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31 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
32 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
34 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
35 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
37 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
38 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
39 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
41 A few contributors are given in this file by their initials.
42 They each account for one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
49 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
50 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
51 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
52 illustrate how to use mvcur().
53 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
54 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
55 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
56 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
57 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
60 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
61 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
62 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
63 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
64 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
65 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
68 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
69 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
71 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
72 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
73 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
74 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
77 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
78 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
79 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
80 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
82 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
84 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
85 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
86 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
87 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
88 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
91 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
92 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
94 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
95 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
96 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
97 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
98 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
99 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
100 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
101 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
102 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
103 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
104 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
107 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
108 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
109 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
110 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
111 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
112 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
113 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
116 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
117 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
118 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
119 Ada95 tree is not built.
122 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
123 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
124 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
125 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
126 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
127 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
129 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
130 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
131 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
132 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
133 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
134 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
135 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
136 > fixes based on Coverity report:
137 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
138 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
139 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
140 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
141 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
142 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
143 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
144 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
145 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
146 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
147 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
149 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
150 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
151 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
152 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
153 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
154 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
155 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
156 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
157 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
160 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
161 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
162 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
163 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
164 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
165 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
166 + improved install-sh's quoting.
167 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
171 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
172 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
173 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
174 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
175 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
179 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
180 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
181 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
182 in the configure script to an error.
183 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
184 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
185 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
186 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
187 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
189 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
190 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
193 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
194 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
197 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
198 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
200 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
201 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
202 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
203 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
204 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
205 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
206 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
207 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
210 + regenerated html documentation.
211 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
212 opaque in selected configurations.
213 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
214 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
215 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
216 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
217 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
218 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
219 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
220 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
221 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
222 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
223 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
225 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
226 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
229 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
230 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
231 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
232 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
233 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
234 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
235 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
236 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
237 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
238 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
239 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
240 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
243 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
245 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
246 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
247 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
249 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
250 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
251 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
252 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
253 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
254 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
255 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
256 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
258 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
259 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
262 + add test/inchs.c, test_inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
263 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
265 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
267 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
268 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
269 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
272 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
273 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
274 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
275 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
277 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
278 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
279 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
280 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
281 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
282 no longer relies on it.
283 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
284 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
285 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
288 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
289 (report by Rong-En Fan).
292 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
293 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
294 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
295 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
296 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
297 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
298 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
299 its license consistent with ncurses.
300 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
301 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
302 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
305 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
306 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
307 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
308 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
312 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
313 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
314 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
316 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
317 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
320 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
321 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
322 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
325 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
326 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
327 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
328 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
329 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
330 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
331 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
332 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
333 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
334 to manpages as needed.
335 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
336 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
339 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
340 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
341 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
342 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
343 + update config.guess, config.sub
345 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
348 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
349 definitions in <wchar.h>.
350 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
351 correct nor portable.
352 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
354 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
355 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
359 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
360 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
361 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
362 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
363 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
364 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
367 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
368 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
369 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
370 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
372 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
373 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
374 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
375 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
376 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
377 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
378 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
379 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
382 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
383 database configuration.
384 + updates for test/configure script.
385 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
386 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
388 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
389 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
390 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
391 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
393 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
395 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
396 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
399 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
400 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
402 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
403 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
407 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
408 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
411 + add test/echochar.c
412 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
413 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
416 + add AUTHORS file -TD
417 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
418 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
419 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
422 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
423 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
424 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
426 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
427 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
428 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
429 for rpath support in versions past 3.
430 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
431 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
433 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
434 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
435 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
436 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
439 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
440 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
441 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
444 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
445 and status line (Alain Bench).
446 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
447 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
448 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
449 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
452 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
453 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
454 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
455 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
456 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
459 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
460 + updated html documentation.
461 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
462 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
465 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
466 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
467 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
468 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
469 option (from lynx changes) -TD
470 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
471 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
472 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
473 by report by Christopher Parker).
477 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
478 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
479 since it does not really do this -TD
482 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
483 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
484 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
485 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
488 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
489 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
490 embedded into a termcap description.
491 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
492 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
493 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
494 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
496 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
499 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
501 + add test/foldkeys.c
504 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
505 source output (Debian #378783).
506 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
507 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
508 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
509 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
510 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
511 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
514 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
515 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
516 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
519 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
520 or as a text file if those are not available.
