in c89 mode.
1601 + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to improve compatibility with SVr4
1602 curses, changing the way the window rendition is updated when the
1603 background character is modified (report by Valery Ushakov).
1606 + add midnightbsd to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro (patch by Urs Jansen).
1607 + add "@" command to test/ncurses F-test, to allow rapid jump to
1608 different character pages.
1609 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1610 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1613 + build-fix (reports by Chih-Hsuan Yen, Sven Joachim).
1616 + check --with-fallbacks option to ensure there is a value, and add
1617 the fallback information to top-level Makefile summary.
1618 + add some traces in initialization to show whether a fallback entry is
1620 + build-fix for test/movewindow with ncurses-examples on Solaris.
1621 + add "-l" option to test/background, to dump screen contents in a form
1622 that lets different curses implementations be compared.
1623 + modify the initialization checks for mouse so that the xterm+sm+1006
1624 block will work with terminal descriptions not mentioning xterm
1625 (report by Tomas Janousek).
1628 + ignore the hex/b64 $TERMINFO in toe's listing.
1629 + correct a status-check in _nc_read_tic_entry() so that if reading
1630 a hex/b64 $TERMINFO, and the $TERM does not match, fall-through to
1631 the compiled-in search list.
1634 + several workarounds to ensure proper C compiler used in parts of
1636 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1637 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1640 + add OpenGL clients alacritty and kitty -TD
1641 + add Smulx for tmux, vte-2018 -Nicholas Marriott
1644 + ignore $TERMINFO as a default value in configure script if it came
1645 from the infocmp -Q option.
1646 + allow value for --with-versioned-syms to be a relative pathname
1647 + add a couple of broken-linker symbols to the list of versioned
1648 symbols to help with link-time optimization versus weak symbols.
1649 + apply shift/control/alt logic when decoding xterm's 1006 mode to
1650 wheel-mouse events (Redhat #1610681).
1653 + amend change from 20180818, which undid a fix for the $INSTALL value
1654 to make it an absolute path.
1657 + improve a configure check to work with newer optimizers (report by
1658 Denis Pronin, Gentoo #606142).
1659 + fix typo in tput.c (Sven Joachim, cf: 20180825).
1662 + fix typo in tvi955 -TD
1663 + corrected acsc for regent60 -TD
1664 + add alias n7900 -TD
1665 + corrected acsc for tvi950 -TD
1666 + remove bogus kf0 from tvi950 -TD
1667 + added function-key definitions to agree with Televideo 950 manual -TD
1668 + add bel to tvi950 -TD
1669 + add shifted function-keys to regent60 -TD
1670 + renumber regent40 function-keys to match manual -TD
1671 + add cd (clr_eos) to adds200 -TD
1674 + build-fix: remove a _tracef call which was used for debugging (report
1678 + ignore interrupted system-call in test/ncurses's command-line, e.g.,
1679 if the terminal were resized.
1680 + add shift/control/alt logic for decoding xterm's 1006 mode (Redhat
1681 #1610681, cf: 20141011).
1682 + modify rpm test-packages to not use --disable-relink with Redhat,
1683 since Fedora 28's tools do not work with that feature.
1686 + document --with-pcre2 configure option in INSTALL.
1687 + improve workaround for special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is
1688 marked as alternate-character set, to handle a case where the
1689 character in the cell does not correspond to any of the ASCII
1690 fallbacks (report by Leon Winter, cf: 20180505).
1691 + amend change to form library which attempted to avoid unnecessary
1692 update of cursor position in non-public fields, to simply disable
1693 output in this case (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20180414).
1694 + improve check for LINE_MAX runtime limit, to accommodate broken
1695 implementations of sysconf().
1698 + improve manual page for wgetnstr, giving background for the length
1700 + define a limit for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr when length is negative or
1702 + update configure script to autoconf 2.52.20180819 (Debian #887390).
1705 + add a section to tput manual page clarifying how it determines the
1706 terminal size (prompted by discussion with Grant Jenks).
1707 + add "--disable-relink" to rpm test-packages, for consistency with the
1709 + split spec-file into ncurses6.spec and ncursest6.spec to work around
1710 toolset breakage in Fedora 28.
1711 + drop mention of "--disable-touching", which was not in the final
1715 + build-fix for PDCurses with ncurses-examples.
1716 + improved CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS.
1717 + modify configure scripts to reduce relinking/ranlib during library
1718 install (Debian #903790):
1719 + use "install -p" when available, to avoid need for ranlib of
1721 + modify scripts which use "--disable-relink" to add a 1-second
1722 sleep to work around tools which use whole-second timestamps, e.g.,
1723 in utime() rather than the actual file system resolution.
1726 + improve logic for clear with E3 extension, in case the terminal
1727 scrolls content onto its saved-lines before actually clearing
1728 the display, by clearing the saved-lines after clearing the
1729 display (report/patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1732 + improve documentation regarding feature-test macros in curses.h
1733 + improve documentation regarding the virtual and physical screens.
1734 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
1737 + build-fixes for gcc8.
1738 + corrected acsc for wy50 -TD
1739 + add wy50 and wy60 shifted function-keys as kF1 to kF16 -TD
1740 + remove ansi+rep mis-added to interix in 2018-02-23 -TD
1743 + add enum, regex examples to test/demo_forms
1744 + add configure check for pcre-posix library to help with MinGW port.
1747 + build-fixes for gcc8.
1748 + correct order of WINDOW._ttytype versus WINDOW._windowlist in
1750 + fix a case where tiparm could return null if the format-string was
1751 empty (Debian #902630).
1754 + add acsc string to vi200 (Nibby Nebbulous)
1755 add right/down-arrow to vi200's acsc -TD
1756 + add "x" to tput's getopt string so that "tput -x clear" works
1757 (Nicholas Marriott).
1758 + minor fixes prompted by anonymous report on stack overflow:
1759 + correct order of checks in _nc_get_locale(), for systems lacking
1761 + add "#error" in a few places to flag unsupported configurations
1764 + use _WIN32/_WIN64 in preference to __MINGW32__/__MINGW64__ symbols
1765 to simplify building with MSVC, since the former are defined in both
1766 compiler configurations (report by Ali Abdulkadir).
1767 + further improvements to configure-checks from work on dialog, i.e.,
1768 updated CF_ADD_INCDIR, CF_FIND_LINKAGE, CF_GCC_WARNINGS,
1769 CF_GNU_SOURCE, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE, CF_SIZECHANGE, and
1770 CF_TRY_XOPEN_SOURCE.
1771 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1772 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1775 + build-fix for ncurses-examples related to gcc8-fixes (cf: 20180526).
1776 + reduce use of _GNU_SOURCE for current glibc where _DEFAULT_SOURCE
1777 combines with _XOPEN_SOURCE (Debian #900987).
1778 + change target configure level for _XOPEN_SOURCE to 600 to address
1779 use of vsscanf and setenv.
1780 + improved configure-checks CF_SIZECHANGE and CF_STRUCT_TERMIOS from
1784 + modify generated ncurses*config and ncurses.pc, ncursesw.pc, etc.,
1785 to list helper libraries such as gpm for static linking (Debian
1787 + marked vwprintw and vwscanw as deprecated; recommend using vw_printw
1788 and vw_scanw, respectively.
1791 + add RPM test-package "ncursest-examples".
1792 + modified RPM test-package to work with Mageia6.
1795 + add note in curs_util.3x about unctrl.h
1796 + review/improve header files to ensure that those include necessary
1797 files except for the previously-documented cases (report by Isaac
1799 + improved test-package scripts, adapted from byacc 1.9 20180525.
1800 + fix some gcc8 warnings seen in Redhat package build, but
1801 work around bug in gcc8 compiler warnings in comp_parse.c
1804 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
1805 + trim spurious whitespace from tmux in 2018-02-24 changes;
1806 fix some inconsistencies in/between tmux- and iterm2-entries for SGR
1807 (report by C Anthony Risinger)
1808 + improve iterm2 using some xterm features which it has adapted -TD
1809 + add check in pair_content() to handle the case where caller asks
1810 for an uninitialized pair (Debian #898658).
1813 + remove trailing ';' from GCC_DEPRECATED definition.
1814 + repair a change from 20110730 which left an error-check/warning dead.
1815 + fix several minor Coverity warnings.
1818 + add deprecation warnings for internal functions called by older
1820 + fix a special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is marked as
1821 alternate-character set, but the terminal does not actually support
1822 the given graphic character. This would happen in an older terminal
1823 such as vt52, which lacks most line-drawing capability.
1824 + use configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
1825 conflict with Debian packages versus test-packages.
1826 + update tracemunch to work with perl 5.26.2, which changed the rules
1827 for escaping regular expressions.
1830 + document new form-extension O_EDGE_INSERT_STAY (report by Leon
1832 + correct error-returns listed in manual pages for a few form functions
1833 (report by Leon Winter).
1834 + add a check in form-library for null-pointer dereference:
1835 unfocus_current_field (form);
1836 form_driver (form, REQ_VALIDATION);
1837 (patch by Leon Winter).
1840 + modify form library to optionally delay cursor movement on a field
1841 edge/boundary (patch by Leon Winter).
1842 + modify form library to avoid unnecessary update of cursor position in
1843 non-public fields (patch by Leon Winter).
1844 + remove unused _nc_import_termtype2() function.
1845 + also add/improve null-pointer checks in other places
1846 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_parse_entry to handle an error when
1847 a use-name is invalid syntax (report by Chung-Yi Lin).
1850 + clarify in manual pages that vwprintw and vwscanw are obsolete,
1851 not part of X/Open Curses since 2007.
1852 + use "const" in some prototypes rather than NCURSES_CONST where X/Open
1853 Curses was updated to do this, e.g., wscanw, newterm, the terminfo
1854 interface. Also use "const" for consistency in the termcap
1855 interface, which was withdrawn by X/Open Curses in Issue 5 (2007).
1856 As of Issue 7, X/Open Curses still lacks "const" for certain return
1857 values, e.g., keyname().
1860 + improve terminfo write/read by modifying the fourth item of the
1861 extended header to denote the number of valid strings in the extended
1862 string table (prompted by a comment in unibilium's sources).
1865 + amend Scaled256() macro in test/picsmap.c to cover the full range
1866 0..1000 (report by Roger Pau Monne).
1867 + add some checks in tracemunch for undefined variables.
1868 + trim some redundant capabilities from st-0.7 -TD
1869 + trim unnecessary setf/setb from interix -TD
1872 + fix a check in infotocap which may not have detected a problem when
1874 + add a check in tic for the case where setf/setb are given using
1875 different strings, but provide identical results to setaf/setab.
1876 + further improve fix for terminfo.5 (patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
1877 + reorder loop-limit checks in winsnstr() in case the string has no
1878 terminating null and only the number of characters is used (patch
1882 + modify TurnOn/TurnOff macros in lib_vidattr.c and lib_vid_attr.c to
1883 avoid expansion of "CUR" in trace.
1884 + improve a few lintian warnings in test-packages.
1885 + modify lib_setup to avoid calling pthread_self() without first
1886 verifying that the address is valid, i.e., for weak symbols
1887 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
1888 + modify generated terminfo.5 to not use "expand" and related width
1889 on the last column of tables, making layout on wide terminals look
1890 better (adapted from patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
1891 + add a category to report_offsets, e.g., "w" for wide-character, "t"
1892 for threads to make the report more readable. Reorganized the
1893 structures reported to make the categories more apparent.
1894 + simplify some ifdef's for extended-colors.
1895 + add NCURSES_GLOBALS and NCURSES_PRESCREEN to report_offsets, to show
1896 how similar the different tinfo configurations are.
1899 + modify _nc_resolve_uses2() to detect incompatible types when merging
1900 a "use=" clause of extended capabilities. The problem was seen in a
1901 defective terminfo integrated from simpleterm sources in 20171111,
1902 compounded by repair in 20180121.
1903 + correct Ss/Ms interchange in st-0.7 entry (tmux #1264) -TD
1904 + fix remaining flash capabilities with trailing mandatory delays -TD
1905 + correct cut/paste in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
1908 + remove incorrect free() from 20170617 changes (report by David Macek).
1909 + correct type for "U8" in user_caps.5; it is a number not boolean.
1910 + add a null-pointer check in safe_sprintf.c (report by Steven Noonan).
1911 + improve fix for Debian #882620 by reusing limit2 variable (report by
1912 Julien Cristau, Sven Joachim).
1915 + modify misc/Makefile.in to install/uninstall explicit list in case
1916 the build-directory happens to have no ".pc" files when an uninstall
1917 is performed (report by Jeffrey Walton).
1918 + deprecate safe-sprintf, since the vsnprintf function, which does what
1919 was needed, was standardized long ago.
1920 + add several development/experimental options to development packages.
1921 + minor reordering of options in configure script to make the threaded
1922 and reentrant options distinct from the other extensions which are
1926 + minor fixes to test/*.h to make them idempotent.
1927 + add/use test/parse_rgb.h to show how the "RGB" capability works.
1928 + add a clarification in user_caps.5 regarding "RGB" capability.
1929 + add extended_slk_color{,_sp} symbols to the appropriate
1930 package/*.{map,sym} files (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20170401).
1933 + update "VERSION" file, used in shared-library naming.
1935 20180127 6.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1938 + updated release notes
1939 + amend a warning message from tic which should have flagged misuse
1940 of "XT" capability in "screen" terminal description.
1942 + trim "XT" from screen entry, add comments to explain why it was
1944 + modify iterm to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
1945 + mark konsole-420pc, konsole-vt100, konsole-xf3x obsolete reflecting
1946 konsole's removal in 2008 -TD
1947 + expanded the history section of konsole to explain its flawed
1948 imitation of xterm's keyboard -TD
1949 + use xterm+x11mouse in screen.* entries because screen does not yet
1950 support xterm's 1006 mode -TD
1951 + add nsterm-build400 for macOS 10.13 -TD
1952 + add ansi+idc1, use that in ansi+idc adding dch for consistency -TD
1953 + update vte to vte-2017 -TD
1954 + add ecma+strikeout to vte-2017 -TD
1955 + add iterm2-direct -TD
1956 + updated teraterm, added teraterm-256color -TD
1957 + add mlterm-direct -TD
1958 + add descriptions for ANSI building-blocks -TD
1960 20180121 pre-release
1962 + add xterm+noalt, xterm+titlestack, xterm+alt1049, xterm+alt+title
1963 blocks from xterm #331 -TD
1964 + add xterm+direct, xterm+indirect, xterm-direct entries from xterm
1966 + modify xterm+256color and xterm+256setaf to use correct number of
1967 color pairs, for ncurses 6.1 -TD
1968 + add rs1 capability to xterm-256color -TD
1969 + modify xterm-r5, xterm-r6 and xterm-xf86-v32 to use xterm+kbs to
1970 match xterm #272, reflecting packager's changes -TD
1971 + remove "boolean" Se, Ss from st-0.7 -TD
1972 + add konsole-direct and st-direct -TD
1973 + remove unsupported "Tc" capability from st-0.7; use st-direct if
1974 direct-colors are wanted -TD
1975 + add vte-direct -TD
1976 + add XT, hpa, indn, and vpa to screen, and invis, E3 to tmux (patch by
1978 + use xterm+sm+1006 in xterm-new, vte-2014 -TD
1979 + use xterm+x11mouse in iterm, iterm2, mlterm3 because xterm's 1006
1980 mode does not work with those programs. konsole is debatable -TD
1981 + add "termite" entry (report by Markus Pfeiffer) -TD
1982 > merge branch begun April 2, 2017 which provides these features:
1983 + support read/write new binary-format for terminfo which stores
1984 numeric capabilities as a signed 32-bit integer. The test programs
1985 such as picsmap, ncurses were created or updated during 2017 to use
1987 + the new format is written by the wide-character configuration of
1988 tic when it finds a numeric capability larger than 32767.
1989 + other applications such as infocmp built with the wide-character
1990 ncurses library work as expected.
1991 + applications built with the "narrow" (8-bit) configuration will
1992 read the new format, but will limit those extended values to 32767.
1993 + in either wide/narrow configuration, the structure defined in
1994 term.h still uses signed 16-bit values.
1995 + because it is incompatible with the legacy (mid-1980s) binary format,
1996 a new magic value is provided for the "file" program.
1997 + the term.5 manual page is updated to describe this new format.
1998 + the limit on file-size for compiled terminfo is increased in the
1999 wide-character configuration to 32768.
2002 + build-fix in picsmap.c for stdint.h existence.
2003 + add --disable-stripping option to configure scripts.
2004 + modify ncurses-examples to install test-scripts in the data directory.
2005 + work around tool-breakage in Debian 9 and later by invoking
2006 gprconfig to specify the C compiler to be used by gnatmake,
2007 and conditionally suppressing Library_Options line for static
2009 + bump the compat level for test-packages to 7, i.e., Debian 5.
2012 + fixes for writing extended color pairs in putwin.
2013 + modify test/savescreen.c to add test patterns that exercise 88-,
2015 + modify configure option --with-build-cc, adding clang, c89 and c99
2016 as possible default values.
2017 + modify ncurses-examples configure script to use pkg-config for the
2018 extra form/menu/panel libraries, to be more consistent with the
2019 handling of the curses/ncurses library.
2020 + modify test-packages for mingw to supply "pc" files.
2021 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to list -lpthread as a private library when
2022 configured to access it via weak symbols.
2023 + simplify gen-pkgconfig.in, adding -ltinfo without the special linker
2024 checks because some versions of the linker simply hard-code the
2026 + update URLs for ncurses website to use https.
2027 + modify CF_CURSES_LIBS to fill in $cf_nculib_root in case the
2028 ncurses-examples are built with a system ncurses that lacks the
2029 standard "curses" symbolic link, as done by SuSE. The symbol is
2030 needed to make a followup check for the pthread library work, and
2031 would be set properly using the options "--with-screen", etc.
2032 + generate misc/*.pc with "all" rule, as done for "sources" rule
2033 (report by Jeffrey Walton).
2036 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with Fedora27, adding check for
2037 reset_color_pairs() -- not yet in Fedora's package.
2038 + consistently add $CFLAGS to $MK_SHARED_LIB symbol in configure
2039 script when the latter happens to use the C compiler rather than
2040 directly using the loader (report by Jeffrey Walton).
2041 + set ABI for upcoming 6.1 release in "*.map" files. While there are
2042 some remaining internals to apply, no ABI-related changes are
2044 + add configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
2045 conflict with Redhat packages versus test-packages.
2048 + modify ncurses-examples to quiet const-warnings when building with
2050 + modify toe to not exit if unable to read a terminal description,
2051 e.g., if there is a permission problem.
2052 + minor fix for progs/toe.c, using _nc_free_termtype2.
2053 + assign 0 to pointer in _nc_tgetent_leak() after freeing it. Also
2054 avoid reusing pointer from previous successful call to tgetent
2055 if the latest call is unsuccessful (patch by Michael Schroeder,
2057 + minor fix for test/tracemunch, initialize $awaiting variable.
2060 + repair template in test/package/ncurses-examples.spec (cf: 20171111).
2061 + improve tic's warning about the number of parameters tparm might use
2062 for u1-u9 by making a special case for u6.
2063 + improve curs_attr.3x discussion of color pairs.
2066 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to make output with --includedir
2067 consistent with --cflags, i.e., when --disable-overwrite option was
2068 configured the output should show the subdirectory where headers
2070 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to suppress macros when calling an "implemented"
2071 function in link_test.c
2072 + updated ftp-url used in test-packages, etc.
2073 + modify order of -pie/-shared options in configure script in case
2074 LDFLAGS uses "-pie", working around a defect or limitation in the GNU
2075 linker (prompted by patch by Yogesh Prasad, forwarded by Jay Shah).
2076 + add entry in man_db.renames for user_caps.5
2079 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid tracing result from getstr/getnstr
2081 + add "-a" aspect-ratio option to picsmap.
2082 + add configure check for default path of rgb.txt, used in picsmap.
2083 + modify _nc_write_entry() to truncate too-long filename (report by
2084 Hosein Askari, Debian #882620).
2085 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses:
2086 + it lacks the use_env() function.
2087 + it lacks libpanel; a recent change used the wrong ifdef symbol.
2088 + add a macro for is_linetouched() and adjust the function's return
2089 value to make it possible for most applications to check for an
2090 error-return (report by Midolikawa H).
2091 + additional manpage cleanup.
2092 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2093 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2096 + add a note to curs_addch.3x on portability.
2097 + add a note to curs_pad.3x on the origin and portability of pads.
2098 + improve manpage description of getattrs (report by Midolikawa H).
2099 + improve manpage macros (prompted by discussion in Debian #880551.
2100 + reviewed test-programs using KEY_RESIZE, made fixes to test/worm.c
2101 + add a "-d" option to picsmap for default-colors.
2102 + modify old terminology entry and a few other terminal emulators to
2104 + correct sgr string for tmux, which used screen's "standout" code
2105 rather than the standard code (patch by Roman Kagan)
2106 + correct sgr/sgr0 strings in a few other cases reported by tic, making
2107 those correspond to the non-sgr settings where they differ, but
2108 otherwise use ECMA-48 consistently:
2109 jaixterm, aixterm, att5420_2, att4424, att500, decansi, d410-7b,
2110 dm80, hpterm, emu-220, hp2, iTerm2.app, mterm-ansi, ncrvt100an,
2111 st-0.7, vi603, vwmterm -TD
2112 + build-fix for diagnostics warning in lib_mouse.c for pre-5.0 versions
2113 of gcc which did not recognize the diagnostic "push" pragma (patch by
2117 + add "op" to xterm+256setaf -TD
2118 + reviewed terminology 1.0.0 -TD
2119 + reviewed st 0.7 -TD
2120 + suppress debug-package for ncurses-examples rpm build.
2123 + check for interrupt in color-pair initialization of dots_curses.c,
2125 + add z/Z zoom feature to test/ncurses.c C/c screens.
2126 + add '<' and '>' commands to test/ncurses.c S/s screens, to better
2127 test off-by-ones in the overlap/copywin functions.
2130 + improve man/curs_inwstr.3x, correct end-logic for lib_inwstr.c
2131 (report by Midolikawa H).
2132 + fix typo in a few places for "improvements" (patch by Sven Joachim).
2133 + clear the other half of a double-width character on which a line
2134 drawing character is drawn.
2135 + make test/ncurses.c "s" test easier to understand which subtests are
2136 available; add a "S" wide-character overlap test-screen.
2137 + modify test/ncurses.c C/c tests to allow for extended color pairs.
2138 + add endwin() call in error-returns from test/ncurses.c omitted in
2139 recent redesign of its menu (cf: 20170923).
2140 + improve install of hashed-db by removing the ".db" file as done for
2141 directory-tree terminal databases.
2142 + repair a few overlooked items in include/ncurses_defs from recent
2143 port/refactoring of test-programs (cf: 20170909).
2144 + add test/padview.c, to compare pads with direct updates in view.c
2147 + modify test/view.c to expand tabs using the ncurses library rather
2148 than in the test-program.
2149 + remove very old SIGWINCH example in test/view.c, just use KEY_RESIZE.
2150 + add -T, -e, -f -m options to "dots" test-programs.
2151 + fix a few typos in usage-messages for test-programs.
2154 + minor cleanup to test/view.c:
2155 + eliminate "-n" option by simply reading the whole file.
2156 + implement page up/down commands.
2157 + add check in tput for init/reset operands to ensure those use a
2159 + improve manual pages which discuss chtype, cchar_t types and the
2160 attribute values which can be stored in those types.
2161 + correct array-index when parsing "-T" command-line option in tabs
2163 + modify demo_new_pair.c to pass extended pairs to setcchar().
2164 + add test/dots_xcurses.c to illustrate a different approach used for
2165 extended colors which can be contrasted with dots_curses.c.
2166 + add a check in tic to note when a description uses non-mandatory
2167 delays without xon_xoff. This is not an error, but some descriptions
2168 for a terminal emulator may use the combination incorrectly.
2171 + modify "-T" option of clear and tput to call use_tioctl() to obtain
2172 the operating system's notion of the screensize if possible.
