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31 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
32 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
34 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
35 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
37 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
38 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
39 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
41 A few contributors may be cited in this file by their initials.
42 Each accounts for half of one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
49 + remove trailing ';' from GCC_DEPRECATED definition.
50 + repair a change from 20110730 which left an error-check/warning dead.
51 + fix several minor Coverity warnings.
54 + add deprecation warnings for internal functions called by older
56 + fix a special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is marked as
57 alternate-character set, but the terminal does not actually support
58 the given graphic character. This would happen in an older terminal
59 such as vt52, which lacks most line-drawing capability.
60 + use configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
61 conflict with Debian packages versus test-packages.
62 + update tracemunch to work with perl 5.26.2, which changed the rules
63 for escaping regular expressions.
66 + document new form-extension O_EDGE_INSERT_STAY (report by Leon
68 + correct error-returns listed in manual pages for a few form functions
69 (report by Leon Winter).
70 + add a check in form-library for null-pointer dereference:
71 unfocus_current_field (form);
72 form_driver (form, REQ_VALIDATION);
73 (patch by Leon Winter).
76 + modify form library to optionally delay cursor movement on a field
77 edge/boundary (patch by Leon Winter).
78 + modify form library to avoid unnecessary update of cursor position in
79 non-public fields (patch by Leon Winter).
80 + remove unused _nc_import_termtype2() function.
81 + also add/improve null-pointer checks in other places
82 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_parse_entry to handle an error when
83 a use-name is invalid syntax (report by Chung-Yi Lin).
86 + clarify in manual pages that vwprintw and vwscanw are obsolete,
87 not part of X/Open Curses since 2007.
88 + use "const" in some prototypes rather than NCURSES_CONST where X/Open
89 Curses was updated to do this, e.g., wscanw, newterm, the terminfo
90 interface. Also use "const" for consistency in the termcap
91 interface, which was withdrawn by X/Open Curses in Issue 5 (2007).
92 As of Issue 7, X/Open Curses still lacks "const" for certain return
93 values, e.g., keyname().
96 + improve terminfo write/read by modifying the fourth item of the
97 extended header to denote the number of valid strings in the extended
98 string table (prompted by a comment in unibilium's sources).
101 + amend Scaled256() macro in test/picsmap.c to cover the full range
102 0..1000 (report by Roger Pau Monne).
103 + add some checks in tracemunch for undefined variables.
104 + trim some redundant capabilities from st-0.7 -TD
105 + trim unnecessary setf/setb from interix -TD
108 + fix a check in infotocap which may not have detected a problem when
110 + add a check in tic for the case where setf/setb are given using
111 different strings, but provide identical results to setaf/setab.
112 + further improve fix for terminfo.5 (patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
113 + reorder loop-limit checks in winsnstr() in case the string has no
114 terminating null and only the number of characters is used (patch
118 + modify TurnOn/TurnOff macros in lib_vidattr.c and lib_vid_attr.c to
119 avoid expansion of "CUR" in trace.
120 + improve a few lintian warnings in test-packages.
121 + modify lib_setup to avoid calling pthread_self() without first
122 verifying that the address is valid, i.e., for weak symbols
123 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
124 + modify generated terminfo.5 to not use "expand" and related width
125 on the last column of tables, making layout on wide terminals look
126 better (adapted from patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
127 + add a category to report_offsets, e.g., "w" for wide-character, "t"
128 for threads to make the report more readable. Reorganized the
129 structures reported to make the categories more apparent.
130 + simplify some ifdef's for extended-colors.
131 + add NCURSES_GLOBALS and NCURSES_PRESCREEN to report_offsets, to show
132 how similar the different tinfo configurations are.
135 + modify _nc_resolve_uses2() to detect incompatible types when merging
136 a "use=" clause of extended capabilities. The problem was seen in a
137 defective terminfo integrated from simpleterm sources in 20171111,
138 compounded by repair in 20180121.
139 + correct Ss/Ms interchange in st-0.7 entry (tmux #1264) -TD
140 + fix remaining flash capabilities with trailing mandatory delays -TD
141 + correct cut/paste in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
144 + remove incorrect free() from 20170617 changes (report by David Macek).
145 + correct type for "U8" in user_caps.5; it is a number not boolean.
146 + add a null-pointer check in safe_sprintf.c (report by Steven Noonan).
147 + improve fix for Debian #882620 by reusing limit2 variable (report by
148 Julien Cristau, Sven Joachim).
151 + modify misc/Makefile.in to install/uninstall explicit list in case
152 the build-directory happens to have no ".pc" files when an uninstall
153 is performed (report by Jeffrey Walton).
154 + deprecate safe-sprintf, since the vsnprintf function, which does what
155 was needed, was standardized long ago.
156 + add several development/experimental options to development packages.
157 + minor reordering of options in configure script to make the threaded
158 and reentrant options distinct from the other extensions which are
162 + minor fixes to test/*.h to make them idempotent.
163 + add/use test/parse_rgb.h to show how the "RGB" capability works.
164 + add a clarification in user_caps.5 regarding "RGB" capability.
165 + add extended_slk_color{,_sp} symbols to the appropriate
166 package/*.{map,sym} files (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20170401).
169 + update "VERSION" file, used in shared-library naming.
171 20180127 6.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
174 + updated release notes
175 + amend a warning message from tic which should have flagged misuse
176 of "XT" capability in "screen" terminal description.
178 + trim "XT" from screen entry, add comments to explain why it was
180 + modify iterm to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
181 + mark konsole-420pc, konsole-vt100, konsole-xf3x obsolete reflecting
182 konsole's removal in 2008 -TD
183 + expanded the history section of konsole to explain its flawed
184 imitation of xterm's keyboard -TD
185 + use xterm+x11mouse in screen.* entries because screen does not yet
186 support xterm's 1006 mode -TD
187 + add nsterm-build400 for macOS 10.13 -TD
188 + add ansi+idc1, use that in ansi+idc adding dch for consistency -TD
189 + update vte to vte-2017 -TD
190 + add ecma+strikeout to vte-2017 -TD
191 + add iterm2-direct -TD
192 + updated teraterm, added teraterm-256color -TD
193 + add mlterm-direct -TD
194 + add descriptions for ANSI building-blocks -TD
198 + add xterm+noalt, xterm+titlestack, xterm+alt1049, xterm+alt+title
199 blocks from xterm #331 -TD
200 + add xterm+direct, xterm+indirect, xterm-direct entries from xterm
202 + modify xterm+256color and xterm+256setaf to use correct number of
203 color pairs, for ncurses 6.1 -TD
204 + add rs1 capability to xterm-256color -TD
205 + modify xterm-r5, xterm-r6 and xterm-xf86-v32 to use xterm+kbs to
206 match xterm #272, reflecting packager's changes -TD
207 + remove "boolean" Se, Ss from st-0.7 -TD
208 + add konsole-direct and st-direct -TD
209 + remove unsupported "Tc" capability from st-0.7; use st-direct if
210 direct-colors are wanted -TD
212 + add XT, hpa, indn, and vpa to screen, and invis, E3 to tmux (patch by
214 + use xterm+sm+1006 in xterm-new, vte-2014 -TD
215 + use xterm+x11mouse in iterm, iterm2, mlterm3 because xterm's 1006
216 mode does not work with those programs. konsole is debatable -TD
217 + add "termite" entry (report by Markus Pfeiffer) -TD
218 > merge branch begun April 2, 2017 which provides these features:
219 + support read/write new binary-format for terminfo which stores
220 numeric capabilities as a signed 32-bit integer. The test programs
221 such as picsmap, ncurses were created or updated during 2017 to use
223 + the new format is written by the wide-character configuration of
224 tic when it finds a numeric capability larger than 32767.
225 + other applications such as infocmp built with the wide-character
226 ncurses library work as expected.
227 + applications built with the "narrow" (8-bit) configuration will
228 read the new format, but will limit those extended values to 32767.
229 + in either wide/narrow configuration, the structure defined in
230 term.h still uses signed 16-bit values.
231 + because it is incompatible with the legacy (mid-1980s) binary format,
232 a new magic value is provided for the "file" program.
233 + the term.5 manual page is updated to describe this new format.
234 + the limit on file-size for compiled terminfo is increased in the
235 wide-character configuration to 32768.
238 + build-fix in picsmap.c for stdint.h existence.
239 + add --disable-stripping option to configure scripts.
240 + modify ncurses-examples to install test-scripts in the data directory.
241 + work around tool-breakage in Debian 9 and later by invoking
242 gprconfig to specify the C compiler to be used by gnatmake,
243 and conditionally suppressing Library_Options line for static
245 + bump the compat level for test-packages to 7, i.e., Debian 5.
248 + fixes for writing extended color pairs in putwin.
249 + modify test/savescreen.c to add test patterns that exercise 88-,
251 + modify configure option --with-build-cc, adding clang, c89 and c99
252 as possible default values.
253 + modify ncurses-examples configure script to use pkg-config for the
254 extra form/menu/panel libraries, to be more consistent with the
255 handling of the curses/ncurses library.
256 + modify test-packages for mingw to supply "pc" files.
257 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to list -lpthread as a private library when
258 configured to access it via weak symbols.
259 + simplify gen-pkgconfig.in, adding -ltinfo without the special linker
260 checks because some versions of the linker simply hard-code the
262 + update URLs for ncurses website to use https.
263 + modify CF_CURSES_LIBS to fill in $cf_nculib_root in case the
264 ncurses-examples are built with a system ncurses that lacks the
265 standard "curses" symbolic link, as done by SuSE. The symbol is
266 needed to make a followup check for the pthread library work, and
267 would be set properly using the options "--with-screen", etc.
268 + generate misc/*.pc with "all" rule, as done for "sources" rule
269 (report by Jeffrey Walton).
272 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with Fedora27, adding check for
273 reset_color_pairs() -- not yet in Fedora's package.
274 + consistently add $CFLAGS to $MK_SHARED_LIB symbol in configure
275 script when the latter happens to use the C compiler rather than
276 directly using the loader (report by Jeffrey Walton).
277 + set ABI for upcoming 6.1 release in "*.map" files. While there are
278 some remaining internals to apply, no ABI-related changes are
280 + add configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
281 conflict with Redhat packages versus test-packages.
284 + modify ncurses-examples to quiet const-warnings when building with
286 + modify toe to not exit if unable to read a terminal description,
287 e.g., if there is a permission problem.
288 + minor fix for progs/toe.c, using _nc_free_termtype2.
289 + assign 0 to pointer in _nc_tgetent_leak() after freeing it. Also
290 avoid reusing pointer from previous successful call to tgetent
291 if the latest call is unsuccessful (patch by Michael Schroeder,
293 + minor fix for test/tracemunch, initialize $awaiting variable.
296 + repair template in test/package/ncurses-examples.spec (cf: 20171111).
297 + improve tic's warning about the number of parameters tparm might use
298 for u1-u9 by making a special case for u6.
299 + improve curs_attr.3x discussion of color pairs.
302 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to make output with --includedir
303 consistent with --cflags, i.e., when --disable-overwrite option was
304 configured the output should show the subdirectory where headers
306 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to suppress macros when calling an "implemented"
307 function in link_test.c
308 + updated ftp-url used in test-packages, etc.
309 + modify order of -pie/-shared options in configure script in case
310 LDFLAGS uses "-pie", working around a defect or limitation in the GNU
311 linker (prompted by patch by Yogesh Prasad, forwarded by Jay Shah).
312 + add entry in man_db.renames for user_caps.5
315 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid tracing result from getstr/getnstr
317 + add "-a" aspect-ratio option to picsmap.
318 + add configure check for default path of rgb.txt, used in picsmap.
319 + modify _nc_write_entry() to truncate too-long filename (report by
320 Hosein Askari, Debian #882620).
321 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses:
322 + it lacks the use_env() function.
323 + it lacks libpanel; a recent change used the wrong ifdef symbol.
324 + add a macro for is_linetouched() and adjust the function's return
325 value to make it possible for most applications to check for an
326 error-return (report by Midolikawa H).
327 + additional manpage cleanup.
328 + update config.guess, config.sub from
329 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
332 + add a note to curs_addch.3x on portability.
333 + add a note to curs_pad.3x on the origin and portability of pads.
334 + improve manpage description of getattrs (report by Midolikawa H).
335 + improve manpage macros (prompted by discussion in Debian #880551.
336 + reviewed test-programs using KEY_RESIZE, made fixes to test/worm.c
337 + add a "-d" option to picsmap for default-colors.
338 + modify old terminology entry and a few other terminal emulators to
340 + correct sgr string for tmux, which used screen's "standout" code
341 rather than the standard code (patch by Roman Kagan)
342 + correct sgr/sgr0 strings in a few other cases reported by tic, making
343 those correspond to the non-sgr settings where they differ, but
344 otherwise use ECMA-48 consistently:
345 jaixterm, aixterm, att5420_2, att4424, att500, decansi, d410-7b,
346 dm80, hpterm, emu-220, hp2, iTerm2.app, mterm-ansi, ncrvt100an,
347 st-0.7, vi603, vwmterm -TD
348 + build-fix for diagnostics warning in lib_mouse.c for pre-5.0 versions
349 of gcc which did not recognize the diagnostic "push" pragma (patch by
353 + add "op" to xterm+256setaf -TD
354 + reviewed terminology 1.0.0 -TD
355 + reviewed st 0.7 -TD
356 + suppress debug-package for ncurses-examples rpm build.
359 + check for interrupt in color-pair initialization of dots_curses.c,
361 + add z/Z zoom feature to test/ncurses.c C/c screens.
362 + add '<' and '>' commands to test/ncurses.c S/s screens, to better
363 test off-by-ones in the overlap/copywin functions.
366 + improve man/curs_inwstr.3x, correct end-logic for lib_inwstr.c
367 (report by Midolikawa H).
368 + fix typo in a few places for "improvements" (patch by Sven Joachim).
369 + clear the other half of a double-width character on which a line
370 drawing character is drawn.
371 + make test/ncurses.c "s" test easier to understand which subtests are
372 available; add a "S" wide-character overlap test-screen.
373 + modify test/ncurses.c C/c tests to allow for extended color pairs.
374 + add endwin() call in error-returns from test/ncurses.c omitted in
375 recent redesign of its menu (cf: 20170923).
376 + improve install of hashed-db by removing the ".db" file as done for
377 directory-tree terminal databases.
378 + repair a few overlooked items in include/ncurses_defs from recent
379 port/refactoring of test-programs (cf: 20170909).
380 + add test/padview.c, to compare pads with direct updates in view.c
383 + modify test/view.c to expand tabs using the ncurses library rather
384 than in the test-program.
385 + remove very old SIGWINCH example in test/view.c, just use KEY_RESIZE.
386 + add -T, -e, -f -m options to "dots" test-programs.
387 + fix a few typos in usage-messages for test-programs.
390 + minor cleanup to test/view.c:
391 + eliminate "-n" option by simply reading the whole file.
392 + implement page up/down commands.
393 + add check in tput for init/reset operands to ensure those use a
395 + improve manual pages which discuss chtype, cchar_t types and the
396 attribute values which can be stored in those types.
397 + correct array-index when parsing "-T" command-line option in tabs
399 + modify demo_new_pair.c to pass extended pairs to setcchar().
400 + add test/dots_xcurses.c to illustrate a different approach used for
401 extended colors which can be contrasted with dots_curses.c.
402 + add a check in tic to note when a description uses non-mandatory
403 delays without xon_xoff. This is not an error, but some descriptions
404 for a terminal emulator may use the combination incorrectly.
407 + modify "-T" option of clear and tput to call use_tioctl() to obtain
408 the operating system's notion of the screensize if possible.
409 + review/repair some exit-codes for tput, making usage-message exit
410 with 2 rather than 1, and a failure to open terminal 4+errno.
411 + amend check in tput, tabs and clear to allow those to use the
412 database-only features in cron if a -T option gives a suitable
413 terminal name (report by Lauri Tirkkonen).
414 + correct an ifdef in test/ncurses.c for systems with soft-keys but
416 + regenerate man-html documentation.
419 + fix a symbol conflict that made ncurses.c C/c menu not work with
421 + add refresh() call to dots_mvcur.c, needed to use mvcur() with
422 Solaris xpg4 curses after calling newterm().
423 + minor fixes for configure script from work on ncurses-examples and
425 + improve animation in test/xmas.c by adding a time-delay in blinkit().
426 + modify several test programs to reflect that ncurses honors existing
427 signal handlers in initscr(), while other implementations do not.
428 + modify bs.c to make it easier to quit.
429 + change ncurses-examples to use attr_t vs chtype to follow X/Open
430 documentation more closely since Solaris xpg4-curses uses different
431 values for WA_xxx vs A_xxx that rely on attr_t being an unsigned
432 short. Tru64 aka OSF1, HPUX, AIX did as ncurses does, equating the
436 + modify menu for test/ncurses.c to fit on 24-line screen.
437 + build-fix for configure --with-caps=uwin
438 + add options to test_arrays.c, for selecting termcap vs terminfo, etc.
441 + minor fix to test/filter.c to avoid clearing the command in one case.
442 + modify filter() to discard clr_eos if back_color_erase is set.
445 + improve wide-character implementation of myADDNSTR() in frm_driver.c,
446 which was inconsistent with the normal implementation.
447 + save/restore cursor position in Undo_Justification(), matching
448 behavior of Buffer_To_Window() (report by Leon Winter).
449 + modify test/knight to provide the "slow" solution for small screens
450 using "R", noting that Warnsdorf's method is easily done with "a".
451 + modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to
452 consistently do this only if "-d" option is given.
453 + additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses:
454 + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absense of limit
455 checks in some libraries.
456 + fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does
457 not return ERR on the lower-right corner.
458 + add checks in test/configure for some functions not in 4.3BSD curses.
459 + fix a regression in test/configure (cf: 20170826).
462 + amend change for endwin-state for better consistency with the older
463 logic (report/patch by Jeb Rosen, cf: 20170722).
464 + modify check in fmt_entry() to handle a cancelled reset string
465 (Debian #873746). Make similar fixes in other parts of dump_entry.c
469 + fix a bug in repeat_char logic (cf: 20170729, report by Chris Clayton).
472 + fixes for "iterm2" (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
473 + corrected a warning from tic about keys which are the same, to skip
474 over missing/cancelled values.
475 + add check in tic for unnecessary use of "2" to denote a shifted
477 + improve checks in trim_sgr0, comp_parse.c and parse_entry.c, for
478 cancelled string capabilities.
479 + add check in _nc_parse_entry() for invalid entry name, setting the
480 name to "invalid" to avoid problems storing entries.
481 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
482 + add a check in comp_scan.c to handle the special case where a
483 nontext file ending with a NUL rather than newline is given to tic
484 as input (Redhat #1484274).
485 + allow for cancelled capabilities in _nc_save_str (Redhat #1484276).
486 + add validity checks for "use=" target in _nc_parse_entry (Redhat
488 + check for invalid strings in postprocess_termcap (Redhat #1484285)
489 + reset secondary pointers on EOF in next_char() (Redhat #1484287).
490 + guard _nc_safe_strcpy() and _nc_safe_strcat() against calls using
491 cancelled strings (Redhat #1484291).
492 + correct typo in curs_memleaks.3x (Sven Joachim).
493 + improve test/configure checks for some curses variants not based on
495 + add options for test/configure to disable checks for form, menu and
499 + update "iterm" entry -TD
500 + add "iterm2" entry (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
501 + regenerate llib-* files.
502 + regenerate HTML manpages.
503 + improve picsmap test-program:
504 + reduce memory used for tsearch
505 + add report in log file showing cumulative color coverage.
506 + add -x option to clear/tput to make the E3 extension optional
508 + add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput.
509 + add usage message to clear command (Debian #371855).
510 + improve usage messages for tset and tput.
511 + minor fixes to "RGB" extension and reset_color_pairs().
514 + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by
516 + add reset_color_pairs() function.
517 + add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used
519 + improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure
520 script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack.
521 + modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in
522 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
523 + improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(),
524 color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters.
525 + minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the
526 current screen is marked for clearing.
527 + in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for
529 + modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow
530 on demand up to the existing limit.
531 + add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to
532 improve color_content().
533 + improve picsmap test-program:
534 + if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM,
535 checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat"
536 suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g.,
537 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
538 + add "-l" option for logging
539 + add "-d" option for debugging
540 + add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images,
542 + use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images.
543 + update config.guess, config.sub from
544 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
547 + update interix entry using tack and SFU on Windows 7 Ultimate -TD
548 + use ^? for kdch1 in interix (reported by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard)
549 + add "rep" to xterm-new, available since 1997/01/26 -TD
550 + move SGR 24 and 27 from vte-2014 to vte-2012 (request by Alain
552 + add a check in newline_forces_scroll() in case a program moves the
553 cursor outside scrolling margins (report by Robert King).
554 + improve _nc_tparm_analyze, using that to extend the checks made by
555 tic for reporting inconsistencies between the expected number of
556 parameters for a capability and the actual.
557 + amend handling of repeat_char capability in EmitRange (adapted from
558 report/patch by Dick Wesseling):
559 + translate the character to the alternate character set when the
560 alternate character set is enabled.
561 + do not use repeat_char for characters past 255.
562 + document "_nc_free_tinfo" in manual page, because it could be used in
563 tack for memory-leak checking.
564 + add "--without-tack" configure option to refine "--with-progs"
565 configure option. Normally tack is no longer built in-tree, but
566 a few packagers combine it during the build. If term_entry.h is
567 installed, there is no advantage to in-tree builds.
568 + adjust configure-script to define HAVE_CURSES_DATA_BOOLNAMES symbol
569 needed for tack 1.08 when built in-tree. Rather than relying upon
570 internal "_nc_" functions, tack now uses the boolean, number and
571 string capability name-arrays provided by ncurses and SVr4 Unix
572 curses. It still uses term_entry.h for the definitions of the
573 extended capability arrays.
574 + add an overlooked null-pointer check in mvcur changes from 20170722
577 + improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian
578 + modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where
579 the screen was never initialized, using that to trigger a flush of
580 ncurses' buffer for mvcur, e.g., in test/dots_mvcur.c for the
581 term-driver configuration.
582 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to a few other internal header
583 files to allow each to be compiled separately.
584 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program
585 using tic-library will have to supply this file. Legacy tack
586 versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the
587 dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected.
590 + modify command-line parameters for "convert" used in picsmap to work
591 with ImageMagick 6.8 and newer.
592 + fix build-problem with tack and ABI-5 (Debian #868328).
593 + repair termcap-format from tic/infocmp broken in 20170701 fixes
595 + reformat terminfo.src with 20170513 updates.
596 + improve test-packages to address lintian warnings.
599 + add a note to tic manual page about -W versus -f options.