521 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
522 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
523 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
526 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
527 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
528 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
529 + update config.guess, config.sub
532 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
533 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
534 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
536 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
537 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
539 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
540 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
541 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
542 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
543 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
544 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
546 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
547 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
548 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
549 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
552 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
553 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
557 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
558 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
560 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
561 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
562 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
563 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
564 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
565 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
568 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
569 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
570 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
571 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
572 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
573 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
574 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
575 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
576 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
577 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
580 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
581 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
582 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
583 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
585 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
588 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
589 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
590 + minor copyright fixes.
591 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
594 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
595 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
596 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
597 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
598 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
599 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
600 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
601 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
603 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
604 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
605 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
606 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
608 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
611 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
612 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
614 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
615 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
616 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
617 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
619 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
620 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
621 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
622 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
625 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
626 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
627 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
628 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
629 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
630 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
631 + update config.guess, config.sub
632 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
633 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
634 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
635 function is broken in that implementation.
638 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
639 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
642 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
643 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
645 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
646 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
648 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
649 reported to implement this feature -TD
652 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
653 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
656 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
657 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
658 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
659 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
660 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
661 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
662 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
663 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
666 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
667 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
669 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
670 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
673 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
674 (report by Alain Bench).
675 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
676 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
677 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
678 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
680 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
681 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
682 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
686 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
687 and/or video attributes.
688 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
689 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
692 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
695 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
696 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
697 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
698 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
699 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
700 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
701 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
702 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
703 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
706 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
707 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
708 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
711 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
712 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
713 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
714 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
715 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
716 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
717 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
718 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
719 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
720 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
723 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
724 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
726 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
728 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
729 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
730 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
733 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
735 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
736 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
739 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
740 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
743 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
744 + suppress line-drawing
745 + implement max_attributes
747 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
748 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
752 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
753 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
755 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
757 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
758 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
759 etc., when allocating screens.
762 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
763 this in test/filter.c
764 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
768 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
769 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
770 + add extension nofilter().
771 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
772 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
773 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
774 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
775 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
778 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
779 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
780 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
781 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
782 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
783 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
784 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
785 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
786 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
788 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
789 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
790 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
792 + update config.guess and config.sub
795 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
796 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
797 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
799 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
800 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
801 that was never built in that directory).
802 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
805 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
807 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
808 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
812 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
813 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
814 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
815 effect of the different functions.
816 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
820 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
821 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
823 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
827 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
828 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
829 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
831 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
832 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
836 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
837 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
838 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
840 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
841 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
842 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
845 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
846 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
847 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
850 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
851 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
852 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
854 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
855 a derived window (Debian #316663).
858 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
859 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
860 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
861 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
862 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
863 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
864 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
867 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
868 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
869 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
871 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
872 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
873 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
874 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
875 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
877 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
880 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
883 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
884 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
888 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
889 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
890 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
891 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
892 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
894 + update config.guess and config.sub from
895 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
898 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
899 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
900 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
901 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
902 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
903 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
904 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
905 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
906 default if it is used.
907 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
908 --with-abi-version option was used.
909 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
910 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
911 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
914 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
915 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
916 handlers (Debian #326709).
919 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
920 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
922 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
925 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
926 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
927 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
928 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
930 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
931 (report by Frank van Vugt).
934 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
935 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
936 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
937 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
938 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
939 + update llib-l* files.
942 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
943 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
944 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
945 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
949 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
950 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
951 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
952 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
953 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
954 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
955 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
956 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
960 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
961 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
962 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
963 several related cases -TD
964 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
965 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
967 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
971 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
973 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
974 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
975 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
976 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
977 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
978 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
981 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
982 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
983 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
985 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
986 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
989 + update config.guess and config.sub from
990 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
991 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
992 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
993 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
994 "make install.data" step.
995 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
996 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
997 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
998 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
999 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
1000 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
1001 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
1002 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
1003 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
1004 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
1005 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
1006 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
1007 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
1008 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
1011 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1014 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
1015 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
1016 review of Debian package).
1017 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
1018 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
1019 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
1020 install using libtool 1.5.0):
1021 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
1023 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
1024 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
1025 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
1026 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
1027 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1030 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
1031 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
1032 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
1035 + fixes for termcap support:
1036 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
1037 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
1038 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
1039 extended names data will be freed consistently.
1040 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
1042 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
1043 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
1044 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
1045 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
1048 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
1049 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
1050 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
1051 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
1053 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
1057 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
1059 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
1060 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
1063 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
1064 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
1065 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
1066 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
1067 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1068 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
1069 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
1073 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
1074 shift-, control-cursor keys.