2173 + review/repair some exit-codes for tput, making usage-message exit
2174 with 2 rather than 1, and a failure to open terminal 4+errno.
2175 + amend check in tput, tabs and clear to allow those to use the
2176 database-only features in cron if a -T option gives a suitable
2177 terminal name (report by Lauri Tirkkonen).
2178 + correct an ifdef in test/ncurses.c for systems with soft-keys but
2180 + regenerate man-html documentation.
2183 + fix a symbol conflict that made ncurses.c C/c menu not work with
2184 Solaris xpg4 curses.
2185 + add refresh() call to dots_mvcur.c, needed to use mvcur() with
2186 Solaris xpg4 curses after calling newterm().
2187 + minor fixes for configure script from work on ncurses-examples and
2189 + improve animation in test/xmas.c by adding a time-delay in blinkit().
2190 + modify several test programs to reflect that ncurses honors existing
2191 signal handlers in initscr(), while other implementations do not.
2192 + modify bs.c to make it easier to quit.
2193 + change ncurses-examples to use attr_t vs chtype to follow X/Open
2194 documentation more closely since Solaris xpg4-curses uses different
2195 values for WA_xxx vs A_xxx that rely on attr_t being an unsigned
2196 short. Tru64 aka OSF1, HPUX, AIX did as ncurses does, equating the
2200 + modify menu for test/ncurses.c to fit on 24-line screen.
2201 + build-fix for configure --with-caps=uwin
2202 + add options to test_arrays.c, for selecting termcap vs terminfo, etc.
2205 + minor fix to test/filter.c to avoid clearing the command in one case.
2206 + modify filter() to discard clr_eos if back_color_erase is set.
2209 + improve wide-character implementation of myADDNSTR() in frm_driver.c,
2210 which was inconsistent with the normal implementation.
2211 + save/restore cursor position in Undo_Justification(), matching
2212 behavior of Buffer_To_Window() (report by Leon Winter).
2213 + modify test/knight to provide the "slow" solution for small screens
2214 using "R", noting that Warnsdorf's method is easily done with "a".
2215 + modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to
2216 consistently do this only if "-d" option is given.
2217 + additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses:
2218 + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absence of limit
2219 checks in some libraries.
2220 + fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does
2221 not return ERR on the lower-right corner.
2222 + add checks in test/configure for some functions not in 4.3BSD curses.
2223 + fix a regression in test/configure (cf: 20170826).
2226 + amend change for endwin-state for better consistency with the older
2227 logic (report/patch by Jeb Rosen, cf: 20170722).
2228 + modify check in fmt_entry() to handle a cancelled reset string
2229 (Debian #873746). Make similar fixes in other parts of dump_entry.c
2233 + fix a bug in repeat_char logic (cf: 20170729, report by Chris Clayton).
2236 + fixes for "iterm2" (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
2237 + corrected a warning from tic about keys which are the same, to skip
2238 over missing/cancelled values.
2239 + add check in tic for unnecessary use of "2" to denote a shifted
2241 + improve checks in trim_sgr0, comp_parse.c and parse_entry.c, for
2242 cancelled string capabilities.
2243 + add check in _nc_parse_entry() for invalid entry name, setting the
2244 name to "invalid" to avoid problems storing entries.
2245 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
2246 + add a check in comp_scan.c to handle the special case where a
2247 nontext file ending with a NUL rather than newline is given to tic
2248 as input (Redhat #1484274).
2249 + allow for cancelled capabilities in _nc_save_str (Redhat #1484276).
2250 + add validity checks for "use=" target in _nc_parse_entry (Redhat
2252 + check for invalid strings in postprocess_termcap (Redhat #1484285)
2253 + reset secondary pointers on EOF in next_char() (Redhat #1484287).
2254 + guard _nc_safe_strcpy() and _nc_safe_strcat() against calls using
2255 cancelled strings (Redhat #1484291).
2256 + correct typo in curs_memleaks.3x (Sven Joachim).
2257 + improve test/configure checks for some curses variants not based on
2259 + add options for test/configure to disable checks for form, menu and
2263 + update "iterm" entry -TD
2264 + add "iterm2" entry (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
2265 + regenerate llib-* files.
2266 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2267 + improve picsmap test-program:
2268 + reduce memory used for tsearch
2269 + add report in log file showing cumulative color coverage.
2270 + add -x option to clear/tput to make the E3 extension optional
2272 + add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput.
2273 + add usage message to clear command (Debian #371855).
2274 + improve usage messages for tset and tput.
2275 + minor fixes to "RGB" extension and reset_color_pairs().
2278 + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by
2280 + add reset_color_pairs() function.
2281 + add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used
2283 + improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure
2284 script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack.
2285 + modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in
2286 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
2287 + improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(),
2288 color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters.
2289 + minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the
2290 current screen is marked for clearing.
2291 + in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for
2292 loading image files.
2293 + modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow
2294 on demand up to the existing limit.
2295 + add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to
2296 improve color_content().
2297 + improve picsmap test-program:
2298 + if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM,
2299 checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat"
2300 suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g.,
2301 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
2302 + add "-l" option for logging
2303 + add "-d" option for debugging
2304 + add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images,
2306 + use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images.
2307 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2308 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2311 + update interix entry using tack and SFU on Windows 7 Ultimate -TD
2312 + use ^? for kdch1 in interix (reported by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard)
2313 + add "rep" to xterm-new, available since 1997/01/26 -TD
2314 + move SGR 24 and 27 from vte-2014 to vte-2012 (request by Alain
2316 + add a check in newline_forces_scroll() in case a program moves the
2317 cursor outside scrolling margins (report by Robert King).
2318 + improve _nc_tparm_analyze, using that to extend the checks made by
2319 tic for reporting inconsistencies between the expected number of
2320 parameters for a capability and the actual.
2321 + amend handling of repeat_char capability in EmitRange (adapted from
2322 report/patch by Dick Wesseling):
2323 + translate the character to the alternate character set when the
2324 alternate character set is enabled.
2325 + do not use repeat_char for characters past 255.
2326 + document "_nc_free_tinfo" in manual page, because it could be used in
2327 tack for memory-leak checking.
2328 + add "--without-tack" configure option to refine "--with-progs"
2329 configure option. Normally tack is no longer built in-tree, but
2330 a few packagers combine it during the build. If term_entry.h is
2331 installed, there is no advantage to in-tree builds.
2332 + adjust configure-script to define HAVE_CURSES_DATA_BOOLNAMES symbol
2333 needed for tack 1.08 when built in-tree. Rather than relying upon
2334 internal "_nc_" functions, tack now uses the boolean, number and
2335 string capability name-arrays provided by ncurses and SVr4 Unix
2336 curses. It still uses term_entry.h for the definitions of the
2337 extended capability arrays.
2338 + add an overlooked null-pointer check in mvcur changes from 20170722
2341 + improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian
2342 + modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where
2343 the screen was never initialized, using that to trigger a flush of
2344 ncurses' buffer for mvcur, e.g., in test/dots_mvcur.c for the
2345 term-driver configuration.
2346 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to a few other internal header
2347 files to allow each to be compiled separately.
2348 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program
2349 using tic-library will have to supply this file. Legacy tack
2350 versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the
2351 dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected.
2354 + modify command-line parameters for "convert" used in picsmap to work
2355 with ImageMagick 6.8 and newer.
2356 + fix build-problem with tack and ABI-5 (Debian #868328).
2357 + repair termcap-format from tic/infocmp broken in 20170701 fixes
2359 + reformat terminfo.src with 20170513 updates.
2360 + improve test-packages to address lintian warnings.
2363 + add a note to tic manual page about -W versus -f options.
2364 + correct a limit-check in fixes from 20170701 (report by Sven Joachim).
2367 + modify update_getenv() in db_iterator.c to ensure that environment
2368 variables which are not initially set will be checked later if an
2369 application happens to set them (patch by Guillaume Maudoux).
2370 + remove initialization-check for calling napms() in the term-driver
2371 configuration; none is needed.
2372 + add help-screen to test/test_getstr.c and test/test_get_wstr.c
2373 + improve compatibility between different configurations of new_prescr,
2374 fixing a case with threaded code and term-driver where c++/demo did
2375 not work (cf: 20160213).
2376 + the fixes for Redhat #1464685 obscured a problem subsequently
2377 reported in Redhat #1464687; the given test-case was no longer
2378 reproducible. Testing without the fixes for the earlier reports
2379 showed a problem with buffer overflow in dump_entry.c, which is
2380 addressed by reducing the use of a fixed-size buffer.
2381 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
2382 (Redhat #1464684, #1464685, #1464686, #1464691).
2383 + alloc_entry.c, add a check for a null-pointer.
2384 + parse_entry.c, add several checks for valid pointers as well as
2385 one check to ensure that a single character on a line is not
2386 treated as the 2-character termcap short-name.
2387 + fix a memory leak in delscreen() (report by Bai Junq).
2388 + improve tracemunch, showing thread identifiers as names.
2389 + fix a use-after-free in NCursesMenu::~NCursesMenu()
2390 + further amend incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
2391 (report by Allen Hewes).
2394 + modify c++/etip.h.in to accommodate deprecation of throw() and
2395 throws() in c++17 (prompted by patch by Romain Geissler).
2396 + remove some incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
2397 (report by Allen Hewes).
2398 + add test-programs for termattrs and term_attrs.
2399 + modify _nc_outc_wrapper to use the standard output if the screen was
2400 not initialized, rather than returning an error.
2401 + improve checks for low-level terminfo functions when the terminal
2402 has not been initialized (Redhat #1345963).
2403 + modify make_hash to allow building with address-sanitizer,
2404 assuming that --disable-leaks is configured.
2405 + amend changes for number_format() in 20170506 to avoid undefined
2406 behavior when shifting (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta).
2409 + fill in some places where TERMTYPE2 vs TERMTYPE was not used
2410 (report by Allen Hewes).
2411 + use ExitTerminfo() internally in error-exits for ncurses' setupterm
2412 to help with leak checking.
2413 + use ExitProgram() in error-exit from initscr() to help with leak
2415 + review test-programs, adding checks for cases where the terminal
2416 cannot be initialized.
2419 + add option "-xp" to picsmap.c, to use init_extended_pair().
2420 + make simple performance fixes for picsmap.c
2421 + improve aspect ratio of images read from "convert" in picsmap.c
2424 + add option to picsmap to use color-palette files, e.g., for mapping
2426 + move the data in SCREEN used for the alloc_pair() function to the
2427 end, to restore compatibility between ncurses/ncursesw libtinfo
2428 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2429 + add build-time utility "report_offsets" to help show when the various
2430 configurations of tinfo library are compatible or not.
2433 + improved test/picsmap.c:
2434 + lookup named colors for xpm files in rgb.txt
2435 + accept blanks in color-keys for xpm files.
2436 + if neither xbm/xpm work, try "convert", which may be available.
2439 + modify test/picsmap.c to read xpm files.
2440 + modify package/debian/* to create documentation packages, so the
2441 related files can be checked with lintian.
2442 + fix some typos in manpages (report/patch by Sven Joachim).
2445 + add test/picsmap.c to fill in some testing issues not met by dots.
2446 The initial version reads X bitmap (".xbm") files.
2447 + repair logic which forces a repaint where a color-pair's content is
2448 changed (cf: 20170311).
2449 + improve tracemunch, showing screenXX pointers as names.
2452 + modify tic/infocmp display of numeric values to use hexadecimal when
2453 they are "close" to a power of two, making the result more readable.
2454 + improve discussion of portability in curs_mouse.3x
2455 + change line-length for generated html/manpages to 78 columns from 65.
2456 + improve discussion of line-drawing characters in curs_add_wch.3x
2457 (prompted by discussion with Lorinczy Zsigmond).
2458 + cleanup formatting of hackguide.html and ncurses-intro.html
2459 + add examples for WACS_D_PLUS and WACS_T_PLUS to test/ncurses.c
2462 + corrected a case where $with_gpm was set to "maybe" after CF_WITH_GPM,
2463 overlooked in 20160528 fixes (report by Alexandre Bury).
2464 + improve a couple of test-program's help-messages.
2465 + corrected loop in rain.c from 20170415 changes.
2466 + modify winnstr and winchnstr to return error if the output pointer is
2467 null, as well as adding a null pointer check of the window pointer
2468 for better compatibility with other implementations.
2469 + improve discussion of NetBSD curses in scr_dump.5
2470 + modify LIMIT_TYPED macro in new_pair.h to avoid changing sign of the
2471 value to be limited (reports by Darby Payne, Rob Boudreau).
2472 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2473 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2476 + build-fix for termcap-configuration (report by Chi-Hsuan Yen).
2477 + improve terminfo manual page discussion of control- and graphics-
2479 + remove tic warning about "^?" in string capabilities, which was
2480 marked as an extension (cf: 20000610, 20110820); however all Unix
2481 implementations support this and X/Open Curses does not address it.
2482 On the other hand, termcap never did support this feature.
2483 + correct missing comma-separator between string capabilities in
2484 icl6402 and m2-nam -TD
2485 + restore rmir/smir in ansi+idc to better match original ansiterm+idc,
2486 add alias ansiterm (report by Robert King).
2487 + amend an old check for ambiguous use of "ma" in terminfo versus
2488 a termcap use, if the capability is cancelled to treat it as number.
2489 + correct a case in _nc_captoinfo() which read "%%" and emitted "%".
2490 + modify sscanf calls in _nc_infotocap() for patterns "%{number}%+%c"
2491 and "%'char'%+%c" to check that the final character is really 'c',
2492 avoiding a case in icl6404 which cannot be converted to termcap.
2493 + in _nc_infotocap(), add a check to ensure that terminfo "^?" is not
2494 written to termcap, because the BSDs did not implement that.
2495 + in _nc_tic_expand() and _nc_infotocap(), improve string-length check
2496 when deciding whether to use "^X" or "\xxx" format for control
2497 characters, to make the output of tic/infocmp more predictable.
2498 + limit termcap "%d" width to 2 digits on input, and use "%2" in
2499 preference to "%02" on output.
2500 + correct terminfo/termcap conversion of "%02" and "%03" into "%2" and
2501 "%3"; the result repeated the last character.
2502 + add man/scr_dump.5 to document screen-dump format.
2505 + modify several test programs to use new popup_msgs, adapted from
2506 help-screen used in test/edit_field.c
2507 + drop two symbols obsoleted in 2004: _nc_check_termtype, and
2509 + fix some old copyright dates (cf: 20031025).
2510 + build-fixes for test/savescreen.c to work with AIX and HPUX.
2511 + minor fix to configure script, adding a backslash/continuation.
2512 + extend TERMINAL structure for ABI 6 to store numbers internally as
2513 integers rather than short, by adding new data for this purpose.
2514 + more fixes for minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
2517 + change logic in wins_nwstr() to avoid addressing data past the output
2519 + correct a call to setcchar() in Data_Entry_w() from 20131207 changes.
2520 + fix minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
2521 + further improve ifdef in term_entry.h for internal definitions not
2525 + minor fixes for vt100+4bsd, e.g., delay in sgr for consistency -TD
2526 + add smso for env230, to match sgr -TD
2527 + remove p7/protect from sgr in fbterm -TD
2528 + drop setf/setb from fbterm; setaf/setab are enough -TD
2529 + make xterm-pcolor sgr consistent with other capabilities -TD
2530 + add rmxx/smxx ECMA-48 strikeout extension to tmux and xterm-basic
2531 (discussion with Nicholas Marriott)
2532 + add test-programs sp_tinfo and extended_color
2533 + modify no-leaks code for lib_cur_term.c to account for the tgetent()
2535 + modify setupterm() to save original tty-modes so that erasechar()
2536 works as expected. Also modify _nc_setupscreen() to avoid redundant
2537 calls to get original tty-modes.
2538 + modify set_curterm() to update ttytype[] data used by longname().
2539 + modify wattr_set() and wattr_get() to return ERR if win-parameter is
2540 null, as documented.
2541 + improve cast used for null-pointer checks in header macros, to
2542 reduce compiler warnings.
2543 + modify several functions, using the reserved "opts" parameter to pass
2544 color- and pair-values larger than 16-bits:
2545 + getcchar(), setcchar(), slk_attr_set(), vid_puts(), wattr_get(),
2546 wattr_set(), wchgat(), wcolor_set().
2547 + Other functions call these with the corresponding altered behavior,
2548 including chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat(), slk_color_on(),
2549 slk_color_off(), vid_attr().
2550 + add new functions for manipulating color- and pair-values larger
2551 than 16-bits. These are extended_color_content(),
2552 extended_pair_content(), extended_slk_color(), init_extended_color(),
2553 init_extended_pair(), and the corresponding sp-funcs.
2556 + fix a memory leak in the window-list when creating multiple screens
2557 (reports by Andres Martinelli, Debian #783486).
2558 + reviewed calls from link_test.c, added a few more null-pointer
2560 + add a null-pointer check in ungetmouse, in case mousemask was not
2561 called (report by "Kau").
2562 + updated curs_sp_funcs.3x for new functions.
2565 + change TERMINAL structure in term.h to make it opaque. Some
2566 applications misuse its members, e.g., directly modifying it
2567 rather than using def_prog_mode().
2568 + modify utility headers such as tic.h to make it clearer which are
2569 externals that are used by tack.
2570 + improve curs_slk.3x in particular its discussion of portability.
2571 + fix cut/paste in legacy_encoding.3x
2572 + add prototype for find_pair() to new_pair.3x (report by Branden
2574 + fix a couple of broken links in generated man-html documentation.
2575 + regenerate man-html documentation.
2578 + modify vt100 rs2 string to reset vt52 mode and scrolling regions
2579 (report/analysis by Robert King) -TD
2580 + add vt100+4bsd building block, use that for older terminals rather
2581 than "vt100" which is now mostly used as a building block for
2582 terminal emulators -TD
2583 + correct a few spelling errors in terminfo.src comments -TD
2585 + fix a typo in ncurses.c test_attr legend (patch by Petr Vanek).
2586 + changed internal colorpair_t to a struct, eliminating an internal
2587 8-bit limit on colors
2588 + add ncurses/new_pair.h
2589 + add ncurses/base/new_pair.c with alloc_pair(), find_pair() and
2590 free_pair() functions
2591 + add test/demo_new_pair.c
2594 + improve terminfo manual description of terminfo syntax.
2595 + clarify the use of wint_t vs wchar_t in curs_get_wstr.3x
2596 + improve description of endwin() in manual.
2597 + modify setcchar() and getcchar() to treat negative color-pair as an
2599 + fix a typo in include/hashed_db.h (Andre Sa).
2602 + fixes for CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS (report by Ross Burton).
2605 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
2606 + correct read of terminfo entry in which all strings are absent or
2607 explicitly cancelled. Before this fix, the result was that all were
2608 treated as only absent.
2609 + modify infocmp to suppress mixture of absent/cancelled capabilities
2610 that would only show as "NULL, NULL", unless the -q option is used,
2611 e.g., to show "-, @" or "@, -".
2614 + build-fixes for PGI compilers (report by Adam J. Stewart)
2615 + accept whitespace in sed expression for generating expanded.c
2616 + modify configure check that g++ compiler warnings are not used.
2617 + add configure check for -fPIC option needed for shared libraries.
2618 + let configure --disable-ext-funcs override the default for the
2619 --enable-sp-funcs option.
2620 + mark some structs in form/menu/panel libraries as potentially opaque
2621 without modifying API/ABI.
2622 + add configure option --enable-opaque-curses for ncurses library and
2623 similar options for the other libraries.
2626 + trim newlines, tabs and escaped newlines from terminfo "paths" passed
2628 + ignore zero-length files in db-iterator; these are useful for
2629 instance to suppress "$HOME/.terminfo" when not wanted.
2630 + amended "b64:" encoder to work with the terminfo reader.
2631 + modify terminfo reader to accept "b64:" format using RFC-3548 in
2632 as well as RFC-4648 url/filename-safe format.
2633 + modify terminfo reader to accept "hex:" format as generated by
2634 "infocmp -0qQ1" (cf: 20150905).
2635 + adjust authors comment to reflect drop below 1% for SV.
2638 + minor comment-fixes to help automate links to bug-urls -TD
2639 + add dvtm, dvtm-256color -TD
2640 + add settings corresponding to xterm-keys option to tmux entry to
2641 reflect upcoming change to make that option "on" by default
2642 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2643 + uncancel Ms in tmux entry (Harry Gindi, Nicholas Marriott).
2644 + add dumb-emacs-ansi -TD
2647 + improve discussion of early history of tput program.
2648 + incorporate A_COLOR mask into COLOR_PAIR(), in case user application
2649 provides an out-of-range pair number (report by Elijah Stone).
2650 + clarify description in tput manual page regarding support for
2651 termcap names (prompted by FreeBSD #214709).
2652 + remove a restriction in tput's support for termcap names which
2653 omitted capabilities normally not shown in termcap translations
2655 + modify configure script for clang as used on FreeBSD, to work around
2656 clang's differences in exit codes vs gcc.
2659 + improve discussion of early history of tset/reset programs.
2660 + clarify in manual pages that the optional verbose option level is
2661 available only when ncurses is configured for tracing.
2662 + amend change from 20161231 to avoid writing traces to the standard
2663 error after initializing the trace feature using the environment
2667 + amend changes for tput to reset tty modes to "sane" if the program
2668 is run as "reset", like tset. Likewise, ensure that tset sends
2669 either reset- or init-strings.
2670 + improve manual page descriptions of tput init/reset and tset/reset,
2671 to make it easier to see how they are similar and different.
2672 + move a static result from key_name() to _nc_globals
2673 + modify _nc_get_screensize to allow for use_env() and use_tioctl()
2674 state to be per-screen when sp-funcs are configured, better matching
2675 the behavior when using the term-driver configuration.
2676 + improve cross-references in manual pages for often used functions
2677 + move SCREEN field for use_tioctl() data before the ncursesw fields,
2678 and limit that to the sp-funcs configuration to improve termlib
2679 compatibility (cf: 20120714).
2680 + correct order of initialization for traces in use_env() and
2681 use_tioctl() versus first trace calls.
2684 + fix errata for ncurses-howto (report by Damien Ruscoe).
2685 + fix a few places in configure/build scripts where DESTDIR and rpath
2686 were combined (report by Thomas Klausner).
2687 + merge current st description (report by Harry Gindi) -TD
2688 + modify flash capability for linux and wyse entries to put the delay
2689 between the reverse/normal escapes rather than after -TD
2690 + modify program tabs to pass the actual tty file descriptor to
2691 setupterm rather than the standard output, making padding work
2693 + explain in clear's manual page that it writes to stdout.
2694 + add special case for verbose debugging traces of command-line
2695 utilities which write to stderr (cf: 20161126).
2696 + remove a trace with literal escapes from skip_DECSCNM(), added in
2698 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2699 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2702 + correct parameters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes()
2703 (patch by Leon Winter).
2704 + improve color-handling section in terminfo manual page (prompted by
2705 patch by Mihail Konev).
2706 + modify programs clear, tput and tset to pass the actual tty file
2707 descriptor to setupterm rather than the standard output, making
2711 + add tput-colorcube demo script.
2712 + add -r and -s options to tput-initc demo, to match usage in xterm.
2713 + flush the standard output in _nc_flush for the case where SP is zero,
2714 e.g., when called via putp. This fixes a scenario where "tput flash"
2715 did not work after changes in 20130112.
2718 + add configure script option --disable-wattr-macros for use in cases
2719 where one wants to use the same headers for ncurses5/ncurses6
2720 development, by suppressing the wattr* macros which differ due to
2721 the introduction of extended colors (prompted by comments in
2722 Debian #230990, Redhat #1270534).
2723 + add test/tput-initc to demonstrate tput used to initialize palette
2725 + modify test/xterm*.dat to use the newer color4/color12 values.
2728 + improve discussion of field validation in form_driver.3x manual page.
2729 + update curs_trace.3x manual page.