600 + correct a limit-check in fixes from 20170701 (report by Sven Joachim).
603 + modify update_getenv() in db_iterator.c to ensure that environment
604 variables which are not initially set will be checked later if an
605 application happens to set them (patch by Guillaume Maudoux).
606 + remove initialization-check for calling napms() in the term-driver
607 configuration; none is needed.
608 + add help-screen to test/test_getstr.c and test/test_get_wstr.c
609 + improve compatibility between different configurations of new_prescr,
610 fixing a case with threaded code and term-driver where c++/demo did
611 not work (cf: 20160213).
612 + the fixes for Redhat #1464685 obscured a problem subsequently
613 reported in Redhat #1464687; the given test-case was no longer
614 reproducible. Testing without the fixes for the earlier reports
615 showed a problem with buffer overflow in dump_entry.c, which is
616 addressed by reducing the use of a fixed-size buffer.
617 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
618 (Redhat #1464684, #1464685, #1464686, #1464691).
619 + alloc_entry.c, add a check for a null-pointer.
620 + parse_entry.c, add several checks for valid pointers as well as
621 one check to ensure that a single character on a line is not
622 treated as the 2-character termcap short-name.
623 + fix a memory leak in delscreen() (report by Bai Junq).
624 + improve tracemunch, showing thread identifiers as names.
625 + fix a use-after-free in NCursesMenu::~NCursesMenu()
626 + further amend incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
627 (report by Allen Hewes).
630 + modify c++/etip.h.in to accommodate deprecation of throw() and
631 throws() in c++17 (prompted by patch by Romain Geissler).
632 + remove some incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
633 (report by Allen Hewes).
634 + add test-programs for termattrs and term_attrs.
635 + modify _nc_outc_wrapper to use the standard output if the screen was
636 not initialized, rather than returning an error.
637 + improve checks for low-level terminfo functions when the terminal
638 has not been initialized (Redhat #1345963).
639 + modify make_hash to allow building with address-sanitizer,
640 assuming that --disable-leaks is configured.
641 + amend changes for number_format() in 20170506 to avoid undefined
642 behavior when shifting (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta).
645 + fill in some places where TERMTYPE2 vs TERMTYPE was not used
646 (report by Allen Hewes).
647 + use ExitTerminfo() internally in error-exits for ncurses' setupterm
648 to help with leak checking.
649 + use ExitProgram() in error-exit from initscr() to help with leak
651 + review test-programs, adding checks for cases where the terminal
652 cannot be initialized.
655 + add option "-xp" to picsmap.c, to use init_extended_pair().
656 + make simple performance fixes for picsmap.c
657 + improve aspect ratio of images read from "convert" in picsmap.c
660 + add option to picsmap to use color-palette files, e.g., for mapping
662 + move the data in SCREEN used for the alloc_pair() function to the
663 end, to restore compatibility between ncurses/ncursesw libtinfo
664 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
665 + add build-time utility "report_offsets" to help show when the various
666 configurations of tinfo library are compatible or not.
669 + improved test/picsmap.c:
670 + lookup named colors for xpm files in rgb.txt
671 + accept blanks in color-keys for xpm files.
672 + if neither xbm/xpm work, try "convert", which may be available.
675 + modify test/picsmap.c to read xpm files.
676 + modify package/debian/* to create documentation packages, so the
677 related files can be checked with lintian.
678 + fix some typos in manpages (report/patch by Sven Joachim).
681 + add test/picsmap.c to fill in some testing issues not met by dots.
682 The initial version reads X bitmap (".xbm") files.
683 + repair logic which forces a repaint where a color-pair's content is
684 changed (cf: 20170311).
685 + improve tracemunch, showing screenXX pointers as names.
688 + modify tic/infocmp display of numeric values to use hexadecimal when
689 they are "close" to a power of two, making the result more readable.
690 + improve discussion of portability in curs_mouse.3x
691 + change line-length for generated html/manpages to 78 columns from 65.
692 + improve discussion of line-drawing characters in curs_add_wch.3x
693 (prompted by discussion with Lorinczy Zsigmond).
694 + cleanup formatting of hackguide.html and ncurses-intro.html
695 + add examples for WACS_D_PLUS and WACS_T_PLUS to test/ncurses.c
698 + corrected a case where $with_gpm was set to "maybe" after CF_WITH_GPM,
699 overlooked in 20160528 fixes (report by Alexandre Bury).
700 + improve a couple of test-program's help-messages.
701 + corrected loop in rain.c from 20170415 changes.
702 + modify winnstr and winchnstr to return error if the output pointer is
703 null, as well as adding a null pointer check of the window pointer
704 for better compatibility with other implementations.
705 + improve discussion of NetBSD curses in scr_dump.5
706 + modify LIMIT_TYPED macro in new_pair.h to avoid changing sign of the
707 value to be limited (reports by Darby Payne, Rob Boudreau).
708 + update config.guess, config.sub from
709 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
712 + build-fix for termcap-configuration (report by Chi-Hsuan Yen).
713 + improve terminfo manual page discussion of control- and graphics-
715 + remove tic warning about "^?" in string capabilities, which was
716 marked as an extension (cf: 20000610, 20110820); however all Unix
717 implementations support this and X/Open Curses does not address it.
718 On the other hand, termcap never did support this feature.
719 + correct missing comma-separator between string capabilities in
720 icl6402 and m2-nam -TD
721 + restore rmir/smir in ansi+idc to better match original ansiterm+idc,
722 add alias ansiterm (report by Robert King).
723 + amend an old check for ambiguous use of "ma" in terminfo versus
724 a termcap use, if the capability is cancelled to treat it as number.
725 + correct a case in _nc_captoinfo() which read "%%" and emitted "%".
726 + modify sscanf calls in _nc_infotocap() for patterns "%{number}%+%c"
727 and "%'char'%+%c" to check that the final character is really 'c',
728 avoiding a case in icl6404 which cannot be converted to termcap.
729 + in _nc_infotocap(), add a check to ensure that terminfo "^?" is not
730 written to termcap, because the BSDs did not implement that.
731 + in _nc_tic_expand() and _nc_infotocap(), improve string-length check
732 when deciding whether to use "^X" or "\xxx" format for control
733 characters, to make the output of tic/infocmp more predictable.
734 + limit termcap "%d" width to 2 digits on input, and use "%2" in
735 preference to "%02" on output.
736 + correct terminfo/termcap conversion of "%02" and "%03" into "%2" and
737 "%3"; the result repeated the last character.
738 + add man/scr_dump.5 to document screen-dump format.
741 + modify several test programs to use new popup_msgs, adapted from
742 help-screen used in test/edit_field.c
743 + drop two symbols obsoleted in 2004: _nc_check_termtype, and
745 + fix some old copyright dates (cf: 20031025).
746 + build-fixes for test/savescreen.c to work with AIX and HPUX.
747 + minor fix to configure script, adding a backslash/continuation.
748 + extend TERMINAL structure for ABI 6 to store numbers internally as
749 integers rather than short, by adding new data for this purpose.
750 + more fixes for minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
753 + change logic in wins_nwstr() to avoid addressing data past the output
755 + correct a call to setcchar() in Data_Entry_w() from 20131207 changes.
756 + fix minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
757 + further improve ifdef in term_entry.h for internal definitions not
761 + minor fixes for vt100+4bsd, e.g., delay in sgr for consistency -TD
762 + add smso for env230, to match sgr -TD
763 + remove p7/protect from sgr in fbterm -TD
764 + drop setf/setb from fbterm; setaf/setab are enough -TD
765 + make xterm-pcolor sgr consistent with other capabilities -TD
766 + add rmxx/smxx ECMA-48 strikeout extension to tmux and xterm-basic
767 (discussion with Nicholas Marriott)
768 + add test-programs sp_tinfo and extended_color
769 + modify no-leaks code for lib_cur_term.c to account for the tgetent()
771 + modify setupterm() to save original tty-modes so that erasechar()
772 works as expected. Also modify _nc_setupscreen() to avoid redundant
773 calls to get original tty-modes.
774 + modify set_curterm() to update ttytype[] data used by longname().
775 + modify wattr_set() and wattr_get() to return ERR if win-parameter is
777 + improve cast used for null-pointer checks in header macros, to
778 reduce compiler warnings.
779 + modify several functions, using the reserved "opts" parameter to pass
780 color- and pair-values larger than 16-bits:
781 + getcchar(), setcchar(), slk_attr_set(), vid_puts(), wattr_get(),
782 wattr_set(), wchgat(), wcolor_set().
783 + Other functions call these with the corresponding altered behavior,
784 including chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat(), slk_color_on(),
785 slk_color_off(), vid_attr().
786 + add new functions for manipulating color- and pair-values larger
787 than 16-bits. These are extended_color_content(),
788 extended_pair_content(), extended_slk_color(), init_extended_color(),
789 init_extended_pair(), and the corresponding sp-funcs.
792 + fix a memory leak in the window-list when creating multiple screens
793 (reports by Andres Martinelli, Debian #783486).
794 + reviewed calls from link_test.c, added a few more null-pointer
796 + add a null-pointer check in ungetmouse, in case mousemask was not
797 called (report by "Kau").
798 + updated curs_sp_funcs.3x for new functions.
801 + change TERMINAL structure in term.h to make it opaque. Some
802 applications misuse its members, e.g., directly modifying it
803 rather than using def_prog_mode().
804 + modify utility headers such as tic.h to make it clearer which are
805 externals that are used by tack.
806 + improve curs_slk.3x in particular its discussion of portability.
807 + fix cut/paste in legacy_encoding.3x
808 + add prototype for find_pair() to new_pair.3x (report by Branden
810 + fix a couple of broken links in generated man-html documentation.
811 + regenerate man-html documentation.
814 + modify vt100 rs2 string to reset vt52 mode and scrolling regions
815 (report/analysis by Robert King) -TD
816 + add vt100+4bsd building block, use that for older terminals rather
817 than "vt100" which is now mostly used as a building block for
818 terminal emulators -TD
819 + correct a few spelling errors in terminfo.src comments -TD
821 + fix a typo in ncurses.c test_attr legend (patch by Petr Vanek).
822 + changed internal colorpair_t to a struct, eliminating an internal
823 8-bit limit on colors
824 + add ncurses/new_pair.h
825 + add ncurses/base/new_pair.c with alloc_pair(), find_pair() and
826 free_pair() functions
827 + add test/demo_new_pair.c
830 + improve terminfo manual description of terminfo syntax.
831 + clarify the use of wint_t vs wchar_t in curs_get_wstr.3x
832 + improve description of endwin() in manual.
833 + modify setcchar() and getcchar() to treat negative color-pair as an
835 + fix a typo in include/hashed_db.h (Andre Sa).
838 + fixes for CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS (report by Ross Burton).
841 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
842 + correct read of terminfo entry in which all strings are absent or
843 explicitly cancelled. Before this fix, the result was that all were
844 treated as only absent.
845 + modify infocmp to suppress mixture of absent/cancelled capabilities
846 that would only show as "NULL, NULL", unless the -q option is used,
847 e.g., to show "-, @" or "@, -".
850 + build-fixes for PGI compilers (report by Adam J. Stewart)
851 + accept whitespace in sed expression for generating expanded.c
852 + modify configure check that g++ compiler warnings are not used.
853 + add configure check for -fPIC option needed for shared libraries.
854 + let configure --disable-ext-funcs override the default for the
855 --enable-sp-funcs option.
856 + mark some structs in form/menu/panel libraries as potentially opaque
857 without modifying API/ABI.
858 + add configure option --enable-opaque-curses for ncurses library and
859 similar options for the other libraries.
862 + trim newlines, tabs and escaped newlines from terminfo "paths" passed
864 + ignore zero-length files in db-iterator; these are useful for
865 instance to suppress "$HOME/.terminfo" when not wanted.
866 + amended "b64:" encoder to work with the terminfo reader.
867 + modify terminfo reader to accept "b64:" format using RFC-3548 in
868 as well as RFC-4648 url/filename-safe format.
869 + modify terminfo reader to accept "hex:" format as generated by
870 "infocmp -0qQ1" (cf: 20150905).
871 + adjust authors comment to reflect drop below 1% for SV.
874 + minor comment-fixes to help automate links to bug-urls -TD
875 + add dvtm, dvtm-256color -TD
876 + add settings corresponding to xterm-keys option to tmux entry to
877 reflect upcoming change to make that option "on" by default
878 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
879 + uncancel Ms in tmux entry (Harry Gindi, Nicholas Marriott).
880 + add dumb-emacs-ansi -TD
883 + improve discussion of early history of tput program.
884 + incorporate A_COLOR mask into COLOR_PAIR(), in case user application
885 provides an out-of-range pair number (report by Elijah Stone).
886 + clarify description in tput manual page regarding support for
887 termcap names (prompted by FreeBSD #214709).
888 + remove a restriction in tput's support for termcap names which
889 omitted capabilities normally not shown in termcap translations
891 + modify configure script for clang as used on FreeBSD, to work around
892 clang's differences in exit codes vs gcc.
895 + improve discussion of early history of tset/reset programs.
896 + clarify in manual pages that the optional verbose option level is
897 available only when ncurses is configured for tracing.
898 + amend change from 20161231 to avoid writing traces to the standard
899 error after initializing the trace feature using the environment
903 + amend changes for tput to reset tty modes to "sane" if the program
904 is run as "reset", like tset. Likewise, ensure that tset sends
905 either reset- or init-strings.
906 + improve manual page descriptions of tput init/reset and tset/reset,
907 to make it easier to see how they are similar and different.
908 + move a static result from key_name() to _nc_globals
909 + modify _nc_get_screensize to allow for use_env() and use_tioctl()
910 state to be per-screen when sp-funcs are configured, better matching
911 the behavior when using the term-driver configuration.
912 + improve cross-references in manual pages for often used functions
913 + move SCREEN field for use_tioctl() data before the ncursesw fields,
914 and limit that to the sp-funcs configuration to improve termlib
915 compatibility (cf: 20120714).
916 + correct order of initialization for traces in use_env() and
917 use_tioctl() versus first trace calls.
920 + fix errata for ncurses-howto (report by Damien Ruscoe).
921 + fix a few places in configure/build scripts where DESTDIR and rpath
922 were combined (report by Thomas Klausner).
923 + merge current st description (report by Harry Gindi) -TD
924 + modify flash capability for linux and wyse entries to put the delay
925 between the reverse/normal escapes rather than after -TD
926 + modify program tabs to pass the actual tty file descriptor to
927 setupterm rather than the standard output, making padding work
929 + explain in clear's manual page that it writes to stdout.
930 + add special case for verbose debugging traces of command-line
931 utilities which write to stderr (cf: 20161126).
932 + remove a trace with literal escapes from skip_DECSCNM(), added in
934 + update config.guess, config.sub from
935 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
938 + correct parameters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes()
939 (patch by Leon Winter).
940 + improve color-handling section in terminfo manual page (prompted by
941 patch by Mihail Konev).
942 + modify programs clear, tput and tset to pass the actual tty file
943 descriptor to setupterm rather than the standard output, making
947 + add tput-colorcube demo script.
948 + add -r and -s options to tput-initc demo, to match usage in xterm.
949 + flush the standard output in _nc_flush for the case where SP is zero,
950 e.g., when called via putp. This fixes a scenario where "tput flash"
951 did not work after changes in 20130112.
954 + add configure script option --disable-wattr-macros for use in cases
955 where one wants to use the same headers for ncurses5/ncurses6
956 development, by suppressing the wattr* macros which differ due to
957 the introduction of extended colors (prompted by comments in
958 Debian #230990, Redhat #1270534).
959 + add test/tput-initc to demonstrate tput used to initialize palette
961 + modify test/xterm*.dat to use the newer color4/color12 values.
964 + improve discussion of field validation in form_driver.3x manual page.
965 + update curs_trace.3x manual page.
968 + modify linux-16color to not mask dim, standout or reverse with the
970 + add 0.1sec mandatory delay to flash capabilities using the VT100
971 reverse-video control -TD
972 + omit selection of ISO-8859-1 for G0 in enacs capability from linux2.6
973 entry, to avoid conflict with the user-defined mapping. The reset
974 feature will use ISO-8859-1 in any case (Mikulas Patocka).
975 + improve check in tic for delays by also warning about beep/flash
976 when a delay is not embedded, or if those use the VT100 reverse
977 video escape without using a delay.
978 + minor fix for syntax-check of delays from 20161119 changes.
979 + modify trace() to avoid overwriting existing file (report by Maor
983 + add check in tic for some syntax errors of delays, as well as use of
984 proportional delays for non-line capabilities.
985 + document history of the clear program and the E3 extension, prompted
986 by various discussions including
987 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87469/clearing-the-old-scrollback-buffer
990 + improve -W option in tic/infocmp:
991 + correct order of size-adjustments in wrapped lines
992 + if -f option splits line, do not further split it with -W
993 + begin a new line when adding "use=" after a wrapped line
996 + fix typo in man/terminfo.tail (Alain Williams).
997 + correct program-name in adacurses6-config.1 manual page.
1000 + add new function "unfocus_current_field" (Leon Winter)
1003 + modify tset -w (and tput reset) to update the program's copy of the
1004 screensize if it was already set in the system, to improve tabstop
1005 setting which relies upon knowing the actual screensize.
1006 + add functionality of tset -w to tput, like the "-c" feature this is
1007 not optional in tput.
1008 + add "clear" as a possible link/alias to tput.
1009 + improve tput's check for being called as "init" or "reset" to allow
1010 for transformed names.
1011 + split-out the "clear" function from progs/clear.c, share with
1012 tput to get the same behavior, e.g., the E3 extension.
1015 + amend internal use of tputs to consistently use the number of lines
1016 affected, e.g., for insert/delete character operations. While
1017 merging terminfo source early in 1995, several descriptions used the
1018 "*" proportional delay for these operations, prompting a change in
1020 + regenerate llib-* files.
1021 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1022 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
1025 + adjust size in infocmp/tic to work with strlcpy.
1026 + fix configure script to record when strlcat is found on OpenBSD.
1027 + build-fix for "recent" OpenBSD vs baudrate.
1030 + add -W option to tic/infocmp to force long strings to wrap. This is
1031 in addition to the -w option which attempts to fit capabilities into
1032 a given line-length.
1033 + add linux-m1 minitel entries (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
1034 + correct rs2 string for vt100-nam -TD
1037 + modify _nc_tic_expand to escape comma if it immediately follows a
1038 percent sign, to work with minitel change.
1039 + updated minitel and viewdata descriptions (Alexandre Montaron).
1042 + build-fix for gnat6, which unhelpfully attempts to compile C files.
1043 + fix typo in 20160910 changes (Debian #837892, patch by Sven Joachim).
1046 + trim dead code ifdef'd with HIDE_EINTR since 970830 (discussion with
1048 + trim some obsolete/incorrect wording about EINTR from wgetch manual
1049 page (patch by Leon Winter).
1050 + really correct 20100515 change (patch by Rich Coe).
1051 + add "--enable-string-hacks" option to test/configure
1052 + completed string-hacks for "sprintf", etc., including test-programs.
1053 + make "--enable-string-hacks" work with Debian by checking for the
1054 "bsd" library and its associated "<bsd/string.h>" header.
1057 + correct 20100515 change for weak signals versus sigprocmask (report
1059 + modify misc/Makefile.in to work around OpenBSD "make" which unlike
1060 all other versions of "make" does not recognize continuation lines
1062 + amend the last change to CF_C_ENV_FLAGS to move only the
1063 preprocessor, optimization and warning flags to CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS,
1064 leaving the residue in CC. That happens to work for gcc's various
1065 "model" options, but may require tuning for other compilers (report
1069 + add "v" menu entry to test/ncurses.c to show baudrate and other
1071 + add "newer" baudrate symbols from Linux and FreeBSD to progs/tset.c,
1073 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro:
1074 + add "uclinux" to case for "linux" (patch by Yann E. Morin)
1075 + modify _GNU_SOURCE for cygwin headers, tested with cygwin 2.3, 2.5
1076 (patch by Corinna Vinschen, from changes to tin).
1077 + improve CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS macro to allow for compiler wrappers such
1078 as "ccache" (report by Enrico Scholz).
1079 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1080 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1083 + update tput manual page to reflect changes to manipulate terminal
1084 modes by sharing functions with tset.
1085 + add the terminal-mode parts of "reset" (aka tset) to the "tput reset"
1086 command, making the two almost the same except for window-size.
1087 + adapt logic used in dialog "--keep-tite" option for test/filter.c as
1088 "-a" option. When set, test/filter attempts to suppress the
1090 + correct a typo in interix entry -TD
1093 + add a dependency upon generated-sources in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to
1094 handle a case of "configure && make install".
1095 + trim trailing blanks from include/Caps*, to work around a problem
1096 in sed (Debian #818067).
1099 + improve CF_GNU_SOURCE configure macro to optionally define
1100 _DEFAULT_SOURCE work around a nuisance in recent glibc releases.
1101 + move the terminfo-specific parts of tput's "reset" function into
1102 the shared reset_cmd.c, making the two forms of reset use the same
1104 + split-out the terminal initialization functions from tset as
1105 progs/reset_cmd.c, as part of changes to merge the reset-feature
1109 + change tset's initialization to allow it to get settings from the
1110 standard input as well as /dev/tty, to be more effective when
1111 output or error are redirected.
1112 + improve discussion of history and portability for tset/reset/tput
1116 + improve error message from tset/reset when both stderr/stdout are
1117 redirected to a file or pipe.
1118 + improve organization of curs_attr.3x, curs_color.3x
1121 + work around Debian's antique/unmaintained version of mawk when
1123 + improve test/list_keys.c, showing ncurses's convention of modifiers
1124 for special keys, based on xterm.
1127 + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters are given.
1130 + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule.
1131 + amend change to CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS in 20160521 to make multilib build
1132 work (report by Sven Joachim).
1135 + build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses.
1136 + improve test/list_keys.c, fixing column-widths and sorting the list
1137 to make it more readable.
1140 + revise fix for Debian #805618 (report by Vlado Potisk, cf: 20151128).
1141 + modify test/ncurses.c a/A screens to make exiting on an escape
1142 character depend on the start of keypad and timeout modes, to allow
1143 better testing of function-keys.
1144 + modify rs1 for xterm-16color, xterm-88color and xterm-256color to
1145 reset palette using "oc" string as in linux -TD
1146 + use ANSI reply for u8 in xterm-new, to reflect vt220-style responses
1147 that could be returned -TD
1148 + added a few capabilities fixed in recent vte -TD
1151 + correct logic for -f option in test/demo_terminfo.c
1152 + add test/list_keys.c
1155 + further workaround for PIE/PIC breakage which causes gpm to not link.
1156 + fix most cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library.
1159 + improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size.