1075 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
1076 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
1077 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
1078 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
1079 it will automatically be treated as a key.
1080 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
1081 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
1082 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
1086 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
1087 + add configure option --enable-largefile
1088 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
1092 + update config.guess, config.sub
1093 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
1094 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
1095 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
1096 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
1097 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
1099 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
1100 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
1101 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
1104 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
1105 position the mouse to a particular item.
1106 + implement test/demo_menus.c
1107 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
1108 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
1109 --enable-const option.
1112 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
1113 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
1114 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
1115 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
1116 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
1117 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
1118 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
1119 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
1120 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
1121 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
1122 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
1125 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
1127 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
1128 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1131 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
1132 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
1133 anyone used that configuration.
1134 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
1136 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
1137 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1140 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
1141 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
1142 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
1144 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
1145 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
1146 WenRui, Debian #300512).
1149 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
1150 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
1151 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
1155 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
1156 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
1157 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
1158 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
1159 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
1162 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
1164 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
1166 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
1167 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1168 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
1171 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
1173 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
1174 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
1175 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
1176 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
1177 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
1178 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
1179 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
1180 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
1181 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
1182 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
1183 right (cf: 20040228).
1184 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
1185 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1188 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
1189 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
1190 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
1191 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
1192 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
1193 added (Debian #295083).
1194 + add traces to panel library.
1197 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
1198 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
1199 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
1200 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
1201 mouse events in this case.
1202 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
1203 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
1206 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
1207 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
1208 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
1209 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
1210 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
1211 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
1212 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
1213 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
1216 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
1217 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
1218 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
1219 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
1220 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
1221 already been started.
1222 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
1223 pair_content() and color_content().
1224 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
1225 if it corresponds to the default-color.
1226 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
1227 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
1228 color pairs which are allowed.
1229 + add a top-level tags rule.
1232 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
1233 first calling initscr().
1234 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
1235 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
1236 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
1237 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
1238 that are curses-specific.
1239 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
1240 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
1241 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
1242 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
1246 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
1247 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
1248 for leading whitespace.
1249 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
1250 where a following line begins in column 1.
1251 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
1252 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
1255 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1258 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1259 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
1260 + update config.guess, config.sub
1261 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
1262 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
1263 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
1264 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
1265 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
1266 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
1267 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
1270 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
1272 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
1273 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
1276 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
1277 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
1278 and attr_set functions.
1281 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
1282 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
1283 forms-demo to be one character short.
1284 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
1285 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
1286 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
1287 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
1290 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
1291 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
1292 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
1293 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
1295 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
1296 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
1299 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
1300 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
1301 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
1302 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
1303 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
1304 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
1305 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
1307 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
1308 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1310 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
1311 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
1314 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
1315 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
1316 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
1317 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
1318 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
1319 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
1320 wide-character configuration.
1323 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
1324 or multicolumn characters.
1327 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
1328 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
1329 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
1330 use_default_colors() be called first.
1333 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
1334 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
1335 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
1336 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
1337 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
1338 must be wrapped to a new line.
1339 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
1340 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
1341 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
1342 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
1343 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
1347 + minor fixes for traces.
1348 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
1349 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
1350 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
1354 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
1355 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
1356 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
1357 and shift-out which seem to work.
1358 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
1359 at runtime (Debian #110586).
1362 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
1363 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1364 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
1365 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
1369 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
1370 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
1371 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
1372 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1375 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
1376 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
1377 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1378 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
1379 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1380 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
1381 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
1382 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
1383 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
1384 is no longer experimental.
1385 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
1386 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
1389 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
1392 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
1393 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
1394 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
1395 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
1396 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
1397 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
1398 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
1399 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
1402 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
1403 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
1404 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
1405 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
1406 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
1407 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
1408 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
1409 new ones do not require this change. -TD
1412 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
1413 and window managers (Debian #265631).
1414 > terminfo updates -TD
1415 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
1416 with the common usage of bce/ech
1417 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
1421 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
1422 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
1423 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
1424 a help window as well.
1425 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
1426 the -d option is set.
1427 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
1430 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
1432 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
1433 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
1437 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
1438 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
1439 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
1440 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
1441 patch by Hans de Goede)
1442 > terminfo updates -TD
1443 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
1444 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
1445 + add function-keys to decansi
1446 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
1447 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
1448 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
1451 > terminfo updates -TD
1452 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
1453 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
1455 + review/update konsole entries
1456 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
1457 + correct tsl string in kterm
1460 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
1463 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
1464 multibyte character.