2732 + modify linux-16color to not mask dim, standout or reverse with the
2734 + add 0.1sec mandatory delay to flash capabilities using the VT100
2735 reverse-video control -TD
2736 + omit selection of ISO-8859-1 for G0 in enacs capability from linux2.6
2737 entry, to avoid conflict with the user-defined mapping. The reset
2738 feature will use ISO-8859-1 in any case (Mikulas Patocka).
2739 + improve check in tic for delays by also warning about beep/flash
2740 when a delay is not embedded, or if those use the VT100 reverse
2741 video escape without using a delay.
2742 + minor fix for syntax-check of delays from 20161119 changes.
2743 + modify trace() to avoid overwriting existing file (report by Maor
2747 + add check in tic for some syntax errors of delays, as well as use of
2748 proportional delays for non-line capabilities.
2749 + document history of the clear program and the E3 extension, prompted
2750 by various discussions including
2751 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87469/clearing-the-old-scrollback-buffer
2754 + improve -W option in tic/infocmp:
2755 + correct order of size-adjustments in wrapped lines
2756 + if -f option splits line, do not further split it with -W
2757 + begin a new line when adding "use=" after a wrapped line
2760 + fix typo in man/terminfo.tail (Alain Williams).
2761 + correct program-name in adacurses6-config.1 manual page.
2764 + add new function "unfocus_current_field" (Leon Winter)
2767 + modify tset -w (and tput reset) to update the program's copy of the
2768 screensize if it was already set in the system, to improve tabstop
2769 setting which relies upon knowing the actual screensize.
2770 + add functionality of tset -w to tput, like the "-c" feature this is
2771 not optional in tput.
2772 + add "clear" as a possible link/alias to tput.
2773 + improve tput's check for being called as "init" or "reset" to allow
2774 for transformed names.
2775 + split-out the "clear" function from progs/clear.c, share with
2776 tput to get the same behavior, e.g., the E3 extension.
2779 + amend internal use of tputs to consistently use the number of lines
2780 affected, e.g., for insert/delete character operations. While
2781 merging terminfo source early in 1995, several descriptions used the
2782 "*" proportional delay for these operations, prompting a change in
2784 + regenerate llib-* files.
2785 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2786 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
2789 + adjust size in infocmp/tic to work with strlcpy.
2790 + fix configure script to record when strlcat is found on OpenBSD.
2791 + build-fix for "recent" OpenBSD vs baudrate.
2794 + add -W option to tic/infocmp to force long strings to wrap. This is
2795 in addition to the -w option which attempts to fit capabilities into
2796 a given line-length.
2797 + add linux-m1 minitel entries (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
2798 + correct rs2 string for vt100-nam -TD
2801 + modify _nc_tic_expand to escape comma if it immediately follows a
2802 percent sign, to work with minitel change.
2803 + updated minitel and viewdata descriptions (Alexandre Montaron).
2806 + build-fix for gnat6, which unhelpfully attempts to compile C files.
2807 + fix typo in 20160910 changes (Debian #837892, patch by Sven Joachim).
2810 + trim dead code ifdef'd with HIDE_EINTR since 970830 (discussion with
2812 + trim some obsolete/incorrect wording about EINTR from wgetch manual
2813 page (patch by Leon Winter).
2814 + really correct 20100515 change (patch by Rich Coe).
2815 + add "--enable-string-hacks" option to test/configure
2816 + completed string-hacks for "sprintf", etc., including test-programs.
2817 + make "--enable-string-hacks" work with Debian by checking for the
2818 "bsd" library and its associated "<bsd/string.h>" header.
2821 + correct 20100515 change for weak signals versus sigprocmask (report
2823 + modify misc/Makefile.in to work around OpenBSD "make" which unlike
2824 all other versions of "make" does not recognize continuation lines
2826 + amend the last change to CF_C_ENV_FLAGS to move only the
2827 preprocessor, optimization and warning flags to CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS,
2828 leaving the residue in CC. That happens to work for gcc's various
2829 "model" options, but may require tuning for other compilers (report
2833 + add "v" menu entry to test/ncurses.c to show baudrate and other
2835 + add "newer" baudrate symbols from Linux and FreeBSD to progs/tset.c,
2837 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro:
2838 + add "uclinux" to case for "linux" (patch by Yann E. Morin)
2839 + modify _GNU_SOURCE for cygwin headers, tested with cygwin 2.3, 2.5
2840 (patch by Corinna Vinschen, from changes to tin).
2841 + improve CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS macro to allow for compiler wrappers such
2842 as "ccache" (report by Enrico Scholz).
2843 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2844 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2847 + update tput manual page to reflect changes to manipulate terminal
2848 modes by sharing functions with tset.
2849 + add the terminal-mode parts of "reset" (aka tset) to the "tput reset"
2850 command, making the two almost the same except for window-size.
2851 + adapt logic used in dialog "--keep-tite" option for test/filter.c as
2852 "-a" option. When set, test/filter attempts to suppress the
2854 + correct a typo in interix entry -TD
2857 + add a dependency upon generated-sources in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to
2858 handle a case of "configure && make install".
2859 + trim trailing blanks from include/Caps*, to work around a problem
2860 in sed (Debian #818067).
2863 + improve CF_GNU_SOURCE configure macro to optionally define
2864 _DEFAULT_SOURCE work around a nuisance in recent glibc releases.
2865 + move the terminfo-specific parts of tput's "reset" function into
2866 the shared reset_cmd.c, making the two forms of reset use the same
2868 + split-out the terminal initialization functions from tset as
2869 progs/reset_cmd.c, as part of changes to merge the reset-feature
2873 + change tset's initialization to allow it to get settings from the
2874 standard input as well as /dev/tty, to be more effective when
2875 output or error are redirected.
2876 + improve discussion of history and portability for tset/reset/tput
2880 + improve error message from tset/reset when both stderr/stdout are
2881 redirected to a file or pipe.
2882 + improve organization of curs_attr.3x, curs_color.3x
2885 + work around Debian's antique/unmaintained version of mawk when
2887 + improve test/list_keys.c, showing ncurses's convention of modifiers
2888 for special keys, based on xterm.
2891 + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters are given.
2894 + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule.
2895 + amend change to CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS in 20160521 to make multilib build
2896 work (report by Sven Joachim).
2899 + build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses.
2900 + improve test/list_keys.c, fixing column-widths and sorting the list
2901 to make it more readable.
2904 + revise fix for Debian #805618 (report by Vlado Potisk, cf: 20151128).
2905 + modify test/ncurses.c a/A screens to make exiting on an escape
2906 character depend on the start of keypad and timeout modes, to allow
2907 better testing of function-keys.
2908 + modify rs1 for xterm-16color, xterm-88color and xterm-256color to
2909 reset palette using "oc" string as in linux -TD
2910 + use ANSI reply for u8 in xterm-new, to reflect vt220-style responses
2911 that could be returned -TD
2912 + added a few capabilities fixed in recent vte -TD
2915 + correct logic for -f option in test/demo_terminfo.c
2916 + add test/list_keys.c
2919 + further workaround for PIE/PIC breakage which causes gpm to not link.
2920 + fix most cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library.
2923 + improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size.
2924 + fixes to work with a slightly broken compiler configuration which
2925 cannot compile "Hello World!" without adding compiler options
2926 (report by Ola x Nilsson):
2927 + pass appropriate compiler options to the CF_PROG_CC_C_O macro.
2928 + when separating compiler and options in CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, ensure
2929 that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS
2930 + restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared
2931 to be redundant. In fact, they are needed for a compiler that
2932 cannot combine -c and -o options.
2935 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2936 + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they
2937 might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426).
2938 + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD
2939 + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0
2940 entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD
2941 + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran).
2944 + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the
2945 special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,
2947 + modify test/ncurses.c:
2948 + check return-value of putwin
2949 + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes
2950 to keypad- and scroll-modes.
2951 + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).
2954 + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm
2955 color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE
2956 and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R.
2957 + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for
2961 + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs
2962 PIC builds documented in
2963 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
2964 + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages
2965 due to program-transformation configure options.
2966 + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset.
2969 + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when
2970 available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850.
2973 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2974 + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus
2978 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2979 + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers
2980 to switch the active menu. This requires a new extension option
2981 O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not
2982 apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application
2983 can handle the event.
2986 + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso).
2987 + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case
2988 that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for
2989 non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888).
2992 + modified test/filter.c to illustrate an alternative to getnstr, that
2993 polls for input while updating a clock on the right margin as well
2994 as responding to window size-changes.
2997 + omit a redefinition of "inline" when traces are enabled, since this
2998 does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912).
3001 + modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of
3002 ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g.,
3003 in case weak symbols are used.
3004 + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
3005 rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
3007 + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
3008 winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
3009 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3010 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3013 + amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work
3014 in threaded configuration.
3015 + move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h,
3016 since they are not part of the suggested ABI6.
3019 + define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN for MinGW port, making builds faster.
3020 + modify test/ditto.c to allow $XTERM_PROG environment variable to
3021 override "xterm" as the name of the program to run in the threaded
3025 + improve formatting of man/curs_refresh.3x and man/tset.1 manpages
3026 + regenerate HTML manpages using newer man2html to eliminate some
3027 unwanted blank lines.
3030 + ifdef'd header-file definition of mouse_trafo() with NCURSES_NOMACROS
3031 (report by Corey Minyard).
3032 + fix some strict compiler-warnings in traces.
3035 + tidy up comments about hardcoded 256color palette (report by
3036 Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
3037 + add putty-noapp entry, and amend putty entry to use application mode
3038 for better consistency with xterm (report by Leonardo Brondani
3040 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to trace wide-characters
3041 as a whole rather than their multibyte equivalents.
3042 + minor fix in wadd_wchnstr() to ensure that each cell has nonzero
3044 + move PUTC_INIT calls next to wcrtomb calls, to avoid carry-over of
3045 error status when processing Unicode values which are not mapped.
3048 + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
3049 screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
3050 + minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of
3051 SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.
3054 + add check in tic for use of bold, etc., video attributes in the
3055 color capabilities, accounting whether the feature is listed in ncv.
3056 + add check in tic for conflict between ritm, rmso, rmul versus sgr0.
3059 + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion
3060 with James Crippen).
3061 + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
3063 + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
3064 characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.
3067 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
3068 needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
3069 does not work. Also modified the test program to ensure that if
3070 building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
3071 normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
3072 + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
3073 in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
3074 drawing characters as double-width.
3077 + update form_cursor.3x, form_post.3x, menu_attributes.3x to list
3078 function names in NAME section (patch by Jason McIntyre).
3079 + minor fixes to manpage NAME/SYNOPSIS sections to consistently use
3080 rule that either all functions which are prototyped in SYNOPSIS are
3081 listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
3082 listed in the NAME section. The latter is used to reduce clutter,
3083 e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
3084 feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
3088 + add option to preserve leading whitespace in form fields (patch by
3090 + add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
3092 + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
3093 + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
3094 + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
3095 backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
3096 + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
3099 + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
3100 + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
3101 + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
3102 + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.
3105 + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
3106 which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
3107 name. That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
3108 tset from termcap to terminfo. The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
3109 this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
3111 + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
3112 are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
3113 + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
3114 renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
3115 normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).
3118 + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
3119 valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
3120 actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
3121 install time (cf: 20150822).
3122 + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
3123 clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
3124 empty "local" section.
3125 + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
3126 to incorrect attribute-masking.
3129 + modify MKexpanded.sh to update the expansion of a temporary filename
3130 to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
3131 + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
3132 annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
3133 did not display well.
3134 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
3135 + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
3136 + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
3137 the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
3138 Normand, Novell #946048).
3139 + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
3140 FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
3141 + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
3142 minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
3143 + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
3144 + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
3145 Internet Archive -TD
3146 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3147 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3150 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
3151 (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
3152 + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
3153 data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
3154 (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
3155 > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
3156 + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
3157 + support building with libtool on OS/2
3158 + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
3159 + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
3162 + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
3163 + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
3164 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
3165 + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
3167 + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
3168 fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
3169 (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
3172 + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
3174 + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
3175 + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
3178 + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
3180 + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
3181 read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
3182 + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
3183 configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
3186 + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
3188 + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
3189 solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
3190 of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
3191 + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
3192 "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
3193 + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
3195 + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS
3198 + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
3200 + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
3201 all comments from the "tic -I" output.
3202 + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
3204 + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
3205 form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.
3208 + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
3210 + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
3211 + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
3212 + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
3213 + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
3214 ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
3218 + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
3219 overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
3220 + update release notes in INSTALL.
3221 + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
3224 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
3225 releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
3226 https://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
3228 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3231 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
3232 + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
3233 + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
3234 more than 200 snapshots.
3235 + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
3239 + updated llib-* files.
3240 + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
3241 + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
3243 + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
3244 + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
3245 + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
3246 curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
3247 curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
3248 curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
3249 curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
3252 + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
3253 + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
3254 curs_initscr.3x page.
3255 + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
3256 of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
3257 in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
3259 + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
3260 e.g., ncursestw library.
3263 + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
3264 configuration of ncurses6.
3265 + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
3266 demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
3267 the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
3268 versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
3269 + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
3272 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
3273 + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
3274 (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
3277 + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
3279 + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
3280 map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
3281 suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
3282 + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
3283 from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
3284 + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
3285 databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
3286 + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
3287 setupterm and restartterm functions.
3288 + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
3289 of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
3290 it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
3294 + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
3295 + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
3296 the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
3297 files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
3298 corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
3299 configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
3300 discussion with Sven Joachim).
3301 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
3303 20150606 pre-release
3304 + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
3305 intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
3306 "--with-abi-version=5" option.
3307 + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
3308 + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
3309 + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
3310 Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
3311 + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
3312 ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
3313 lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
3314 + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
3315 "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
3316 + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
3317 CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
3320 + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
3321 mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
3322 + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
3323 + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
3324 + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
3325 have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
3326 + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
3327 cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
3330 + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
3331 + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
3332 by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
3333 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
3334 + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
3336 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
3337 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
3340 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
3341 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
3342 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
3343 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
3345 + regenerate html manpages.
3346 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
3347 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
3348 Stack Overflow forum):
3351 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
3352 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
3353 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
3354 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
3355 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
3359 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
3360 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
3361 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
3362 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
3363 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
3365 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
3366 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
3367 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
3368 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
3369 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
3370 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
3372 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
3373 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
3374 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
3375 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
3376 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
3377 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
3379 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
3380 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
3382 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
3383 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
3385 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
3386 the ncurses library aside from headers.
3387 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
3388 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
3389 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
3390 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
3391 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3392 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3395 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
3396 (report by Todd M Lewis).
3397 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
3398 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
3399 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
3400 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
3401 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
3402 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
3404 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
3405 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
3406 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
3407 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
3408 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
3409 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
3410 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
3413 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
3414 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
3415 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
3416 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
3417 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
3418 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
3419 with the shared libraries.
3420 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
3421 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
3422 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
3423 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
3424 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
3425 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
3426 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
3427 inherit into new windows.
3430 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
3431 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
3432 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
3433 readonly text segment.
3436 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
3437 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
3440 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
3441 the extended putwin/getwin.
3442 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
3444 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
3448 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
3449 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
3450 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
3451 for a magic code at the beginning:
3452 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
3455 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
3457 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
3458 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
3461 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
3462 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
3463 (report by Grady Martin).
3466 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
3467 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
3468 the wide-character libraries.
3469 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
3471 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
3472 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
3475 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
3476 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
3477 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
3481 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
3482 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
3485 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
3486 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
3487 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
3488 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
3489 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
3492 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
3493 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
3494 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
3497 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
3498 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
3499 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
3501 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
3502 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
3503 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
3504 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
3505 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
3506 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
3507 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
3508 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
3509 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
3510 (report by Pavel Balaev).
3513 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
3514 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
3515 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
3516 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
3517 variations in ABI 6.
3520 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
3521 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
3525 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
3529 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
3530 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
3531 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
3532 the ABI 5 libraries.
3533 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
3534 regenerate html-manpages.
3537 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
3538 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
3540 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
3541 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
3542 package for ncurses6.
3543 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
3544 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
3545 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
3546 in the corresponding ".map" files.
3547 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
3548 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
3552 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
3553 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
3554 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
3555 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
3556 gcc introduced here:
3557 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
3558 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
3559 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
3560 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
3563 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
3564 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
3565 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
3566 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
3567 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
3570 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
3571 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
3572 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
3573 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
3574 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
3575 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
3576 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
3580 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
3581 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
3585 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
3586 msys2 configuration.
3589 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
3590 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
3591 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
3592 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
3593 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
3595 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
3596 (report by Mike Gran).
3599 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
3600 demonstration of its limitations.
3601 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
3602 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
3603 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
3604 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
3605 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
3606 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
3607 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
3609 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
3610 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
3613 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
3614 + implement flash in win_driver.c
3615 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
3617 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
3618 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
3619 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
3620 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
3621 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
3622 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
3623 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
3624 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
3627 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
3628 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
3629 some older cross-compiler environments.
3630 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
3631 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
3632 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
3633 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
3634 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
3635 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
3636 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
3637 + update config.sub from
3638 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3641 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
3642 C++ cross-compilers.
3643 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
3646 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
3648 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
3651 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
3652 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
3653 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
3656 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
3657 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
3661 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
3662 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
3663 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
3666 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
3667 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
3668 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
3669 + regenerated html manpages.
3670 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
3671 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
3672 which reverses cause/effect.
3673 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
3674 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
3675 + fixes for win_driver.c:
3676 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
3681 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
3682 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
3683 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
3684 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
3686 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
3687 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
3688 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
3689 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
3693 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
3694 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
3695 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
3696 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
3697 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
3698 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
3699 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
3700 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
3701 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
3704 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
3705 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
3706 options, from xterm changes.
3709 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
3710 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
3714 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
3715 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
3718 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
3719 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
3720 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
3721 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
3722 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
3723 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
3724 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
3727 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
3728 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
3729 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
3730 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
3731 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
3732 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
3733 providing directly comparable screens.
3734 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
3737 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
3739 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
3740 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
3741 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
3742 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
3743 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
3744 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
3745 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
3748 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
3749 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
3750 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
3751 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
3752 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
3755 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
3756 overlap with sgr functionality.
3757 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
3758 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
3759 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
3760 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
3761 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
3762 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
3763 older ncurses than 20131207.
3764 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
3765 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
3766 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
3767 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
3768 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
3771 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
3772 environment variable.
3773 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
3774 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
3775 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
3776 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
3777 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
3778 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
3779 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
3780 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
3781 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
3782 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
3783 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
3784 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
3785 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
3786 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
3788 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
3790 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
3791 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
3792 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
3794 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
3795 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
3796 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
3797 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
3798 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
3799 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
3800 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
3802 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
3804 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
3805 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
3806 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
3807 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
3808 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
3809 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
3810 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
3811 to be consecutive anyway.
3812 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
3813 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
3814 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
3815 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
3818 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
3819 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
3820 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
3823 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
3824 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
3825 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
3826 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3829 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
3831 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
3832 simplify later merging:
3833 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
3834 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
3835 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
3836 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
3837 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
3841 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3842 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3845 + modify configure script:
3846 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
3847 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
3848 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
3849 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
3850 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
3851 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
3852 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
3853 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
3854 "#win32console", and
3855 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
3856 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
3859 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
3860 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
3861 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
3862 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
3863 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
3864 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
3868 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
3871 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
3872 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
3873 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
3874 + add terminology entry -TD
3875 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
3876 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
3879 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
3880 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
3881 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
3882 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
3883 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
3887 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
3888 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
3889 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
3890 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
3891 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
3894 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
3897 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
3898 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
3899 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
3903 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
3904 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
3905 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
3906 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
3907 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
3908 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
3910 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
3911 html emitted by docbook.
3914 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
3915 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
3916 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
3917 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
3920 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
3921 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
3922 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
3923 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
3924 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3925 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
3928 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
3929 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
3930 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
3931 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3934 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
3935 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
3938 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
3940 ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
3943 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
3944 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
3945 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
3946 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
3948 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
3950 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
3951 + updated llib-l* files.
3954 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
3955 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
3959 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
3960 recognized by clang.
3963 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
3964 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
3965 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
3966 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
3967 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
3968 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
3969 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
3970 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
3971 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
3972 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
3973 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
3974 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
3976 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
3978 + update config.sub from
3979 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3982 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
3985 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
3986 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
3987 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
3988 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
3990 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
3993 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
3994 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
3995 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
3996 them more consistent with other packages.
3999 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
4000 compiling ncurses-examples.
4001 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
4004 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
4007 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
4008 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
4009 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
4010 cross-compiles to MinGW.
4011 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
4015 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
4016 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
4020 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
4021 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
4023 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
4025 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
4026 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
4027 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
4028 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
4029 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
4032 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
4033 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
4034 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
4037 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
4039 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
4040 before/after Debian #700177.
4041 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
4042 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
4044 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
4045 of sort, improving portability.
4046 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
4047 + update config.guess, config.sub from
4048 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
4051 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
4052 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
4054 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
4055 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
4056 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
4059 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
4060 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
4061 introduced by Debian #700177.
4062 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
4063 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
4066 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
4067 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
4069 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
4070 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
4071 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
4074 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
4075 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
4077 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
4078 cross-compile support packages.
4079 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
4082 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
4083 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
4084 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
4085 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
4086 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
4087 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
4088 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
4089 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
4090 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
4091 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
4092 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
4093 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
4096 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
4097 initialization of cur_term.
4100 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
4101 + minor compiler-warning fixes
4104 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
4105 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
4106 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
4107 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
4108 --enable-auto-import flag.
4109 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
4113 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
4114 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
4115 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
4116 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
4117 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
4119 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
4120 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
4121 (patch by Eric Raymond).
4124 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
4125 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
4126 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
4128 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
4129 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
4130 not printing the full pathname of the program.
4131 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
4132 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
4133 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
4136 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
4137 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
4139 + add test/dots_termcap.c
4140 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
4141 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
4142 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
4143 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
4144 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
4145 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
4146 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
4147 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
4148 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
4150 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
4151 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
4154 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
4155 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
4156 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
4157 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
4158 the left margin of the display.
4159 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
4160 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
4161 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
4162 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
4165 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
4166 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
4167 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
4168 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
4169 + regenerated html manpages.
4170 + update doctype used for html documentation.
4173 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
4174 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
4175 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
4176 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
4177 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
4178 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
4181 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
4182 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
4183 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
4184 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
4185 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
4188 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
4189 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
4192 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
4193 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
4194 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
4195 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
4196 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
4198 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
4199 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
4200 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
4201 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
4204 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
4205 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
4206 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
4207 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
4209 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
4211 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
4213 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
4216 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
4220 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
4221 (report by Christian Ebert).
4222 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
4223 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
4224 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
4227 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
4228 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
4229 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
4230 add bold for consistency with sgr,
4231 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
4232 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
4233 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
4234 by Benjamin Sittler)
4235 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
4236 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
4237 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
4238 line split after "%;".
4239 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
4240 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
4243 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
4244 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
4245 + regenerated html manpages.
4246 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
4247 + updated some autoconf macros:
4248 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
4249 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
4250 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
4251 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
4252 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
4253 configuration (Redhat #911540).
4254 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
4255 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
4258 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
4259 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
4261 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
4262 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
4264 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
4265 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
4266 of raw input in MinGW port.
4269 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
4270 + update config.guess, config.sub
4273 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
4275 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
4277 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
4278 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
4279 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
4280 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
4281 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
4282 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
4283 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
4285 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
4286 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
4289 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
4290 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
4292 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
4293 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
4294 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
4297 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
4298 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
4299 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
4302 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
4303 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
4304 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
4305 help reduce flicker.
4306 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
4307 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
4308 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
4309 by Dennis Grevenstein).
4310 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
4311 Dennis Grevenstein).
4312 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
4313 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
4314 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
4317 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
4318 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
4319 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
4320 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
4321 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
4322 + improve error-checking in copywin
4323 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
4324 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
4325 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
4326 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
4327 matching capability names.