1160 + fixes to work with a slightly broken compiler configuration which
1161 cannot compile "Hello World!" without adding compiler options
1162 (report by Ola x Nilsson):
1163 + pass appropriate compiler options to the CF_PROG_CC_C_O macro.
1164 + when separating compiler and options in CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, ensure
1165 that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS
1166 + restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared
1167 to be redundant. In fact, they are needed for a compiler that
1168 cannot combine -c and -o options.
1171 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1172 + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they
1173 might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426).
1174 + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD
1175 + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0
1176 entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD
1177 + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran).
1180 + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the
1181 special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,
1183 + modify test/ncurses.c:
1184 + check return-value of putwin
1185 + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes
1186 to keypad- and scroll-modes.
1187 + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).
1190 + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm
1191 color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE
1192 and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R.
1193 + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for
1197 + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs
1198 PIC builds documented in
1199 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
1200 + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages
1201 due to program-transformation configure options.
1202 + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset.
1205 + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when
1206 available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850.
1209 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1210 + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus
1214 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1215 + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers
1216 to switch the active menu. This requires a new extension option
1217 O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not
1218 apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application
1219 can handle the event.
1222 + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso).
1223 + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case
1224 that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for
1225 non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888).
1228 + modified test/filter.c to illustrate an alternative to getnstr, that
1229 polls for input while updating a clock on the right margin as well
1230 as responding to window size-changes.
1233 + omit a redefinition of "inline" when traces are enabled, since this
1234 does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912).
1237 + modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of
1238 ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g.,
1239 in case weak symbols are used.
1240 + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
1241 rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
1243 + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
1244 winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
1245 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1246 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1249 + amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work
1250 in threaded configuration.
1251 + move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h,
1252 since they are not part of the suggested ABI6.
1255 + define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN for MinGW port, making builds faster.
1256 + modify test/ditto.c to allow $XTERM_PROG environment variable to
1257 override "xterm" as the name of the program to run in the threaded
1261 + improve formatting of man/curs_refresh.3x and man/tset.1 manpages
1262 + regenerate HTML manpages using newer man2html to eliminate some
1263 unwanted blank lines.
1266 + ifdef'd header-file definition of mouse_trafo() with NCURSES_NOMACROS
1267 (report by Corey Minyard).
1268 + fix some strict compiler-warnings in traces.
1271 + tidy up comments about hardcoded 256color palette (report by
1272 Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
1273 + add putty-noapp entry, and amend putty entry to use application mode
1274 for better consistency with xterm (report by Leonardo Brondani
1276 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to trace wide-characters
1277 as a whole rather than their multibyte equivalents.
1278 + minor fix in wadd_wchnstr() to ensure that each cell has nonzero
1280 + move PUTC_INIT calls next to wcrtomb calls, to avoid carry-over of
1281 error status when processing Unicode values which are not mapped.
1284 + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
1285 screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
1286 + minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of
1287 SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.
1290 + add check in tic for use of bold, etc., video attributes in the
1291 color capabilities, accounting whether the feature is listed in ncv.
1292 + add check in tic for conflict between ritm, rmso, rmul versus sgr0.
1295 + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion
1296 with James Crippen).
1297 + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
1299 + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
1300 characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.
1303 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
1304 needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
1305 does not work. Also modified the test program to ensure that if
1306 building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
1307 normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
1308 + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
1309 in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
1310 drawing characters as double-width.
1313 + update form_cursor.3x, form_post.3x, menu_attributes.3x to list
1314 function names in NAME section (patch by Jason McIntyre).
1315 + minor fixes to manpage NAME/SYNOPSIS sections to consistently use
1316 rule that either all functions which are prototyped in SYNOPSIS are
1317 listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
1318 listed in the NAME section. The latter is used to reduce clutter,
1319 e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
1320 feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
1324 + add option to preserve leading whitespace in form fields (patch by
1326 + add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
1328 + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
1329 + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
1330 + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
1331 backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
1332 + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
1335 + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
1336 + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
1337 + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
1338 + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.
1341 + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
1342 which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
1343 name. That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
1344 tset from termcap to terminfo. The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
1345 this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
1347 + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
1348 are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
1349 + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
1350 renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
1351 normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).
1354 + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
1355 valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
1356 actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
1357 install time (cf: 20150822).
1358 + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
1359 clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
1360 empty "local" section.
1361 + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
1362 to incorrect attribute-masking.
1365 + modify MKexpanded.sh to update the expansion of a temporary filename
1366 to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
1367 + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
1368 annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
1369 did not display well.
1370 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
1371 + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
1372 + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
1373 the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
1374 Normand, Novell #946048).
1375 + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
1376 FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
1377 + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
1378 minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
1379 + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
1380 + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
1381 Internet Archive -TD
1382 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1383 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1386 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
1387 (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
1388 + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
1389 data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
1390 (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
1391 > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
1392 + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
1393 + support building with libtool on OS/2
1394 + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
1395 + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
1398 + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
1399 + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
1400 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
1401 + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
1403 + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
1404 fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
1405 (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
1408 + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
1410 + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
1411 + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
1414 + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
1416 + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
1417 read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
1418 + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
1419 configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
1422 + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
1424 + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
1425 solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
1426 of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
1427 + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
1428 "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
1429 + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
1431 + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS
1434 + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
1436 + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
1437 all comments from the "tic -I" output.
1438 + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
1440 + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
1441 form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.
1444 + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
1446 + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
1447 + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
1448 + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
1449 + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
1450 ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
1454 + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
1455 overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
1456 + update release notes in INSTALL.
1457 + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
1460 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
1461 releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
1462 https://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
1464 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1467 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
1468 + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
1469 + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
1470 more than 200 snapshots.
1471 + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
1475 + updated llib-* files.
1476 + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
1477 + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
1479 + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1480 + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
1481 + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
1482 curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
1483 curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
1484 curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
1485 curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
1488 + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
1489 + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
1490 curs_initscr.3x page.
1491 + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
1492 of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
1493 in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
1495 + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
1496 e.g., ncursestw library.
1499 + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
1500 configuration of ncurses6.
1501 + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
1502 demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
1503 the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
1504 versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
1505 + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
1508 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
1509 + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
1510 (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
1513 + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
1515 + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
1516 map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
1517 suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
1518 + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
1519 from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
1520 + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
1521 databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
1522 + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
1523 setupterm and restartterm functions.
1524 + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
1525 of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
1526 it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
1530 + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
1531 + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
1532 the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
1533 files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
1534 corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
1535 configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
1536 discussion with Sven Joachim).
1537 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
1539 20150606 pre-release
1540 + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
1541 intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
1542 "--with-abi-version=5" option.
1543 + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
1544 + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
1545 + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
1546 Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
1547 + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
1548 ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
1549 lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
1550 + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
1551 "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
1552 + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
1553 CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
1556 + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
1557 mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
1558 + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
1559 + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
1560 + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
1561 have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
1562 + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
1563 cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
1566 + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
1567 + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
1568 by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
1569 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
1570 + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
1572 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
1573 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
1576 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
1577 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
1578 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
1579 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
1581 + regenerate html manpages.
1582 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
1583 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
1584 Stack Overflow forum):
1587 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
1588 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
1589 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
1590 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
1591 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
1595 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
1596 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
1597 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
1598 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
1599 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
1601 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
1602 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1603 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
1604 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
1605 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
1606 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
1608 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
1609 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
1610 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
1611 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
1612 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
1613 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
1615 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
1616 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
1618 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
1619 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
1621 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
1622 the ncurses library aside from headers.
1623 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
1624 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
1625 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
1626 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
1627 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1628 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1631 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
1632 (report by Todd M Lewis).
1633 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
1634 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
1635 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
1636 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
1637 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
1638 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
1640 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
1641 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
1642 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
1643 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
1644 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
1645 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
1646 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
1649 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
1650 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
1651 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
1652 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
1653 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
1654 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
1655 with the shared libraries.
1656 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
1657 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
1658 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
1659 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
1660 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
1661 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
1662 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
1663 inherit into new windows.
1666 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
1667 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
1668 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
1669 readonly text segment.
1672 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
1673 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
1676 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
1677 the extended putwin/getwin.
1678 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
1680 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
1684 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
1685 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
1686 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
1687 for a magic code at the beginning:
1688 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
1691 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
1693 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
1694 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
1697 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
1698 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
1699 (report by Grady Martin).
1702 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
1703 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
1704 the wide-character libraries.
1705 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
1707 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
1708 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
1711 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
1712 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
1713 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
1717 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
1718 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
1721 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
1722 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
1723 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
1724 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
1725 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
1728 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
1729 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
1730 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
1733 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
1734 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
1735 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
1737 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
1738 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
1739 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
1740 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
1741 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
1742 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
1743 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
1744 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
1745 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
1746 (report by Pavel Balaev).
1749 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
1750 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
1751 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
1752 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
1753 variations in ABI 6.
1756 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
1757 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
1761 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
1765 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
1766 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
1767 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
1768 the ABI 5 libraries.
1769 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
1770 regenerate html-manpages.
1773 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
1774 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
1776 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
1777 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
1778 package for ncurses6.
1779 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
1780 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
1781 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
1782 in the corresponding ".map" files.
1783 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
1784 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
1788 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
1789 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
1790 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
1791 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
1792 gcc introduced here:
1793 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
1794 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
1795 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
1796 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
1799 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
1800 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
1801 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
1802 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
1803 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
1806 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
1807 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
1808 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
1809 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
1810 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
1811 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
1812 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
1816 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
1817 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
1821 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
1822 msys2 configuration.
1825 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
1826 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
1827 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
1828 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
1829 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
1831 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
1832 (report by Mike Gran).
1835 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
1836 demonstration of its limitations.
1837 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
1838 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
1839 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
1840 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
1841 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
1842 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
1843 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
1845 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
1846 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
1849 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
1850 + implement flash in win_driver.c
1851 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
1853 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
1854 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
1855 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
1856 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
1857 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
1858 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
1859 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
1860 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
1863 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
1864 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
1865 some older cross-compiler environments.
1866 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
1867 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
1868 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
1869 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
1870 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
1871 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
1872 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
1873 + update config.sub from
1874 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1877 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
1878 C++ cross-compilers.
1879 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
1882 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
1884 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
1887 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
1888 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
1889 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
1892 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
1893 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
1897 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
1898 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
1899 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
1902 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
1903 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
1904 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
1905 + regenerated html manpages.
1906 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
1907 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
1908 which reverses cause/effect.
1909 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
1910 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
1911 + fixes for win_driver.c:
1912 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
1917 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
1918 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
1919 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
1920 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
1922 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
1923 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
1924 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
1925 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
1929 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
1930 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
1931 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
1932 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
1933 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
1934 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
1935 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
1936 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
1937 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
1940 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
1941 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
1942 options, from xterm changes.
1945 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
1946 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
1950 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
1951 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
1954 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
1955 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
1956 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
1957 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
1958 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
1959 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
1960 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
1963 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
1964 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
1965 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
1966 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
1967 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
1968 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
1969 providing directly comparable screens.
1970 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
1973 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
1975 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
1976 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
1977 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
1978 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
1979 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
1980 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
1981 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
1984 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
1985 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
1986 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
1987 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
1988 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
1991 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
1992 overlap with sgr functionality.
1993 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
1994 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
1995 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
1996 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
1997 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
1998 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
1999 older ncurses than 20131207.
2000 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
2001 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
2002 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
2003 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
2004 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
2007 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
2008 environment variable.
2009 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
2010 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
2011 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
2012 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
2013 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
2014 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
2015 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
2016 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
2017 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
2018 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
2019 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
2020 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
2021 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
2022 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
2024 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
2026 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
2027 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
2028 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
2030 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
2031 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
2032 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
2033 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
2034 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
2035 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
2036 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
2038 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
2040 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
2041 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
2042 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
2043 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
2044 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
2045 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
2046 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
2047 to be consecutive anyway.
2048 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
2049 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
2050 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
2051 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
2054 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
2055 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
2056 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
2059 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
2060 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
2061 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
2062 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2065 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
2067 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
2068 simplify later merging:
2069 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
2070 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
2071 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
2072 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
2073 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
2077 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2078 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2081 + modify configure script:
2082 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
2083 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
2084 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
2085 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
2086 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
2087 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
2088 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
2089 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
2090 "#win32console", and
2091 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
2092 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
2095 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
2096 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
2097 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
2098 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
2099 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
2100 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
2104 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
2107 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
2108 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
2109 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
2110 + add terminology entry -TD
2111 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
2112 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
2115 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
2116 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
2117 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
2118 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
2119 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
2123 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
2124 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
2125 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
2126 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
2127 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
2130 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
2133 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
2134 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
2135 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
2139 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
2140 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
2141 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
2142 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
2143 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
2144 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
2146 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
2147 html emitted by docbook.
2150 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
2151 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
2152 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
2153 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
2156 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
2157 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
2158 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
2159 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
2160 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2161 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
2164 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
2165 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
2166 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
2167 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2170 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
2171 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
2174 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
2176 ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
2179 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
2180 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
2181 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
2182 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
2184 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
2186 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
2187 + updated llib-l* files.
2190 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
2191 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
2195 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
2196 recognized by clang.
2199 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
2200 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
2201 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
2202 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
2203 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
2204 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
2205 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
2206 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
2207 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
2208 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
2209 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
2210 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
2212 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
2214 + update config.sub from
2215 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2218 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
2221 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
2222 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
2223 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
2224 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
2226 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
2229 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
2230 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
2231 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
2232 them more consistent with other packages.
2235 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
2236 compiling ncurses-examples.
2237 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
2240 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
2243 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
2244 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
2245 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
2246 cross-compiles to MinGW.
2247 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
2251 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
2252 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
2256 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
2257 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
2259 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
2261 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
2262 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
2263 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
2264 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
2265 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
2268 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
2269 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
2270 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
2273 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
2275 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
2276 before/after Debian #700177.
2277 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
2278 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
2280 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
2281 of sort, improving portability.
2282 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
2283 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2284 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2287 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
2288 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
2290 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
2291 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
2292 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
2295 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
2296 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
2297 introduced by Debian #700177.
2298 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
2299 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
2302 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
2303 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
2305 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
2306 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
2307 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
2310 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
2311 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
2313 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
2314 cross-compile support packages.
2315 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
2318 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
2319 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
2320 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
2321 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
2322 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
2323 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
2324 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
2325 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
2326 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
2327 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
2328 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
2329 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
2332 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
2333 initialization of cur_term.
2336 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
2337 + minor compiler-warning fixes
2340 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
2341 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
2342 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
2343 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
2344 --enable-auto-import flag.
2345 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
2349 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
2350 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
2351 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
2352 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
2353 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
2355 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
2356 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
2357 (patch by Eric Raymond).
2360 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
2361 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
2362 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
2364 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
2365 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
2366 not printing the full pathname of the program.
2367 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
2368 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
2369 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
2372 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
2373 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
2375 + add test/dots_termcap.c
2376 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
2377 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
2378 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
2379 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
2380 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
2381 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
2382 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
2383 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
2384 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
2386 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
2387 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
2390 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
2391 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
2392 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
2393 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
2394 the left margin of the display.
2395 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
2396 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
2397 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
2398 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
2401 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
2402 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
2403 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
2404 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
2405 + regenerated html manpages.
2406 + update doctype used for html documentation.
2409 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
2410 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
2411 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
2412 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
2413 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
2414 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
2417 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
2418 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
2419 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
2420 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
2421 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
2424 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
2425 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
2428 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
2429 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
2430 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2431 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
2432 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
2434 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
2435 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
2436 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
2437 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
2440 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
2441 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
2442 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
2443 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
2445 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
2447 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
2449 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
2452 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
2456 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
2457 (report by Christian Ebert).
2458 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
2459 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
2460 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
2463 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
2464 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
2465 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
2466 add bold for consistency with sgr,
2467 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
2468 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
2469 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
2470 by Benjamin Sittler)
2471 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
2472 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
2473 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
2474 line split after "%;".
2475 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
2476 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
2479 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
2480 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
2481 + regenerated html manpages.
2482 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
2483 + updated some autoconf macros:
2484 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
2485 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
2486 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
2487 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
2488 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
2489 configuration (Redhat #911540).
2490 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
2491 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
2494 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
2495 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
2497 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
2498 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
2500 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
2501 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
2502 of raw input in MinGW port.
2505 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
2506 + update config.guess, config.sub
2509 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
2511 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
2513 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
2514 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
2515 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
2516 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
2517 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
2518 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
2519 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
2521 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
2522 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
2525 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
2526 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
2528 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
2529 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
2530 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
2533 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
2534 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
2535 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
2538 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
2539 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
2540 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
2541 help reduce flicker.
2542 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
2543 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
2544 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
2545 by Dennis Grevenstein).
2546 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
2547 Dennis Grevenstein).
2548 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
2549 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
2550 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
2553 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
2554 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
2555 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
2556 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
2557 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
2558 + improve error-checking in copywin
2559 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
2560 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
2561 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
2562 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
2563 matching capability names.
2564 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
2565 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
2566 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
2569 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
2570 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
2571 are unused in the current driver model.
2572 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
2574 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
2575 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
2576 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
2577 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
2580 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
2581 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
2583 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
2584 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
2585 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
2586 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
2587 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
2590 + fix Coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
2591 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
2592 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
2596 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
2598 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
2599 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
2601 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
2602 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
2603 wide-character which can be used.
2606 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
2607 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
2608 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
2609 by Erwin Waterlander).
2610 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
2611 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2612 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
2613 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
2614 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
2615 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
2619 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
2620 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
2621 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
2622 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
2623 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
2624 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2625 + remove a few redundant checks.
2626 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
2628 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
2629 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
2630 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
2631 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
2633 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
2634 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
2635 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
2639 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
2640 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
2641 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
2645 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
2646 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
2647 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2648 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
2651 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2652 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
2653 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
2654 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
2655 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
2656 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
2657 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
2658 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
2660 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
2661 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
2662 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
2663 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
2666 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
2667 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
2668 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
2670 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
2671 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
2672 libraries or executables.
2675 + realign these related pages:
2680 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
2681 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
2682 (report by Reuben Thomas).
2683 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
2684 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
2685 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
2686 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
2687 based on testing with tack -TD
2688 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
2689 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
2692 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
2694 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
2695 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
2696 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
2699 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
2703 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
2704 (patch by Christian Persch).
2707 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
2709 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
2710 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
2711 has used that for a while.
2712 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
2713 for experimental use.
2714 + remove unused configure macros.
2715 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
2716 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
2717 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
2718 + update config.guess, config.sub
2721 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
2722 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
2723 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
2724 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
2725 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
2726 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
2727 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
2730 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
2731 to help with MinGW port.
2734 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
2736 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
2739 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
2742 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
2743 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
2744 might not be allocated.
2745 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
2748 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
2749 initial screen-sizes.
2750 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
2751 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
2755 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
2756 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
2760 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
2761 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
2762 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
2764 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
2765 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
2768 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
2769 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
2770 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
2771 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
2772 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
2773 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
2774 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
2778 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
2779 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
2780 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
2781 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
2782 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
2783 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
2784 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
2785 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
2789 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
2790 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
2791 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
2792 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
2793 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
2794 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
2797 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
2801 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
2803 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
2805 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
2806 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
2807 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
2808 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
2809 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
2810 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
2813 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
2815 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
2816 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
2817 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
2819 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
2820 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
2823 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
2824 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
2825 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
2828 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
2829 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
2831 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
2832 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
2834 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
2835 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
2838 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
2840 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
2841 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
2842 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
2843 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
2844 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
2845 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
2848 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
2849 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
2850 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
2851 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
2852 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
2853 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
2854 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
2855 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
2856 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
2858 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
2859 analysis by Martin Husemann).
2860 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
2861 Onno van der Linden).
2864 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
2866 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
2868 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
2869 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
2872 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
2873 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
2874 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
2875 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
2876 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
2877 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
2878 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
2881 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
2882 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
2883 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
2884 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
2885 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
2886 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
2887 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
2888 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
2889 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
2890 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
2891 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
2892 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
2893 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
2894 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
2895 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
2898 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
2899 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
2900 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
2901 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
2902 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
2903 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
2904 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
2905 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
2906 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
2907 are interpreted as key definitions.
2908 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
2909 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
2913 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
2914 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
2915 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
2916 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
2917 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
2918 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
2919 as building-blocks -TD
2920 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
2923 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
2924 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
2925 title is a status-line. -TD
2926 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
2927 of ordering and overrides -TD
2928 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
2929 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
2930 used in that file -TD
2933 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
2934 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
2935 definable capabilities.
2936 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
2937 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
2938 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
2939 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
2940 embedded in the description.
2941 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
2942 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
2943 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
2944 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
2945 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
2946 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
2949 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
2950 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
2951 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
2952 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
2953 Nicolas Boulenguez).
2954 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
2955 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
2956 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
2959 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
2960 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
2961 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
2962 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
2963 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
2964 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
2967 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
2968 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
2969 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
2971 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
2972 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
2973 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
2974 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
2977 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
2978 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
2979 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
2982 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
2983 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
2984 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
2986 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
2987 calls to setupterm().
2988 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
2990 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
2991 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
2992 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
2994 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
2998 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
3001 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
3003 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
3004 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
3005 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
3006 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
3007 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
3008 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
3010 + update config.guess, config.sub
3013 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
3014 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
3015 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
3016 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
3017 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
3018 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
3019 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
3020 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
3021 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
3024 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
3025 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
3026 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
3027 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
3028 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
3029 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
3030 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
3031 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
3032 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
3033 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
3034 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
3035 Linux versus most other systems.
3038 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
3042 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
3043 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
3044 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
3045 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
3046 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
3047 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
3048 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
3049 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
3050 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
3051 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
3052 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
3053 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
3054 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
3055 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
3058 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
3060 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
3062 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
3063 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
3064 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
3065 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).
3068 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
3070 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
3071 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
3072 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
3073 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
3074 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
3076 + regenerated html manpages.
3079 + various improvements for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
3080 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
3081 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
3082 + change recommended regular expression library.
3083 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
3084 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
3087 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
3088 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
3089 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
3090 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
3091 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
3092 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
3093 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
3097 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
3098 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
3100 + add putty-sco entry -TD
3103 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
3105 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
3107 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
3108 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
3109 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
3111 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
3113 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
3116 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
3117 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
3118 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
3119 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
3121 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
3122 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
3123 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
3126 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
3127 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
3129 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
3132 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
3134 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
3136 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
3138 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
3139 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
3140 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
3141 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
3142 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
3143 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
3144 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
3147 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
3148 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
3150 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
3151 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
3152 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
3153 database (cf: 20111001).
3156 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
3157 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
3158 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
3160 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
3161 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
3163 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
3164 in older FreeBSD machines.