1465 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
1467 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
1468 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
1469 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
1470 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
1471 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
1472 converting termcap to termcap format.
1473 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
1474 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
1475 > terminfo updates -TD
1476 + minor fixes for emu
1478 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
1483 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
1484 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
1485 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
1486 (report/patch by Tony Li).
1487 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
1488 > terminfo updates -TD
1489 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
1491 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
1492 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
1493 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
1496 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
1497 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
1499 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
1500 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
1501 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
1502 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
1503 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
1504 + update config.guess, config.sub
1505 > terminfo updates -TD
1507 + add xterm-xf86-v44
1508 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
1509 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
1514 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
1515 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
1516 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
1519 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
1520 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
1521 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
1523 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
1527 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
1528 field_buffer() results.
1529 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
1532 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
1534 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
1535 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
1536 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
1537 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
1538 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
1541 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
1542 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
1543 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
1547 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
1548 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
1550 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
1553 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
1554 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
1555 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
1556 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
1557 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
1558 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
1559 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
1560 information without an option.
1561 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
1562 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
1565 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
1568 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
1569 + free some memory leaks in tic.
1570 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
1571 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
1572 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
1573 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
1574 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
1576 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
1579 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
1580 to an unsigned char.
1581 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
1582 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
1585 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
1588 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
1589 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
1590 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
1591 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
1592 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
1593 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
1594 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
1595 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
1596 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
1597 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
1598 20030802 (Debian #237629).
1601 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
1602 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
1603 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
1604 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
1607 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
1609 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
1610 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
1613 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
1614 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
1615 mode is shown in that test.
1616 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
1617 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
1618 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
1621 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
1623 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
1624 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
1625 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
1626 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
1628 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
1629 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
1630 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
1631 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
1634 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
1635 (request by Mike Aubury).
1636 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
1638 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
1640 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
1643 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
1644 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
1645 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
1646 with Stanislav Ievlev).
1647 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
1648 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
1649 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
1650 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
1651 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
1652 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
1654 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1657 20040207 pre-release
1658 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
1659 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
1660 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
1661 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
1662 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
1664 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
1665 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
1666 verified by Scott Corscadden).
1668 20040131 pre-release
1669 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
1670 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
1671 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
1672 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
1673 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
1674 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
1675 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
1676 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
1677 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
1678 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
1679 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
1681 20040125 pre-release
1682 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
1683 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
1684 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
1685 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
1686 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
1687 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
1688 modifying the displayed value.
1690 20040124 pre-release
1691 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
1692 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
1693 that works better for cross-compiling.
1695 20040117 pre-release
1696 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
1697 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
1698 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
1699 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
1700 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
1701 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
1702 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
1704 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
1705 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
1707 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
1708 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
1709 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
1710 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
1711 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1712 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
1713 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
1714 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
1715 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
1716 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
1717 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
1718 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
1720 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
1721 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
1722 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
1723 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
1724 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
1725 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
1726 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
1727 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
1729 20040110 pre-release
1730 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
1731 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
1733 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
1734 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
1736 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
1738 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
1739 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
1740 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1741 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
1742 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1745 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
1746 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
1747 + add pecho_wchar().
1748 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
1749 available) on older platforms.
1752 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
1753 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
1754 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
1755 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
1756 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
1757 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
1758 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
1759 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
1760 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
1763 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
1764 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
1765 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
1766 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
1767 work with Tru64 4.0d.
1768 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
1772 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
1773 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
1774 applications do not.
1775 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
1776 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
1777 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
1778 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
1779 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
1780 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
1784 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
1785 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
1786 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
1787 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
1788 <inger@altlinux.org>).
1789 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
1790 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
1791 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
1792 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
1793 awkward for some cases.
1794 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
1795 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
1797 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
1798 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
1799 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
1800 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
1801 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
1805 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
1806 values (Philippe Blain).
1807 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
1808 restarting (Philippe Blain).
1809 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
1813 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
1814 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
1815 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
1816 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
1817 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
1818 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
1822 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
1823 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
1824 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
1826 + update config.guess, config.sub
1829 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
1830 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
1831 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
1832 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
1833 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
1834 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
1835 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
1837 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
1838 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
1839 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
1840 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
1841 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
1844 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
1845 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
1846 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
1847 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
1848 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
1849 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
1850 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
1851 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
1853 + regenerated html documentation.