4328 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
4329 applications as well as to improve compatibility with BSD 4.2
4330 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
4333 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
4334 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
4335 are unused in the current driver model.
4336 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
4338 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
4339 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
4340 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
4341 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
4344 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
4345 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
4347 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
4348 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
4349 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
4350 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
4351 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
4354 + fix Coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
4355 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
4356 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
4360 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
4362 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
4363 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
4365 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
4366 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
4367 wide-character which can be used.
4370 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
4371 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
4372 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
4373 by Erwin Waterlander).
4374 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
4375 > fixes based on Coverity report:
4376 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
4377 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
4378 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
4379 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
4383 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
4384 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
4385 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
4386 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
4387 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
4388 > fixes based on Coverity report:
4389 + remove a few redundant checks.
4390 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
4392 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
4393 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
4394 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
4395 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
4397 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
4398 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
4399 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
4403 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
4404 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
4405 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
4409 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
4410 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
4411 > fixes based on Coverity report:
4412 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
4415 > fixes based on Coverity report:
4416 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
4417 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
4418 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
4419 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
4420 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
4421 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
4422 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
4424 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
4425 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
4426 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
4427 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
4430 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
4431 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
4432 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
4434 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
4435 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
4436 libraries or executables.
4439 + realign these related pages:
4444 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
4445 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
4446 (report by Reuben Thomas).
4447 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
4448 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
4449 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
4450 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
4451 based on testing with tack -TD
4452 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
4453 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
4456 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
4458 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
4459 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
4460 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
4463 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
4467 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
4468 (patch by Christian Persch).
4471 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
4473 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
4474 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
4475 has used that for a while.
4476 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
4477 for experimental use.
4478 + remove unused configure macros.
4479 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
4480 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
4481 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
4482 + update config.guess, config.sub
4485 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
4486 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
4487 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
4488 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
4489 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
4490 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
4491 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
4494 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
4495 to help with MinGW port.
4498 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
4500 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
4503 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
4506 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
4507 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
4508 might not be allocated.
4509 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
4512 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
4513 initial screen-sizes.
4514 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
4515 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
4519 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
4520 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
4524 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
4525 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
4526 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
4528 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
4529 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
4532 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
4533 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
4534 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
4535 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
4536 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
4537 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
4538 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
4542 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
4543 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
4544 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
4545 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
4546 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
4547 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
4548 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
4549 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
4553 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
4554 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
4555 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
4556 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
4557 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
4558 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
4561 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
4565 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
4567 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
4569 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
4570 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
4571 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
4572 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
4573 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
4574 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
4577 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
4579 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
4580 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
4581 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
4583 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
4584 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
4587 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
4588 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
4589 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
4592 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
4593 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
4595 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
4596 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
4598 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
4599 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
4602 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
4604 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
4605 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
4606 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
4607 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
4608 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
4609 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
4612 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
4613 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
4614 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
4615 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
4616 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
4617 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
4618 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
4619 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
4620 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
4622 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
4623 analysis by Martin Husemann).
4624 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
4625 Onno van der Linden).
4628 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
4630 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
4632 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
4633 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
4636 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
4637 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
4638 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
4639 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
4640 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
4641 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
4642 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
4645 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
4646 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
4647 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
4648 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
4649 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
4650 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
4651 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
4652 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
4653 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
4654 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
4655 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
4656 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
4657 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
4658 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
4659 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
4662 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
4663 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
4664 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
4665 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
4666 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
4667 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
4668 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
4669 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
4670 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
4671 are interpreted as key definitions.
4672 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
4673 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
4677 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
4678 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
4679 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
4680 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
4681 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
4682 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
4683 as building-blocks -TD
4684 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
4687 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
4688 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
4689 title is a status-line. -TD
4690 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
4691 of ordering and overrides -TD
4692 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
4693 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
4694 used in that file -TD
4697 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
4698 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
4699 definable capabilities.
4700 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
4701 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
4702 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
4703 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
4704 embedded in the description.
4705 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
4706 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
4707 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
4708 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
4709 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
4710 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
4713 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
4714 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
4715 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
4716 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
4717 Nicolas Boulenguez).
4718 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
4719 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
4720 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
4723 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
4724 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
4725 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
4726 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
4727 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
4728 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
4731 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
4732 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
4733 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
4735 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
4736 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
4737 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
4738 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
4741 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
4742 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
4743 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
4746 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
4747 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
4748 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
4750 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
4751 calls to setupterm().
4752 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
4754 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
4755 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
4756 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
4758 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
4762 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
4765 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
4767 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
4768 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
4769 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
4770 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
4771 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
4772 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
4774 + update config.guess, config.sub
4777 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
4778 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
4779 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
4780 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
4781 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
4782 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
4783 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
4784 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
4785 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
4788 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
4789 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
4790 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
4791 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
4792 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
4793 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
4794 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
4795 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
4796 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
4797 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
4798 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
4799 Linux versus most other systems.
4802 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
4806 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
4807 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
4808 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
4809 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
4810 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
4811 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
4812 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
4813 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
4814 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
4815 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
4816 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
4817 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
4818 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
4819 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
4822 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
4824 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
4826 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
4827 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
4828 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
4829 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).
4832 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
4834 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
4835 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
4836 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
4837 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
4838 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
4840 + regenerated html manpages.
4843 + various improvements for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
4844 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
4845 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
4846 + change recommended regular expression library.
4847 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuration.
4848 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
4851 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
4852 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
4853 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
4854 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
4855 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
4856 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
4857 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
4861 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
4862 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
4864 + add putty-sco entry -TD
4867 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
4869 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
4871 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
4872 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
4873 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
4875 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
4877 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
4880 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
4881 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
4882 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
4883 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
4885 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
4886 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
4887 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
4890 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
4891 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
4893 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
4896 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
4898 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
4900 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
4902 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
4903 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
4904 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
4905 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
4906 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
4907 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
4908 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
4911 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
4912 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
4914 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
4915 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
4916 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
4917 database (cf: 20111001).
4920 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
4921 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
4922 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
4924 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
4925 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
4927 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
4928 in older FreeBSD machines.
4929 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
4930 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
4931 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
4934 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
4935 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
4936 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
4937 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
4938 root's home directory.
4939 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
4940 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
4941 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
4942 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
4943 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
4945 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
4946 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
4947 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
4948 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
4949 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
4950 (report by Peter Kruse).
4953 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
4954 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
4956 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
4958 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
4959 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
4960 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
4963 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
4964 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
4965 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
4966 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
4967 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
4968 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
4971 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
4972 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
4973 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
4974 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
4975 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
4978 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
4979 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
4980 input and output of termcap source.
4981 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
4982 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
4983 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
4984 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
4985 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
4986 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
4987 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
4988 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
4989 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
4992 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
4995 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
4997 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
4998 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
4999 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
5000 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
5002 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
5005 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
5006 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
5008 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
5009 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
5012 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
5013 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
5015 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
5016 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
5018 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
5019 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
5020 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
5021 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
5023 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
5024 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
5025 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
5026 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
5028 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
5029 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
5032 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
5033 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
5034 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
5035 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
5038 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
5039 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
5040 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
5041 + add terminator entry -TD
5042 + add simpleterm entry -TD
5043 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
5044 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
5048 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
5049 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
5050 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
5051 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
5052 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
5053 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
5054 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
5055 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
5056 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
5057 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
5061 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
5062 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
5063 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
5064 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
5065 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
5066 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
5068 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
5069 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
5070 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
5072 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
5075 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
5076 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
5077 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
5078 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
5080 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
5081 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
5083 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
5084 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
5085 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
5086 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
5087 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
5088 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
5089 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
5090 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
5092 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
5093 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
5095 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
5096 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
5097 tctest (cf: 19991211).
5098 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
5099 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
5100 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
5101 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
5102 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
5103 translating to termcap.
5104 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
5105 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
5108 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
5109 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
5110 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
5111 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
5112 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
5113 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
5115 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
5116 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
5117 regarding Schilling's test program):
5118 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
5119 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
5120 + use \040 rather than \s
5121 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
5122 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
5125 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
5126 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
5127 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
5128 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
5129 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
5130 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
5131 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
5132 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
5133 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
5134 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
5135 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
5136 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
5139 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
5140 are not used in the $CC variable.
5141 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
5142 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
5143 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
5144 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
5145 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
5146 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
5149 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
5150 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
5154 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
5155 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
5156 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
5157 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
5158 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
5160 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
5161 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
5163 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
5166 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
5167 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
5170 + fixes for MirBSD port:
5171 + set default prefix to /usr.
5172 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
5173 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
5174 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
5175 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
5178 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
5179 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
5180 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
5181 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
5183 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
5184 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
5188 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
5191 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
5192 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
5193 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
5195 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
5196 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
5197 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
5198 help work around weak-symbol issues.
5201 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
5202 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
5203 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
5204 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
5205 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
5206 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
5207 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
5208 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
5209 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
5210 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
5211 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
5214 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
5215 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
5217 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
5218 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
5219 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
5220 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
5223 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
5224 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
5225 as different types on some Unix systems.
5226 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
5227 function pointer passed to tputs().
5228 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
5229 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
5230 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
5231 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
5234 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
5235 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
5236 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
5237 + update config.guess, config.sub
5240 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
5242 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
5243 some ncurses packages.
5244 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
5245 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
5246 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
5248 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5251 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
5252 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
5253 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
5254 the in-tree build of sample programs.
5255 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
5256 needed for rpm script.
5257 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
5258 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
5259 options if building a shared library with gnat.
5262 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
5263 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
5264 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
5265 that sample program.
5266 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
5267 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
5268 which were added in 5.7 and later.
5269 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
5273 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
5275 + regen Ada html documentation.
5276 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
5277 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
5279 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
5281 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
5282 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
5283 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
5284 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
5285 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
5286 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
5288 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
5289 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
5291 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
5292 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
5295 + regen Ada html documentation.
5296 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
5297 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
5299 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
5300 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
5301 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
5302 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
5303 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
5304 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
5305 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
5306 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
5307 thread in comp.lang.ada).
5308 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
5309 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
5310 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
5311 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
5312 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
5313 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
5314 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
5315 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
5316 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
5317 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
5320 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
5321 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
5322 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
5324 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
5326 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
5327 explain.txt is not found.
5330 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
5331 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
5332 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
5333 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
5334 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
5336 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5339 + update release notes, for 5.8.
5340 + regenerated html manpages.
5341 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
5343 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
5344 a new install of hashed database.
5345 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
5348 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
5349 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
5350 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
5351 wide-character configuration.
5352 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
5353 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
5356 + regenerated html manpages.
5357 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
5358 special case of trace configuration.
5361 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
5362 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
5363 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
5364 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
5365 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
5369 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
5370 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
5371 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
5372 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
5373 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
5375 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
5376 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
5379 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
5380 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
5381 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
5382 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
5383 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
5384 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
5385 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
5386 file configuration if that is used.
5387 + update config.guess, config.sub
5390 + regenerated html manpages.
5391 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
5393 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
5394 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
5397 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
5398 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
5401 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
5402 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
5403 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
5406 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
5408 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
5409 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
5410 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
5411 wide-character configuration.
5412 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
5413 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
5414 referred to quitting with 'q'.
5417 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
5418 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
5419 version which works with termcap.
5420 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
5421 (request by Sven Joachim).
5422 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
5423 (report by Sven Joachim).
5426 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
5427 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
5428 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
5431 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
5433 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
5434 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
5437 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
5439 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
5440 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
5441 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
5442 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
5443 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
5444 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
5448 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
5449 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
5450 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
5452 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
5455 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
5457 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
5461 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
5463 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
5464 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
5465 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
5466 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
5467 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additional
5468 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
5469 tree (report by Werner Fink).
5470 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
5471 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
5472 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
5473 (report by John P. Hartmann)
5474 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
5477 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
5478 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
5479 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
5480 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
5481 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
5482 external package "cindent".
5485 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
5486 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
5487 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
5488 inconsistent printer-controls.
5489 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
5490 form is available -TD
5491 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
5493 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
5495 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
5496 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5497 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
5498 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
5499 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
5501 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
5502 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
5506 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
5507 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
5508 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
5509 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5510 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
5512 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
5515 + regenerated html manpages.
5516 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
5517 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
5518 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
5521 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
5523 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
5524 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
5525 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
5526 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
5530 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
5531 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
5534 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
5535 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
5536 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
5537 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
5538 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
5539 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
5540 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
5544 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
5545 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
5546 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
5547 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
5548 by Tim van der Molen).
5549 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
5550 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
5551 library configuration.
5552 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
5553 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
5554 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
5557 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
5559 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
5560 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
5561 e.g., for cross-compiling.
5562 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
5563 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
5566 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
5567 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
5568 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
5569 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
5570 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
5571 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
5572 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
5573 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
5576 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
5577 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
5578 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
5579 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
5580 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
5581 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
5582 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
5583 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
5586 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
5587 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
5588 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
5589 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
5592 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
5593 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
5594 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
5597 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
5598 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
5599 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
5602 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
5603 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
5604 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
5605 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
5608 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
5609 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
5610 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
5612 + update Ada95/configure.
5613 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
5614 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
5615 of updating LIBS variable.
5618 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
5619 work with 64-bit compiles.
5620 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
5624 + regenerated html documentation.
5625 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
5627 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
5628 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
5629 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
5630 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
5633 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
5634 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
5636 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
5637 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
5638 build- and target-machines differ.
5639 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
5640 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
5642 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
5643 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
5646 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
5647 new EINTR feature is enabled.
5648 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
5649 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
5650 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
5651 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
5652 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
5653 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
5654 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
5655 with the standard builds of ncurses.
5656 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
5657 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
5658 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
5659 found in predefined libraries.
5660 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
5663 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
5664 (patch by David Benjamin).
5665 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
5666 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
5667 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
5668 may be defined by that route.
5671 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
5672 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
5673 the predefined include directories.
5674 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
5675 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
5676 where older versions would produce an error.
5679 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
5680 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
5681 terminfo to termcap strings
5682 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
5683 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
5684 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
5685 directory was already added.
5686 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
5687 directories (which will be ignored).
5690 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
5691 + discard motion events
5692 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
5693 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
5694 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
5695 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
5698 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
5699 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
5700 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
5701 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
5702 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
5703 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
5704 extended-colors configuration.
5705 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
5706 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
5707 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
5710 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
5712 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
5713 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
5714 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
5716 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
5717 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
5718 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
5721 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
5722 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
5726 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
5727 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
5728 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
5729 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
5730 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
5731 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
5732 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
5733 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
5734 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
5738 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
5739 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
5740 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
5741 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
5744 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
5746 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
5747 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
5748 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
5751 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
5752 making those separately distributable.
5753 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
5754 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
5758 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
5761 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
5762 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
5763 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
5764 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
5768 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
5769 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
5770 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
5771 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
5774 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
5775 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
5776 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
5777 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
5779 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
5780 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
5781 by Miroslav Lichvar)
5782 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
5786 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
5787 that line-drawing works.
5788 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
5789 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
5790 capabilities can run.
5791 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
5795 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
5796 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
5797 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
5798 before older in the list.
5799 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
5800 + minor documentation cleanup.
5801 + update config.guess, config.sub from
5802 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
5803 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
5806 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
5807 most common case of SGR 0.
5808 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
5809 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
5810 events remain, it will return ERR.
5813 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
5814 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
5815 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
5816 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
5817 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
5820 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
5821 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
5822 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
5825 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
5826 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
5827 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
5828 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
5829 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
5830 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
5833 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
5834 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
5835 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
5836 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
5837 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
5839 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
5841 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
5843 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
5844 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
5845 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
5847 + update config.guess, config.sub from
5848 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
5851 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
5852 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
5854 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
5855 writing terminfo entries.
5856 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
5857 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
5858 by Nicholas Marriott).
5861 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
5863 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
5864 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
5868 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
5869 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
5870 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
5871 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
5872 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
5875 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
5876 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
5877 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
5878 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
5881 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
5882 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
5883 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
5884 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
5885 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5886 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
5887 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
5890 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
5891 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
5892 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
5893 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
5894 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
5895 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
5896 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
5897 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
5898 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
5899 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
5900 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
5903 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
5904 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
5905 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
5906 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
5909 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
5910 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
5913 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
5914 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
5915 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
5919 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
5920 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
5921 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
5922 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
5923 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
5925 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
5926 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
5929 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
5930 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
5931 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
5932 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
5933 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
5934 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
5936 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
5937 library (some work remains for forms library).
5940 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
5941 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
5942 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
5943 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
5945 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
5946 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
5947 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
5948 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
5951 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
5952 by sharing linedata.h functions):
5955 test/test_addchstr.c
5956 test/test_add_wchstr.c
5957 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
5958 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
5959 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
5962 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
5964 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
5965 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
5966 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
5967 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
5971 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
5972 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
5973 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
5974 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5977 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
5978 amd64 (Debian #542031).
5979 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
5982 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5985 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
5986 broken in 20090510 merging.
5987 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
5988 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
5989 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
5990 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
5991 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
5992 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
5993 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
5994 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
5996 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
5999 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
6000 implementation details of hash function.
6003 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
6004 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
6005 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
6008 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
6009 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
6010 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
6011 test/demo_terminfo.c
6012 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6013 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
6016 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
6017 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
6021 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6024 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
6026 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
6027 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
6028 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
6029 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
6030 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
6032 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
6033 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
6034 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
6037 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
6038 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
6039 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
6042 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
6043 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
6045 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6048 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
6049 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
6051 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
6052 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
6056 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
6057 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
6058 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6061 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
6064 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6067 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
6068 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
6069 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
6070 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6073 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6076 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
6077 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
6078 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
6079 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
6083 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6086 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6087 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
6090 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6093 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
6097 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6100 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6101 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
6102 part of the form library.
6105 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
6106 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
6109 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
6110 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
6111 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
6112 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
6113 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
6114 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
6115 a temporary variable.
6116 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
6117 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
6118 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
6119 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
6120 with Charles Wilson).
6121 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
6122 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
6123 > patches by Charles Wilson:
6124 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
6125 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
6126 digits, after the final '.').
6127 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
6128 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
6129 using that in the libtool link-commands.
6130 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
6131 from 20090321 changes.
6132 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
6133 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
6134 termlib) is to be linked.
6135 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
6136 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
6139 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
6140 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
6141 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
6142 (report by Charles Wilson).
6143 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
6144 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
6145 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
6146 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
6147 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
6150 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
6151 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
6152 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
6153 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
6154 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
6156 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
6157 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
6158 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
6159 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
6160 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
6161 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
6162 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
6163 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
6166 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6167 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
6168 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
6171 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6174 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
6176 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6177 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
6178 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
6179 some internals work is needed to complete these).
6180 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
6183 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
6184 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
6185 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
6186 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
6187 + make it work with $DESTDIR
6188 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
6191 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
6192 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
6194 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
6195 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
6196 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
6199 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
6200 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
6201 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
6202 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
6203 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
6204 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
6205 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
6206 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
6207 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
6210 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
6211 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
6213 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
6215 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
6216 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
6219 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
6221 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
6222 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
6223 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
6224 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
6227 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
6228 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
6229 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
6231 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
6232 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
6235 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
6236 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
6237 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
6238 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
6239 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
6240 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
6242 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
6243 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
6245 + update config.guess, config.sub from
6246 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
6249 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
6250 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
6251 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
6254 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
6255 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
6256 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
6258 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
6259 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
6262 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
6264 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
6265 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
6266 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
6268 + fixes from NetBSD port at
6269 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
6270 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
6271 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
6272 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
6273 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
6275 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
6276 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
6279 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
6280 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
6281 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
6282 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
6283 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
6284 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
6285 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
6286 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
6287 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
6288 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
6289 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
6292 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
6293 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
6294 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
6295 passing color or video attributes.
6296 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
6297 display meta-characters.
6298 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
6299 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
6300 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
6301 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
6305 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
6306 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6307 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
6309 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
6312 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
6314 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
6315 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
6317 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
6320 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
6321 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
6322 does not work well on that platform).
6323 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
6326 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
6327 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
6328 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
6330 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
6331 --disable-database is used.
6332 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
6333 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
6334 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
6335 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
6339 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
6340 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
6341 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
6342 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
6343 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
6344 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
6345 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
6349 + regenerated html documentation.
6350 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
6351 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
6352 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
6353 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
6354 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
6355 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
6356 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
6357 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
6360 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
6361 works for C/C++ parts).
6362 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
6363 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
6366 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
6367 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
6368 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
6369 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
6370 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
6371 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
6372 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
6373 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
6374 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
6376 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
6377 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6378 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
6379 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
6380 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
6381 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
6384 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
6385 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
6388 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
6389 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
6390 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
6391 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
6392 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
6393 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
6396 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
6397 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
6400 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
6404 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
6405 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
6406 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
6407 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
6409 + update test/configure script.
6410 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
6411 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
6412 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
6413 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
6414 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
6417 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
6418 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
6420 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
6422 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
6423 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
6424 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
6425 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
6426 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
6427 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
6428 + update config.guess, config.sub from
6429 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
6430 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
6433 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
6434 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
6435 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
6436 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
6437 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
6438 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
6439 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
6440 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
6441 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
6442 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
6443 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
6447 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
6448 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
6449 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
6450 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
6451 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
6453 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
6454 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
6455 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
6456 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
6457 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
6460 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
6461 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
6462 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
6463 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
6464 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
6465 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
6466 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
6469 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
6473 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
6476 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
6479 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
6480 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
6482 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
6483 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
6484 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
6488 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
6489 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
6491 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
6492 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
6493 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
6494 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
6497 + regenerated html documentation.
6498 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
6499 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
6500 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
6501 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
6502 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
6505 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
6506 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
6507 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
6511 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
6512 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
6513 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
6514 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
6515 window which is being used in a wgetch().
6516 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
6519 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
6520 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
6522 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
6523 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
6524 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
6525 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
6526 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
6527 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
6528 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
6529 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
6530 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
6533 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
6534 screen which must be updated.
6535 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
6536 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
6537 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
6541 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
6542 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
6544 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
6545 Emanuele Giaquinta).
6546 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
6547 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
6550 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
6551 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
6552 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
6554 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
6558 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
6559 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
6560 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
6563 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
6564 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
6565 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
6566 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
6569 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
6570 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
6572 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
6574 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
6577 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
6578 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
6579 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
6580 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
6581 python-dev2 mailing list).
6584 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
6585 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
6586 are not associated with a particular screen.
6587 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
6588 stdscr to the callback function.
6589 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
6590 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
6591 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
6592 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
6593 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
6594 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
6595 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
6599 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
6600 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
6601 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
6602 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
6604 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
6605 wide-characters with extended-colors.
6606 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
6607 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
6608 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
6611 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
6612 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
6613 that the 'F' accepts.
6614 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
6615 are working concurrently.
6616 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
6620 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
6621 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
6622 _nc_free_and_exit().
6625 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
6626 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
6629 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
6630 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
6633 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
6634 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open Curses
6635 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
6636 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
6639 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
6640 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
6641 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
6642 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
6643 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
6644 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
6646 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
6647 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
6651 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
6652 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
6653 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
6656 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
6657 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
6658 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
6661 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
6662 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
6663 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
6667 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
6668 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
6669 "link_test" builds properly.
6670 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
6671 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
6672 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
6673 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
6674 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
6675 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
6676 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
6678 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
6681 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
6685 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
6686 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
6689 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
6691 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
6692 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
6693 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
6696 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
6697 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
6698 pierre4d2 comments).
6699 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
6700 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
6701 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
6702 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
6706 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
6707 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
6708 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
6709 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
6710 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
6712 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
6713 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
6714 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
6718 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
6719 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
6722 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
6724 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
6726 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
6730 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
6731 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
6733 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
6734 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
6735 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
6736 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
6737 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
6739 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
6740 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
6743 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
6744 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
6745 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
6746 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
6749 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
6750 calls within the ncurses library.
6751 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
6753 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
6754 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
6755 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
6757 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
6758 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
6759 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
6760 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
6761 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
6764 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
6765 for threaded library (incomplete).