3165 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
3166 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
3167 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
3170 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
3171 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
3172 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
3173 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
3174 root's home directory.
3175 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
3176 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
3177 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
3178 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
3179 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
3181 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
3182 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
3183 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
3184 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
3185 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
3186 (report by Peter Kruse).
3189 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
3190 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
3192 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
3194 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
3195 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
3196 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
3199 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
3200 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
3201 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
3202 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
3203 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
3204 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
3207 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
3208 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
3209 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
3210 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
3211 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
3214 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
3215 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
3216 input and output of termcap source.
3217 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
3218 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
3219 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
3220 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
3221 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
3222 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
3223 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
3224 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
3225 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
3228 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
3231 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
3233 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
3234 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
3235 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
3236 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
3238 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
3241 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
3242 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
3244 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
3245 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
3248 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
3249 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
3251 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
3252 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
3254 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
3255 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
3256 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
3257 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
3259 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
3260 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
3261 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
3262 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
3264 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
3265 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
3268 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
3269 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
3270 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
3271 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
3274 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
3275 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
3276 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
3277 + add terminator entry -TD
3278 + add simpleterm entry -TD
3279 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
3280 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
3284 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
3285 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
3286 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
3287 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
3288 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
3289 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
3290 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
3291 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
3292 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
3293 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
3297 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
3298 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
3299 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
3300 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
3301 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
3302 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
3304 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
3305 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
3306 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
3308 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
3311 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
3312 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
3313 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
3314 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
3316 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
3317 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
3319 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
3320 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
3321 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
3322 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
3323 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
3324 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
3325 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
3326 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
3328 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
3329 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
3331 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
3332 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
3333 tctest (cf: 19991211).
3334 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
3335 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
3336 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
3337 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
3338 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
3339 translating to termcap.
3340 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
3341 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
3344 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
3345 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
3346 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
3347 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
3348 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
3349 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
3351 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
3352 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
3353 regarding Schilling's test program):
3354 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
3355 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
3356 + use \040 rather than \s
3357 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
3358 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
3361 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
3362 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
3363 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
3364 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3365 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
3366 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
3367 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
3368 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
3369 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
3370 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
3371 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
3372 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
3375 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
3376 are not used in the $CC variable.
3377 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
3378 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
3379 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
3380 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
3381 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
3382 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3385 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
3386 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
3390 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
3391 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
3392 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
3393 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
3394 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
3396 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
3397 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
3399 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
3402 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
3403 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
3406 + fixes for MirBSD port:
3407 + set default prefix to /usr.
3408 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
3409 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
3410 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
3411 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
3414 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
3415 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
3416 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
3417 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
3419 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
3420 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
3424 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
3427 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
3428 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
3429 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
3431 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
3432 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
3433 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
3434 help work around weak-symbol issues.
3437 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
3438 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
3439 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
3440 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
3441 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
3442 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
3443 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
3444 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
3445 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
3446 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
3447 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
3450 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
3451 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
3453 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
3454 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
3455 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
3456 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3459 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
3460 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
3461 as different types on some Unix systems.
3462 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
3463 function pointer passed to tputs().
3464 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
3465 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
3466 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
3467 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
3470 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
3471 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3472 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
3473 + update config.guess, config.sub
3476 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
3478 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
3479 some ncurses packages.
3480 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
3481 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
3482 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
3484 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3487 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
3488 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
3489 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
3490 the in-tree build of sample programs.
3491 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
3492 needed for rpm script.
3493 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
3494 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
3495 options if building a shared library with gnat.
3498 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
3499 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
3500 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
3501 that sample program.
3502 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
3503 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
3504 which were added in 5.7 and later.
3505 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
3509 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
3511 + regen Ada html documentation.
3512 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
3513 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
3515 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
3517 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
3518 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
3519 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
3520 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
3521 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
3522 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
3524 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
3525 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
3527 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
3528 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
3531 + regen Ada html documentation.
3532 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
3533 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
3535 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
3536 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
3537 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
3538 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3539 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
3540 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
3541 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
3542 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
3543 thread in comp.lang.ada).
3544 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
3545 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
3546 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
3547 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
3548 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
3549 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
3550 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
3551 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
3552 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
3553 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
3556 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
3557 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
3558 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
3560 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
3562 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
3563 explain.txt is not found.
3566 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3567 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
3568 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3569 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
3570 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
3572 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3575 + update release notes, for 5.8.
3576 + regenerated html manpages.
3577 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
3579 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
3580 a new install of hashed database.
3581 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
3584 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
3585 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
3586 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
3587 wide-character configuration.
3588 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
3589 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
3592 + regenerated html manpages.
3593 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
3594 special case of trace configuration.
3597 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
3598 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
3599 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
3600 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
3601 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
3605 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
3606 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
3607 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
3608 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
3609 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
3611 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
3612 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
3615 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
3616 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
3617 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
3618 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
3619 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
3620 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
3621 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
3622 file configuration if that is used.
3623 + update config.guess, config.sub
3626 + regenerated html manpages.
3627 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
3629 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
3630 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
3633 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
3634 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
3637 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
3638 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
3639 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
3642 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
3644 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
3645 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
3646 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
3647 wide-character configuration.
3648 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
3649 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
3650 referred to quitting with 'q'.
3653 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
3654 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
3655 version which works with termcap.
3656 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
3657 (request by Sven Joachim).
3658 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
3659 (report by Sven Joachim).
3662 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
3663 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
3664 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
3667 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
3669 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
3670 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
3673 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
3675 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
3676 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
3677 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
3678 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
3679 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
3680 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
3684 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
3685 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
3686 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
3688 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
3691 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
3693 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
3697 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
3699 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
3700 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
3701 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
3702 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
3703 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
3704 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
3705 tree (report by Werner Fink).
3706 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
3707 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
3708 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
3709 (report by John P. Hartmann)
3710 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
3713 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
3714 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
3715 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
3716 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
3717 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
3718 external package "cindent".
3721 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
3722 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
3723 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
3724 inconsistent printer-controls.
3725 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
3726 form is available -TD
3727 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
3729 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
3731 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
3732 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3733 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
3734 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
3735 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
3737 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
3738 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
3742 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
3743 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
3744 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
3745 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3746 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
3748 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
3751 + regenerated html manpages.
3752 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
3753 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
3754 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
3757 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
3759 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
3760 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
3761 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
3762 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
3766 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
3767 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
3770 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
3771 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
3772 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
3773 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
3774 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
3775 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
3776 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
3780 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
3781 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
3782 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
3783 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
3784 by Tim van der Molen).
3785 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
3786 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
3787 library configuration.
3788 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
3789 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
3790 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
3793 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
3795 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
3796 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
3797 e.g., for cross-compiling.
3798 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
3799 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
3802 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
3803 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
3804 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
3805 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
3806 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
3807 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
3808 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
3809 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
3812 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
3813 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
3814 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
3815 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
3816 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
3817 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
3818 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
3819 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
3822 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
3823 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
3824 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
3825 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
3828 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
3829 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
3830 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
3833 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
3834 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
3835 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
3838 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
3839 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
3840 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
3841 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
3844 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
3845 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
3846 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
3848 + update Ada95/configure.
3849 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
3850 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
3851 of updating LIBS variable.
3854 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
3855 work with 64-bit compiles.
3856 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
3860 + regenerated html documentation.
3861 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
3863 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
3864 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
3865 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
3866 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
3869 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
3870 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
3872 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
3873 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
3874 build- and target-machines differ.
3875 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
3876 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
3878 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
3879 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
3882 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
3883 new EINTR feature is enabled.
3884 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
3885 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
3886 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
3887 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
3888 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
3889 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
3890 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
3891 with the standard builds of ncurses.
3892 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
3893 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
3894 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
3895 found in predefined libraries.
3896 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
3899 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
3900 (patch by David Benjamin).
3901 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
3902 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
3903 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
3904 may be defined by that route.
3907 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
3908 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
3909 the predefined include directories.
3910 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
3911 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
3912 where older versions would produce an error.
3915 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
3916 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
3917 terminfo to termcap strings
3918 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
3919 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
3920 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
3921 directory was already added.
3922 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
3923 directories (which will be ignored).
3926 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
3927 + discard motion events
3928 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
3929 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
3930 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
3931 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
3934 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
3935 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
3936 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
3937 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
3938 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
3939 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
3940 extended-colors configuration.
3941 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
3942 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
3943 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
3946 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
3948 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
3949 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
3950 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
3952 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
3953 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
3954 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
3957 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
3958 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
3962 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
3963 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
3964 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
3965 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
3966 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
3967 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
3968 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
3969 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
3970 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
3974 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
3975 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
3976 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
3977 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
3980 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
3982 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
3983 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
3984 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
3987 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
3988 making those separately distributable.
3989 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
3990 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
3994 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
3997 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
3998 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
3999 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
4000 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
4004 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
4005 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
4006 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
4007 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
4010 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
4011 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
4012 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
4013 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
4015 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
4016 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
4017 by Miroslav Lichvar)
4018 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
4022 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
4023 that line-drawing works.
4024 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
4025 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
4026 capabilities can run.
4027 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
4031 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
4032 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
4033 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
4034 before older in the list.
4035 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
4036 + minor documentation cleanup.
4037 + update config.guess, config.sub from
4038 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
4039 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
4042 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
4043 most common case of SGR 0.
4044 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
4045 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
4046 events remain, it will return ERR.
4049 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
4050 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
4051 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
4052 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
4053 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
4056 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
4057 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
4058 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
4061 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
4062 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
4063 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
4064 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
4065 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
4066 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
4069 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
4070 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
4071 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
4072 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
4073 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
4075 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
4077 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
4079 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
4080 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
4081 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
4083 + update config.guess, config.sub from
4084 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
4087 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
4088 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
4090 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
4091 writing terminfo entries.
4092 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
4093 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
4094 by Nicholas Marriott).
4097 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
4099 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
4100 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
4104 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
4105 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
4106 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
4107 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
4108 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
4112 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
4113 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
4114 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
4115 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
4118 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
4119 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
4120 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
4121 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
4122 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4123 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
4124 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
4127 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
4128 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
4129 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
4130 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
4131 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
4132 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
4133 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
4134 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
4135 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
4136 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
4137 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
4140 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
4141 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
4142 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
4143 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
4146 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
4147 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
4150 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
4151 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
4152 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
4156 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
4157 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
4158 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
4159 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
4160 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
4162 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
4163 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
4166 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
4167 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
4168 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
4169 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
4170 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
4171 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
4173 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
4174 library (some work remains for forms library).
4177 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
4178 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
4179 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
4180 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
4182 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
4183 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
4184 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
4185 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
4188 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
4189 by sharing linedata.h functions):
4192 test/test_addchstr.c
4193 test/test_add_wchstr.c
4194 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
4195 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
4196 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
4199 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
4201 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
4202 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
4203 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
4204 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
4208 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
4209 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
4210 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
4211 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4214 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
4215 amd64 (Debian #542031).
4216 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
4219 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4222 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
4223 broken in 20090510 merging.
4224 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
4225 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
4226 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
4227 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
4228 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
4229 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
4230 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
4231 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
4233 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
4236 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
4237 implementation details of hash function.
4240 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
4241 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
4242 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
4245 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
4246 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
4247 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
4248 test/demo_terminfo.c
4249 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4250 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
4253 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
4254 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
4258 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4261 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
4263 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
4264 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
4265 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
4266 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
4267 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
4269 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
4270 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
4271 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
4274 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
4275 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
4276 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
4279 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
4280 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
4282 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4285 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
4286 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
4288 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
4289 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
4293 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
4294 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
4295 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4298 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
4301 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4304 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
4305 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
4306 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
4307 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4310 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4313 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
4314 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
4315 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
4316 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
4320 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4323 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4324 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
4327 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4330 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
4334 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4337 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4338 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
4339 part of the form library.
4342 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
4343 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
4346 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
4347 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
4348 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
4349 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
4350 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
4351 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
4352 a temporary variable.
4353 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
4354 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
4355 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
4356 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
4357 with Charles Wilson).
4358 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
4359 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
4360 > patches by Charles Wilson:
4361 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
4362 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
4363 digits, after the final '.').
4364 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
4365 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
4366 using that in the libtool link-commands.
4367 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
4368 from 20090321 changes.
4369 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
4370 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
4371 termlib) is to be linked.
4372 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
4373 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
4376 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
4377 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
4378 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
4379 (report by Charles Wilson).
4380 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
4381 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
4382 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
4383 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
4384 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
4387 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
4388 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
4389 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
4390 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
4391 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
4393 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
4394 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
4395 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
4396 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
4397 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
4398 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
4399 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
4400 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
4403 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4404 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
4405 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
4408 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4411 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
4413 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
4414 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
4415 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
4416 some internals work is needed to complete these).
4417 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
4420 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
4421 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
4422 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
4423 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
4424 + make it work with $DESTDIR
4425 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
4428 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
4429 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
4431 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
4432 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
4433 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
4436 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
4437 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
4438 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
4439 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
4440 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
4441 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
4442 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
4443 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
4444 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
4447 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
4448 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
4450 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
4452 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
4453 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
4456 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
4458 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
4459 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
4460 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
4461 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
4464 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
4465 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
4466 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
4468 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
4469 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
4472 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
4473 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
4474 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
4475 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
4476 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
4477 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
4479 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
4480 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
4482 + update config.guess, config.sub from
4483 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
4486 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
4487 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
4488 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
4491 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
4492 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
4493 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
4495 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
4496 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
4499 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
4501 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
4502 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
4503 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
4505 + fixes from NetBSD port at
4506 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
4507 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
4508 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
4509 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
4510 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
4512 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
4513 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
4516 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
4517 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
4518 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
4519 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
4520 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
4521 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
4522 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
4523 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
4524 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
4525 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
4526 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
4529 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
4530 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
4531 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
4532 passing color or video attributes.
4533 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
4534 display meta-characters.
4535 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
4536 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
4537 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
4538 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
4542 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
4543 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4544 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
4546 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
4549 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
4551 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
4552 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
4554 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4557 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
4558 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
4559 does not work well on that platform).
4560 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
4563 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
4564 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
4565 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
4567 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
4568 --disable-database is used.
4569 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
4570 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
4571 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
4572 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
4576 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
4577 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
4578 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
4579 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
4580 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
4581 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
4582 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
4586 + regenerated html documentation.
4587 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
4588 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
4589 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
4590 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
4591 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
4592 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
4593 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
4594 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
4597 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
4598 works for C/C++ parts).
4599 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
4600 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
4603 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
4604 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
4605 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
4606 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
4607 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
4608 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
4609 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
4610 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
4611 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
4613 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
4614 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4615 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
4616 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
4617 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
4618 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
4621 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
4622 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
4625 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
4626 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
4627 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
4628 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
4629 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
4630 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
4633 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
4634 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
4637 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
4641 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
4642 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
4643 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
4644 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
4646 + update test/configure script.
4647 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
4648 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
4649 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
4650 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
4651 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
4654 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
4655 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
4657 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
4659 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
4660 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
4661 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
4662 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
4663 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
4664 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
4665 + update config.guess, config.sub from
4666 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
4667 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
4670 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
4671 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
4672 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
4673 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
4674 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
4675 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
4676 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
4677 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
4678 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
4679 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
4680 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
4684 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
4685 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
4686 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
4687 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
4688 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
4690 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
4691 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
4692 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
4693 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
4694 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
4697 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
4698 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
4699 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
4700 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
4701 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
4702 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
4703 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
4706 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
4710 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
4713 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
4716 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
4717 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
4719 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
4720 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
4721 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
4725 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
4726 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
4728 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
4729 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
4730 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
4731 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
4734 + regenerated html documentation.
4735 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
4736 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
4737 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
4738 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
4739 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
4742 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
4743 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
4744 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
4748 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
4749 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
4750 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
4751 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
4752 window which is being used in a wgetch().
4753 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
4756 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
4757 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
4759 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
4760 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
4761 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
4762 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
4763 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
4764 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
4765 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
4766 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
4767 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
4770 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
4771 screen which must be updated.
4772 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
4773 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
4774 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
4778 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
4779 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
4781 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
4782 Emanuele Giaquinta).
4783 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
4784 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
4787 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
4788 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
4789 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
4791 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
4795 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
4796 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
4797 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
4800 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
4801 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
4802 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
4803 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
4806 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
4807 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
4809 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
4811 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
4814 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
4815 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
4816 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
4817 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
4818 python-dev2 mailing list).
4821 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
4822 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
4823 are not associated with a particular screen.
4824 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
4825 stdscr to the callback function.
4826 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
4827 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
4828 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
4829 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
4830 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
4831 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
4832 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
4836 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
4837 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
4838 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
4839 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
4841 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
4842 wide-characters with extended-colors.
4843 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
4844 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
4845 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
4848 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
4849 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
4850 that the 'F' accepts.
4851 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
4852 are working concurrently.
4853 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
4857 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
4858 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
4859 _nc_free_and_exit().
4862 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
4863 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
4866 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
4867 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
4870 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
4871 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open Curses
4872 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
4873 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
4876 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
4877 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
4878 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
4879 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
4880 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
4881 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
4883 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
4884 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
4888 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
4889 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
4890 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
4893 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
4894 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
4895 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
4898 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
4899 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
4900 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
4904 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
4905 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
4906 "link_test" builds properly.
4907 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
4908 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
4909 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
4910 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
4911 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
4912 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
4913 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
4915 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
4918 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
4922 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
4923 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
4926 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
4928 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
4929 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
4930 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
4933 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
4934 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
4935 pierre4d2 comments).
4936 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
4937 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
4938 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
4939 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
4943 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
4944 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
4945 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
4946 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
4947 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
4949 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
4950 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
4951 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
4955 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
4956 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
4959 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
4961 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
4963 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
4967 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
4968 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
4970 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
4971 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
4972 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
4973 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
4974 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
4976 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
4977 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
4980 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
4981 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
4982 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
4983 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
4986 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
4987 calls within the ncurses library.
4988 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
4990 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
4991 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
4992 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
4994 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
4995 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
4996 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
4997 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
4998 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
5001 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
5002 for threaded library (incomplete).
5003 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
5004 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
5008 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
5009 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
5010 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
5011 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
5012 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
5013 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
5014 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
5015 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
5016 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
5019 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
5021 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
5022 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
5025 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
5026 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
5027 "\0" followed by a digit.
5028 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
5029 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
5030 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
5031 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
5032 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
5033 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
5034 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
5035 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
5036 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
5039 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
5040 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
5041 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
5042 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
5043 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
5045 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
5046 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
5047 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
5051 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
5052 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
5053 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
5054 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
5055 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
5056 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
5057 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
5058 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
5059 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
5062 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
5063 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
5064 + add test/test_getstr.c
5065 + add test/test_inwstr.c
5066 + add test/test_instr.c
5069 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
5070 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
5071 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
5075 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
5076 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
5077 ".log" to the name and try again.
5078 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
5079 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
5080 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
5081 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
5082 --disable-echo option is used.
5083 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
5084 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
5085 + update config.guess, config.sub
5088 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
5089 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
5090 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
5094 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
5095 problems with multi-column characters.
5096 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
5097 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
5098 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
5099 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
5100 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
5101 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
5102 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
5105 + add test/demo_panels.c
5106 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
5109 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
5111 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
5112 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
5115 + add test/key_name.c
5116 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
5117 + update test/configure
5118 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
5119 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
5120 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
5124 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
5125 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
5126 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
5127 illustrate how to use mvcur().
5128 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
5129 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
5130 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
5131 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
5132 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
5135 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
5136 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
5137 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
5138 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
5139 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
5140 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
5143 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
5144 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
5146 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
5147 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
5148 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
5149 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
5152 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
5153 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
5154 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
5155 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
5157 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
5159 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
5160 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
5161 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
5162 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
5163 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
5166 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
5167 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
5169 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
5170 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
5171 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
5172 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
5173 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
5174 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
5175 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
5176 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
5177 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
5178 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
5179 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
5182 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
5183 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
5184 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
5185 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
5186 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
5187 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
5188 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
5191 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
5192 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
5193 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
5194 Ada95 tree is not built.
5197 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
5198 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
5199 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
5200 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
5201 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
5202 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
5204 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
5205 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
5206 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
5207 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
5208 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
5209 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
5210 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
5211 > fixes based on Coverity report:
5212 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
5213 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
5214 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
5215 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
5216 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
5217 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
5218 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
5219 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
5220 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
5221 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
5222 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
5224 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
5225 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
5226 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
5227 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
5228 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
5229 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
5230 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
5231 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
5232 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
5235 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
5236 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
5237 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
5238 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
5239 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
5240 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
5241 + improved install-sh's quoting.
5242 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
5246 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
5247 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
5248 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
5249 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
5250 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
5254 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
5255 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
5256 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
5257 in the configure script to an error.
5258 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
5259 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
5260 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
5261 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
5262 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
5264 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
5265 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
5268 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
5269 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
5272 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
5273 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
5275 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
5276 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
5277 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
5278 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
5279 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
5280 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
5281 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
5282 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
5285 + regenerated html documentation.
5286 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
5287 opaque in selected configurations.
5288 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
5289 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
5290 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
5291 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
5292 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
5293 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
5294 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
5295 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
5296 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
5297 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
5298 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
5300 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
5301 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
5304 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
5305 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
5306 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
5307 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
5308 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
5309 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
5310 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
5311 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
5312 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
5313 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
5314 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
5315 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
5318 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
5320 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
5321 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
5322 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
5324 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
5325 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
5326 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
5327 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
5328 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
5329 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
5330 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
5331 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
5333 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
5334 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
5337 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
5338 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
5340 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
5342 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
5343 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
5344 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
5347 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
5348 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
5349 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
5350 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
5352 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
5353 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
5354 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
5355 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
5356 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
5357 no longer relies on it.
5358 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
5359 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
5360 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
5363 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
5364 (report by Rong-En Fan).
5367 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
5368 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
5369 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
5370 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
5371 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
5372 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
5373 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
5374 its license consistent with ncurses.
5375 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
5376 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
5377 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
5380 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
5381 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
5382 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
5383 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
5387 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
5388 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
5389 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
5391 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
5392 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
5395 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
5396 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
5397 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
5400 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
5401 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
5402 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
5403 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
5404 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
5405 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
5406 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
5407 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
5408 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
5409 to manpages as needed.
5410 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
5411 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
5414 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
5415 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
5416 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
5417 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
5418 + update config.guess, config.sub
5420 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5423 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
5424 definitions in <wchar.h>.
5425 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
5426 correct nor portable.
5427 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
5429 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
5430 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
5434 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
5435 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
5436 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
5437 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
5438 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
5439 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
5442 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
5443 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
5444 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
5445 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
5447 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
5448 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
5449 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
5450 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
5451 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
5452 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
5453 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
5454 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
5457 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
5458 database configuration.