1854 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
1855 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
1856 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
1859 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
1860 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
1861 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
1862 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
1863 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
1864 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
1865 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
1866 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
1870 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
1871 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
1874 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
1875 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
1876 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
1877 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
1879 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
1880 (report by Philippe Blain).
1883 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
1884 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
1885 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
1886 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
1887 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
1888 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
1889 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1890 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
1891 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
1893 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
1895 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
1896 in the clr_bol logic.
1899 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1900 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
1901 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
1902 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
1903 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
1904 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
1905 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
1906 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
1907 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
1908 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
1909 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
1910 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
1913 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
1914 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
1915 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
1916 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
1919 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
1920 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
1921 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
1922 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
1923 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
1924 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
1925 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
1926 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
1927 --with-install-prefix is used.
1930 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1931 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
1932 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
1933 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
1936 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
1937 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
1938 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
1939 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
1940 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
1941 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
1942 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1943 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
1944 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
1947 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
1948 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
1949 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
1950 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
1951 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
1952 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
1953 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
1956 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
1958 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1959 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
1960 the size of the scroll-region.
1961 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
1964 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
1965 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
1966 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
1970 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
1971 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
1972 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
1973 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
1974 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
1976 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
1977 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
1978 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
1979 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
1980 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
1981 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
1982 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
1983 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
1984 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
1985 usage and to prevent circular links.
1986 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
1987 (rxvt-color): new alias
1988 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
1989 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
1990 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
1991 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
1992 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
1993 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
1995 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
1999 + update config.guess, config.sub
2000 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
2001 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
2004 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
2005 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
2006 would not accept gcc warning options.
2007 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
2008 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
2009 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
2010 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
2011 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2012 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
2013 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
2015 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
2018 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
2019 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
2020 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
2021 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
2022 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
2023 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
2024 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
2025 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2028 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
2030 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
2031 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
2032 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
2033 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
2036 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
2038 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
2039 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
2040 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
2041 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2042 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
2043 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
2046 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
2047 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
2048 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
2049 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
2050 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
2051 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
2052 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
2053 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
2055 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
2056 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2057 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
2058 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2061 + regenerated html manpages.
2062 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
2063 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
2065 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
2066 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
2068 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
2069 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
2072 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
2073 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2074 + add tkterm entry -TD
2075 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
2076 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
2077 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
2078 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
2080 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
2081 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
2082 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
2084 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
2085 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
2086 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
2089 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
2090 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
2091 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
2092 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
2094 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
2095 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
2096 current test programs.
2097 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
2098 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
2099 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
2100 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
2102 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
2103 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
2104 mentioned in the terminfo.
2105 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
2106 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
2109 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
2110 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
2111 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
2112 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
2113 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
2114 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
2115 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
2116 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
2119 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
2120 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
2121 the editing position before making modifications.
2122 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
2123 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
2124 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
2127 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
2128 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
2129 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
2130 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
2132 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
2133 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
2134 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
2135 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
2136 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
2137 terminfo as is done in "screen".
2140 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
2141 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
2142 code, from recent rewrite.
2143 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
2145 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
2146 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
2149 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
2150 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
2151 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
2152 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
2155 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
2156 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
2158 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
2161 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
2163 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
2164 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
2166 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
2167 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
2168 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
2171 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
2172 a file when ^W is given.
2173 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
2177 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
2178 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
2179 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
2180 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
2181 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
2182 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
2183 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
2184 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
2188 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
2189 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
2190 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
2193 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
2194 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
2195 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
2196 baudrate was not known.
2197 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
2198 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
2199 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
2200 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
2201 corresponding capability might be
2203 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
2204 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
2205 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
2206 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
2209 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
2210 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
2211 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
2212 apparently typedef'd.
2213 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
2214 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
2217 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
2218 + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
2219 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
2220 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
2221 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
2222 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
2223 cached for reallocating.
2226 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
2227 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
2228 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
2230 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
2231 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
2232 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
2233 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
2234 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
2235 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
2236 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
2237 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
2240 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
2241 emx-base to the latter -TD
2242 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
2243 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
2246 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
2247 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
2248 attributes, e.g., reverse.