6766 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
6767 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
6771 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
6772 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
6773 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
6774 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
6775 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
6776 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
6777 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
6778 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
6779 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
6782 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
6784 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
6785 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
6788 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
6789 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
6790 "\0" followed by a digit.
6791 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
6792 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
6793 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
6794 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
6795 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
6796 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
6797 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
6798 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
6799 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
6802 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
6803 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
6804 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
6805 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
6806 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
6808 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
6809 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
6810 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
6814 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
6815 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
6816 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
6817 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
6818 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
6819 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
6820 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
6821 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
6822 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
6825 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
6826 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
6827 + add test/test_getstr.c
6828 + add test/test_inwstr.c
6829 + add test/test_instr.c
6832 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
6833 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
6834 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
6838 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
6839 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
6840 ".log" to the name and try again.
6841 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
6842 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
6843 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
6844 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
6845 --disable-echo option is used.
6846 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
6847 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
6848 + update config.guess, config.sub
6851 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
6852 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
6853 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
6857 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
6858 problems with multi-column characters.
6859 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
6860 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
6861 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
6862 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
6863 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
6864 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
6865 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
6868 + add test/demo_panels.c
6869 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
6872 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
6874 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
6875 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
6878 + add test/key_name.c
6879 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
6880 + update test/configure
6881 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
6882 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
6883 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
6887 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
6888 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
6889 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
6890 illustrate how to use mvcur().
6891 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
6892 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
6893 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
6894 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
6895 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
6898 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
6899 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
6900 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
6901 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
6902 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
6903 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
6906 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
6907 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
6909 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
6910 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
6911 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
6912 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
6915 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
6916 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
6917 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
6918 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
6920 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
6922 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
6923 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
6924 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
6925 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
6926 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
6929 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
6930 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
6932 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
6933 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
6934 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
6935 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
6936 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
6937 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
6938 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
6939 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
6940 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
6941 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
6942 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
6945 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
6946 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
6947 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
6948 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
6949 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
6950 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
6951 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
6954 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
6955 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
6956 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
6957 Ada95 tree is not built.
6960 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
6961 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
6962 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
6963 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
6964 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
6965 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
6967 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
6968 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
6969 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
6970 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
6971 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
6972 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
6973 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
6974 > fixes based on Coverity report:
6975 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
6976 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
6977 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
6978 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
6979 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
6980 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
6981 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
6982 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
6983 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
6984 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
6985 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
6987 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
6988 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
6989 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
6990 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
6991 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
6992 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
6993 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
6994 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
6995 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
6998 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
6999 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
7000 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
7001 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
7002 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
7003 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
7004 + improved install-sh's quoting.
7005 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
7009 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
7010 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
7011 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
7012 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
7013 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
7017 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
7018 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
7019 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
7020 in the configure script to an error.
7021 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
7022 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
7023 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
7024 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
7025 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
7027 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
7028 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
7031 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
7032 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
7035 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
7036 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
7038 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
7039 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
7040 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
7041 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
7042 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
7043 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
7044 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
7045 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
7048 + regenerated html documentation.
7049 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
7050 opaque in selected configurations.
7051 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
7052 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
7053 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
7054 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
7055 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
7056 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
7057 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
7058 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
7059 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
7060 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
7061 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
7063 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
7064 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
7067 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
7068 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
7069 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
7070 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
7071 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
7072 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
7073 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
7074 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
7075 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
7076 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
7077 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
7078 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
7081 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
7083 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
7084 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
7085 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
7087 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
7088 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
7089 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
7090 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
7091 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
7092 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
7093 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
7094 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
7096 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
7097 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
7100 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
7101 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
7103 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
7105 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
7106 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
7107 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
7110 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
7111 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
7112 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
7113 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
7115 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
7116 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
7117 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
7118 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
7119 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
7120 no longer relies on it.
7121 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
7122 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
7123 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
7126 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
7127 (report by Rong-En Fan).
7130 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
7131 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
7132 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
7133 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
7134 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
7135 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
7136 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
7137 its license consistent with ncurses.
7138 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
7139 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
7140 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
7143 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
7144 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
7145 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
7146 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
7150 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
7151 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
7152 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
7154 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
7155 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
7158 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
7159 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
7160 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
7163 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
7164 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
7165 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
7166 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
7167 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
7168 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
7169 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
7170 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
7171 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
7172 to manpages as needed.
7173 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
7174 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
7177 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
7178 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
7179 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
7180 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
7181 + update config.guess, config.sub
7183 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7186 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
7187 definitions in <wchar.h>.
7188 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
7189 correct nor portable.
7190 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
7192 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
7193 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
7197 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
7198 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
7199 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
7200 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
7201 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
7202 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
7205 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
7206 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
7207 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
7208 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
7210 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
7211 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
7212 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
7213 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
7214 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
7215 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
7216 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
7217 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
7220 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
7221 database configuration.
7222 + updates for test/configure script.
7223 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
7224 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
7226 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
7227 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
7228 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
7229 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
7231 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
7232 _nc_printf_string().
7233 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
7234 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
7237 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
7238 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
7240 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
7241 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
7245 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
7246 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
7249 + add test/echochar.c
7250 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
7251 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
7254 + add AUTHORS file -TD
7255 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
7256 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
7257 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
7260 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
7261 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
7262 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
7264 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
7265 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
7266 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
7267 for rpath support in versions past 3.
7268 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
7269 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
7270 Ralf S Engelschall).
7271 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
7272 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
7273 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
7274 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
7277 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
7278 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
7279 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
7282 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
7283 and status line (Alain Bench).
7284 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
7285 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
7286 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
7287 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
7290 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
7291 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
7292 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
7293 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvements to "-f" option.
7294 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
7297 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
7298 + updated html documentation.
7299 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
7300 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
7303 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
7304 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
7305 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
7306 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
7307 option (from lynx changes) -TD
7308 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
7309 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
7310 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
7311 by report by Christopher Parker).
7315 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
7316 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
7317 since it does not really do this -TD
7320 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
7321 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
7322 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
7323 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
7326 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
7327 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
7328 embedded into a termcap description.
7329 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
7330 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
7331 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
7332 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
7333 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
7336 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
7338 + add test/foldkeys.c
7341 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
7342 source output (Debian #378783).
7343 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
7344 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
7345 variable is also used (Redhat #199369).
7346 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
7347 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
7348 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
7351 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
7352 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
7353 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
7356 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
7357 or as a text file if those are not available.
7358 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
7359 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
7360 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
7363 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
7364 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
7365 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
7366 + update config.guess, config.sub
7369 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
7370 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
7371 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
7373 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
7374 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
7376 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
7377 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
7378 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
7379 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
7380 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
7381 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
7383 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
7384 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
7385 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
7386 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
7389 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
7390 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
7394 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
7395 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
7397 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
7398 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
7399 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
7400 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
7401 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
7402 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
7405 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
7406 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
7407 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
7408 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
7409 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
7410 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
7411 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
7412 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
7413 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
7414 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
7417 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
7418 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
7419 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
7420 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
7422 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
7425 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
7426 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
7427 + minor copyright fixes.
7428 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
7431 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
7432 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
7433 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
7434 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
7435 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
7436 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
7437 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
7438 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
7440 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
7441 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
7442 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
7443 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
7445 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
7448 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
7449 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
7451 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
7452 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
7453 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
7454 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
7456 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
7457 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
7458 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
7459 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
7462 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
7463 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
7464 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
7465 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
7466 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
7467 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
7468 + update config.guess, config.sub
7469 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
7470 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
7471 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
7472 function is broken in that implementation.
7475 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
7476 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
7479 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
7480 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
7482 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
7483 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
7485 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
7486 reported to implement this feature -TD
7489 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
7490 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
7493 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
7494 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
7495 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
7496 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
7497 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
7498 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
7499 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
7500 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
7503 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
7504 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
7506 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
7507 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
7510 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
7511 (report by Alain Bench).
7512 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
7513 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
7514 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
7515 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
7517 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
7518 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
7519 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
7523 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
7524 and/or video attributes.
7525 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
7526 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
7529 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
7532 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
7533 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
7534 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
7535 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
7536 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
7537 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
7538 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
7539 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
7540 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
7543 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
7544 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
7545 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
7548 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
7549 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
7550 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
7551 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
7552 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
7553 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
7554 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
7555 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
7556 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
7557 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
7560 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
7561 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
7562 rather than delayed.
7563 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
7565 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
7566 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
7567 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
7570 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
7572 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
7573 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
7576 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
7577 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
7580 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
7581 + suppress line-drawing
7582 + implement max_attributes
7584 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
7585 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
7589 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
7590 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
7592 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
7594 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
7595 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
7596 etc., when allocating screens.
7599 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
7600 this in test/filter.c
7601 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
7605 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
7606 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
7607 + add extension nofilter().
7608 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
7609 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
7610 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
7611 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
7612 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
7615 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
7616 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
7617 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
7618 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
7619 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
7620 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
7621 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
7622 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
7623 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
7625 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
7626 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
7627 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
7629 + update config.guess and config.sub
7632 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
7633 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
7634 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
7636 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
7637 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
7638 that was never built in that directory).
7639 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
7642 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
7644 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
7645 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
7649 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
7650 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
7651 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
7652 effect of the different functions.
7653 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
7657 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
7658 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
7660 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
7664 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
7665 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
7666 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
7668 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
7669 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
7673 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
7674 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
7675 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
7677 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
7678 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
7679 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
7682 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
7683 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
7684 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
7687 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
7688 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
7689 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
7691 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
7692 a derived window (Debian #316663).
7695 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
7696 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
7697 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
7698 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
7699 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
7700 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
7701 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
7704 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
7705 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
7706 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
7708 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
7709 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7710 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
7711 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
7712 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
7714 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7717 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
7720 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
7721 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
7725 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
7726 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7727 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
7728 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7729 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
7731 + update config.guess and config.sub from
7732 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
7735 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
7736 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
7737 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
7738 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
7739 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
7740 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
7741 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
7742 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
7743 default if it is used.
7744 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
7745 --with-abi-version option was used.
7746 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
7747 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
7748 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
7751 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
7752 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
7753 handlers (Debian #326709).
7756 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
7757 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
7759 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
7762 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
7763 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
7764 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
7765 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
7767 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
7768 (report by Frank van Vugt).
7771 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
7772 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
7773 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
7774 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
7775 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
7776 + update llib-l* files.
7779 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
7780 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
7781 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
7782 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
7786 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
7787 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
7788 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
7789 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
7790 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
7791 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
7792 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
7793 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
7794 Konstantin Andreev).
7797 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
7798 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
7799 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
7800 several related cases -TD
7801 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
7802 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
7804 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
7805 resets line-drawing.
7808 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
7810 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
7811 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
7812 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
7813 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
7814 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
7815 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
7818 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
7819 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
7820 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
7822 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
7823 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
7826 + update config.guess and config.sub from
7827 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
7828 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
7829 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
7830 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
7831 "make install.data" step.
7832 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
7833 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
7834 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
7835 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
7836 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
7837 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
7838 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
7839 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
7840 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
7841 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
7842 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
7843 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
7844 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
7845 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
7848 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7851 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
7852 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
7853 review of Debian package).
7854 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
7855 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
7856 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
7857 install using libtool 1.5.0):
7858 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
7860 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
7861 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
7862 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
7863 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
7864 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7867 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
7868 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
7869 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
7872 + fixes for termcap support:
7873 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
7874 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
7875 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
7876 extended names data will be freed consistently.
7877 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
7879 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
7880 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
7881 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
7882 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
7885 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
7886 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
7887 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
7888 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
7890 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
7894 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
7896 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
7897 see ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
7900 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
7901 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
7902 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
7903 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
7904 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
7905 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
7906 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
7910 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
7911 shift-, control-cursor keys.
7912 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
7913 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
7914 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
7915 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
7916 it will automatically be treated as a key.
7917 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
7918 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
7919 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
7923 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
7924 + add configure option --enable-largefile
7925 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
7929 + update config.guess, config.sub
7930 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
7931 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
7932 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
7933 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
7934 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
7936 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
7937 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
7938 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
7941 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
7942 position the mouse to a particular item.
7943 + implement test/demo_menus.c
7944 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
7945 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
7946 --enable-const option.
7949 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
7950 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
7951 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
7952 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
7953 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
7954 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
7955 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
7956 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
7957 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
7958 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
7959 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
7962 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
7964 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
7965 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
7968 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
7969 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
7970 anyone used that configuration.
7971 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
7973 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
7974 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
7977 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
7978 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
7979 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
7981 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
7982 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
7983 WenRui, Debian #300512).
7986 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
7987 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
7988 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
7992 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
7993 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
7994 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
7995 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
7996 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
7999 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
8001 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
8003 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
8004 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
8005 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
8008 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
8010 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
8011 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
8012 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
8013 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
8014 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
8015 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
8016 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
8017 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
8018 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
8019 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
8020 right (cf: 20040228).
8021 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
8022 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
8025 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
8026 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
8027 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
8028 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
8029 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
8030 added (Debian #295083).
8031 + add traces to panel library.
8034 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
8035 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
8036 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
8037 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
8038 mouse events in this case.
8039 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
8040 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
8043 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
8044 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
8045 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
8046 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
8047 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
8048 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
8049 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
8050 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
8053 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
8054 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
8055 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
8056 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
8057 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
8058 already been started.
8059 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
8060 pair_content() and color_content().
8061 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
8062 if it corresponds to the default-color.
8063 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
8064 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
8065 color pairs which are allowed.
8066 + add a top-level tags rule.
8069 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
8070 first calling initscr().
8071 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
8072 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
8073 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
8074 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
8075 that are curses-specific.
8076 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
8077 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
8078 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
8079 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
8083 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
8084 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
8085 for leading whitespace.
8086 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
8087 where a following line begins in column 1.
8088 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
8089 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
8092 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
8095 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
8096 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
8097 + update config.guess, config.sub
8098 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
8099 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
8100 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
8101 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
8102 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
8103 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
8104 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
8107 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
8109 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
8110 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
8113 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
8114 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
8115 and attr_set functions.
8118 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
8119 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
8120 forms-demo to be one character short.
8121 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
8122 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
8123 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
8124 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
8127 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
8128 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
8129 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
8130 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
8132 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
8133 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
8136 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
8137 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
8138 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
8139 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
8140 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat #140326).
8141 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
8142 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
8144 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
8145 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
8147 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
8148 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
8151 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
8152 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
8153 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
8154 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
8155 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
8156 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
8157 wide-character configuration.
8160 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
8161 or multicolumn characters.
8164 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
8165 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
8166 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
8167 use_default_colors() be called first.
8170 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
8171 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
8172 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
8173 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
8174 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
8175 must be wrapped to a new line.
8176 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
8177 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
8178 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
8179 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
8180 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
8184 + minor fixes for traces.
8185 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
8186 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
8187 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
8191 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
8192 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
8193 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
8194 and shift-out which seem to work.
8195 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
8196 at runtime (Debian #110586).
8199 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
8200 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
8201 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
8202 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
8206 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
8207 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
8208 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
8209 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
8212 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
8213 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
8214 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
8215 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
8216 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
8217 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
8218 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
8219 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
8220 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
8221 is no longer experimental.
8222 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
8223 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
8226 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
8229 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
8230 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
8231 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
8232 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
8233 using "tic -C" (Redhat #130921).
8234 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
8235 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
8236 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
8239 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
8240 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
8241 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
8242 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
8243 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
8244 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637).
8245 The xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and
8246 the new ones do not require this change. -TD
8249 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
8250 and window managers (Debian #265631).
8251 > terminfo updates -TD
8252 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
8253 with the common usage of bce/ech
8254 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
8258 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
8259 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
8260 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
8261 a help window as well.
8262 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
8263 the -d option is set.
8264 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
8267 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
8269 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
8270 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
8274 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
8275 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
8276 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
8277 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat #122815, patch by
8279 > terminfo updates -TD
8280 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
8281 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
8282 + add function-keys to decansi
8283 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
8284 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
8285 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
8288 > terminfo updates -TD
8289 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
8290 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
8292 + review/update konsole entries
8293 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
8294 + correct tsl string in kterm
8297 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
8300 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
8301 multibyte character.
8302 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
8304 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
8305 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
8306 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
8307 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
8308 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
8309 converting termcap to termcap format.
8310 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
8311 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
8312 > terminfo updates -TD
8313 + minor fixes for emu
8315 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
8320 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
8321 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
8322 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
8323 (report/patch by Tony Li).
8324 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
8325 > terminfo updates -TD
8326 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
8328 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
8329 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
8330 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
8333 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
8334 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
8336 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
8337 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
8338 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
8339 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
8340 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
8341 + update config.guess, config.sub
8342 > terminfo updates -TD
8344 + add xterm-xf86-v44
8345 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
8346 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
8351 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
8352 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
8353 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
8356 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
8357 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
8358 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
8360 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
8364 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
8365 field_buffer() results.
8366 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
8369 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
8371 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
8372 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
8373 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
8374 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
8375 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
8378 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
8379 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
8380 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
8384 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
8385 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
8387 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
8390 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
8391 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
8392 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
8393 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
8394 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
8395 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
8396 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
8397 information without an option.
8398 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
8399 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
8402 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
8405 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
8406 + free some memory leaks in tic.
8407 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
8408 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
8409 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
8410 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
8411 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
8413 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
8416 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
8417 to an unsigned char.
8418 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
8419 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
8422 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
8425 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
8426 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
8427 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
8428 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
8429 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
8430 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
8431 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
8432 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
8433 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
8434 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
8435 20030802 (Debian #237629).
8438 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
8439 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
8440 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
8441 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
8444 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
8446 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
8447 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
8450 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
8451 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
8452 mode is shown in that test.
8453 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
8454 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
8455 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
8458 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
8460 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
8461 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
8462 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
8463 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
8465 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
8466 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
8467 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
8468 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
8471 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
8472 (request by Mike Aubury).
8473 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
8475 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
8477 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
8480 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
8481 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
8482 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
8483 with Stanislav Ievlev).
8484 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
8485 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
8486 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
8487 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
8488 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
8489 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
8491 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
8494 20040207 pre-release
8495 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
8496 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
8497 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
8498 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
8499 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
8501 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
8502 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
8503 verified by Scott Corscadden).
8505 20040131 pre-release
8506 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
8507 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
8508 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
8509 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
8510 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
8511 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
8512 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
8513 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
8514 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
8515 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
8516 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
8518 20040125 pre-release
8519 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
8520 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
8521 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
8522 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
8523 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
8524 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
8525 modifying the displayed value.
8527 20040124 pre-release
8528 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
8529 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
8530 that works better for cross-compiling.
8532 20040117 pre-release
8533 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
8534 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
8535 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
8536 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
8537 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
8538 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
8539 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
8541 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
8542 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
8544 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
8545 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
8546 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
8547 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
8548 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
8549 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
8550 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
8551 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
8552 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
8553 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
8554 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
8555 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
8557 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
8558 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
8559 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
8560 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
8561 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
8562 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
8563 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
8564 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
8566 20040110 pre-release
8567 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
8568 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
8570 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
8571 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
8573 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
8575 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
8576 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
8577 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
8578 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
8579 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
8582 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
8583 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
8584 + add pecho_wchar().
8585 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
8586 available) on older platforms.
8589 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
8590 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
8591 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
8592 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
8593 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
8594 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
8595 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
8596 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
8597 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
8600 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
8601 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
8602 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
8603 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
8604 work with Tru64 4.0d.
8605 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
8609 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
8610 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
8611 applications do not.
8612 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
8613 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
8614 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
8615 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
8616 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
8617 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
8621 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
8622 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
8623 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
8624 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
8625 <inger@altlinux.org>).
8626 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
8627 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
8628 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
8629 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
8630 awkward for some cases.
8631 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
8632 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
8634 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
8635 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
8636 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
8637 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
8638 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
8642 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
8643 values (Philippe Blain).
8644 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
8645 restarting (Philippe Blain).
8646 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
8650 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
8651 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
8652 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
8653 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
8654 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
8655 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
8659 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
8660 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
8661 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
8663 + update config.guess, config.sub
8666 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
8667 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
8668 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
8669 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
8670 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
8671 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
8672 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
8674 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
8675 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
8676 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
8677 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
8678 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
8681 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
8682 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
8683 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
8684 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
8685 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
8686 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
8687 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
8688 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
8690 + regenerated html documentation.
8691 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
8692 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
8693 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
8696 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
8697 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
8698 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
8699 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
8700 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
8701 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
8702 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
8703 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
8707 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
8708 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
8711 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
8712 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
8713 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
8714 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
8716 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
8717 (report by Philippe Blain).
8720 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
8721 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
8722 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
8723 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
8724 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
8725 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
8726 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8727 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
8728 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
8730 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
8732 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
8733 in the clr_bol logic.
8736 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8737 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
8738 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
8739 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
8740 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
8741 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
8742 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
8743 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
8744 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
8745 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
8746 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
8747 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
8750 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
8751 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
8752 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
8753 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
8756 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
8757 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
8758 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
8759 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
8760 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
8761 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
8762 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
8763 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
8764 --with-install-prefix is used.
8767 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8768 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
8769 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
8770 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
8773 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
8774 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
8775 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
8776 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
8777 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
8778 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
8779 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8780 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
8781 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
8784 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
8785 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
8786 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
8787 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
8788 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
8789 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
8790 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
8793 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
8795 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8796 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
8797 the size of the scroll-region.
8798 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
8801 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
8802 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
8803 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
8807 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
8808 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
8809 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
8810 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
8811 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
8813 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
8814 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
8815 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
8816 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
8817 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
8818 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
8819 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
8820 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
8821 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
8822 usage and to prevent circular links.
8823 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
8824 (rxvt-color): new alias
8825 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
8826 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
8827 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
8828 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
8829 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
8830 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
8832 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
8836 + update config.guess, config.sub
8837 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
8838 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
8841 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
8842 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
8843 would not accept gcc warning options.
8844 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
8845 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
8846 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
8847 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
8848 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
8849 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
8850 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
8852 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
8855 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
8856 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
8857 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
8858 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
8859 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
8860 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
8861 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
8862 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
8865 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
8867 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
8868 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
8869 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
8870 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
8873 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
8875 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
8876 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
8877 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
8878 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
8879 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
8880 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
8883 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
8884 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
8885 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
8886 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
8887 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
8888 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
8889 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
8890 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
8892 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
8893 Albert Chin-A-Young).
8894 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
8895 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8898 + regenerated html manpages.
8899 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
8900 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
8902 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
8903 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
8905 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
8906 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
8909 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
8910 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
8911 + add tkterm entry -TD
8912 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
8913 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
8914 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
8915 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
8917 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
8918 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
8919 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
8921 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
8922 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
8923 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
8926 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
8927 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
8928 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
8929 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
8931 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
8932 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
8933 current test programs.
8934 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
8935 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
8936 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
8937 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
8939 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
8940 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
8941 mentioned in the terminfo.
8942 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
8943 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
8946 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
8947 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
8948 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
8949 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
8950 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
8951 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
8952 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
8953 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
8956 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
8957 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
8958 the editing position before making modifications.
8959 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
8960 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
8961 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
8964 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
8965 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
8966 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
8967 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
8969 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
8970 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
8971 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
8972 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
8973 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
8974 terminfo as is done in "screen".
8977 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
8978 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
8979 code, from recent rewrite.
8980 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
8982 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
8983 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
8986 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
8987 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
8988 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
8989 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
8992 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
8993 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
8995 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
8998 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
9000 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
9001 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
9003 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
9004 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
9005 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
9008 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
9009 a file when ^W is given.
9010 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
9014 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
9015 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
9016 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
9017 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
9018 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
9019 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
9020 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
9021 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
9025 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
9026 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
9027 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
9030 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
9031 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
9032 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
9033 baudrate was not known.
9034 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
9035 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
9036 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
9037 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
9038 corresponding capability might be
9040 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
9041 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
9042 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
9043 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
9046 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
9047 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
9048 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
9049 apparently typedef'd.
9050 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
9051 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
9054 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
9055 + updated configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
9056 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
9057 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
9058 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
9059 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
9060 cached for reallocating.