5459 + updates for test/configure script.
5460 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
5461 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
5463 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
5464 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
5465 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
5466 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
5468 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
5469 _nc_printf_string().
5470 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
5471 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
5474 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
5475 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
5477 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
5478 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
5482 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
5483 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
5486 + add test/echochar.c
5487 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
5488 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
5491 + add AUTHORS file -TD
5492 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
5493 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
5494 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
5497 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
5498 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
5499 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
5501 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
5502 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
5503 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
5504 for rpath support in versions past 3.
5505 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
5506 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
5507 Ralf S Engelschall).
5508 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
5509 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
5510 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
5511 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
5514 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
5515 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
5516 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
5519 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
5520 and status line (Alain Bench).
5521 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
5522 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
5523 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
5524 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
5527 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
5528 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
5529 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
5530 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvements to "-f" option.
5531 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
5534 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
5535 + updated html documentation.
5536 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
5537 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
5540 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
5541 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
5542 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
5543 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
5544 option (from lynx changes) -TD
5545 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
5546 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
5547 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
5548 by report by Christopher Parker).
5552 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
5553 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
5554 since it does not really do this -TD
5557 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
5558 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
5559 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
5560 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
5563 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
5564 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
5565 embedded into a termcap description.
5566 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
5567 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
5568 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
5569 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
5570 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
5573 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
5575 + add test/foldkeys.c
5578 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
5579 source output (Debian #378783).
5580 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
5581 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
5582 variable is also used (Redhat #199369).
5583 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
5584 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
5585 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
5588 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
5589 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
5590 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
5593 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
5594 or as a text file if those are not available.
5595 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
5596 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
5597 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
5600 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
5601 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
5602 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
5603 + update config.guess, config.sub
5606 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
5607 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
5608 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
5610 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
5611 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
5613 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
5614 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
5615 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
5616 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
5617 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
5618 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
5620 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
5621 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
5622 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
5623 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
5626 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
5627 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
5631 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
5632 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
5634 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
5635 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
5636 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
5637 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
5638 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
5639 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
5642 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
5643 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
5644 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
5645 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
5646 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
5647 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
5648 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
5649 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
5650 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
5651 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
5654 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
5655 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
5656 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
5657 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
5659 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
5662 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
5663 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
5664 + minor copyright fixes.
5665 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
5668 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
5669 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
5670 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
5671 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
5672 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
5673 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
5674 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
5675 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
5677 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
5678 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
5679 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
5680 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
5682 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
5685 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
5686 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
5688 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
5689 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
5690 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
5691 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
5693 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
5694 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
5695 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
5696 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
5699 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
5700 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
5701 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
5702 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
5703 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
5704 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
5705 + update config.guess, config.sub
5706 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
5707 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
5708 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
5709 function is broken in that implementation.
5712 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
5713 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
5716 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
5717 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
5719 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
5720 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
5722 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
5723 reported to implement this feature -TD
5726 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
5727 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
5730 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
5731 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
5732 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
5733 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
5734 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
5735 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
5736 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
5737 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
5740 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
5741 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
5743 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
5744 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
5747 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
5748 (report by Alain Bench).
5749 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
5750 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
5751 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
5752 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
5754 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
5755 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
5756 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
5760 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
5761 and/or video attributes.
5762 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
5763 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
5766 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
5769 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
5770 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
5771 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
5772 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
5773 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
5774 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
5775 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
5776 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
5777 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
5780 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
5781 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
5782 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
5785 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
5786 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
5787 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
5788 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
5789 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
5790 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
5791 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
5792 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
5793 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
5794 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
5797 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
5798 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
5799 rather than delayed.
5800 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
5802 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
5803 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
5804 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
5807 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
5809 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
5810 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
5813 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
5814 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
5817 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
5818 + suppress line-drawing
5819 + implement max_attributes
5821 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
5822 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
5826 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
5827 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
5829 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
5831 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
5832 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
5833 etc., when allocating screens.
5836 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
5837 this in test/filter.c
5838 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
5842 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
5843 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
5844 + add extension nofilter().
5845 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
5846 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
5847 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
5848 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
5849 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
5852 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
5853 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
5854 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
5855 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
5856 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
5857 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
5858 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
5859 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
5860 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
5862 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
5863 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
5864 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
5866 + update config.guess and config.sub
5869 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
5870 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
5871 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
5873 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
5874 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
5875 that was never built in that directory).
5876 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
5879 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
5881 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
5882 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
5886 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
5887 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
5888 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
5889 effect of the different functions.
5890 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
5894 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
5895 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
5897 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
5901 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
5902 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
5903 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
5905 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
5906 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
5910 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
5911 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
5912 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
5914 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
5915 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
5916 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
5919 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
5920 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
5921 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
5924 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
5925 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
5926 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
5928 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
5929 a derived window (Debian #316663).
5932 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
5933 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
5934 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
5935 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
5936 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
5937 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
5938 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
5941 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
5942 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
5943 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
5945 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
5946 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
5947 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
5948 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
5949 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
5951 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5954 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
5957 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
5958 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
5962 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
5963 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
5964 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
5965 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
5966 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
5968 + update config.guess and config.sub from
5969 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
5972 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
5973 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
5974 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
5975 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
5976 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
5977 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
5978 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
5979 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
5980 default if it is used.
5981 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
5982 --with-abi-version option was used.
5983 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
5984 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
5985 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
5988 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
5989 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
5990 handlers (Debian #326709).
5993 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
5994 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
5996 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
5999 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
6000 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
6001 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
6002 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
6004 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
6005 (report by Frank van Vugt).
6008 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
6009 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
6010 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
6011 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
6012 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
6013 + update llib-l* files.
6016 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
6017 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
6018 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
6019 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
6023 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
6024 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
6025 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
6026 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
6027 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
6028 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
6029 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
6030 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
6031 Konstantin Andreev).
6034 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
6035 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
6036 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
6037 several related cases -TD
6038 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
6039 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
6041 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
6042 resets line-drawing.
6045 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
6047 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
6048 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
6049 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
6050 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
6051 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
6052 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
6055 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
6056 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
6057 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
6059 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
6060 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
6063 + update config.guess and config.sub from
6064 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
6065 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
6066 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
6067 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
6068 "make install.data" step.
6069 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
6070 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
6071 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
6072 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
6073 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
6074 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
6075 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
6076 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
6077 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
6078 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
6079 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
6080 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
6081 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
6082 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
6085 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
6088 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
6089 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
6090 review of Debian package).
6091 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
6092 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
6093 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
6094 install using libtool 1.5.0):
6095 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
6097 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
6098 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
6099 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
6100 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
6101 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
6104 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
6105 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
6106 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
6109 + fixes for termcap support:
6110 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
6111 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
6112 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
6113 extended names data will be freed consistently.
6114 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
6116 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
6117 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
6118 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
6119 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
6122 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
6123 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
6124 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
6125 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
6127 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
6131 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
6133 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
6134 see ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
6137 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
6138 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
6139 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
6140 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
6141 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
6142 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
6143 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
6147 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
6148 shift-, control-cursor keys.
6149 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
6150 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
6151 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
6152 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
6153 it will automatically be treated as a key.
6154 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
6155 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
6156 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
6160 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
6161 + add configure option --enable-largefile
6162 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
6166 + update config.guess, config.sub
6167 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
6168 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
6169 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
6170 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
6171 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
6173 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
6174 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
6175 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
6178 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
6179 position the mouse to a particular item.
6180 + implement test/demo_menus.c
6181 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
6182 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
6183 --enable-const option.
6186 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
6187 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
6188 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
6189 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
6190 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
6191 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
6192 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
6193 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
6194 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
6195 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
6196 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
6199 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
6201 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
6202 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
6205 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
6206 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
6207 anyone used that configuration.
6208 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
6210 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
6211 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
6214 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
6215 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
6216 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
6218 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
6219 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
6220 WenRui, Debian #300512).
6223 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
6224 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
6225 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
6229 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
6230 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
6231 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
6232 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
6233 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
6236 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
6238 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
6240 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
6241 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
6242 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
6245 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
6247 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
6248 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
6249 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
6250 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
6251 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
6252 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
6253 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
6254 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
6255 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
6256 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
6257 right (cf: 20040228).
6258 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
6259 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
6262 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
6263 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
6264 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
6265 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
6266 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
6267 added (Debian #295083).
6268 + add traces to panel library.
6271 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
6272 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
6273 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
6274 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
6275 mouse events in this case.
6276 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
6277 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
6280 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
6281 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
6282 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
6283 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
6284 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
6285 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
6286 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
6287 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
6290 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
6291 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
6292 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
6293 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
6294 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
6295 already been started.
6296 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
6297 pair_content() and color_content().
6298 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
6299 if it corresponds to the default-color.
6300 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
6301 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
6302 color pairs which are allowed.
6303 + add a top-level tags rule.
6306 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
6307 first calling initscr().
6308 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
6309 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
6310 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
6311 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
6312 that are curses-specific.
6313 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
6314 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
6315 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
6316 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
6320 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
6321 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
6322 for leading whitespace.
6323 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
6324 where a following line begins in column 1.
6325 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
6326 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
6329 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
6332 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
6333 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
6334 + update config.guess, config.sub
6335 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
6336 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
6337 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
6338 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
6339 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
6340 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
6341 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
6344 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
6346 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
6347 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
6350 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
6351 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
6352 and attr_set functions.
6355 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
6356 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
6357 forms-demo to be one character short.
6358 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
6359 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
6360 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
6361 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
6364 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
6365 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
6366 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
6367 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
6369 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
6370 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
6373 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
6374 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
6375 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
6376 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
6377 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat #140326).
6378 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
6379 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
6381 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
6382 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
6384 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
6385 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
6388 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
6389 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
6390 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
6391 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
6392 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
6393 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
6394 wide-character configuration.
6397 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
6398 or multicolumn characters.
6401 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
6402 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
6403 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
6404 use_default_colors() be called first.
6407 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
6408 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
6409 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
6410 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
6411 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
6412 must be wrapped to a new line.
6413 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
6414 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
6415 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
6416 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
6417 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
6421 + minor fixes for traces.
6422 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
6423 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
6424 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
6428 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
6429 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
6430 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
6431 and shift-out which seem to work.
6432 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
6433 at runtime (Debian #110586).
6436 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
6437 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
6438 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
6439 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
6443 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
6444 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
6445 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
6446 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
6449 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
6450 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
6451 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
6452 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
6453 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
6454 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
6455 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
6456 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
6457 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
6458 is no longer experimental.
6459 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
6460 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
6463 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
6466 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
6467 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
6468 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
6469 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
6470 using "tic -C" (Redhat #130921).
6471 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
6472 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
6473 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
6476 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
6477 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
6478 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
6479 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
6480 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
6481 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637).
6482 The xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and
6483 the new ones do not require this change. -TD
6486 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
6487 and window managers (Debian #265631).
6488 > terminfo updates -TD
6489 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
6490 with the common usage of bce/ech
6491 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
6495 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
6496 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
6497 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
6498 a help window as well.
6499 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
6500 the -d option is set.
6501 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
6504 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
6506 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
6507 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
6511 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
6512 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
6513 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
6514 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat #122815, patch by
6516 > terminfo updates -TD
6517 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
6518 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
6519 + add function-keys to decansi
6520 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
6521 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
6522 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
6525 > terminfo updates -TD
6526 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
6527 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
6529 + review/update konsole entries
6530 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
6531 + correct tsl string in kterm
6534 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
6537 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
6538 multibyte character.
6539 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
6541 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
6542 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
6543 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
6544 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
6545 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
6546 converting termcap to termcap format.
6547 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
6548 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
6549 > terminfo updates -TD
6550 + minor fixes for emu
6552 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
6557 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
6558 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
6559 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
6560 (report/patch by Tony Li).
6561 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
6562 > terminfo updates -TD
6563 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
6565 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
6566 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
6567 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
6570 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
6571 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
6573 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
6574 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
6575 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
6576 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
6577 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
6578 + update config.guess, config.sub
6579 > terminfo updates -TD
6581 + add xterm-xf86-v44
6582 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
6583 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
6588 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
6589 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
6590 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
6593 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
6594 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
6595 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
6597 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
6601 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
6602 field_buffer() results.
6603 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
6606 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
6608 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
6609 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
6610 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
6611 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
6612 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
6615 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
6616 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
6617 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
6621 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
6622 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
6624 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
6627 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
6628 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
6629 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
6630 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
6631 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
6632 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
6633 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
6634 information without an option.
6635 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
6636 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
6639 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
6642 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
6643 + free some memory leaks in tic.
6644 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
6645 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
6646 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
6647 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
6648 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
6650 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
6653 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
6654 to an unsigned char.
6655 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
6656 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
6659 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
6662 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
6663 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
6664 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
6665 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
6666 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
6667 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
6668 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
6669 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
6670 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
6671 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
6672 20030802 (Debian #237629).
6675 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
6676 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
6677 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
6678 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
6681 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
6683 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
6684 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
6687 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
6688 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
6689 mode is shown in that test.
6690 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
6691 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
6692 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
6695 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
6697 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
6698 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
6699 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
6700 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
6702 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
6703 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
6704 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
6705 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
6708 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
6709 (request by Mike Aubury).
6710 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
6712 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
6714 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
6717 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
6718 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
6719 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
6720 with Stanislav Ievlev).
6721 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
6722 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
6723 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
6724 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
6725 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
6726 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
6728 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
6731 20040207 pre-release
6732 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
6733 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
6734 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
6735 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
6736 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
6738 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
6739 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
6740 verified by Scott Corscadden).
6742 20040131 pre-release
6743 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
6744 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
6745 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
6746 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
6747 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
6748 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
6749 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
6750 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
6751 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
6752 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
6753 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
6755 20040125 pre-release
6756 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
6757 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
6758 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
6759 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
6760 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
6761 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
6762 modifying the displayed value.
6764 20040124 pre-release
6765 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
6766 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
6767 that works better for cross-compiling.
6769 20040117 pre-release
6770 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
6771 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
6772 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
6773 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
6774 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
6775 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
6776 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
6778 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
6779 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
6781 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
6782 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
6783 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
6784 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
6785 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
6786 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
6787 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
6788 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
6789 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
6790 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
6791 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
6792 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
6794 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
6795 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
6796 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
6797 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
6798 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
6799 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
6800 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
6801 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
6803 20040110 pre-release
6804 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
6805 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
6807 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
6808 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
6810 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
6812 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
6813 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
6814 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
6815 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
6816 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
6819 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
6820 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
6821 + add pecho_wchar().
6822 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
6823 available) on older platforms.
6826 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
6827 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
6828 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
6829 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
6830 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
6831 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
6832 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
6833 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
6834 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
6837 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
6838 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
6839 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
6840 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
6841 work with Tru64 4.0d.
6842 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
6846 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
6847 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
6848 applications do not.
6849 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
6850 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
6851 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
6852 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
6853 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
6854 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
6858 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
6859 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
6860 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
6861 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
6862 <inger@altlinux.org>).
6863 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
6864 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
6865 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
6866 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
6867 awkward for some cases.
6868 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
6869 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
6871 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
6872 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
6873 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
6874 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
6875 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
6879 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
6880 values (Philippe Blain).
6881 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
6882 restarting (Philippe Blain).
6883 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
6887 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
6888 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
6889 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
6890 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
6891 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
6892 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
6896 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
6897 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
6898 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
6900 + update config.guess, config.sub
6903 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
6904 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
6905 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
6906 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
6907 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
6908 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
6909 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
6911 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
6912 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
6913 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
6914 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
6915 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
6918 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
6919 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
6920 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
6921 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
6922 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
6923 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
6924 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
6925 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
6927 + regenerated html documentation.
6928 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
6929 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
6930 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
6933 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
6934 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
6935 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
6936 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
6937 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
6938 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
6939 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
6940 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
6944 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
6945 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
6948 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
6949 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
6950 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
6951 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
6953 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
6954 (report by Philippe Blain).
6957 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
6958 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
6959 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
6960 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
6961 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
6962 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
6963 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6964 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
6965 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
6967 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
6969 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
6970 in the clr_bol logic.
6973 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6974 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
6975 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
6976 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
6977 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
6978 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
6979 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
6980 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
6981 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
6982 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
6983 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
6984 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
6987 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
6988 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
6989 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
6990 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
6993 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
6994 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
6995 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
6996 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
6997 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
6998 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
6999 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
7000 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
7001 --with-install-prefix is used.
7004 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7005 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
7006 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
7007 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
7010 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
7011 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
7012 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
7013 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
7014 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
7015 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
7016 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7017 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
7018 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
7021 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
7022 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
7023 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
7024 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
7025 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
7026 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
7027 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
7030 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
7032 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7033 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
7034 the size of the scroll-region.
7035 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
7038 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
7039 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
7040 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
7044 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
7045 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
7046 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
7047 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
7048 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
7050 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
7051 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
7052 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
7053 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
7054 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
7055 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
7056 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
7057 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
7058 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
7059 usage and to prevent circular links.
7060 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
7061 (rxvt-color): new alias
7062 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
7063 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
7064 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
7065 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
7066 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
7067 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
7069 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
7073 + update config.guess, config.sub
7074 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
7075 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
7078 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
7079 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
7080 would not accept gcc warning options.
7081 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
7082 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
7083 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
7084 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
7085 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
7086 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
7087 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
7089 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
7092 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
7093 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
7094 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
7095 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
7096 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
7097 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
7098 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
7099 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
7102 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
7104 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
7105 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
7106 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
7107 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
7110 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
7112 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
7113 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
7114 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
7115 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
7116 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
7117 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
7120 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
7121 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
7122 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
7123 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
7124 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
7125 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
7126 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
7127 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
7129 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
7130 Albert Chin-A-Young).
7131 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
7132 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7135 + regenerated html manpages.
7136 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
7137 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
7139 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
7140 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
7142 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
7143 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
7146 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
7147 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
7148 + add tkterm entry -TD
7149 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
7150 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
7151 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
7152 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
7154 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
7155 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
7156 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
7158 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
7159 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
7160 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
7163 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
7164 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
7165 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
7166 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
7168 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
7169 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
7170 current test programs.
7171 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
7172 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
7173 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
7174 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
7176 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
7177 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
7178 mentioned in the terminfo.
7179 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
7180 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
7183 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
7184 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
7185 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
7186 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
7187 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
7188 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
7189 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
7190 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
7193 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
7194 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
7195 the editing position before making modifications.
7196 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
7197 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
7198 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
7201 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
7202 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
7203 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
7204 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
7206 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
7207 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
7208 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
7209 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
7210 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
7211 terminfo as is done in "screen".
7214 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
7215 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
7216 code, from recent rewrite.
7217 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
7219 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
7220 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
7223 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
7224 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
7225 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
7226 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
7229 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
7230 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
7232 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
7235 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
7237 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
7238 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
7240 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
7241 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
7242 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
7245 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
7246 a file when ^W is given.
7247 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
7251 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
7252 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
7253 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
7254 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
7255 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
7256 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
7257 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
7258 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
7262 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
7263 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
7264 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
7267 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
7268 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
7269 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
7270 baudrate was not known.
7271 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
7272 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
7273 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
7274 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
7275 corresponding capability might be
7277 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
7278 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
7279 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
7280 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
7283 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
7284 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
7285 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
7286 apparently typedef'd.
7287 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
7288 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
7291 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
7292 + updated configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
7293 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
7294 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
7295 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
7296 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
7297 cached for reallocating.
7300 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
7301 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
7302 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
7304 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
7305 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
7306 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
7307 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
7308 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
7309 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
7310 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
7311 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
7314 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
7315 emx-base to the latter -TD
7316 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
7317 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
7320 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
7321 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
7322 attributes, e.g., reverse.
7323 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
7324 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
7327 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
7328 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
7329 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
7330 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
7331 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
7332 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
7333 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
7335 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
7336 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
7337 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
7338 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
7339 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
7342 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
7343 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
7344 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
7345 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
7346 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
7347 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
7349 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7350 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
7351 is indeed a "blank".
7352 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
7353 sections as small as one line.
7354 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
7356 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
7357 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
7358 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
7361 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
7362 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
7365 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
7366 (report by Philippe Blain).
7367 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
7368 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
7369 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
7370 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
7371 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
7373 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
7374 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
7375 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
7376 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7377 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
7378 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
7381 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
7382 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
7384 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
7385 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
7387 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
7388 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
7389 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
7390 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
7393 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
7394 overridden from the environment.
7395 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
7396 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
7397 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
7398 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
7399 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
7400 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
7401 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
7402 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
7403 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
7404 by Sam Varshavchik).
7405 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
7406 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
7407 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
7408 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
7410 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
7411 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
7412 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
7413 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
7414 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
7417 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
7418 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
7419 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
7420 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
7421 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
7422 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
7423 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
7424 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
7425 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
7426 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
7427 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
7428 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
7429 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
7430 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
7431 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
7432 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
7433 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
7434 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
7435 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
7436 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
7437 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
7438 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
7439 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
7442 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
7443 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
7444 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
7445 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
7446 winsch() internal function.
7447 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
7448 more than one spacing character.
7451 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
7452 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
7453 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
7454 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
7455 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
7456 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
7457 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
7458 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
7459 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
7460 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
7463 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
7464 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
7465 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
7466 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
7467 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
7468 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
7469 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
7472 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
7473 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
7474 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
7475 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
7477 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
7478 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
7479 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
7480 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
7481 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
7484 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
7485 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
7486 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
7487 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
7488 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
7489 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
7490 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
7491 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
7492 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
7493 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
7494 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
7495 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
7496 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
7497 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
7498 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
7499 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
7500 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
7503 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
7504 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
7505 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
7506 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
7507 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
7508 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
7509 Frederic L W Meunier).
7511 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7512 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
7513 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
7514 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
7515 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
7516 the debug trace in that case.
7517 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
7518 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
7519 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
7520 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
7522 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
7523 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
7525 20021005 pre-release
7526 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
7527 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
7528 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
7529 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
7530 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
7531 formats such as "%.*s".
7532 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
7533 (report Floyd Davidson).
7534 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
7536 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
7537 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
7538 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
7540 20020928 pre-release
7541 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
7542 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
7543 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
7545 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
7546 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
7547 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
7548 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
7549 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
7550 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
7551 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
7552 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
7553 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
7554 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
7555 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
7556 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
7557 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
7558 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
7559 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
7560 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
7561 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
7562 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
7563 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
7565 20020921 pre-release
7566 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
7567 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
7568 result in core dump.
7569 + documented getbegx(), etc.
7570 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
7571 delimiter rather than '@'.
7572 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7573 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
7574 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
7575 to the lines given for the destination window.
7577 20020914 pre-release
7578 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
7579 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
7580 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
7581 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
7582 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
7583 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
7584 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
7585 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
7586 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7587 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
7588 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
7589 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
7591 20020907 pre-release
7592 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
7593 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
7594 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
7595 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
7596 html manpages on Debian.
7597 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
7598 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
7599 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
7600 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7601 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
7602 a variable from the stack.
7603 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
7605 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
7606 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
7607 _idcok window fields.
7608 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
7610 20020901 pre-release
7611 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
7612 + update config.guess, config.sub
7613 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
7614 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
7616 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
7617 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
7618 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
7619 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
7620 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
7621 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
7622 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
7623 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
7624 use in resizeterm().
7625 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
7626 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
7627 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
7628 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
7629 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7630 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
7631 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
7632 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
7633 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
7634 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
7635 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
7639 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
7640 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
7641 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
7642 + fix an overlooked case for Redhat #68199 (Philippe Blain).
7643 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
7644 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
7647 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
7648 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
7649 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
7651 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
7652 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
7653 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
7654 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
7655 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
7657 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
7658 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
7662 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
7663 when translating to termcap.
7664 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
7665 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
7666 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
7668 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
7670 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
7671 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
7673 + document TABSIZE variable.
7674 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
7675 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
7676 assume_default_colors().
7677 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
7679 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
7680 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
7681 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
7682 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
7683 window (completes Debian #87678, Debian #101699)
7686 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
7688 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
7689 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
7691 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
7692 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
7693 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
7696 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
7698 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
7701 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
7702 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
7703 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
7704 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
7705 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
7706 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
7707 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
7708 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
7709 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
7710 configure definitions.
7711 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
7712 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
7713 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
7714 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
7715 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
7716 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
7717 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
7718 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
7719 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
7720 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
7721 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
7724 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
7725 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
7726 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
7727 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
7728 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
7729 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
7730 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
7732 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
7733 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
7734 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
7735 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7738 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
7739 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
7740 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
7741 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
7743 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
7744 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
7745 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
7748 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
7749 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
7751 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
7752 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
7753 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
7755 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
7756 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
7757 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
7758 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
7760 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
7761 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
7762 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
7763 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
7767 + add charset to generated html.
7768 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
7769 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
7770 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
7771 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
7772 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
7773 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
7777 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
7778 key code in get_wch().
7779 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
7780 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
7781 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
7782 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
7783 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
7784 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
7787 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
7788 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
7790 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
7791 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
7792 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
7793 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
7796 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
7797 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
7798 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
7799 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
7800 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
7801 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
7802 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
7803 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
7804 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
7805 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
7808 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
7812 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
7813 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
7814 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
7815 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
7816 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
7817 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
7818 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
7821 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
7822 character versions as well.
7823 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
7825 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
7827 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
7828 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
7829 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
7830 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
7831 if gettimeofday() is available.
7834 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
7835 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
7838 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
7840 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
7841 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
7842 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
7843 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
7844 + update config.guess, config.sub
7847 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
7848 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
7849 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
7850 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
7851 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
7852 alias for 'function'.
7855 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
7856 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
7860 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
7861 + implement wgetn_wstr().
7862 + implement win_wchnstr().
7863 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
7864 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
7867 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
7868 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
7871 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
7872 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
7875 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
7876 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
7877 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
7879 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
7880 + implement unget_wch().
7881 + implement wget_wch().
7884 + regenerated html manpages.
7885 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
7886 + implement wins_wch().
7887 + implement win_wch().
7888 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
7891 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
7892 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
7895 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
7896 + document wunctrl, key_name.
7897 + implement key_name().
7898 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
7900 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
7904 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
7905 in spurious symlinks on install.
7908 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
7909 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
7910 box() and box_set() functions.
7911 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
7912 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
7913 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
7914 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
7915 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
7916 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
7917 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
7919 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
7921 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
7922 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
7923 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
7924 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
7926 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
7927 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
7930 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
7931 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
7933 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
7937 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
7939 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
7940 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
7941 Albert Chin-A-Young).
7942 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
7943 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
7944 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7945 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
7946 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
7947 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
7948 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
7949 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
7950 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
7951 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
7952 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
7953 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
7956 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
7957 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
7960 + update config.guess, config.sub
7961 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
7962 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
7965 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
7966 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
7967 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
7969 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
7970 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
7972 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
7973 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
7974 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7975 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
7978 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
7981 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
7982 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
7983 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
7984 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
7985 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
7986 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
7987 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
7988 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
7989 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
7991 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
7992 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
7993 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
7995 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
7997 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
7998 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
7999 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
8000 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
8001 work with SunOS nawk.
8002 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
8004 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
8005 case it uses multiple tokens.
8008 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
8009 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
8010 interrupted by that signal.
8011 + updated configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
8012 not needed with autoconf 2.52
8013 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
8014 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
8016 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
8017 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
8018 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
8019 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
8020 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
8023 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
8025 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
8026 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
8027 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
8028 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
8029 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
8030 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
8031 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
8032 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
8035 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
8036 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
8037 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
8038 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
8039 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
8040 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
8041 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
8042 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
8043 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
8046 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
8047 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
8048 may have different keypad() settings.
8049 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
8050 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
8051 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
8052 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
8053 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
8054 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
8055 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
8056 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
8058 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
8059 + update config.guess, config.sub from
8060 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
8061 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
8065 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
8067 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
8068 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
8069 implementation in cygwin package).
8070 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
8071 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
8073 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
8074 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
8075 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
8076 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
8077 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
8078 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
8079 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
8080 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
8081 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
8083 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
8084 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
8085 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
8086 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
8087 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
8088 <jevans@apple.com>).
8089 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
8090 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
8091 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
8092 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
8093 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
8097 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
8098 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
8099 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
8100 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
8101 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
8102 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
8103 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
8104 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
8105 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
8106 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
8109 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
8112 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
8113 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
8114 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
8115 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
8116 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
8119 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
8120 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
8123 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
8124 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
8125 + implement wecho_wchar()
8126 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
8127 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
8128 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
8130 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
8131 in a trace by using curly braces.
8132 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
8133 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
8134 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
8135 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
8138 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
8139 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
8140 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
8141 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
8142 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
8146 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
8147 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
8148 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
8149 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
8150 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
8151 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
8152 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
8153 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
8157 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
8158 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
8159 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
8160 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
8161 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
8162 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
8163 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
8164 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
8165 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
8168 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
8169 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
8172 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
8173 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
8174 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
8175 <bbraun@synack.net>).
8176 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
8177 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
8179 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
8180 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
8182 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
8183 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
8186 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
8187 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
8188 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
8189 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
8190 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
8192 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
8193 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
8195 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
8196 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
8197 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
8198 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
8199 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
8202 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
8203 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
8205 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
8206 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
8207 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
8208 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
8211 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
8212 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
8213 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
8214 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
8215 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
8219 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
8220 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
8221 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
8223 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
8225 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
8227 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
8229 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
8230 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
8231 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
8232 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
8233 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
8234 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
8235 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
8236 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
8237 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
8241 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
8242 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
8243 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
8244 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
8245 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
8246 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
8247 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
8248 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
8249 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
8250 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
8252 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
8253 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
8254 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8255 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
8256 supports xterm mouse controls.
8257 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
8258 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
8259 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
8260 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
8261 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
8262 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
8263 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
8264 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
8265 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
8266 AX in a color xterm.
8267 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
8271 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
8272 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
8273 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
8274 + added llib-ncursesw.
8277 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
8278 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
8279 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
8280 header files (report by William P Setzer).
8281 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
8282 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
8283 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
8284 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8285 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
8286 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
8287 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
8288 Albert Chin-A-Young).
8289 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
8290 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8291 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
8292 obsolete with QNX RTP.
8293 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
8294 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
8295 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
8296 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
8299 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
8300 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
8301 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
8304 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
8305 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
8306 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
8307 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
8308 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
8309 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
8310 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
8311 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
8312 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
8313 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
8314 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
8315 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
8319 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
8320 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
8321 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
8322 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
8323 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
8324 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
8325 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8328 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
8329 new wide-character structures.
8330 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
8331 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
8332 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
8333 compiling for wide-character configuration.
8334 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
8338 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
8340 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
8341 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
8342 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
8344 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
8345 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
8346 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
8349 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
8350 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
8351 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
8354 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
8355 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
8356 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
8357 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
8358 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
8359 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
8360 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
8363 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
8364 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
8365 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
8366 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
8367 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
8368 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
8369 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
8370 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
8371 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
8374 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
8375 which may be in libutf8.
8376 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
8377 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
8378 links (Debian #99550).
8379 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
8380 C++ vscan code (Debian #97945).
8381 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
8382 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
8383 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
8384 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
8385 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
8386 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
8389 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
8390 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
8393 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
8394 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
8395 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
8396 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
8397 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
8399 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
8400 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
8401 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
8402 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
8403 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
8404 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
8405 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
8406 are used to manipulate attributes.
8407 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
8408 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
8409 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
8410 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
8411 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
8412 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
8414 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
8415 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
8416 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
8417 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
8418 we are using chtype data.
8419 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
8421 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
8423 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
8424 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
8425 where a pointer would be more useful.
8426 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
8427 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
8428 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
8429 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
8430 passing cchar_t's by address.
8431 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
8432 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
8433 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
8434 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
8435 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
8436 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
8437 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
8438 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
8441 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
8442 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
8443 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
8444 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
8445 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
8447 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
8448 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
8449 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
8452 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
8453 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
8454 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
8455 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
8456 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
8457 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
8458 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
8459 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
8460 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
8461 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
8462 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
8463 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
8466 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
8467 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
8468 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
8471 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
8472 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
8475 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
8476 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
8477 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
8478 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
8479 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
8482 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
8483 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
8484 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
8485 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
8486 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
8487 <bsittler@iname.com>).
8488 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
8489 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
8490 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
8491 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
8492 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
8495 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
8496 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
8497 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
8498 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
8499 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
8500 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
8501 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
8502 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
8503 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
8504 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
8505 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
8506 any shots there, but the computer did.
8507 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
8508 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
8512 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
8513 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
8514 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
8515 3.09.08 (Debian #92215).
8516 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
8517 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8520 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
8521 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
8522 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
8523 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
8524 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
8526 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
8528 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
8529 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
8531 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
8533 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
8534 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian #89222).
8537 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
8538 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
8539 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
8540 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
8541 interface from C++ binding.
8542 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
8543 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
8544 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
8545 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
8547 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
8548 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
8549 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
8550 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
8553 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
8554 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
8555 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
8556 (patch by Todd C Miller).
8559 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
8562 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
8566 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
8567 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
8568 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
8569 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
8570 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
8571 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
8572 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
8573 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
8574 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
8575 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
8576 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
8577 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
8580 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
8581 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
8583 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
8584 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
8585 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
8586 did not do this already.
8587 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
8588 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8589 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
8590 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
8591 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
8592 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
8593 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
8594 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
8597 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
8598 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
8601 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
8602 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
8603 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
8604 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
8606 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
8608 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
8609 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
8611 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
8612 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
8613 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
8614 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
8615 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
8618 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
8619 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
8620 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
8621 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
8624 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
8625 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
8626 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
8629 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
8630 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
8631 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
8632 work with 'indent') -TD
8635 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
8636 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
8637 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8638 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
8639 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
8641 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
8642 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
8643 termcap and terminfo functions
8644 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
8648 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
8649 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
8650 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
8651 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
8652 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
8653 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
8655 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
8656 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
8657 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
8658 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
8659 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
8660 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
8661 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
8662 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
8665 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
8666 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
8667 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
8668 /usr rather than /usr/local.
8671 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
8672 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
8673 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
8674 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
8676 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
8677 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
8678 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
8679 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
8680 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
8681 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
8682 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
8683 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
8686 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
8687 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
8688 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
8689 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
8690 + change trace output to binary format.
8691 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
8692 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
8693 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
8694 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
8695 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
8696 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
8697 the overwrite logic.
8700 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
8701 + resync config.guess, config.sub
8702 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
8703 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
8704 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
8705 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
8707 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
8708 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
8711 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
8712 + update generated html files from manpages.
8713 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
8715 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
8716 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
8717 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
8718 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
8719 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8720 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
8721 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
8722 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
8725 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
8726 wrapping at the right margin.
8727 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
8728 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
8729 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
8731 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
8732 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
8733 understands how to run tbl automatically.
8734 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
8735 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
8736 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
8737 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
8738 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
8739 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
8740 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
8741 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
8742 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
8743 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
8744 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
8745 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
8746 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
8747 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
8748 option --with-libtool.
8749 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
8750 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
8751 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
8752 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
8753 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
8756 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
8757 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
8758 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
8759 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
8760 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
8761 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
8762 > patch by Todd C Miller:
8763 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
8764 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
8765 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
8766 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
8767 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
8768 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
8769 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
8770 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
8771 to set up a 3-button mouse.
8772 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
8773 replace select() call.
8776 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
8777 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
8778 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
8779 Albert Chin-A-Young).
8780 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
8781 cursor report before decoding.
8782 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
8783 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
8784 (see assume_default_colors()).
8785 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
8786 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
8788 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
8789 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
8790 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
8792 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
8793 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
8794 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
8795 for that capability.
8796 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
8797 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
8798 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
8799 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
8800 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
8801 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
8804 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
8805 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
8806 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
8807 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
8808 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
8809 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
8810 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
8811 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
8812 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
8814 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
8815 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
8816 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
8817 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
8818 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
8819 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
8820 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8823 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
8824 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
8825 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
8826 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
8827 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
8829 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
8830 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
8831 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
8832 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
8833 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
8834 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
8835 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
8836 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
8837 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
8838 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
8839 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
8840 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
8841 the expected number of parameters.
8842 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
8843 the option value is indeed a number.
8844 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
8845 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
8846 from the other signals.
8849 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
8850 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
8851 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
8854 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
8855 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
8857 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
8858 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
8859 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
8861 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
8862 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
8863 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
8864 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
8865 character set attribute from the displayed text.
8866 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
8867 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
8868 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
8869 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
8870 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
8871 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8874 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
8875 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
8876 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
8877 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
8878 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
8879 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
8880 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8881 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
8882 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
8883 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
8885 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
8886 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
8888 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
8889 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
8890 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
8891 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
8892 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
8893 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
8896 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
8897 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
8898 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
8899 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
8900 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
8901 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
8902 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
8903 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
8904 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
8905 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8906 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
8907 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
8908 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
8909 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
8910 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
8912 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
8913 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
8914 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
8917 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
8918 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
8919 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
8920 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
8922 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
8923 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
8924 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
8925 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
8926 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
8927 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
8928 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
8930 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
8931 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
8932 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
8933 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
8934 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
8935 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
8936 a default program-prefix.
8937 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
8938 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
8941 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
8942 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
8943 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
8944 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
8945 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
8946 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
8947 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
8948 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
8949 although the name is misleading).
8950 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
8951 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
8952 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
8953 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
8956 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
8957 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
8958 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
8960 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
8961 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
8963 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
8964 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
8965 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
8967 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
8968 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
8969 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
8970 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
8971 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
8972 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
8973 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
8974 test/configure script.
8975 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
8976 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
8977 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
8980 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
8983 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
8984 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
8985 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
8986 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
8987 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
8989 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
8990 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
8991 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
8993 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
8994 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
8997 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
8998 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8999 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
9000 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
9001 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
9002 there's still the explicit configure option).
9003 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
9004 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
9005 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
9006 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
9007 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
9008 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
9009 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
9010 simplify working around implementations that define random
9011 combinations of the related macros to zero.
9012 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
9013 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
9014 > patches by Bruno Haible:
9015 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
9016 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
9017 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
9018 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
9022 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
9023 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
9024 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
9025 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
9026 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
9027 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
9028 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
9029 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
9030 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
9031 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
9032 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
9033 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
9034 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
9035 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
9038 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
9039 + document configure options in INSTALL.
9040 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
9041 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
9042 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
9043 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
9044 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
9045 list of generated functions.
9046 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
9047 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
9048 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
9050 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
9051 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
9052 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
9053 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
9054 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
9056 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
9057 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
9058 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
9059 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
9060 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
9061 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
9062 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
9063 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
9064 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
9065 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
9066 examples cited in announce.html
9067 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
9068 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
9069 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
9070 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
9071 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
9072 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
9073 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
9074 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
9077 20000701 pre-release
9078 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
9079 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
9080 $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
9081 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
9082 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
9083 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
9085 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
9087 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
9089 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
9090 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
9091 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
9092 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
9093 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
9095 20000624 pre-release
9096 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
9097 that happen to render the same display colors.
9098 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
9099 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
9100 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
9101 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
9102 normalized value for cursor_address.
9103 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
9106 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
9107 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
9108 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
9109 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
9110 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
9111 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
9112 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
9113 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
9114 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
9115 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
9116 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
9117 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
9118 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
9122 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
9123 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
9124 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
9125 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
9126 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
9127 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
9128 allows larger symbol tables.
9129 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
9130 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
9131 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
9132 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
9136 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
9137 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
9138 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
9139 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
9140 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
9141 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
9142 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
9143 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
9144 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
9145 + add a "make libs" rule.
9146 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
9147 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
9148 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
9149 with existing ncurses libraries.
9152 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
9153 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
9154 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
9155 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
9156 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
9157 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
9158 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
9159 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
9160 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
9161 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
9162 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
9163 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
9164 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
9165 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
9168 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
9169 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
9170 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
9171 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
9175 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
9176 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
9178 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
9179 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
9180 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
9183 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
9184 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
9185 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
9186 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
9187 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
9189 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
9190 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
9191 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
9192 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
9193 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
9194 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
9195 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
9196 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
9199 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
9201 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
9202 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
9203 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
9204 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
9205 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
9206 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
9207 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
9208 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
9209 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
9210 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
9211 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
9212 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
9215 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
9216 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
9217 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
9218 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
9219 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9220 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
9221 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
9222 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
9223 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
9224 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
9225 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
9226 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
9227 means that it will not recur for that special case.
9228 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
9229 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
9230 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
9231 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9234 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
9235 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
9236 bg300-rv in esr's version.
9237 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
9238 (fixes Debian #61088).
9239 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
9240 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
9241 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
9244 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
9245 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
9246 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
9247 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
9248 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
9251 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
9252 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
9253 improvement in setting default colors.
9254 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
9255 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
9256 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
9258 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
9259 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
9260 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
9261 check for buffer overflow.
9262 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
9263 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
9264 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
9265 such as "infocmp -Fa".
9268 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
9269 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
9270 is not permitted in termcap.
9271 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
9272 integrating 20000318.
9275 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
9276 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
9277 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
9278 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
9280 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
9281 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
9282 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
9283 result for OS/2 EMX.
9284 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
9285 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
9286 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
9287 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
9288 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
9289 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
9292 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
9293 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
9294 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
9296 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
9297 displaying string capabilities.
9298 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
9299 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
9300 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
9301 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
9302 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
9303 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
9305 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
9306 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
9308 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
9309 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
9310 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
9311 may not produce the same result as before.
9312 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
9314 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
9315 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
9317 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
9318 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
9320 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
9321 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9322 + drop support for gnat 3.10
9323 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
9324 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
9327 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
9328 made it check only one entry at a time.
9329 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
9331 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
9332 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
9333 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
9334 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
9335 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
9336 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
9337 address out of bounds.
9338 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
9339 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
9340 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
9341 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
9343 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
9344 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
9345 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
9347 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
9350 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
9351 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
9352 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
9353 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
9355 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
9356 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
9357 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
9358 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
9359 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
9360 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
9362 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
9363 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
9364 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
9365 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
9366 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
9367 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
9368 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
9369 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
9372 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
9373 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9374 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
9375 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
9376 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
9377 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
9381 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
9382 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
9383 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
9384 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
9385 colors are white on black.
9386 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
9387 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
9388 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
9389 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
9390 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
9393 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
9394 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
9395 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
9396 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
9397 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
9398 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
9399 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
9400 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
9401 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
9402 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
9403 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
9406 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
9407 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
9408 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
9409 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
9410 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
9411 to wait indefinitely.
9414 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
9415 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
9416 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
9417 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
9418 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
9419 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
9420 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
9421 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
9422 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
9423 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9424 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
9425 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
9429 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
9430 programs build with c++/g++.
9431 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
9432 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
9433 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
9434 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
9435 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
9436 + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and
9437 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
9438 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
9441 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
9443 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
9444 terminfo entries -TD
9445 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
9446 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
9447 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
9448 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
9450 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
9451 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
9453 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
9455 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
9456 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
9457 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
9458 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
9459 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
9460 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
9461 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
9462 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
9463 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
9467 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
9468 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
9469 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
9470 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
9471 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
9472 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
9473 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
9474 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
9475 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
9476 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
9477 use_extended_names().
9480 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
9481 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
9482 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
9483 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
9484 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
9485 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
9486 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
9487 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
9488 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
9489 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
9490 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
9491 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
9492 + add manpage for infotocap
9495 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
9496 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
9497 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
9498 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
9500 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
9501 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
9502 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
9503 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
9504 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
9505 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
9506 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
9507 initc for xterm-88color.
9508 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
9512 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
9513 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
9515 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
9516 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
9517 SP, since it is part of that struct.
9518 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
9520 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
9521 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
9522 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
9523 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
9524 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
9525 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
9526 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
9527 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
9528 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
9530 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
9531 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
9532 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9533 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
9535 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
9538 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
9539 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
9540 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
9541 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
9542 over the use of default colors.
9543 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
9544 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
9545 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
9546 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
9547 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
9548 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
9549 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
9550 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
9553 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
9554 <robert@progplus.com>)
9555 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
9556 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
9557 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
9560 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
9561 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
9562 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
9564 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
9565 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
9566 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
9567 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
9568 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
9569 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
9570 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
9571 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
9572 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
9573 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
9574 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
9575 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
9577 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
9578 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
9581 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
9582 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
9584 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
9585 (request by Bob van der Poel).
9586 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
9587 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
9588 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
9589 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
9590 libraries by default.
9591 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
9593 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
9594 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
9596 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
9597 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
9598 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
9599 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
9600 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
9601 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
9602 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
9604 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
9606 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
9607 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
9608 advice from Bela Lubkin).
9609 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
9610 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9611 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
9612 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
9613 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
9614 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
9617 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
9620 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
9621 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
9622 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
9623 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
9624 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
9625 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
9626 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
9627 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
9628 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
9629 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
9632 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
9633 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
9634 Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9635 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
9636 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
9637 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
9639 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
9640 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
9641 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
9642 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
9643 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
9644 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
9645 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
9646 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
9647 is used), and in color.
9648 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
9649 shared library rules.
9652 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
9653 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
9654 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
9655 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
9656 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
9657 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
9658 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
9659 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
9660 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
9661 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
9662 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
9663 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
9664 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
9665 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
9666 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
9667 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
9668 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9671 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
9672 <j@interface-business.de>).
9673 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
9674 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
9675 that hard-links work on Unix again.