9063 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
9064 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
9065 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
9067 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
9068 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
9069 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
9070 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
9071 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
9072 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
9073 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
9074 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
9077 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
9078 emx-base to the latter -TD
9079 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
9080 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
9083 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
9084 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
9085 attributes, e.g., reverse.
9086 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
9087 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
9090 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
9091 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
9092 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
9093 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
9094 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
9095 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
9096 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
9098 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
9099 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
9100 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
9101 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
9102 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
9105 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
9106 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
9107 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
9108 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
9109 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
9110 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
9112 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9113 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
9114 is indeed a "blank".
9115 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
9116 sections as small as one line.
9117 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
9119 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
9120 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
9121 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
9124 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
9125 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
9128 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
9129 (report by Philippe Blain).
9130 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
9131 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
9132 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
9133 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
9134 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
9136 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
9137 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
9138 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
9139 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9140 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
9141 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
9144 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
9145 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
9147 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
9148 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
9150 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
9151 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
9152 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
9153 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
9156 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
9157 overridden from the environment.
9158 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
9159 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
9160 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
9161 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
9162 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
9163 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
9164 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
9165 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
9166 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
9167 by Sam Varshavchik).
9168 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
9169 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
9170 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
9171 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
9173 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
9174 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
9175 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
9176 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
9177 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
9180 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
9181 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
9182 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
9183 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
9184 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
9185 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
9186 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
9187 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
9188 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
9189 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
9190 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
9191 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
9192 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
9193 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
9194 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
9195 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
9196 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
9197 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
9198 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
9199 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
9200 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
9201 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
9202 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
9205 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
9206 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
9207 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
9208 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
9209 winsch() internal function.
9210 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
9211 more than one spacing character.
9214 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
9215 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
9216 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
9217 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
9218 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
9219 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
9220 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
9221 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
9222 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
9223 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
9226 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
9227 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
9228 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
9229 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
9230 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
9231 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
9232 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
9235 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
9236 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
9237 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
9238 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
9240 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
9241 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
9242 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
9243 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
9244 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
9247 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
9248 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
9249 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
9250 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
9251 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
9252 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
9253 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
9254 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
9255 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
9256 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
9257 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
9258 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
9259 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
9260 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
9261 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
9262 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
9263 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
9266 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
9267 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
9268 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
9269 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
9270 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
9271 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
9272 Frederic L W Meunier).
9274 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
9275 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
9276 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
9277 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
9278 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
9279 the debug trace in that case.
9280 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
9281 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
9282 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
9283 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
9285 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
9286 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
9288 20021005 pre-release
9289 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
9290 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
9291 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
9292 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
9293 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
9294 formats such as "%.*s".
9295 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
9296 (report Floyd Davidson).
9297 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
9299 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
9300 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
9301 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
9303 20020928 pre-release
9304 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
9305 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
9306 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
9308 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
9309 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
9310 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
9311 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
9312 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
9313 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
9314 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
9315 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
9316 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
9317 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
9318 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
9319 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
9320 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
9321 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
9322 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
9323 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
9324 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
9325 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
9326 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
9328 20020921 pre-release
9329 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
9330 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
9331 result in core dump.
9332 + documented getbegx(), etc.
9333 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
9334 delimiter rather than '@'.
9335 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9336 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
9337 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
9338 to the lines given for the destination window.
9340 20020914 pre-release
9341 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
9342 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
9343 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
9344 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
9345 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
9346 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
9347 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
9348 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
9349 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9350 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
9351 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
9352 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
9354 20020907 pre-release
9355 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
9356 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
9357 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
9358 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
9359 html manpages on Debian.
9360 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
9361 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
9362 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
9363 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9364 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
9365 a variable from the stack.
9366 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
9368 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
9369 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
9370 _idcok window fields.
9371 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
9373 20020901 pre-release
9374 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
9375 + update config.guess, config.sub
9376 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
9377 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
9379 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
9380 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
9381 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
9382 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
9383 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
9384 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
9385 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
9386 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
9387 use in resizeterm().
9388 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
9389 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
9390 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
9391 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
9392 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9393 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
9394 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
9395 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
9396 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
9397 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
9398 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
9402 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
9403 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
9404 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
9405 + fix an overlooked case for Redhat #68199 (Philippe Blain).
9406 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
9407 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
9410 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
9411 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
9412 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
9414 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
9415 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
9416 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
9417 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
9418 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
9420 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
9421 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
9425 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
9426 when translating to termcap.
9427 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
9428 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
9429 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
9431 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
9433 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
9434 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
9436 + document TABSIZE variable.
9437 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
9438 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
9439 assume_default_colors().
9440 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
9442 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
9443 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
9444 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
9445 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
9446 window (completes Debian #87678, Debian #101699)
9449 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
9451 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
9452 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
9454 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
9455 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
9456 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
9459 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
9461 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
9464 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
9465 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
9466 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
9467 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
9468 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
9469 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
9470 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
9471 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
9472 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
9473 configure definitions.
9474 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
9475 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
9476 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
9477 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
9478 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
9479 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
9480 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
9481 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
9482 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
9483 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
9484 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
9487 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
9488 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
9489 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
9490 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
9491 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
9492 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
9493 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
9495 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
9496 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
9497 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
9498 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9501 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
9502 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
9503 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
9504 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
9506 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
9507 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
9508 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
9511 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
9512 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
9514 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
9515 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
9516 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
9518 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
9519 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
9520 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
9521 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
9523 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
9524 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
9525 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
9526 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
9530 + add charset to generated html.
9531 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
9532 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
9533 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
9534 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
9535 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
9536 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
9540 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
9541 key code in get_wch().
9542 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
9543 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
9544 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
9545 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
9546 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
9547 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
9550 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
9551 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
9553 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
9554 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
9555 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
9556 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
9559 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
9560 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
9561 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
9562 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
9563 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
9564 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
9565 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
9566 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
9567 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
9568 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
9571 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
9575 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
9576 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
9577 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
9578 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
9579 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
9580 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
9581 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
9584 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
9585 character versions as well.
9586 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
9588 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
9590 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
9591 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
9592 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
9593 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
9594 if gettimeofday() is available.
9597 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
9598 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
9601 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
9603 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
9604 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
9605 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
9606 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
9607 + update config.guess, config.sub
9610 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
9611 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
9612 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
9613 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
9614 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
9615 alias for 'function'.
9618 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
9619 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
9623 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
9624 + implement wgetn_wstr().
9625 + implement win_wchnstr().
9626 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
9627 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
9630 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
9631 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
9634 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
9635 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
9638 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
9639 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
9640 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
9642 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
9643 + implement unget_wch().
9644 + implement wget_wch().
9647 + regenerated html manpages.
9648 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
9649 + implement wins_wch().
9650 + implement win_wch().
9651 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
9654 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
9655 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
9658 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
9659 + document wunctrl, key_name.
9660 + implement key_name().
9661 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
9663 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
9667 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
9668 in spurious symlinks on install.
9671 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
9672 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
9673 box() and box_set() functions.
9674 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
9675 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
9676 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
9677 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
9678 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
9679 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
9680 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
9682 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
9684 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
9685 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
9686 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
9687 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
9689 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
9690 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
9693 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
9694 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
9696 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
9700 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
9702 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
9703 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
9704 Albert Chin-A-Young).
9705 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
9706 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
9707 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
9708 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
9709 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
9710 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
9711 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
9712 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
9713 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
9714 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
9715 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
9716 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
9719 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
9720 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
9723 + update config.guess, config.sub
9724 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
9725 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
9728 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
9729 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
9730 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
9732 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
9733 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
9735 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
9736 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
9737 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
9738 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
9741 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
9744 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
9745 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
9746 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
9747 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
9748 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
9749 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
9750 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
9751 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
9752 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
9754 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
9755 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
9756 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
9758 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
9760 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
9761 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
9762 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
9763 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
9764 work with SunOS nawk.
9765 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
9767 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
9768 case it uses multiple tokens.
9771 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
9772 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
9773 interrupted by that signal.
9774 + updated configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
9775 not needed with autoconf 2.52
9776 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
9777 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
9779 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
9780 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
9781 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
9782 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
9783 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
9786 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
9788 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
9789 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
9790 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
9791 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
9792 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
9793 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
9794 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
9795 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
9798 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
9799 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
9800 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
9801 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
9802 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
9803 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
9804 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
9805 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
9806 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
9809 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
9810 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
9811 may have different keypad() settings.
9812 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
9813 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
9814 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
9815 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
9816 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
9817 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
9818 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
9819 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
9821 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
9822 + update config.guess, config.sub from
9823 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
9824 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
9828 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
9830 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
9831 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
9832 implementation in cygwin package).
9833 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
9834 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
9836 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
9837 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
9838 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
9839 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
9840 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
9841 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
9842 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
9843 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
9844 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
9846 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
9847 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
9848 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
9849 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
9850 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
9851 <jevans@apple.com>).
9852 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
9853 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
9854 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
9855 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
9856 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
9860 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
9861 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
9862 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
9863 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
9864 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
9865 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
9866 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
9867 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
9868 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
9869 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
9872 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
9875 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
9876 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
9877 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
9878 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
9879 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
9882 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
9883 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
9886 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
9887 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
9888 + implement wecho_wchar()
9889 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
9890 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
9891 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
9893 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
9894 in a trace by using curly braces.
9895 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
9896 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
9897 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
9898 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
9901 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
9902 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
9903 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
9904 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
9905 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
9909 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
9910 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
9911 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
9912 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
9913 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
9914 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
9915 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
9916 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
9920 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
9921 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
9922 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
9923 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
9924 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
9925 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
9926 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
9927 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
9928 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
9931 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
9932 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
9935 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
9936 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
9937 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
9938 <bbraun@synack.net>).
9939 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
9940 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
9942 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
9943 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
9945 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
9946 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
9949 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
9950 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
9951 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
9952 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
9953 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
9955 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
9956 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
9958 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
9959 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
9960 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
9961 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
9962 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
9965 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
9966 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
9968 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
9969 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
9970 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
9971 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
9974 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
9975 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
9976 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
9977 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
9978 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
9982 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
9983 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
9984 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
9986 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
9988 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
9990 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
9992 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
9993 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
9994 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
9995 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
9996 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
9997 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
9998 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
9999 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
10000 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
10004 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
10005 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
10006 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
10007 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
10008 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
10009 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
10010 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
10011 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
10012 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
10013 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
10015 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
10016 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
10017 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10018 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
10019 supports xterm mouse controls.
10020 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
10021 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
10022 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
10023 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
10024 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
10025 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
10026 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
10027 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
10028 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
10029 AX in a color xterm.
10030 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
10034 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
10035 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
10036 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
10037 + added llib-ncursesw.
10040 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
10041 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
10042 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
10043 header files (report by William P Setzer).
10044 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
10045 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
10046 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
10047 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10048 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
10049 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
10050 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
10051 Albert Chin-A-Young).
10052 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
10053 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10054 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
10055 obsolete with QNX RTP.
10056 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
10057 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
10058 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
10059 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
10062 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
10063 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
10064 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
10067 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
10068 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
10069 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
10070 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
10071 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
10072 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
10073 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
10074 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
10075 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
10076 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
10077 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
10078 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
10082 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
10083 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
10084 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
10085 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
10086 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
10087 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
10088 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10091 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
10092 new wide-character structures.
10093 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
10094 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
10095 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
10096 compiling for wide-character configuration.
10097 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
10101 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
10103 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
10104 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
10105 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
10107 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
10108 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
10109 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
10112 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
10113 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
10114 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
10117 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
10118 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
10119 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
10120 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
10121 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
10122 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
10123 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
10126 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
10127 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
10128 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
10129 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
10130 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
10131 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
10132 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
10133 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
10134 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
10137 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
10138 which may be in libutf8.
10139 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
10140 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
10141 links (Debian #99550).
10142 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
10143 C++ vscan code (Debian #97945).
10144 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
10145 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
10146 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
10147 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
10148 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
10149 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
10152 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
10153 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
10156 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
10157 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
10158 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
10159 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
10160 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
10162 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
10163 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
10164 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
10165 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
10166 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
10167 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
10168 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
10169 are used to manipulate attributes.
10170 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
10171 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
10172 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
10173 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
10174 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
10175 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
10177 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
10178 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
10179 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
10180 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
10181 we are using chtype data.
10182 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
10184 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
10186 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
10187 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
10188 where a pointer would be more useful.
10189 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
10190 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
10191 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
10192 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
10193 passing cchar_t's by address.
10194 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
10195 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
10196 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
10197 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
10198 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
10199 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
10200 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
10201 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
10204 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
10205 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
10206 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
10207 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
10208 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
10210 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
10211 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
10212 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
10215 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
10216 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
10217 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
10218 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
10219 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
10220 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
10221 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
10222 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
10223 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
10224 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
10225 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
10226 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
10229 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
10230 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
10231 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
10234 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
10235 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
10238 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
10239 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
10240 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
10241 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
10242 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
10245 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
10246 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
10247 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
10248 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
10249 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
10250 <bsittler@iname.com>).
10251 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
10252 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
10253 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
10254 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
10255 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
10258 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
10259 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
10260 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
10261 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
10262 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
10263 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
10264 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
10265 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
10266 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
10267 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
10268 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
10269 any shots there, but the computer did.
10270 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
10271 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
10275 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
10276 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
10277 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
10278 3.09.08 (Debian #92215).
10279 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
10280 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10283 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
10284 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
10285 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
10286 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
10287 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
10289 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
10291 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
10292 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
10294 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
10296 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
10297 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian #89222).
10300 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
10301 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
10302 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
10303 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
10304 interface from C++ binding.
10305 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
10306 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
10307 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
10308 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
10310 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
10311 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
10312 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
10313 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
10316 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
10317 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
10318 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
10319 (patch by Todd C Miller).
10322 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
10325 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
10329 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
10330 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
10331 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
10332 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
10333 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
10334 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
10335 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
10336 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
10337 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
10338 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
10339 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
10340 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
10343 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
10344 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
10346 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
10347 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
10348 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
10349 did not do this already.
10350 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
10351 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10352 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
10353 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
10354 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
10355 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
10356 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
10357 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
10360 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
10361 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
10364 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
10365 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
10366 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
10367 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
10369 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
10371 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
10372 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
10374 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
10375 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
10376 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
10377 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
10378 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
10381 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
10382 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
10383 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
10384 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
10387 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
10388 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
10389 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
10392 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
10393 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
10394 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
10395 work with 'indent') -TD
10398 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
10399 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
10400 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10401 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
10402 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
10404 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
10405 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
10406 termcap and terminfo functions
10407 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
10411 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
10412 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
10413 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
10414 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
10415 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
10416 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
10418 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
10419 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
10420 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
10421 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
10422 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
10423 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
10424 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
10425 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
10428 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
10429 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
10430 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
10431 /usr rather than /usr/local.
10434 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
10435 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
10436 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
10437 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
10438 <solar@false.com>).
10439 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
10440 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
10441 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
10442 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
10443 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
10444 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
10445 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
10446 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
10449 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
10450 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
10451 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
10452 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
10453 + change trace output to binary format.
10454 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
10455 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
10456 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
10457 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
10458 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
10459 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
10460 the overwrite logic.
10463 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
10464 + resync config.guess, config.sub
10465 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
10466 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
10467 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
10468 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
10470 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
10471 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
10474 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
10475 + update generated html files from manpages.
10476 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
10478 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
10479 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
10480 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
10481 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
10482 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10483 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
10484 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
10485 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
10488 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
10489 wrapping at the right margin.
10490 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
10491 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
10492 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
10494 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
10495 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
10496 understands how to run tbl automatically.
10497 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
10498 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
10499 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
10500 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
10501 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
10502 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
10503 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
10504 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
10505 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
10506 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
10507 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
10508 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
10509 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
10510 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
10511 option --with-libtool.
10512 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
10513 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
10514 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
10515 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
10516 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
10519 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
10520 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
10521 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
10522 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
10523 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
10524 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
10525 > patch by Todd C Miller:
10526 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
10527 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
10528 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
10529 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
10530 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
10531 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
10532 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
10533 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
10534 to set up a 3-button mouse.
10535 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
10536 replace select() call.
10539 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
10540 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
10541 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
10542 Albert Chin-A-Young).
10543 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
10544 cursor report before decoding.
10545 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
10546 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
10547 (see assume_default_colors()).
10548 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
10549 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
10551 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
10552 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
10553 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
10555 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
10556 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
10557 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
10558 for that capability.
10559 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
10560 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
10561 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
10562 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
10563 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
10564 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
10567 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
10568 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
10569 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
10570 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
10571 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
10572 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
10573 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
10574 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
10575 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
10577 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
10578 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
10579 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
10580 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
10581 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
10582 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
10583 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10586 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
10587 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
10588 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
10589 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
10590 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
10592 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
10593 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
10594 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
10595 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
10596 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
10597 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
10598 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
10599 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
10600 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
10601 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
10602 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
10603 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
10604 the expected number of parameters.
10605 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
10606 the option value is indeed a number.
10607 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
10608 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
10609 from the other signals.
10612 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
10613 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
10614 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
10617 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
10618 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
10620 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
10621 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
10622 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
10624 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
10625 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
10626 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
10627 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
10628 character set attribute from the displayed text.
10629 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
10630 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
10631 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
10632 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
10633 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
10634 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10637 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
10638 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
10639 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
10640 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
10641 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
10642 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
10643 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10644 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
10645 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
10646 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
10648 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
10649 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
10651 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
10652 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
10653 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
10654 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
10655 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
10656 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
10659 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
10660 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
10661 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
10662 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
10663 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
10664 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
10665 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
10666 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
10667 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
10668 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10669 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
10670 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
10671 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
10672 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
10673 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
10675 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
10676 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
10677 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
10680 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
10681 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
10682 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
10683 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
10685 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
10686 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
10687 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
10688 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
10689 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
10690 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
10691 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
10692 rules in makefiles.
10693 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
10694 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
10695 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
10696 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
10697 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
10698 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
10699 a default program-prefix.
10700 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
10701 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
10704 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
10705 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
10706 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
10707 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
10708 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
10709 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
10710 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
10711 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
10712 although the name is misleading).
10713 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
10714 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
10715 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
10716 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
10719 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
10720 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
10721 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
10723 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
10724 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
10726 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
10727 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
10728 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
10730 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
10731 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
10732 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
10733 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
10734 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
10735 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
10736 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
10737 test/configure script.
10738 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
10739 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
10740 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
10743 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
10746 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
10747 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
10748 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
10749 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
10750 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
10752 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
10753 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
10754 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
10756 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
10757 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
10760 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
10761 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10762 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
10763 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
10764 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
10765 there's still the explicit configure option).
10766 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
10767 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
10768 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
10769 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
10770 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
10771 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
10772 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
10773 simplify working around implementations that define random
10774 combinations of the related macros to zero.
10775 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
10776 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
10777 > patches by Bruno Haible:
10778 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
10779 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
10780 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
10781 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
10782 out-of-range value.
10785 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
10786 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10787 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
10788 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
10789 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
10790 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
10791 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
10792 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
10793 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
10794 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
10795 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
10796 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
10797 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
10798 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
10801 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
10802 + document configure options in INSTALL.
10803 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
10804 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
10805 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
10806 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
10807 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
10808 list of generated functions.
10809 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
10810 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
10811 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
10813 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
10814 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
10815 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
10816 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
10817 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
10819 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
10820 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
10821 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
10822 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
10823 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
10824 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
10825 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
10826 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
10827 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
10828 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
10829 examples cited in announce.html
10830 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
10831 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
10832 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
10833 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
10834 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
10835 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
10836 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
10837 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
10840 20000701 pre-release
10841 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
10842 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
10843 $COLORFGBG variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
10844 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
10845 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
10846 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
10848 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
10850 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
10852 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
10853 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
10854 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
10855 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
10856 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
10858 20000624 pre-release
10859 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
10860 that happen to render the same display colors.
10861 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
10862 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
10863 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
10864 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
10865 normalized value for cursor_address.
10866 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
10869 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
10870 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
10871 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
10872 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
10873 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
10874 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
10875 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
10876 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
10877 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
10878 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
10879 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
10880 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
10881 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
10885 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
10886 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
10887 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
10888 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
10889 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
10890 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
10891 allows larger symbol tables.
10892 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
10893 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
10894 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
10895 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
10899 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
10900 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
10901 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
10902 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
10903 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
10904 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
10905 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
10906 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
10907 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
10908 + add a "make libs" rule.
10909 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
10910 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
10911 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
10912 with existing ncurses libraries.
10915 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
10916 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
10917 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
10918 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
10919 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
10920 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
10921 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
10922 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
10923 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
10924 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
10925 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
10926 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
10927 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
10928 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
10931 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
10932 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
10933 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
10934 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
10938 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
10939 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
10940 <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>).
10941 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
10942 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
10943 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
10946 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
10947 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
10948 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
10949 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
10950 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
10952 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
10953 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
10954 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
10955 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
10956 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
10957 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
10958 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
10959 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
10962 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
10963 aixterm entries -TD
10964 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
10965 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
10966 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
10967 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
10968 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
10969 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
10970 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
10971 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
10972 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
10973 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
10974 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
10975 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
10978 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
10979 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
10980 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
10981 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
10982 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10983 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
10984 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
10985 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
10986 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
10987 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
10988 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
10989 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
10990 means that it will not recur for that special case.
10991 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
10992 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
10993 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
10994 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10997 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
10998 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
10999 bg300-rv in esr's version.
11000 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
11001 (fixes Debian #61088).
11002 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
11003 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
11004 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
11007 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
11008 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
11009 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
11010 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
11011 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
11014 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
11015 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
11016 improvement in setting default colors.
11017 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
11018 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
11019 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
11021 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
11022 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
11023 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
11024 check for buffer overflow.
11025 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
11026 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
11027 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
11028 such as "infocmp -Fa".
11031 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
11032 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
11033 is not permitted in termcap.
11034 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
11035 integrating 20000318.
11038 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
11039 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
11040 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
11041 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
11043 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
11044 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
11045 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
11046 result for OS/2 EMX.
11047 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
11048 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
11049 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
11050 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
11051 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
11052 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
11055 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
11056 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
11057 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
11059 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
11060 displaying string capabilities.
11061 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
11062 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
11063 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
11064 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
11065 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
11066 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
11068 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
11069 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
11071 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
11072 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
11073 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
11074 may not produce the same result as before.
11075 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
11076 _nc_resolve_uses().
11077 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
11078 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
11080 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
11081 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
11083 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
11084 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11085 + drop support for gnat 3.10
11086 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
11087 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
11090 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
11091 made it check only one entry at a time.
11092 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
11094 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
11095 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
11096 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
11097 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
11098 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
11099 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
11100 address out of bounds.
11101 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
11102 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
11103 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
11104 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
11106 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
11107 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
11108 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
11110 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
11113 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
11114 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
11115 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
11116 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
11118 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
11119 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
11120 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
11121 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
11122 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
11123 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
11125 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
11126 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
11127 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
11128 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
11129 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
11130 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
11131 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
11132 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
11135 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
11136 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11137 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
11138 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
11139 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
11140 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
11144 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
11145 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
11146 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
11147 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
11148 colors are white on black.
11149 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
11150 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
11151 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
11152 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
11153 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
11156 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
11157 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
11158 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
11159 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
11160 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
11161 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
11162 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
11163 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
11164 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
11165 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
11166 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
11169 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
11170 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
11171 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
11172 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
11173 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
11174 to wait indefinitely.
11177 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
11178 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
11179 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
11180 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
11181 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
11182 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
11183 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
11184 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
11185 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
11186 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11187 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
11188 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
11192 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
11193 programs build with c++/g++.
11194 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
11195 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
11196 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
11197 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
11198 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
11199 + document a special case of incompatibility between ncurses 4.2 and
11200 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
11201 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
11204 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
11205 for ncurses 5.0 -TD
11206 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
11207 terminfo entries -TD
11208 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
11209 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
11210 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
11211 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
11213 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
11214 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
11216 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
11218 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
11219 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
11220 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
11221 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
11222 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
11223 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
11224 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
11225 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
11226 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
11230 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
11231 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
11232 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
11233 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
11234 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
11235 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
11236 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
11237 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
11238 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
11239 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
11240 use_extended_names().