9676 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
9677 Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
9678 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
9681 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
9682 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
9683 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
9684 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
9685 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
9686 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
9687 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
9688 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
9689 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
9690 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
9691 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
9692 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
9693 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
9696 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
9697 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
9698 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
9699 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
9700 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
9701 in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
9702 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
9703 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
9704 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
9705 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
9706 function works only for sockets.
9707 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
9708 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
9709 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
9710 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
9711 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
9712 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
9713 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
9714 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
9715 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
9716 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
9719 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
9720 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
9721 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
9722 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
9723 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
9724 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
9725 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
9728 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
9729 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
9730 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
9732 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
9733 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
9734 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
9735 nonfunctional link().
9736 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
9737 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
9740 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
9741 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
9742 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
9745 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
9746 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
9747 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
9748 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
9749 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
9750 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
9751 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9752 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
9753 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
9754 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
9755 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
9756 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
9757 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
9758 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
9759 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
9760 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
9761 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
9762 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
9763 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
9764 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
9767 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
9768 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
9769 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
9770 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
9771 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
9772 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
9773 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
9774 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
9775 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
9776 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
9777 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
9778 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
9779 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
9780 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
9781 short-circuit expression evaluation.
9782 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
9783 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
9785 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
9786 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
9787 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
9788 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
9789 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
9793 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
9794 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
9796 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
9797 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
9798 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
9801 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
9802 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
9803 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
9804 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
9805 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
9806 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
9807 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
9808 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
9810 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
9811 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
9812 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9815 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
9816 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
9817 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
9818 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
9819 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
9820 --with-rcs-ids option.
9823 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
9824 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
9826 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
9827 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
9828 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
9832 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
9833 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
9834 BeOS predefines a bool type.
9835 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
9836 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
9837 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
9838 option to infocmp -TD
9839 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9840 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
9841 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
9842 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
9843 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
9844 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
9845 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
9848 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9849 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
9850 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
9851 + change interface version-number to 1.0
9852 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
9855 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
9856 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
9857 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
9858 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
9859 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
9860 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
9861 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
9862 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
9863 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
9864 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
9866 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
9867 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (prompted by
9868 discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
9871 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
9872 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
9873 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
9875 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
9876 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
9879 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
9880 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9881 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
9882 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
9883 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
9886 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
9890 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
9891 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
9892 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
9893 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
9894 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
9896 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
9897 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
9898 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
9899 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
9902 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
9903 fields, and showing forms within panels.
9904 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
9905 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
9906 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
9907 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
9908 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
9909 ownership may change).
9912 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
9914 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
9915 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
9916 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9917 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
9918 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
9919 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
9920 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
9922 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
9923 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
9924 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
9925 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
9926 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
9927 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
9930 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
9931 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
9933 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
9934 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
9935 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
9936 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9939 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
9940 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
9941 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
9942 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
9943 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
9944 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
9948 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
9949 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9950 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
9951 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
9952 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
9953 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
9954 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
9955 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
9958 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
9959 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
9960 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
9961 Alexander V Lukyanov).
9964 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
9965 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
9968 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the "-g" option.
9969 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
9970 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
9971 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
9972 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9973 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
9974 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
9975 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
9976 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
9977 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
9978 reset for the next newterm.
9979 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
9980 terminal has true SLKs.
9981 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
9984 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
9985 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
9986 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
9987 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
9988 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
9989 read of the extended capabilities.
9990 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
9991 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
9992 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
9993 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
9994 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
9995 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
9996 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
9997 throughout ncurses library.
9998 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
9999 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
10001 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
10002 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
10003 + regenerate some of the html documentation
10004 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
10007 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
10008 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
10009 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
10010 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD
10011 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
10013 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
10015 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
10016 defined for a keycode.
10017 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
10018 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
10019 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
10020 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
10021 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
10023 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10024 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
10025 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
10026 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
10027 no longer required.
10028 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
10029 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
10031 + modify configuration scripts to
10032 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
10033 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
10034 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
10035 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
10036 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
10037 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
10038 + rename ada_include directory to src.
10041 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
10042 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
10043 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
10047 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
10048 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
10049 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
10050 though the problem is more general.
10051 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
10052 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
10053 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
10054 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
10056 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
10057 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
10058 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
10061 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
10062 Alexander V Lukyanov).
10063 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
10064 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
10065 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
10066 operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10067 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
10068 be any substring rather than the prefix.
10069 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
10070 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
10071 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
10072 has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
10073 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
10074 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
10075 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
10076 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
10077 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
10078 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
10079 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
10080 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
10081 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
10082 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
10083 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
10084 --with-shlib-version option.
10087 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
10088 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
10089 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
10090 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
10091 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
10092 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
10093 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
10094 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
10095 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
10096 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
10097 intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
10098 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
10099 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
10100 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
10101 source distribution.
10104 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
10105 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
10106 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
10108 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
10109 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
10110 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
10111 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
10112 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
10115 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
10118 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
10119 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
10120 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
10121 Alexander V Lukyanov).
10122 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
10123 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
10124 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
10125 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
10126 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10127 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
10128 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
10129 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
10130 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
10131 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
10133 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
10134 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
10135 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
10136 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
10139 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
10141 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
10142 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
10143 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
10144 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
10145 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
10146 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
10147 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
10148 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
10149 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
10150 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
10151 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
10152 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
10153 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
10154 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
10155 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
10156 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
10157 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
10161 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
10162 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
10163 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
10164 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
10165 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
10166 running screen built with ncurses.
10167 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
10168 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
10169 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
10172 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
10175 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
10176 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
10177 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
10178 by a Debian bug report).
10179 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
10180 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
10182 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
10183 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
10184 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
10185 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
10189 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
10190 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
10191 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
10192 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
10193 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
10194 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
10195 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
10196 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
10197 (reported by H.J.Lu).
10200 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
10201 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
10202 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
10203 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
10204 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
10205 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
10206 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
10207 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
10208 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
10209 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
10210 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
10211 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
10213 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
10214 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
10216 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
10218 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
10220 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
10221 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
10225 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
10226 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
10227 address rather than its length.
10228 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
10229 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
10230 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
10231 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
10232 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
10233 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
10234 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
10235 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
10236 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
10237 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
10240 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
10241 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
10243 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
10244 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
10245 for an older version of ncurses.
10246 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
10247 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
10248 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
10249 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
10250 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
10251 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
10252 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
10253 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
10254 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
10255 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
10256 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
10257 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
10259 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
10260 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
10263 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
10264 (request by Larry Virden).
10265 > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
10266 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
10267 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
10268 changes to ncurses library.
10269 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
10270 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
10271 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
10272 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
10273 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
10274 + some Ada95 cosmetics
10275 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
10276 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
10277 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
10280 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
10281 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
10282 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
10283 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
10284 proposed changes to ncurses library.
10285 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
10286 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
10287 broken configure scripts.
10290 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
10292 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
10293 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
10294 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
10296 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
10297 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
10301 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
10302 with --srcdir option.
10303 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
10304 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
10305 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
10306 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
10307 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
10308 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10311 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
10312 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
10313 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
10315 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
10316 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
10317 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
10318 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
10319 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
10320 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
10321 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
10322 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
10325 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
10326 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10329 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
10330 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
10331 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
10332 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
10333 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
10334 some older entries - TD
10335 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
10336 since that is a little more efficient.
10337 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
10338 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
10339 + add "-g" option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
10340 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
10341 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
10342 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
10344 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
10346 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
10347 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
10349 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
10350 + use format string for printing strings.
10351 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
10354 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
10355 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
10356 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
10357 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
10358 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
10359 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
10360 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
10361 > patches by Todd C Miller:
10362 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
10363 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
10364 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
10365 dealing with env variables again.
10366 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
10367 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
10368 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
10369 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
10370 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
10371 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
10372 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
10373 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
10374 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
10375 newhash data to SP struct.
10376 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
10377 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
10378 function's parameter which is deleted.
10379 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
10380 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
10381 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
10382 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
10386 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
10387 consistent treatment.
10388 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
10389 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
10390 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
10391 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
10394 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
10395 capability name, as in SVr4.
10396 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
10397 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
10398 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
10401 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
10402 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
10403 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
10404 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
10405 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
10406 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
10407 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
10408 > from esr's terminfo version:
10409 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
10410 + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
10411 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
10414 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
10415 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
10416 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
10417 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
10418 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
10419 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
10420 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
10421 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
10422 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
10423 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
10427 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
10428 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
10429 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
10430 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
10431 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
10434 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
10435 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
10439 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
10440 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
10441 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
10442 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
10443 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
10444 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
10445 as obtained via ioctl.
10448 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
10449 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
10450 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
10451 turning attributes off.
10452 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
10453 initializing multiple screens.
10454 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
10455 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
10456 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
10459 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
10460 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
10461 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
10462 with Solaris curses).
10463 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
10464 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
10465 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
10466 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
10467 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
10468 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
10469 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
10470 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
10473 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
10474 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
10475 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
10476 (request by QingLong).
10477 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
10478 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
10479 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
10480 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
10482 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
10483 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
10484 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
10485 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
10486 otherwise simply exit with an error.
10489 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
10490 "_g" for a debug build).
10491 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
10492 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
10493 compile/link working Ada95 program.
10494 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
10495 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
10496 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
10497 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
10498 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
10499 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
10503 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
10504 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
10505 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
10506 corresponds to vt100.
10507 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
10508 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
10511 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
10512 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
10513 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
10514 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
10515 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
10516 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
10517 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
10518 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
10519 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
10520 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10523 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
10524 several minor errors/omissions.
10525 + implement tparm %l format.
10526 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
10528 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
10531 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
10532 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
10533 to be written to large screens.
10534 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
10535 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
10536 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
10537 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
10538 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
10540 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
10541 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10542 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
10543 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
10546 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
10548 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
10550 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
10551 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
10552 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
10553 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
10554 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
10555 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
10556 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
10558 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
10559 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
10561 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
10564 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
10565 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
10566 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
10567 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
10568 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
10569 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
10570 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
10571 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
10572 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
10573 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
10576 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
10577 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10578 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty
10579 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
10580 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
10581 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
10582 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
10583 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
10584 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
10585 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
10586 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
10587 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
10588 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
10591 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
10592 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
10593 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
10594 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
10595 which contains a colon in the description field.
10596 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
10597 from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
10598 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
10600 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
10601 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
10604 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
10605 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
10606 color pair numbers.
10607 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
10608 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
10609 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
10610 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
10611 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
10612 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
10613 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
10614 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
10615 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
10616 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
10617 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
10618 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
10619 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
10620 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
10621 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
10622 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
10623 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
10624 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
10625 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
10626 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
10627 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
10628 comparisons out of inner loop.
10631 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
10632 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
10633 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
10634 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
10635 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
10636 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
10637 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
10638 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
10639 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
10641 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
10642 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
10643 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
10646 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
10647 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
10648 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
10649 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
10650 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
10651 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
10652 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
10653 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
10654 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
10655 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
10658 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
10659 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
10660 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
10661 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
10663 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
10664 avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
10665 by Juergen Pfeifer).
10668 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
10669 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
10672 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
10673 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
10674 uses them when they are available.
10675 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
10676 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
10677 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
10678 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
10680 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
10683 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
10684 declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
10685 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
10686 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
10688 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10689 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
10690 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
10691 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
10692 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
10693 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
10694 use --disable-overwrite).
10695 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
10696 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
10697 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
10698 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
10699 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
10700 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
10701 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
10702 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
10703 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
10707 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
10708 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10709 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
10710 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
10711 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
10712 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
10713 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
10714 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
10716 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
10717 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
10718 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
10719 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
10721 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
10722 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
10723 parameter according to XSI.
10724 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
10725 reflect above enhancements.
10728 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
10729 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
10730 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
10731 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
10733 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
10735 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
10737 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
10738 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
10739 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
10742 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
10743 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
10744 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10745 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
10746 <claesg@algonet.se>).
10747 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
10748 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
10751 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
10752 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
10753 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
10755 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
10756 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
10757 by Florian La Roche).
10758 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
10759 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
10760 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
10761 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10764 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
10765 distributions, though it is retained in development.
10766 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
10768 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
10769 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
10770 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
10771 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
10772 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
10775 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
10777 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
10778 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
10779 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
10780 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
10781 This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
10782 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
10784 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
10785 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
10786 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
10788 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
10789 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
10790 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
10793 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
10794 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
10796 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
10797 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
10799 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
10801 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
10803 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
10805 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
10806 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
10807 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
10808 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
10809 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
10811 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
10812 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
10814 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
10815 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
10816 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
10817 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
10818 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
10819 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
10820 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
10821 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
10822 turn off attributes inconsistently.
10825 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
10826 test for no_color_video.
10827 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
10829 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
10830 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
10831 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
10832 <brett@xylan.com>).
10833 > from reports by Fred Fish:
10834 + add configure-test for isascii
10835 + add configure-test for -lm library.
10836 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
10837 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
10838 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
10839 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
10840 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
10841 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
10842 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
10844 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
10845 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
10847 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
10848 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
10849 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
10850 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
10851 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
10854 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
10855 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
10857 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
10859 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
10860 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
10861 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
10863 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
10864 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
10866 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
10868 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
10869 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
10870 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
10871 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10872 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
10873 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
10874 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
10875 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
10876 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
10877 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
10878 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
10879 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
10880 fields are also always inactive.
10881 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
10882 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
10885 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
10886 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
10887 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
10888 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
10889 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
10890 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
10891 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
10892 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
10893 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
10896 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
10897 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
10898 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
10899 defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
10900 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
10902 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
10903 Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
10904 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
10905 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
10906 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
10907 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
10908 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
10909 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
10910 cross-platform compatibility.
10911 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
10912 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
10913 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10914 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
10916 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
10920 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
10921 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
10922 EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
10923 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
10924 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
10925 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
10926 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
10927 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
10928 that simply cannot scroll.
10929 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
10930 embedded \200 characters are matched.
10931 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
10935 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
10936 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
10937 functions from the build.
10938 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
10939 functions as a separate library.
10940 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
10941 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
10942 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
10943 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
10944 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
10945 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
10946 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
10947 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
10948 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
10950 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10951 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
10952 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
10955 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
10956 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
10958 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
10959 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
10960 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
10961 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
10964 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
10965 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
10966 + add configure check for 'tack'.
10967 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
10968 for Debian configuration.
10969 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
10971 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
10972 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
10974 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
10975 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
10976 case of wide characters in chtype.
10977 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
10978 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
10979 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
10982 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
10983 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
10984 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
10985 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
10986 have set root's umask to 077.
10987 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
10988 end of output when they had embedded comments.
10989 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
10990 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
10991 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
10992 correct logic for handling backslashes.
10993 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
10994 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
10995 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
10996 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
10997 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
10998 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
11000 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11001 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
11003 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
11004 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
11006 + resync of the html version of the manpages
11009 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
11010 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
11012 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
11013 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
11014 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
11015 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
11016 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11017 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
11018 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
11019 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
11023 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
11025 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
11026 comments from Daniel Weaver.
11027 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
11028 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
11029 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
11030 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
11032 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
11033 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
11034 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
11036 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
11037 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
11040 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
11044 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
11045 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
11046 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
11047 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
11048 in call to delay_output().
11049 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
11050 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
11051 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
11052 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
11053 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
11055 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
11056 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
11057 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
11058 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
11059 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
11060 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
11061 so that will work on NeXT.
11062 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
11063 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
11066 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
11068 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
11070 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
11071 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
11072 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
11073 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
11074 when that feature is not configured.
11075 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
11076 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
11077 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
11078 (this dates back to 951102 in 1.9.7a).
11079 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
11080 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
11081 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
11082 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
11085 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
11087 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
11088 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
11090 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
11092 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
11093 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
11096 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
11097 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
11098 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
11099 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
11100 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
11101 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
11102 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
11103 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
11104 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
11106 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
11107 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
11108 tputs() if called from that function.
11109 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
11110 tputs works when SP is not set.
11111 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11112 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
11113 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
11114 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation
11115 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
11116 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
11119 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
11120 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
11121 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
11122 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
11123 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
11124 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
11125 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
11126 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
11127 _nc_update_screensize().
11128 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
11130 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
11131 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
11132 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
11133 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11134 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
11135 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11136 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
11137 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
11138 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
11139 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
11141 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
11145 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
11146 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
11147 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
11149 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
11150 click-interval without modifying it.
11151 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
11152 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
11154 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
11155 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
11156 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
11157 other ncurses headers.
11158 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
11159 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
11160 (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
11161 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
11162 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
11163 characters output in delay_output().
11164 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
11165 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
11166 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
11167 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11168 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
11170 + typo in configure --help.
11171 > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
11172 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
11173 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
11174 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
11177 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11178 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
11181 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
11182 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
11183 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
11184 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
11185 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
11187 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
11188 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
11189 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
11190 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
11191 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
11192 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
11193 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
11194 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
11195 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
11196 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
11197 form (sorted, unique mapping).
11198 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
11199 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
11200 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11201 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
11202 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11203 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11204 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
11205 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
11206 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
11207 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
11208 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
11209 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
11210 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11211 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
11212 NCursesPanel class.
11213 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
11214 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
11215 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
11216 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
11217 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
11218 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
11222 + add 'deinstall' rules.
11223 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
11224 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
11225 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
11226 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
11227 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
11228 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
11230 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
11231 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11232 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
11234 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
11235 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
11236 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
11237 scripts are also provided.
11240 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
11242 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
11243 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
11244 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
11245 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
11246 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
11247 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
11248 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
11249 generating lint library.
11250 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
11252 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
11253 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
11254 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
11255 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
11256 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
11257 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
11258 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
11259 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
11260 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
11261 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
11263 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11264 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
11266 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
11268 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
11269 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
11270 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
11271 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
11272 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
11273 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
11274 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11275 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
11276 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
11280 + modify rain.c to use color.
11281 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
11282 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
11283 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
11284 of configure cache variables in 970906.
11285 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
11286 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
11287 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
11288 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
11289 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
11290 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
11291 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
11292 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
11293 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
11294 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11295 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
11297 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
11298 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
11299 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
11300 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
11301 NCursesPanel class.
11302 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
11303 NCursesWindow class.
11304 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
11305 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
11306 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
11307 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
11309 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
11310 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
11311 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
11312 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
11313 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
11314 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
11316 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
11317 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
11318 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
11319 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
11320 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
11321 already disconnected.
11322 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
11323 navigation requests.
11324 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
11325 case-insensitiva comparision routine.
11326 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
11327 forms field by index.
11328 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
11330 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
11331 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
11332 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
11333 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
11334 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
11335 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
11336 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
11337 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
11338 move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
11340 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
11341 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
11342 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
11344 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
11345 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11346 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
11347 know that auto_right_margin is true.
11348 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
11349 shifting character to LR corner.
11350 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
11351 terminal right margin mode is known.
11352 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
11353 _nc_scroll_window().
11354 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
11355 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
11357 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
11358 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
11359 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
11360 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
11362 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
11363 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
11364 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
11365 the terminal window is resized.
11368 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
11369 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
11370 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
11371 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
11372 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
11373 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
11374 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
11375 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
11376 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11377 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
11378 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
11380 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
11381 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
11382 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
11384 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
11385 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
11387 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
11391 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
11392 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
11393 lib_printw.c functions.
11394 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
11395 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
11396 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
11397 force the screen to scroll.
11400 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
11402 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
11404 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
11405 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
11407 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
11408 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
11409 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11410 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
11411 was in the wrong order.
11412 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
11414 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
11416 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
11417 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
11418 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
11419 invoke wechochar() instead.
11420 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
11423 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
11424 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
11425 work properly when we add calls to that function.
11426 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
11427 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
11428 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11429 + several fixes to getch:
11430 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
11431 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
11432 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
11433 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
11435 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
11436 6. correctly handle the case of receiption of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
11437 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
11438 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
11439 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
11441 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
11442 line-breakout optimization
11443 + improve hashmap.c by
11444 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
11445 2. not marking lines with offset 0
11446 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
11447 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
11448 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
11449 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
11451 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
11452 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
11453 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
11454 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
11456 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
11458 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
11459 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
11460 stored/retrieved via set_term().
11461 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
11465 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
11466 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
11467 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
11469 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
11470 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
11471 before looking for (n)curses library.
11472 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
11473 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
11474 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
11475 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
11476 include ncurses_cfg.h
11477 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
11478 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
11479 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11480 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
11481 example firstlast.c
11482 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
11483 common subexpressions.
11484 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
11485 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
11486 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
11487 against the background character.
11488 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
11489 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
11490 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
11491 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
11492 > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
11493 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
11494 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
11495 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
11496 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
11499 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
11500 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
11501 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
11502 terminal type ncr7900).
11503 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
11504 package is built with an install-prefix.
11505 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
11506 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
11507 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
11508 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
11509 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
11510 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
11511 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
11512 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
11513 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
11514 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11515 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
11516 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
11517 by Juergen Pfeifer).
11520 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
11521 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
11522 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
11523 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
11524 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
11525 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
11526 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
11527 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
11528 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
11529 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
11530 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
11533 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
11534 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
11535 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
11536 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
11537 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
11538 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
11539 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
11540 configuration of wide-characters.
11541 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
11542 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
11543 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
11544 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
11545 does not have getttynam().
11546 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
11547 + add table entries for B230400 and B460800 to baudrate() function.
11548 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
11549 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11550 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
11551 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11552 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
11553 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
11554 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
11555 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
11556 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
11560 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
11561 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11562 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
11563 options should be accompanied by a message.
11564 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
11565 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
11567 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
11569 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11570 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
11571 better when csr is not available.
11572 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
11573 after failure to scroll one.
11574 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
11575 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
11576 case and wrong string in TRACE.
11577 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11578 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
11582 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
11583 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
11585 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
11586 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
11587 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
11588 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
11589 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
11592 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
11593 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
11594 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
11596 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
11599 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
11600 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
11601 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
11602 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
11603 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
11604 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
11605 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
11606 (reported by Larry Virden).
11607 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
11608 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
11610 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11611 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
11612 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
11613 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
11617 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
11618 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
11619 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
11620 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
11621 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
11623 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
11624 terminfo description to the stored strings.
11625 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
11626 terminfo descriptions.
11627 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
11628 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
11629 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
11630 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
11631 option is a stopgap.
11632 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
11633 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
11636 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
11637 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
11638 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
11639 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
11640 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
11641 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
11645 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
11646 lines in curscr that are shifted.
11647 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
11648 than a series of function calls.
11649 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
11650 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
11651 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
11652 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
11653 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
11654 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
11655 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
11656 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11657 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11660 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
11661 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
11662 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
11663 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
11664 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
11665 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
11666 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
11667 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
11668 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
11669 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
11670 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
11671 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
11672 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
11673 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
11674 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11675 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
11676 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11677 + improve threshhold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
11678 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11681 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
11682 use only the fallback data.