11243 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
11244 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
11245 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
11246 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
11247 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
11248 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
11249 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
11250 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
11251 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
11252 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
11253 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
11254 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
11255 + add manpage for infotocap
11258 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
11259 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
11260 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
11261 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
11262 than terminfo only.
11263 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
11264 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
11265 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
11266 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
11267 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
11268 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
11269 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
11270 initc for xterm-88color.
11271 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
11275 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
11276 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
11278 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
11279 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
11280 SP, since it is part of that struct.
11281 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
11283 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
11284 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
11285 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
11286 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
11287 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
11288 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
11289 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
11290 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
11291 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
11293 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
11294 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
11295 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11296 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
11298 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
11301 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
11302 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
11303 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
11304 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
11305 over the use of default colors.
11306 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
11307 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
11308 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
11309 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
11310 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
11311 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
11312 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
11313 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
11316 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
11317 <robert@progplus.com>)
11318 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
11319 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
11320 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
11323 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
11324 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
11325 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
11327 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
11328 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
11329 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
11330 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
11331 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
11332 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
11333 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
11334 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
11335 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
11336 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
11337 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
11338 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
11340 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
11341 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
11344 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
11345 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
11347 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
11348 (request by Bob van der Poel).
11349 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
11350 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
11351 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
11352 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
11353 libraries by default.
11354 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
11356 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
11357 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
11359 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
11360 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
11361 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
11362 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
11363 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
11364 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
11365 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
11367 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
11369 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
11370 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
11371 advice from Bela Lubkin).
11372 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
11373 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11374 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
11375 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
11376 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
11377 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
11380 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
11383 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
11384 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
11385 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
11386 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
11387 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
11388 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
11389 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
11390 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
11391 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
11392 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
11395 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
11396 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
11397 Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11398 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
11399 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
11400 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
11401 <bledp@voila.fr>)).
11402 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
11403 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
11404 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
11405 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
11406 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
11407 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
11408 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
11409 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
11410 is used), and in color.
11411 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
11412 shared library rules.
11415 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
11416 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
11417 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
11418 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
11419 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
11420 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
11421 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
11422 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
11423 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
11424 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
11425 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
11426 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
11427 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
11428 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
11429 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
11430 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
11431 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11434 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
11435 <j@interface-business.de>).
11436 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
11437 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
11438 that hard-links work on Unix again.
11439 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
11440 Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
11441 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
11444 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
11445 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
11446 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
11447 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
11448 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
11449 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
11450 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
11451 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
11452 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
11453 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
11454 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
11455 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
11456 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
11459 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
11460 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
11461 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
11462 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
11463 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
11464 in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
11465 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
11466 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
11467 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
11468 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
11469 function works only for sockets.
11470 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
11471 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
11472 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
11473 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
11474 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
11475 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
11476 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
11477 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
11478 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
11479 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
11482 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
11483 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
11484 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
11485 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
11486 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
11487 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
11488 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
11491 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
11492 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
11493 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
11495 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
11496 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
11497 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
11498 nonfunctional link().
11499 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
11500 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
11503 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
11504 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
11505 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
11508 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
11509 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
11510 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
11511 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
11512 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
11513 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
11514 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11515 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
11516 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
11517 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
11518 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
11519 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
11520 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
11521 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
11522 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
11523 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
11524 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
11525 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
11526 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
11527 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
11530 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
11531 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
11532 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
11533 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
11534 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
11535 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
11536 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
11537 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
11538 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
11539 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
11540 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
11541 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
11542 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
11543 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
11544 short-circuit expression evaluation.
11545 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
11546 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
11548 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
11549 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
11550 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
11551 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
11552 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
11556 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
11557 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
11559 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
11560 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
11561 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
11564 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
11565 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
11566 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
11567 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
11568 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
11569 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
11570 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
11571 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
11573 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
11574 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
11575 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11578 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
11579 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
11580 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
11581 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
11582 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
11583 --with-rcs-ids option.
11586 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
11587 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
11589 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
11590 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
11591 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
11595 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
11596 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
11597 BeOS predefines a bool type.
11598 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
11599 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
11600 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
11601 option to infocmp -TD
11602 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11603 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
11604 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
11605 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
11606 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
11607 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
11608 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
11611 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11612 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
11613 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
11614 + change interface version-number to 1.0
11615 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
11618 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
11619 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
11620 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
11621 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
11622 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
11623 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
11624 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
11625 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
11626 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
11627 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
11629 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
11630 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (prompted by
11631 discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
11634 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
11635 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
11636 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
11638 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
11639 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
11642 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
11643 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11644 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
11645 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
11646 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
11649 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
11653 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
11654 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
11655 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
11656 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
11657 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
11659 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
11660 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
11661 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
11662 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
11665 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
11666 fields, and showing forms within panels.
11667 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
11668 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
11669 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
11670 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
11671 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
11672 ownership may change).
11675 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
11677 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
11678 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
11679 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11680 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
11681 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
11682 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
11683 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
11685 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
11686 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
11687 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
11688 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
11689 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
11690 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
11693 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
11694 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
11696 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
11697 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
11698 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
11699 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11702 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
11703 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
11704 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
11705 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
11706 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
11707 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
11711 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
11712 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11713 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
11714 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
11715 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
11716 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
11717 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
11718 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
11721 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
11722 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
11723 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
11724 Alexander V Lukyanov).
11727 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
11728 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
11731 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the "-g" option.
11732 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
11733 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
11734 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
11735 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11736 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
11737 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
11738 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
11739 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
11740 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
11741 reset for the next newterm.
11742 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
11743 terminal has true SLKs.
11744 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
11747 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
11748 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
11749 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
11750 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
11751 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
11752 read of the extended capabilities.
11753 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
11754 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
11755 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
11756 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
11757 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
11758 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
11759 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
11760 throughout ncurses library.
11761 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
11762 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
11764 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
11765 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
11766 + regenerate some of the html documentation
11767 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
11770 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
11771 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
11772 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
11773 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatibility - TD
11774 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
11776 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
11778 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
11779 defined for a keycode.
11780 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
11781 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
11782 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
11783 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
11784 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
11786 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11787 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
11788 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
11789 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
11790 no longer required.
11791 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
11792 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
11794 + modify configuration scripts to
11795 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
11796 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
11797 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
11798 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
11799 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
11800 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
11801 + rename ada_include directory to src.
11804 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
11805 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
11806 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
11810 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
11811 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
11812 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
11813 though the problem is more general.
11814 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
11815 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
11816 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
11817 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
11819 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
11820 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
11821 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
11824 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
11825 Alexander V Lukyanov).
11826 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
11827 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
11828 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
11829 operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11830 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
11831 be any substring rather than the prefix.
11832 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
11833 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
11834 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
11835 has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
11836 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
11837 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
11838 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
11839 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
11840 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
11841 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
11842 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
11843 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
11844 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
11845 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
11846 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
11847 --with-shlib-version option.
11850 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
11851 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
11852 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
11853 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
11854 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
11855 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
11856 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
11857 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
11858 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
11859 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
11860 intended for compatibility upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
11861 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
11862 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
11863 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
11864 source distribution.
11867 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
11868 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
11869 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
11871 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
11872 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
11873 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
11874 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
11875 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
11878 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
11881 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
11882 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
11883 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
11884 Alexander V Lukyanov).
11885 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
11886 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
11887 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
11888 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
11889 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11890 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
11891 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
11892 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
11893 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
11894 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
11896 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
11897 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
11898 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
11899 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
11902 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
11904 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
11905 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
11906 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
11907 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
11908 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
11909 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
11910 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
11911 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
11912 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
11913 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
11914 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
11915 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
11916 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
11917 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
11918 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
11919 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
11920 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
11924 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
11925 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
11926 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
11927 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
11928 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
11929 running screen built with ncurses.
11930 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
11931 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
11932 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
11935 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
11938 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
11939 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
11940 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
11941 by a Debian bug report).
11942 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
11943 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
11945 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
11946 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
11947 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
11948 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
11952 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
11953 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
11954 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
11955 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
11956 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
11957 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
11958 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
11959 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
11960 (reported by H.J.Lu).
11963 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
11964 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
11965 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
11966 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
11967 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
11968 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
11969 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
11970 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
11971 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
11972 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
11973 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11974 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
11976 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
11977 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
11979 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
11981 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
11983 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
11984 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
11988 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
11989 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
11990 address rather than its length.
11991 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
11992 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
11993 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
11994 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
11995 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
11996 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
11997 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
11998 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
11999 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
12000 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
12003 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
12004 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
12006 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
12007 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
12008 for an older version of ncurses.
12009 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
12010 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
12011 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
12012 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
12013 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
12014 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
12015 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
12016 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
12017 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
12018 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
12019 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
12020 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
12022 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
12023 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
12026 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
12027 (request by Larry Virden).
12028 > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
12029 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
12030 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
12031 changes to ncurses library.
12032 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
12033 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
12034 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
12035 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
12036 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
12037 + some Ada95 cosmetics
12038 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
12039 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
12040 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
12043 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
12044 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
12045 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
12046 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
12047 proposed changes to ncurses library.
12048 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
12049 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
12050 broken configure scripts.
12053 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
12055 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
12056 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
12057 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
12059 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
12060 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
12064 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
12065 with --srcdir option.
12066 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
12067 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
12068 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
12069 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
12070 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
12071 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12074 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
12075 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
12076 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
12078 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
12079 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
12080 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
12081 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
12082 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
12083 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
12084 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
12085 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
12088 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
12089 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12092 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
12093 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
12094 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
12095 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
12096 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
12097 some older entries - TD
12098 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
12099 since that is a little more efficient.
12100 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
12101 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
12102 + add "-g" option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
12103 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
12104 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
12105 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
12107 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
12109 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
12110 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
12112 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
12113 + use format string for printing strings.
12114 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
12117 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
12118 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
12119 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
12120 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
12121 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
12122 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
12123 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
12124 > patches by Todd C Miller:
12125 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
12126 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
12127 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
12128 dealing with env variables again.
12129 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
12130 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
12131 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
12132 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
12133 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
12134 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
12135 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
12136 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
12137 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
12138 newhash data to SP struct.
12139 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
12140 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
12141 function's parameter which is deleted.
12142 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
12143 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
12144 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
12145 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
12149 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
12150 consistent treatment.
12151 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
12152 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
12153 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
12154 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
12157 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
12158 capability name, as in SVr4.
12159 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
12160 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
12161 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
12164 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
12165 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
12166 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
12167 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
12168 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
12169 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
12170 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
12171 > from esr's terminfo version:
12172 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
12173 + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
12174 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
12177 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
12178 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
12179 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
12180 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
12181 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
12182 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
12183 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
12184 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
12185 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
12186 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
12190 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
12191 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
12192 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
12193 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
12194 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
12197 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
12198 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
12202 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
12203 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
12204 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
12205 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
12206 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
12207 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
12208 as obtained via ioctl.
12211 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
12212 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
12213 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
12214 turning attributes off.
12215 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
12216 initializing multiple screens.
12217 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
12218 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
12219 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
12222 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
12223 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
12224 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
12225 with Solaris curses).
12226 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
12227 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
12228 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
12229 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
12230 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
12231 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
12232 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
12233 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
12236 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
12237 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
12238 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
12239 (request by QingLong).
12240 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
12241 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
12242 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
12243 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
12245 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
12246 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
12247 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
12248 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
12249 otherwise simply exit with an error.
12252 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
12253 "_g" for a debug build).
12254 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
12255 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
12256 compile/link working Ada95 program.
12257 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
12258 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
12259 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
12260 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
12261 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
12262 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
12266 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
12267 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
12268 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
12269 corresponds to vt100.
12270 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
12271 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
12274 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
12275 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
12276 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
12277 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
12278 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
12279 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
12280 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
12281 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
12282 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
12283 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12286 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
12287 several minor errors/omissions.
12288 + implement tparm %l format.
12289 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
12291 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
12294 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
12295 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
12296 to be written to large screens.
12297 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
12298 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
12299 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
12300 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
12301 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
12303 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
12304 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12305 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
12306 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
12309 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
12311 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
12313 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
12314 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
12315 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
12316 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
12317 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
12318 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
12319 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
12321 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
12322 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
12324 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
12327 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
12328 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
12329 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
12330 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
12331 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
12332 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
12333 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
12334 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
12335 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
12336 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
12339 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
12340 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12341 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibility
12342 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
12343 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
12344 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
12345 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
12346 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
12347 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
12348 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
12349 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
12350 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
12351 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
12354 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
12355 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
12356 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
12357 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
12358 which contains a colon in the description field.
12359 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
12360 from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
12361 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
12363 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
12364 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
12367 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
12368 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
12369 color pair numbers.
12370 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
12371 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
12372 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
12373 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
12374 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
12375 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
12376 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
12377 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
12378 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
12379 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
12380 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
12381 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
12382 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
12383 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
12384 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
12385 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
12386 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
12387 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
12388 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
12389 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
12390 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
12391 comparisons out of inner loop.
12394 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
12395 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
12396 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
12397 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
12398 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
12399 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
12400 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
12401 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
12402 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
12404 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
12405 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
12406 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
12409 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
12410 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
12411 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
12412 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
12413 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
12414 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
12415 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
12416 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
12417 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
12418 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
12421 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
12422 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
12423 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
12424 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
12426 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
12427 avoid ambiguous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
12428 by Juergen Pfeifer).
12431 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
12432 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
12435 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
12436 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
12437 uses them when they are available.
12438 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
12439 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
12440 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
12441 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
12443 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
12446 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
12447 declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
12448 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
12449 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
12451 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12452 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
12453 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
12454 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
12455 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
12456 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
12457 use --disable-overwrite).
12458 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
12459 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
12460 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
12461 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
12462 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
12463 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
12464 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
12465 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
12466 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
12470 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
12471 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12472 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
12473 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
12474 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
12475 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
12476 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
12477 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
12479 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
12480 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
12481 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
12482 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
12484 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
12485 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
12486 parameter according to XSI.
12487 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
12488 reflect above enhancements.
12491 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
12492 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
12493 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
12494 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
12496 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
12498 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
12500 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
12501 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
12502 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
12505 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
12506 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
12507 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
12508 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
12509 <claesg@algonet.se>).
12510 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
12511 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
12514 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
12515 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
12516 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
12518 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
12519 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
12520 by Florian La Roche).
12521 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
12522 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
12523 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
12524 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
12527 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
12528 distributions, though it is retained in development.
12529 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
12531 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
12532 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
12533 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
12534 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
12535 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
12538 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
12540 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
12541 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
12542 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
12543 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
12544 This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
12545 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
12547 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
12548 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
12549 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
12551 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
12552 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
12553 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
12556 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
12557 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
12559 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
12560 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
12562 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
12564 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
12566 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
12568 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
12569 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
12570 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
12571 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
12572 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
12574 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
12575 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
12577 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
12578 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
12579 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
12580 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
12581 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
12582 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
12583 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
12584 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
12585 turn off attributes inconsistently.
12588 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
12589 test for no_color_video.
12590 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
12592 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
12593 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
12594 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
12595 <brett@xylan.com>).
12596 > from reports by Fred Fish:
12597 + add configure-test for isascii
12598 + add configure-test for -lm library.
12599 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
12600 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
12601 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
12602 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
12603 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
12604 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
12605 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
12607 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
12608 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
12610 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
12611 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
12612 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
12613 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
12614 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
12617 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
12618 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
12620 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
12622 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
12623 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
12624 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
12626 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
12627 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
12629 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
12631 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
12632 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
12633 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
12634 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12635 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
12636 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
12637 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
12638 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
12639 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
12640 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
12641 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
12642 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
12643 fields are also always inactive.
12644 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
12645 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
12648 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
12649 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
12650 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
12651 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
12652 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
12653 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
12654 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
12655 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
12656 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
12659 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
12660 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
12661 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
12662 defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
12663 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
12665 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
12666 Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
12667 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
12668 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
12669 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
12670 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
12671 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
12672 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
12673 cross-platform compatibility.
12674 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
12675 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
12676 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12677 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
12679 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
12683 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
12684 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
12685 EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
12686 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
12687 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
12688 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
12689 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
12690 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
12691 that simply cannot scroll.
12692 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
12693 embedded \200 characters are matched.
12694 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
12698 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
12699 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
12700 functions from the build.
12701 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
12702 functions as a separate library.
12703 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
12704 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
12705 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
12706 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
12707 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
12708 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
12709 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
12710 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
12711 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
12713 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12714 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
12715 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
12718 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
12719 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
12721 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
12722 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
12723 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
12724 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
12727 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
12728 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
12729 + add configure check for 'tack'.
12730 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
12731 for Debian configuration.
12732 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
12734 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
12735 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
12737 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
12738 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
12739 case of wide characters in chtype.
12740 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
12741 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
12742 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
12745 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
12746 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
12747 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
12748 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
12749 have set root's umask to 077.
12750 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
12751 end of output when they had embedded comments.
12752 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
12753 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
12754 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
12755 correct logic for handling backslashes.
12756 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
12757 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
12758 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
12759 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
12760 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
12761 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
12763 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12764 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
12766 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
12767 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
12769 + resync of the html version of the manpages
12772 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
12773 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
12775 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
12776 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
12777 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
12778 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
12779 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12780 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
12781 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
12782 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
12786 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
12788 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
12789 comments from Daniel Weaver.
12790 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
12791 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
12792 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
12793 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
12795 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
12796 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
12797 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
12799 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
12800 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
12803 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
12807 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
12808 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
12809 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
12810 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
12811 in call to delay_output().
12812 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
12813 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
12814 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
12815 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
12816 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
12818 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
12819 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
12820 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
12821 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
12822 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
12823 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
12824 so that will work on NeXT.
12825 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
12826 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
12829 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
12831 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
12833 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
12834 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
12835 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
12836 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
12837 when that feature is not configured.
12838 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
12839 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
12840 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
12841 (this dates back to 951102 in 1.9.7a).
12842 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
12843 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
12844 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
12845 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
12848 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
12850 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
12851 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
12853 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
12855 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
12856 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
12859 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
12860 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
12861 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
12862 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
12863 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
12864 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
12865 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
12866 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
12867 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
12869 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
12870 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
12871 tputs() if called from that function.
12872 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
12873 tputs works when SP is not set.
12874 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12875 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
12876 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
12877 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implementation
12878 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
12879 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
12882 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
12883 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
12884 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
12885 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
12886 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
12887 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
12888 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
12889 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
12890 _nc_update_screensize().
12891 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
12893 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
12894 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
12895 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
12896 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
12897 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
12898 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12899 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
12900 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
12901 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
12902 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
12904 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
12908 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
12909 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
12910 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
12912 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
12913 click-interval without modifying it.
12914 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
12915 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
12917 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
12918 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
12919 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
12920 other ncurses headers.
12921 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
12922 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
12923 (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
12924 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
12925 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
12926 characters output in delay_output().
12927 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
12928 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
12929 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
12930 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
12931 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
12933 + typo in configure --help.
12934 > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
12935 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
12936 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
12937 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
12940 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12941 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
12944 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
12945 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
12946 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
12947 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
12948 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
12950 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
12951 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
12952 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
12953 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
12954 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
12955 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
12956 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
12957 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
12958 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
12959 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
12960 form (sorted, unique mapping).
12961 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
12962 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
12963 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12964 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
12965 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12966 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
12967 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
12968 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
12969 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
12970 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
12971 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
12972 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
12973 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
12974 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
12975 NCursesPanel class.
12976 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
12977 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
12978 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
12979 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
12980 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
12981 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
12985 + add 'deinstall' rules.
12986 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
12987 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
12988 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
12989 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
12990 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
12991 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
12993 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
12994 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
12995 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
12997 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
12998 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
12999 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
13000 scripts are also provided.
13003 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
13005 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
13006 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
13007 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
13008 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
13009 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
13010 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
13011 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
13012 generating lint library.
13013 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
13015 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
13016 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
13017 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
13018 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
13019 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
13020 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
13021 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
13022 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
13023 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
13024 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
13026 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
13027 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
13029 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
13031 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
13032 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
13033 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
13034 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
13035 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
13036 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
13037 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13038 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
13039 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
13043 + modify rain.c to use color.
13044 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
13045 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
13046 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
13047 of configure cache variables in 970906.
13048 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
13049 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
13050 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
13051 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
13052 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
13053 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
13054 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
13055 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
13056 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
13057 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
13058 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
13060 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
13061 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
13062 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
13063 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
13064 NCursesPanel class.
13065 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
13066 NCursesWindow class.
13067 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
13068 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
13069 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
13070 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
13072 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
13073 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
13074 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
13075 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
13076 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
13077 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
13079 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
13080 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
13081 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
13082 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
13083 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
13084 already disconnected.
13085 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
13086 navigation requests.
13087 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
13088 case-insensitiva comparison routine.
13089 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
13090 forms field by index.
13091 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
13093 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
13094 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
13095 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
13096 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
13097 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
13098 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
13099 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
13100 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
13101 move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
13103 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
13104 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
13105 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
13107 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
13108 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13109 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
13110 know that auto_right_margin is true.
13111 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
13112 shifting character to LR corner.
13113 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
13114 terminal right margin mode is known.
13115 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
13116 _nc_scroll_window().
13117 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
13118 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
13120 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
13121 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
13122 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
13123 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
13125 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
13126 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
13127 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
13128 the terminal window is resized.
13131 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
13132 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
13133 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
13134 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
13135 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
13136 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
13137 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
13138 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
13139 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13140 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
13141 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
13143 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
13144 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
13145 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
13147 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
13148 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
13150 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
13154 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
13155 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
13156 lib_printw.c functions.
13157 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
13158 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
13159 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
13160 force the screen to scroll.
13163 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
13165 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
13167 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
13168 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
13170 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
13171 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
13172 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13173 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
13174 was in the wrong order.
13175 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
13177 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
13179 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
13180 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
13181 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
13182 invoke wechochar() instead.
13183 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
13186 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
13187 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
13188 work properly when we add calls to that function.
13189 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
13190 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
13191 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13192 + several fixes to getch:
13193 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
13194 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
13195 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
13196 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
13198 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
13199 6. correctly handle the case of reception of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
13200 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
13201 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
13202 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
13204 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
13205 line-breakout optimization
13206 + improve hashmap.c by
13207 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
13208 2. not marking lines with offset 0
13209 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
13210 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
13211 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
13212 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
13214 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
13215 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
13216 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
13217 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
13219 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
13221 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
13222 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
13223 stored/retrieved via set_term().
13224 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
13228 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
13229 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
13230 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
13232 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
13233 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
13234 before looking for (n)curses library.
13235 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
13236 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
13237 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
13238 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
13239 include ncurses_cfg.h
13240 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
13241 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
13242 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13243 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
13244 example firstlast.c
13245 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
13246 common subexpressions.
13247 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
13248 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
13249 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
13250 against the background character.
13251 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
13252 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
13253 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
13254 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
13255 > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
13256 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
13257 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
13258 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
13259 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
13262 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
13263 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
13264 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
13265 terminal type ncr7900).
13266 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
13267 package is built with an install-prefix.
13268 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
13269 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
13270 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
13271 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
13272 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
13273 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
13274 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
13275 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
13276 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
13277 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13278 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
13279 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
13280 by Juergen Pfeifer).
13283 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
13284 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
13285 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
13286 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
13287 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
13288 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
13289 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
13290 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
13291 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
13292 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
13293 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
13296 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
13297 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
13298 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
13299 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
13300 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
13301 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
13302 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
13303 configuration of wide-characters.
13304 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
13305 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
13306 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
13307 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
13308 does not have getttynam().
13309 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
13310 + add table entries for B230400 and B460800 to baudrate() function.
13311 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
13312 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13313 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
13314 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13315 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
13316 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
13317 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
13318 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
13319 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
13323 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
13324 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13325 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
13326 options should be accompanied by a message.
13327 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
13328 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
13330 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
13332 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13333 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
13334 better when csr is not available.
13335 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
13336 after failure to scroll one.
13337 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
13338 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
13339 case and wrong string in TRACE.
13340 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
13341 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
13345 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
13346 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
13348 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
13349 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
13350 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
13351 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
13352 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
13355 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
13356 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
13357 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
13359 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
13362 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
13363 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
13364 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
13365 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
13366 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
13367 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
13368 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
13369 (reported by Larry Virden).
13370 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
13371 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
13373 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
13374 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
13375 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
13376 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
13380 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
13381 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
13382 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
13383 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
13384 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
13386 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
13387 terminfo description to the stored strings.
13388 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
13389 terminfo descriptions.
13390 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
13391 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
13392 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
13393 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
13394 option is a stopgap.
13395 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
13396 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
13399 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
13400 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
13401 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
13402 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
13403 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
13404 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
13408 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
13409 lines in curscr that are shifted.
13410 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
13411 than a series of function calls.
13412 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
13413 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
13414 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
13415 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
13416 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
13417 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
13418 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
13419 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
13420 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
13423 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
13424 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
13425 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
13426 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
13427 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
13428 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
13429 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
13430 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
13431 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
13432 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
13433 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
13434 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
13435 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
13436 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
13437 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13438 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
13439 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
13440 + improve threshold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
13441 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13444 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
13445 use only the fallback data.
13446 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
13447 terminal descriptions.
13448 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
13449 still assume there's an ncurses.h
13450 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
13451 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
13452 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
13453 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
13454 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
13455 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
13457 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
13458 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
13459 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
13460 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
13461 <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
13462 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
13463 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
13465 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
13467 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
13468 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
13470 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
13472 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
13473 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
13474 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
13475 original implementation (1.9.6).
13476 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
13477 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
13478 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
13479 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
13481 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
13482 SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
13483 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
13484 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
13485 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
13486 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13487 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
13488 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
13490 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
13491 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
13492 field is not possible.
13493 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
13494 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
13495 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
13496 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
13498 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
13499 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
13500 in forms/menus libraries.
13503 + add description of xterm-16color.
13504 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
13505 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
13507 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
13508 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
13509 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
13510 works properly w/o first doing "make".
13511 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
13512 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
13514 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
13515 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
13516 bounding box without tidying up).
13517 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
13518 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
13519 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
13521 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
13522 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
13523 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
13524 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
13525 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13528 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
13529 option is specified.
13530 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
13531 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
13533 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
13534 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
13535 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
13536 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
13537 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
13538 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
13539 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
13540 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
13541 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
13542 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
13543 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
13544 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
13545 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
13546 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
13548 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
13549 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
13550 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13551 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
13552 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
13553 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13554 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
13555 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
13556 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13557 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
13558 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
13560 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
13562 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
13564 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
13565 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
13568 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
13569 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
13570 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
13571 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
13573 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
13574 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
13575 during a call to newwin.
13576 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
13577 is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
13578 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
13579 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
13580 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
13581 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13582 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
13583 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
13586 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
13587 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
13588 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
13589 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
13591 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
13594 970505 4.1 pre-release
13595 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
13597 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
13598 unnecessary recompiles.
13599 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
13600 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
13601 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
13602 overwrite of symbolic links.
13603 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
13604 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
13605 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
13606 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
13607 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
13608 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
13609 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
13610 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
13611 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
13612 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
13613 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
13614 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
13615 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
13616 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
13620 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
13621 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
13622 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
13624 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
13625 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
13626 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
13627 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
13628 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
13629 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
13630 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
13631 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
13632 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
13634 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
13635 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
13636 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
13637 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
13639 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
13640 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
13641 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13642 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
13643 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13644 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
13645 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13646 + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
13647 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
13648 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
13649 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
13652 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
13653 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
13654 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
13655 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
13656 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
13657 original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
13658 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
13659 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
13660 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
13661 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
13662 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
13663 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
13664 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
13665 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
13666 or redefinition within an acsc string.
13667 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
13668 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
13669 regression testing.
13670 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
13671 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
13674 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
13675 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
13676 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
13677 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
13678 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
13679 match SVr4 documentation.
13680 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
13681 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
13682 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
13685 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
13686 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
13687 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
13688 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
13689 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
13690 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
13691 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
13692 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
13695 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
13696 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
13697 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
13699 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
13700 --enable/--with values.
13701 + add configure option --enable-big-core
13702 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
13703 + check for C++ builtin.h header
13704 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
13705 parameter from the expression.
13706 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
13707 ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted from diffs by
13709 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
13710 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
13711 was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
13712 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
13713 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
13714 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
13717 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
13718 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
13719 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
13720 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
13721 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
13724 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
13725 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
13726 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
13727 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
13728 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
13729 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
13730 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
13731 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
13732 (reported by Ward Horner).
13733 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
13734 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
13737 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
13738 even if "make all" is not done first.
13739 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
13740 expanded functions with ATAC.
13741 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
13742 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
13746 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
13748 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
13750 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
13753 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
13754 addressing request by Ward Horner.
13755 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
13756 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
13757 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
13758 a pointer-increment.
13759 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
13763 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
13764 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
13766 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
13767 (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
13768 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
13769 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
13770 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
13771 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
13772 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
13773 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
13775 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
13776 (reported by Ward Horner)
13777 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
13778 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
13779 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
13780 (reported by Gary Johnson).
13781 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
13782 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
13783 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
13784 wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
13785 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
13786 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
13787 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
13788 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
13792 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
13793 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
13794 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
13795 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
13796 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
13797 (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
13798 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
13799 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
13800 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
13801 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
13804 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
13806 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
13807 the returned buffer.
13808 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
13809 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
13810 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
13811 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
13813 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
13814 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
13817 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
13818 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
13819 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
13820 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
13822 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
13823 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
13826 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
13827 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
13829 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
13831 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
13832 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
13833 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
13834 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
13836 + modify _tracedump() to pad colors & attrs lines to match change
13837 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
13838 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
13839 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
13842 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
13843 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
13844 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
13845 that machine - T.Dickey.
13846 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
13847 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
13848 linking against static libraries.
13849 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
13851 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
13852 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
13853 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
13854 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
13856 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
13857 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
13858 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
13859 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
13860 Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
13863 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
13864 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
13865 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
13867 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
13868 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
13869 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
13870 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
13871 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
13872 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
13875 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
13877 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
13878 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
13879 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
13880 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
13881 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
13882 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
13883 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
13884 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
13885 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
13886 insert/delete line method.
13887 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
13888 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
13889 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
13890 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
13892 961229 (internal alpha)
13893 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
13894 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
13895 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
13896 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
13897 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
13898 there is data on stdin.
13899 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
13900 descriptors, needed for GPM.
13901 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
13902 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
13903 prevented patch from working properly -TD
13904 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
13905 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
13906 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
13907 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
13910 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
13911 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
13913 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
13916 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
13917 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
13918 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
13919 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
13921 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
13922 solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
13923 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
13924 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
13925 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
13926 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
13928 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
13929 i.e., set current directory before linking.
13930 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
13931 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
13932 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
13933 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
13934 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
13935 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
13936 Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
13937 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
13940 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
13941 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
13942 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
13943 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
13944 Solaris curses, which does this.
13947 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
13948 work with wider range of screen sizes.
13949 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
13950 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
13951 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
13953 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
13954 resize between endwin/refresh.
13955 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
13956 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
13957 terminal modes in 960907.
13958 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
13959 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
13961 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
13962 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
13963 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
13964 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
13965 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
13966 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
13967 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
13968 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
13969 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
13971 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
13972 (requested by Florian La Roche).
13973 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
13974 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
13975 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
13976 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
13977 by Alexander V Lukyanov).
13980 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
13983 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
13984 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
13985 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
13986 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
13987 data used in ncurses library.
13988 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
13989 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
13990 Alexander V Lukyanov).
13991 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
13992 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
13993 beta may not be interchangeable).
13994 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
13996 961130 1.9.9g release
13997 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
14001 > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
14002 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
14003 to avoid warning messages.
14004 + the panel overlap detection was broken
14005 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
14007 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
14011 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
14012 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
14013 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
14014 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
14015 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
14018 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
14019 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
14020 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
14024 + change ABI to 3.4
14025 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
14027 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
14029 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
14031 > patch #324 (ESR):
14032 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
14033 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
14034 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
14035 + add entry for color_xterm
14038 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
14039 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
14040 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
14041 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
14042 CANCELLED_STRING values.
14043 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
14044 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
14045 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
14046 delays when in autoplay mode.
14047 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
14048 Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
14049 > patch #322 (ESR):
14050 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
14053 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
14054 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
14055 a spurious clear-screen.
14056 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
14057 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
14059 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
14060 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
14061 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
14062 <perf@efd.lth.se>).
14065 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
14066 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
14067 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
14068 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
14069 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
14070 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
14072 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
14073 distribution, as stated)
14074 + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
14075 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
14076 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
14077 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
14078 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
14079 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
14080 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
14082 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
14083 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
14087 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
14088 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
14089 file (lib_screen.c).
14090 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
14091 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
14092 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
14093 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
14094 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
14095 rendered as octal constants.
14096 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
14097 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
14098 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
14099 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
14100 in the top-level command-parser.
14101 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
14102 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
14104 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
14105 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
14106 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
14109 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
14110 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
14111 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
14112 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
14113 (reported by Tim Mooney).
14114 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
14116 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
14120 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
14121 that are available.
14122 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
14123 the pointer was -1.
14126 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
14127 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
14128 lower-right corner.
14129 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
14130 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
14131 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
14132 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
14133 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
14134 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
14135 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
14136 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
14137 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
14138 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
14140 + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
14141 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
14142 > patch #321 (ESR):
14143 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
14144 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
14145 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
14146 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
14149 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
14150 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
14151 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
14152 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
14153 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
14155 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
14156 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
14157 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
14158 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
14159 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
14160 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
14161 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
14162 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
14163 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
14164 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
14165 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
14166 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
14167 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
14169 + change ABI to 3.3
14170 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
14171 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
14172 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
14174 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
14175 Michael Elkins) - untested
14177 + correction to #317.
14179 + re-add _nc_hash_map
14180 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design
14181 (patch by A. Lukyanov).
14182 + modify test/ncurses.c and tputs, etc., to allow trace counting
14184 + add hashtest.c program to time the hashmap optimization.
14186 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
14188 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
14190 + merge changes to lib_doupdate.c to use ech and rep - untested
14191 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
14192 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
14193 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
14194 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
14195 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
14198 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
14200 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
14201 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
14202 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
14203 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
14204 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
14206 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
14209 + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
14210 (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
14211 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
14212 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
14213 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
14214 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
14217 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
14218 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
14219 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
14220 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
14221 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
14222 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
14223 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
14224 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
14225 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
14226 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
14227 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
14228 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
14229 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
14230 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
14231 + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
14235 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
14236 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
14237 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
14238 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
14240 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
14241 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
14242 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
14245 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
14246 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
14247 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
14250 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
14251 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
14252 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
14253 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
14256 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
14257 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
14258 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
14259 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
14260 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
14262 + add dtterm description
14263 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop mvwscanw subtest)
14266 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
14267 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
14268 + refine configure-test for "-g" option (Tim Mooney).
14269 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
14270 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
14273 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
14275 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
14277 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch (report
14281 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
14282 (reported by William P Setzer)
14283 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
14284 (reported by Tim Mooney).
14286 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
14287 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
14288 + updated qnx terminfo entry (patch by Michael Hunter)
14291 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
14293 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
14297 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
14298 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
14300 + terminfo changes (9.3.9), from BRL
14301 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
14302 + add more symbols to infocmp.
14305 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
14306 Juergen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
14307 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
14309 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
14310 null), and tests that use it.
14311 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
14312 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
14313 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
14315 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
14317 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
14318 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
14319 + fix option-processing bug in toe.
14322 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
14323 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
14324 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
14325 by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
14326 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
14327 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
14329 + enable more translations of nonstandard caps, and document them.
14330 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.8
14332 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
14333 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
14334 + cosmetic fixes to test/ncurses.c
14335 + modify open() call in ncurses/read_entry.c to use O_RDONLY symbol
14336 rather than constant (report by mib).
14337 + misc/terminfo.src sgr0 and acsc changes (report by Philippe De
14339 + modify ncurses/comp_parse.c so that entries containing a "+" can
14340 have missing rmcup vs smcup.
14343 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
14344 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
14345 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
14347 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
14348 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
14349 Philippe De Muyter).
14352 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
14353 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
14355 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
14356 (reported by Zeyd).
14357 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
14358 (reported by David MacKenzie).
14359 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
14360 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
14361 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
14362 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
14363 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
14364 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
14365 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
14368 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes.
14369 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.7 (report by A. Lukyanov).
14370 + modify man/Makefile.in to make terminfo.5 during normal build.
14372 + corrected allocation-length for $HOME/.terminfo path.
14375 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
14376 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
14377 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
14378 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
14379 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
14380 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
14381 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
14382 than function keys in 'g' test.
14383 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
14384 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
14385 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
14386 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
14388 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
14390 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
14391 msgwin needed scrollok set.
14392 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
14393 between PutRange and InsStr
14394 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
14395 MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
14397 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
14400 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
14401 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
14402 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
14404 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
14405 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
14406 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
14407 _yoffset to WINDOW).
14408 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
14409 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
14410 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
14411 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
14412 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
14413 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
14414 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
14415 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
14416 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
14419 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
14420 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
14421 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
14422 first entry in a list).
14423 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
14424 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
14427 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
14428 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
14429 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
14430 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
14431 with a shared-library configuration.
14432 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
14433 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
14434 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
14435 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
14436 builders to install into staging locations (requested by
14437 Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
14438 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
14440 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
14441 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
14442 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
14443 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
14444 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
14446 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
14447 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
14448 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
14449 invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
14451 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
14452 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
14453 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
14455 + misc/ncurses-intro.html syntax fix (Kajiyama Tamito).
14458 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
14459 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
14460 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
14461 + added rules for lintlib, lint
14462 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
14463 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
14464 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
14465 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
14466 checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
14467 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
14468 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
14469 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
14470 + typos, don't use inline with "-g" (Philippe De Muyter)
14471 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
14474 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
14475 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
14476 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
14477 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
14478 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
14479 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
14481 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
14482 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
14483 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
14484 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
14486 + improve hash function (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
14487 + 9.13.4 update for terminfo.src
14490 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
14491 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
14492 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
14493 <lav@yars.free.net>).
14494 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
14495 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
14496 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
14497 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
14499 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
14500 + html fixes (Phillippe de Muyter).
14501 + fix typo in ncurses-intro.html (report by Fabrizio Polacco).
14503 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
14504 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
14505 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
14506 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
14509 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
14513 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
14514 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
14515 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
14516 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
14517 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
14518 > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
14519 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
14520 + added TRACE_IEVENT
14521 + fix REQ_TOGGLE_ITEM in menu/menu_driver.c; it could select but not
14523 + added lib_print.c (request by Rick Marshall).
14524 + added has_key() (request by Juergen Pfeifer).
14525 + do not issue clrtoeol or clrtobot if the relevant portion of the line
14526 is already blank (analysis by Keith Bostic).
14527 + add parentheses for parameters of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER macros
14528 (analysis by Jurgen Eidt).
14529 + update screen's notion of cursor position in endwin() (analysis by
14530 Alexander Lukyanov).
14531 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
14532 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
14533 + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
14534 is not part of X/Open Curses).
14535 + removed boolean version of 'getm'.
14536 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
14539 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
14540 + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
14541 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
14542 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
14543 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
14544 "#include" if needed.
14547 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
14548 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
14551 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
14552 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
14553 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
14557 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
14558 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
14559 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
14560 > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
14561 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
14562 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
14563 + new "-e" and "-h" options of tic (request by Tony Nugent).
14564 + fix bug in mandatory-delay logic in lib_tputs.c (report by Sven
14566 + fix for "infocmp -e" to emit correct initializers (reported by Manual
14568 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c (report by Kayvan
14570 + use "-h" option on Solaris when generating shared libraries on
14571 Solaris 2.5 to record the library name in the file, for assisting
14572 the loader (patch by Scott Kramer).
14573 + undo patch #294 changes to form and menu libraries (request by
14578 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
14579 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
14580 K&R-style substitution)
14581 > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
14582 + rewrite wsyncup(), wsyncdown(), as well as small fixes to form and
14583 menu libraries to fix echo-breakage introduced by 1.8.9, 1.9.9e
14584 changes (patches by Juergen Pfeifer).
14585 + fix compile under QNX 4.2 by defining ONLCR in lib_raw.c when
14586 __QNX__ is defined (patch by Michael Hunter).
14587 + modify setupterm() to match documentation for its return value, fix
14588 newterm to work with this change (report by Emmet Lazich).
14589 + add checks in getch() for error, return ERR as appropriate (report by
14591 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode (report by Pete Seebach).
14592 + corrected askuser() logic in tset (patch by Remco Treffkorn).
14593 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing (report by
14595 + added trace support for TTY flags
14596 + update terminfo.src to 9.13.1
14597 + FreeBSD console entries (patch by Andrew Chernov).
14600 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
14601 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
14602 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
14603 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
14604 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
14606 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
14607 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
14609 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
14611 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
14612 copy-changed-lines behavior.
14613 * added and documented wresize() function.
14614 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
14615 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
14616 emitted before the first check.
14617 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
14618 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
14619 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
14620 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
14621 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
14622 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
14624 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
14625 * support for ESCDELAY.
14626 * small fixes for menu/form code.
14627 * the test directory has its own configure.
14628 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
14629 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
14630 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
14633 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
14635 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
14636 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
14637 * support infocmp -RBSD.
14638 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
14639 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
14640 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
14641 catastrophies or acts of God.
14642 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
14644 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
14645 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
14648 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
14650 * corrected return values of setupterm()
14651 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
14652 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
14653 one `use' capability.
14654 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
14655 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
14656 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
14657 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
14658 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
14659 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
14660 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
14661 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
14662 * added -h option to toe(1).
14663 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
14664 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
14665 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
14666 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
14668 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
14670 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
14671 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
14673 * mouse support for xterm.
14674 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
14675 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initially off.
14676 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
14677 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
14678 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
14679 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
14680 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
14681 * infocmp -T option added.
14682 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
14684 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
14686 * menus library is now included with documentation.
14687 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
14688 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
14689 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
14690 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
14691 * tweaks for compiling in separate directories.
14692 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
14693 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
14694 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
14696 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
14698 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
14699 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
14700 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
14701 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
14703 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
14705 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
14706 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
14707 * added tracemunch to the test tools
14708 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
14710 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
14712 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
14713 profile and shared object models.
14715 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
14717 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
14718 * panels support added
14719 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
14720 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
14722 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
14724 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
14725 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
14726 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
14727 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
14729 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
14730 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
14731 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
14732 are consistent (they weren't).
14733 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
14734 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
14735 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
14736 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
14737 warnings from gcc).
14738 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
14739 * more spelling fixes
14740 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
14741 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
14742 core in init_acs()).
14743 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
14746 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
14748 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
14749 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
14750 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
14752 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
14753 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
14754 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
14755 resolution of traces.
14756 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
14757 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
14758 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
14759 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
14760 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
14761 is much less flaky.
14762 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
14763 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
14764 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
14765 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
14767 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
14768 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
14769 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
14770 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
14771 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
14772 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This will mostly happen if
14773 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
14774 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
14775 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
14776 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
14777 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
14778 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
14779 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
14780 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
14781 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
14782 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
14784 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
14785 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
14786 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
14787 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
14788 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
14789 the correct alternate character set.
14790 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
14791 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
14792 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
14793 a terminal is undefined.
14794 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
14795 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
14796 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
14797 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
14798 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
14799 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
14801 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
14802 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
14803 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
14804 if other attributes are turned off.
14805 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
14806 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
14807 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
14809 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
14810 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
14811 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
14814 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
14815 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
14816 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
14817 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
14819 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
14820 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
14822 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
14824 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
14825 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
14826 break operation with any emulators.
14827 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
14828 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
14829 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
14830 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
14831 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
14832 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
14833 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
14834 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
14836 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
14837 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
14839 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
14840 unpredictable results.
14841 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
14843 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
14844 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
14845 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
14846 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
14847 take note of the terminfo directory.
14848 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
14849 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
14852 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
14853 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
14854 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
14855 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
14856 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
14857 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
14858 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
14859 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
14860 performs more testing.
14861 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
14862 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
14864 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
14865 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
14867 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
14868 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
14869 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
14871 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
14873 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
14874 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
14875 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
14876 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
14877 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
14878 will probably continue to work ok.
14880 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
14881 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
14882 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
14883 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
14884 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
14886 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
14887 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
14888 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
14890 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
14891 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
14892 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
14893 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
14894 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
14895 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
14896 changed accordingly.
14897 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
14898 bottom-right corner.
14899 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
14900 pads I'd love a copy.
14901 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
14902 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
14903 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
14904 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
14905 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
14906 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
14907 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
14909 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
14910 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
14911 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
14913 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
14914 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
14915 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
14916 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
14917 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
14918 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
14919 * See src/README for porting notes.
14920 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
14921 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
14922 rows instead of lines, etc.)
14923 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
14924 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
14925 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
14926 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
14927 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
14928 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
14929 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
14931 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
14932 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
14933 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
14934 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
14935 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
14936 fact was exposed by hanoi.
14937 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
14938 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
14939 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
14940 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
14941 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
14942 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
14944 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
14946 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
14947 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
14948 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
14949 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
14950 Config.* files through an awk script.
14951 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
14952 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
14953 * a few minor cleanups.
14954 * added more prototypes in curses.h
14956 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
14958 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
14959 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
14960 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
14961 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
14962 * a couple of bug fixes.
14963 * a few code cleanups.
14965 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
14967 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
14968 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
14969 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
14970 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
14971 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
14972 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
14973 * Cleaner Makefile.
14974 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
14975 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
14977 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
14978 (doesn't work on Linux)
14979 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
14980 screen before working.
14981 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
14982 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
14984 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
14985 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
14986 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
14987 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
14988 * several minor bug fixes.
14990 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
14992 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
14993 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
14994 * changes related to Config
14996 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
14998 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
14999 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
15000 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
15001 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
15002 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
15003 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
15004 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
15005 * added halfdelay()
15006 * fixed problems with asc_init()
15007 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
15008 * cleaned up vidputs()
15009 * general cleanup of the code
15010 * more attention to portability to other systems
15011 * added terminfos for hp70092 (won't work until changes to lib_update.c are
15012 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
15014 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
15015 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
15017 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
15018 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
15019 the rationale drop me a line.
15021 Included are several test programs in test/.
15022 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
15023 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
15025 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
15027 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
15028 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
15029 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
15030 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
15031 * keyname() is added.
15032 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
15033 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
15034 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
15035 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
15036 * included fixes from 0.6.1
15037 * added a few more missing functions.
15038 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
15039 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
15042 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
15044 1) Included the missing data/console.
15046 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
15048 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
15050 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
15051 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
15052 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
15054 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
15055 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
15056 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
15057 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
15058 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
15059 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
15060 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
15061 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
15062 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
15063 * added notimeout().
15064 * added timeout() define in curses.h
15065 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
15067 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
15068 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
15069 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
15070 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
15071 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
15072 * added slk_* support.
15073 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
15074 * added PANEL library.
15075 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
15076 * terminfo.h is really term.h
15078 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
15079 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
15080 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
15081 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
15082 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
15083 another key is pressed.
15084 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
15085 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
15086 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
15088 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
15089 * fixed bug in wvline().
15090 * added curs_set().
15091 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
15092 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
15094 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
15095 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
15096 * Addition of function prototypes.
15097 * Addition of several missing functions.
15098 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
15099 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
15100 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
15101 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
15102 * New scrolling code.
15103 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
15105 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
15106 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
15107 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
15108 * more fixes for updates.
15109 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
15110 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
15111 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
15112 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
15114 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
15115 * support for color.
15116 * support for PC graphic characters.
15117 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
15118 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
15120 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
15121 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
15122 * ANSIfication of some functions.
15123 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
15124 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.