11683 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
11684 terminal descriptions.
11685 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
11686 still assume there's an ncurses.h
11687 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
11688 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
11689 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
11690 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
11691 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
11692 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
11694 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
11695 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
11696 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
11697 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
11698 <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
11699 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
11700 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
11702 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
11704 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
11705 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
11707 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
11709 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
11710 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
11711 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
11712 original implementation (1.9.6).
11713 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
11714 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
11715 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
11716 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
11718 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
11719 SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
11720 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
11721 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
11722 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
11723 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11724 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
11725 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
11727 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
11728 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
11729 field is not possible.
11730 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
11731 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
11732 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
11733 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
11735 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
11736 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
11737 in forms/menus libraries.
11740 + add description of xterm-16color.
11741 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
11742 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
11744 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
11745 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
11746 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
11747 works properly w/o first doing "make".
11748 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
11749 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
11751 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
11752 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
11753 bounding box without tidying up).
11754 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
11755 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
11756 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
11758 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
11759 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11760 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
11761 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
11762 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11765 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
11766 option is specified.
11767 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
11768 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
11770 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
11771 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
11772 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
11773 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
11774 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
11775 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
11776 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
11777 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
11778 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
11779 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
11780 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
11781 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
11782 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
11783 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
11785 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
11786 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
11787 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11788 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
11789 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
11790 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11791 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
11792 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
11793 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11794 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
11795 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
11797 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
11799 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
11801 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
11802 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
11805 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
11806 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
11807 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
11808 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
11810 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
11811 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
11812 during a call to newwin.
11813 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
11814 is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
11815 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
11816 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
11817 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
11818 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11819 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
11820 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
11823 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
11824 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
11825 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
11826 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
11828 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
11831 970505 4.1 pre-release
11832 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
11834 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
11835 unnecessary recompiles.
11836 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
11837 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
11838 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
11839 overwrite of symbolic links.
11840 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
11841 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
11842 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
11843 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
11844 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
11845 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
11846 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
11847 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
11848 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
11849 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
11850 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
11851 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
11852 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
11853 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
11857 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
11858 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
11859 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
11861 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
11862 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
11863 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
11864 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
11865 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
11866 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
11867 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
11868 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
11869 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
11871 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
11872 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
11873 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
11874 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
11876 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
11877 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
11878 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11879 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
11880 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11881 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
11882 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11883 + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
11884 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
11885 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
11886 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11889 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
11890 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
11891 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
11892 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
11893 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
11894 original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
11895 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
11896 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
11897 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
11898 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
11899 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
11900 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
11901 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
11902 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
11903 or redefinition within an acsc string.
11904 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
11905 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
11906 regression testing.
11907 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
11908 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
11911 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
11912 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
11913 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
11914 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
11915 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
11916 match SVr4 documentation.
11917 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
11918 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
11919 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
11922 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
11923 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
11924 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
11925 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
11926 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
11927 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
11928 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
11929 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
11932 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
11933 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
11934 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
11936 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
11937 --enable/--with values.
11938 + add configure option --enable-big-core
11939 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
11940 + check for C++ builtin.h header
11941 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
11942 parameter from the expression.
11943 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
11944 ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted from diffs by
11946 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
11947 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
11948 was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
11949 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
11950 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
11951 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
11954 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
11955 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
11956 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
11957 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
11958 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
11961 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
11962 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
11963 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
11964 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
11965 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
11966 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
11967 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
11968 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
11969 (reported by Ward Horner).
11970 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
11971 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
11974 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
11975 even if "make all" is not done first.
11976 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
11977 expanded functions with ATAC.
11978 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
11979 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
11983 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
11985 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
11987 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
11990 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
11991 addressing request by Ward Horner.
11992 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
11993 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
11994 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
11995 a pointer-increment.
11996 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
12000 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
12001 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
12003 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
12004 (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
12005 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
12006 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
12007 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
12008 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
12009 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
12010 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
12012 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
12013 (reported by Ward Horner)
12014 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
12015 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
12016 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
12017 (reported by Gary Johnson).
12018 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
12019 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
12020 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
12021 wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
12022 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
12023 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
12024 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
12025 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
12029 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
12030 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
12031 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
12032 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
12033 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
12034 (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12035 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
12036 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
12037 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
12038 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
12041 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
12043 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
12044 the returned buffer.
12045 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
12046 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
12047 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
12048 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
12050 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
12051 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
12054 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
12055 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
12056 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
12057 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
12059 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
12060 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
12063 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
12064 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
12066 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
12068 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
12069 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
12070 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
12071 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
12073 + modify _tracedump() to pad colors & attrs lines to match change
12074 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
12075 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
12076 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
12079 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
12080 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
12081 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
12082 that machine - T.Dickey.
12083 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
12084 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
12085 linking against static libraries.
12086 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
12088 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
12089 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
12090 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
12091 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
12093 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
12094 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
12095 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
12096 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
12097 Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
12100 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
12101 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
12102 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
12104 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
12105 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
12106 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
12107 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
12108 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
12109 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
12112 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
12114 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
12115 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
12116 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
12117 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
12118 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
12119 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
12120 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
12121 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
12122 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
12123 insert/delete line method.
12124 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
12125 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
12126 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
12127 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
12129 961229 (internal alpha)
12130 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
12131 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
12132 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
12133 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
12134 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
12135 there is data on stdin.
12136 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
12137 descriptors, needed for GPM.
12138 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
12139 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
12140 prevented patch from working properly -TD
12141 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
12142 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
12143 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
12144 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
12147 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
12148 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
12150 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
12153 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
12154 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
12155 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
12156 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
12158 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
12159 solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
12160 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
12161 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
12162 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
12163 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
12165 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
12166 i.e., set current directory before linking.
12167 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
12168 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
12169 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
12170 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
12171 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
12172 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
12173 Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
12174 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
12177 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
12178 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
12179 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
12180 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
12181 Solaris curses, which does this.
12184 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
12185 work with wider range of screen sizes.
12186 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
12187 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
12188 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
12190 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
12191 resize between endwin/refresh.
12192 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
12193 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
12194 terminal modes in 960907.
12195 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
12196 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
12198 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
12199 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
12200 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
12201 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
12202 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
12203 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
12204 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
12205 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
12206 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
12208 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
12209 (requested by Florian La Roche).
12210 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
12211 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
12212 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
12213 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
12214 by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12217 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
12220 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
12221 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
12222 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
12223 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
12224 data used in ncurses library.
12225 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
12226 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
12227 Alexander V Lukyanov).
12228 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
12229 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
12230 beta may not be interchangeable).
12231 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
12233 961130 1.9.9g release
12234 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
12238 > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
12239 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
12240 to avoid warning messages.
12241 + the panel overlap detection was broken
12242 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
12244 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
12248 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12249 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
12250 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
12251 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
12252 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
12255 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
12256 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
12257 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
12261 + change ABI to 3.4
12262 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
12264 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
12266 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
12268 > patch #324 (ESR):
12269 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
12270 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
12271 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
12272 + add entry for color_xterm
12275 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
12276 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
12277 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
12278 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
12279 CANCELLED_STRING values.
12280 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
12281 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
12282 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
12283 delays when in autoplay mode.
12284 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
12285 Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
12286 > patch #322 (ESR):
12287 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
12290 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
12291 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
12292 a spurious clear-screen.
12293 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
12294 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
12296 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
12297 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
12298 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
12299 <perf@efd.lth.se>).
12302 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
12303 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
12304 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
12305 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
12306 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
12307 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
12309 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
12310 distribution, as stated)
12311 + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
12312 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
12313 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
12314 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
12315 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
12316 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
12317 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
12319 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
12320 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
12324 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
12325 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
12326 file (lib_screen.c).
12327 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
12328 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
12329 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
12330 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
12331 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
12332 rendered as octal constants.
12333 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
12334 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
12335 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
12336 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
12337 in the top-level command-parser.
12338 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
12339 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
12341 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
12342 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
12343 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
12346 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
12347 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
12348 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
12349 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
12350 (reported by Tim Mooney).
12351 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
12353 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
12357 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
12358 that are available.
12359 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
12360 the pointer was -1.
12363 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
12364 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
12365 lower-right corner.
12366 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
12367 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
12368 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
12369 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
12370 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
12371 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
12372 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
12373 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
12374 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
12375 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
12377 + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
12378 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
12379 > patch #321 (ESR):
12380 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
12381 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
12382 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
12383 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
12386 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
12387 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
12388 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
12389 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
12390 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
12392 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
12393 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
12394 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
12395 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
12396 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
12397 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
12398 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
12399 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
12400 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
12401 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
12402 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
12403 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
12404 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
12406 + change ABI to 3.3
12407 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
12408 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
12409 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
12411 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
12412 Michael Elkins) - untested
12414 + correction to #317.
12416 + re-add _nc_hash_map
12417 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design
12418 (patch by A. Lukyanov).
12419 + modify test/ncurses.c and tputs, etc., to allow trace counting
12421 + add hashtest.c program to time the hashmap optimization.
12423 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
12425 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
12427 + merge changes to lib_doupdate.c to use ech and rep - untested
12428 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12429 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
12430 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
12431 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
12432 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
12435 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
12437 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
12438 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
12439 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
12440 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
12441 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
12443 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
12446 + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
12447 (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12448 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
12449 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12450 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
12451 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
12454 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
12455 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
12456 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
12457 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
12458 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
12459 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
12460 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
12461 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
12462 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
12463 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
12464 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
12465 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
12466 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
12467 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
12468 + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
12472 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12473 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
12474 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
12475 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
12477 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
12478 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
12479 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
12482 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
12483 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
12484 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
12487 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
12488 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12489 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
12490 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12493 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
12494 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
12495 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
12496 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
12497 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
12499 + add dtterm description
12500 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop mvwscanw subtest)
12503 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
12504 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
12505 + refine configure-test for "-g" option (Tim Mooney).
12506 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
12507 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
12510 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
12512 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
12514 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch (report
12518 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
12519 (reported by William P Setzer)
12520 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
12521 (reported by Tim Mooney).
12523 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
12524 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
12525 + updated qnx terminfo entry (patch by Michael Hunter)
12528 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
12530 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
12534 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
12535 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
12537 + terminfo changes (9.3.9), from BRL
12538 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
12539 + add more symbols to infocmp.
12542 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
12543 Juergen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
12544 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
12546 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
12547 null), and tests that use it.
12548 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
12549 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
12550 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
12552 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
12554 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
12555 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
12556 + fix option-processing bug in toe.
12559 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
12560 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
12561 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
12562 by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
12563 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
12564 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
12566 + enable more translations of nonstandard caps, and document them.
12567 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.8
12569 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
12570 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
12571 + cosmetic fixes to test/ncurses.c
12572 + modify open() call in ncurses/read_entry.c to use O_RDONLY symbol
12573 rather than constant (report by mib).
12574 + misc/terminfo.src sgr0 and acsc changes (report by Philippe De
12576 + modify ncurses/comp_parse.c so that entries containing a "+" can
12577 have missing rmcup vs smcup.
12580 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
12581 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
12582 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
12584 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
12585 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
12586 Philippe De Muyter).
12589 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
12590 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
12592 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
12593 (reported by Zeyd).
12594 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
12595 (reported by David MacKenzie).
12596 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
12597 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
12598 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
12599 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
12600 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
12601 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
12602 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
12605 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes.
12606 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.7 (report by A. Lukyanov).
12607 + modify man/Makefile.in to make terminfo.5 during normal build.
12609 + corrected allocation-length for $HOME/.terminfo path.
12612 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
12613 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
12614 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
12615 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
12616 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
12617 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
12618 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
12619 than function keys in 'g' test.
12620 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
12621 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
12622 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
12623 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
12625 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
12627 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
12628 msgwin needed scrollok set.
12629 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
12630 between PutRange and InsStr
12631 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
12632 MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
12634 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
12637 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
12638 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
12639 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
12641 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
12642 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
12643 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
12644 _yoffset to WINDOW).
12645 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
12646 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
12647 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
12648 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
12649 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
12650 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
12651 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
12652 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
12653 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
12656 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
12657 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
12658 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
12659 first entry in a list).
12660 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
12661 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
12664 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
12665 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
12666 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
12667 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
12668 with a shared-library configuration.
12669 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
12670 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
12671 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
12672 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
12673 builders to install into staging locations (requested by
12674 Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
12675 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
12677 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
12678 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
12679 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
12680 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
12681 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
12683 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
12684 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
12685 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
12686 invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12688 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
12689 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
12690 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
12692 + misc/ncurses-intro.html syntax fix (Kajiyama Tamito).
12695 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
12696 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
12697 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
12698 + added rules for lintlib, lint
12699 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
12700 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
12701 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
12702 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
12703 checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
12704 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
12705 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
12706 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
12707 + typos, don't use inline with "-g" (Philippe De Muyter)
12708 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
12711 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
12712 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
12713 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
12714 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
12715 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
12716 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
12718 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
12719 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
12720 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
12721 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
12723 + improve hash function (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12724 + 9.13.4 update for terminfo.src
12727 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
12728 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
12729 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
12730 <lav@yars.free.net>).
12731 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
12732 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
12733 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
12734 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
12736 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
12737 + html fixes (Phillippe de Muyter).
12738 + fix typo in ncurses-intro.html (report by Fabrizio Polacco).
12740 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
12741 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
12742 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
12743 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
12746 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
12750 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
12751 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
12752 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
12753 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
12754 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
12755 > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
12756 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
12757 + added TRACE_IEVENT
12758 + fix REQ_TOGGLE_ITEM in menu/menu_driver.c; it could select but not
12760 + added lib_print.c (request by Rick Marshall).
12761 + added has_key() (request by Juergen Pfeifer).
12762 + do not issue clrtoeol or clrtobot if the relevant portion of the line
12763 is already blank (analysis by Keith Bostic).
12764 + add parentheses for parameters of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER macros
12765 (analysis by Jurgen Eidt).
12766 + update screen's notion of cursor position in endwin() (analysis by
12767 Alexander Lukyanov).
12768 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
12769 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
12770 + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
12771 is not part of X/Open Curses).
12772 + removed boolean version of 'getm'.
12773 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
12776 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
12777 + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
12778 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
12779 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
12780 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
12781 "#include" if needed.
12784 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
12785 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
12788 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
12789 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
12790 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
12794 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
12795 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
12796 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
12797 > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
12798 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
12799 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
12800 + new "-e" and "-h" options of tic (request by Tony Nugent).
12801 + fix bug in mandatory-delay logic in lib_tputs.c (report by Sven
12803 + fix for "infocmp -e" to emit correct initializers (reported by Manual
12805 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c (report by Kayvan
12807 + use "-h" option on Solaris when generating shared libraries on
12808 Solaris 2.5 to record the library name in the file, for assisting
12809 the loader (patch by Scott Kramer).
12810 + undo patch #294 changes to form and menu libraries (request by
12815 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
12816 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
12817 K&R-style substitution)
12818 > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
12819 + rewrite wsyncup(), wsyncdown(), as well as small fixes to form and
12820 menu libraries to fix echo-breakage introduced by 1.8.9, 1.9.9e
12821 changes (patches by Juergen Pfeifer).
12822 + fix compile under QNX 4.2 by defining ONLCR in lib_raw.c when
12823 __QNX__ is defined (patch by Michael Hunter).
12824 + modify setupterm() to match documentation for its return value, fix
12825 newterm to work with this change (report by Emmet Lazich).
12826 + add checks in getch() for error, return ERR as appropriate (report by
12828 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode (report by Pete Seebach).
12829 + corrected askuser() logic in tset (patch by Remco Treffkorn).
12830 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing (report by
12832 + added trace support for TTY flags
12833 + update terminfo.src to 9.13.1
12834 + FreeBSD console entries (patch by Andrew Chernov).
12837 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
12838 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
12839 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
12840 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
12841 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
12843 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
12844 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
12846 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
12848 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
12849 copy-changed-lines behavior.
12850 * added and documented wresize() function.
12851 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
12852 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
12853 emitted before the first check.
12854 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
12855 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
12856 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
12857 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
12858 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
12859 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
12861 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
12862 * support for ESCDELAY.
12863 * small fixes for menu/form code.
12864 * the test directory has its own configure.
12865 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
12866 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
12867 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
12870 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
12872 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
12873 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
12874 * support infocmp -RBSD.
12875 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
12876 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
12877 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
12878 catastrophies or acts of God.
12879 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
12881 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
12882 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
12885 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
12887 * corrected return values of setupterm()
12888 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
12889 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
12890 one `use' capability.
12891 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
12892 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
12893 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
12894 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
12895 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
12896 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
12897 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
12898 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
12899 * added -h option to toe(1).
12900 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
12901 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
12902 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
12903 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
12905 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
12907 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
12908 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
12910 * mouse support for xterm.
12911 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
12912 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initally off.
12913 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
12914 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
12915 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
12916 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
12917 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
12918 * infocmp -T option added.
12919 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
12921 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
12923 * menus library is now included with documentation.
12924 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
12925 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
12926 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
12927 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
12928 * tweaks for compiling in seperate directories.
12929 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
12930 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
12931 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
12933 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
12935 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
12936 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
12937 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
12938 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
12940 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
12942 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
12943 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
12944 * added tracemunch to the test tools
12945 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
12947 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
12949 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
12950 profile and shared object models.
12952 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
12954 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
12955 * panels support added
12956 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
12957 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
12959 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
12961 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
12962 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
12963 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
12964 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
12966 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
12967 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
12968 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
12969 are consistent (they weren't).
12970 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
12971 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
12972 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
12973 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
12974 warnings from gcc).
12975 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
12976 * more spelling fixes
12977 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
12978 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
12979 core in init_acs()).
12980 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
12983 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
12985 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
12986 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
12987 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
12989 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
12990 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
12991 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
12992 resolution of traces.
12993 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
12994 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
12995 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
12996 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
12997 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
12998 is much less flaky.
12999 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
13000 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
13001 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
13002 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
13004 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
13005 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
13006 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
13007 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
13008 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
13009 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This wil mostly happen if
13010 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
13011 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
13012 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
13013 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
13014 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
13015 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
13016 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
13017 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
13018 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
13019 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
13021 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
13022 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
13023 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
13024 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
13025 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
13026 the correct alternate character set.
13027 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
13028 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
13029 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
13030 a terminal is undefined.
13031 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
13032 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
13033 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
13034 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
13035 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
13036 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
13038 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
13039 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
13040 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
13041 if other attributes are turned off.
13042 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
13043 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
13044 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
13046 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
13047 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
13048 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
13051 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
13052 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
13053 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
13054 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
13056 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
13057 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
13059 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
13061 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
13062 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
13063 break operation with any emulators.
13064 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
13065 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
13066 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
13067 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
13068 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
13069 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
13070 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
13071 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
13073 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
13074 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
13076 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
13077 unpredictable results.
13078 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
13080 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
13081 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
13082 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
13083 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
13084 take note of the terminfo directory.
13085 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
13086 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
13089 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
13090 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
13091 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
13092 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
13093 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
13094 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
13095 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
13096 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
13097 performs more testing.
13098 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
13099 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
13101 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
13102 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
13104 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
13105 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
13106 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
13108 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
13110 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
13111 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
13112 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
13113 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
13114 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
13115 will probably continue to work ok.
13117 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
13118 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
13119 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
13120 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
13121 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
13123 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
13124 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
13125 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
13127 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
13128 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
13129 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
13130 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
13131 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
13132 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
13133 changed accordingly.
13134 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
13135 bottom-right corner.
13136 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
13137 pads I'd love a copy.
13138 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
13139 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
13140 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
13141 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
13142 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
13143 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
13144 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
13146 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
13147 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
13148 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
13150 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
13151 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
13152 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
13153 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
13154 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
13155 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
13156 * See src/README for porting notes.
13157 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
13158 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
13159 rows instead of lines, etc.)
13160 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
13161 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
13162 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
13163 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
13164 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
13165 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
13166 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
13168 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
13169 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
13170 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
13171 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
13172 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
13173 fact was exposed by hanoi.
13174 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
13175 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
13176 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
13177 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
13178 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
13179 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
13181 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
13183 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
13184 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
13185 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
13186 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
13187 Config.* files through an awk script.
13188 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
13189 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
13190 * a few minor cleanups.
13191 * added more prototypes in curses.h
13193 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
13195 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
13196 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
13197 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
13198 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
13199 * a couple of bug fixes.
13200 * a few code cleanups.
13202 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
13204 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
13205 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
13206 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
13207 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
13208 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
13209 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
13210 * Cleaner Makefile.
13211 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
13212 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
13214 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
13215 (doesn't work on Linux)
13216 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
13217 screen before working.
13218 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
13219 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
13221 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
13222 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
13223 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
13224 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
13225 * several minor bug fixes.
13227 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
13229 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
13230 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
13231 * changes related to Config
13233 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
13235 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
13236 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
13237 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
13238 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
13239 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
13240 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
13241 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
13242 * added halfdelay()
13243 * fixed problems with asc_init()
13244 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
13245 * cleaned up vidputs()
13246 * general cleanup of the code
13247 * more attention to portability to other systems
13248 * added terminfos for hp70092 (wont work until changes to lib_update.c are
13249 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
13251 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
13252 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
13254 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
13255 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
13256 the rationale drop me a line.
13258 Included are several test programs in test/.
13259 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
13260 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
13262 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
13264 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
13265 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
13266 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
13267 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
13268 * keyname() is added.
13269 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
13270 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
13271 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
13272 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
13273 * included fixes from 0.6.1
13274 * added a few more missing functions.
13275 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
13276 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
13279 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
13281 1) Included the missing data/console.
13283 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
13285 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
13287 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
13288 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
13289 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
13291 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
13292 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
13293 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
13294 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
13295 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
13296 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
13297 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
13298 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
13299 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
13300 * added notimeout().
13301 * added timeout() define in curses.h
13302 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
13304 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
13305 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
13306 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
13307 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
13308 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
13309 * added slk_* support.
13310 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
13311 * added PANEL library.
13312 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
13313 * terminfo.h is really term.h
13315 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
13316 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
13317 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
13318 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
13319 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
13320 another key is pressed.
13321 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
13322 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
13323 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
13325 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
13326 * fixed bug in wvline().
13327 * added curs_set().
13328 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
13329 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
13331 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
13332 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
13333 * Addition of function prototypes.
13334 * Addition of several missing functions.
13335 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
13336 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
13337 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
13338 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
13339 * New scrolling code.
13340 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
13342 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
13343 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
13344 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
13345 * more fixes for updates.
13346 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
13347 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
13348 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
13349 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
13351 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
13352 * support for color.
13353 * support for PC graphic characters.
13354 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
13355 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
13357 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
13358 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
13359 * ANSIfication of some functions.
13360 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
13361 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.