2249 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
2250 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
2253 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
2254 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
2255 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
2256 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
2257 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
2258 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
2259 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
2261 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
2262 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
2263 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
2264 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
2265 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
2268 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
2269 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
2270 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
2271 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
2272 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
2273 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
2275 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2276 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
2277 is indeed a "blank".
2278 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
2279 sections as small as one line.
2280 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
2282 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
2283 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
2284 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
2287 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
2288 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
2291 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
2292 (report by Philippe Blain).
2293 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
2294 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
2295 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
2296 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
2297 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
2299 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
2300 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
2301 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
2302 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2303 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
2304 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
2307 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
2308 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
2310 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
2311 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
2313 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
2314 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
2315 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
2316 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
2319 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
2320 overridden from the environment.
2321 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
2322 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
2323 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
2324 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
2325 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
2326 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
2327 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
2328 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
2329 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
2330 by Sam Varshavchik).
2331 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
2332 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
2333 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
2334 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
2336 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
2337 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
2338 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
2339 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
2340 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
2343 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
2344 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
2345 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
2346 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
2347 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
2348 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
2349 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
2350 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
2351 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
2352 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
2353 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
2354 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
2355 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
2356 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
2357 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
2358 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
2359 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
2360 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
2361 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
2362 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
2363 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
2364 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
2365 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
2368 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
2369 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
2370 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
2371 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
2372 winsch() internal function.
2373 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
2374 more than one spacing character.
2377 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
2378 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
2379 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
2380 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
2381 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
2382 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
2383 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
2384 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
2385 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
2386 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
2389 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
2390 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
2391 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
2392 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
2393 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
2394 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
2395 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
2398 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
2399 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
2400 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
2401 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
2403 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
2404 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
2405 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
2406 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
2407 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
2410 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
2411 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
2412 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
2413 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
2414 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
2415 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
2416 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
2417 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
2418 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
2419 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
2420 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
2421 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
2422 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
2423 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
2424 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
2425 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
2426 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
2429 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
2430 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
2431 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
2432 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
2433 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
2434 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
2435 Frederic L W Meunier).
2437 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2438 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
2439 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
2440 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
2441 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
2442 the debug trace in that case.
2443 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
2444 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
2445 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
2446 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
2448 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
2449 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
2451 20021005 pre-release
2452 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
2453 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
2454 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
2455 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
2456 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
2457 formats such as "%.*s".
2458 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
2459 (report Floyd Davidson).
2460 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
2462 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
2463 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
2464 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
2466 20020928 pre-release
2467 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
2468 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
2469 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
2471 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
2472 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
2473 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
2474 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
2475 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
2476 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
2477 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
2478 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
2479 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
2480 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
2481 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
2482 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
2483 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
2484 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
2485 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
2486 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
2487 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
2488 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
2489 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
2491 20020921 pre-release
2492 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
2493 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
2494 result in core dump.
2495 + documented getbegx(), etc.
2496 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
2497 delimiter rather than '@'.
2498 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2499 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
2500 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
2501 to the lines given for the destination window.
2503 20020914 pre-release
2504 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
2505 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
2506 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
2507 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
2508 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
2509 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
2510 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
2511 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
2512 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2513 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
2514 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
2515 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
2517 20020907 pre-release
2518 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
2519 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
2520 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
2521 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
2522 html manpages on Debian.
2523 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
2524 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
2525 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
2526 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2527 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
2528 a variable from the stack.
2529 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
2531 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
2532 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
2533 _idcok window fields.
2534 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
2536 20020901 pre-release
2537 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
2538 + update config.guess, config.sub
2539 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
2540 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
2542 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
2543 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
2544 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
2545 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
2546 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
2547 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
2548 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
2549 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
2550 use in resizeterm().
2551 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
2552 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
2553 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
2554 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
2555 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2556 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
2557 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
2558 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
2559 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
2560 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
2561 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
2565 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
2566 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
2567 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
2568 + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
2569 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
2570 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
2573 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
2574 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
2575 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
2576 bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
2577 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
2578 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
2579 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
2580 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
2581 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
2583 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
2584 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
2588 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
2589 when translating to termcap.
2590 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
2591 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
2592 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
2594 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
2596 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
2597 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
2599 + document TABSIZE variable.
2600 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
2601 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
2602 assume_default_colors().
2603 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
2605 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
2606 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
2607 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
2608 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
2609 window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
2612 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
2614 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
2615 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
2617 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
2618 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
2619 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
2622 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
2624 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
2627 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
2628 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
2629 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
2630 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
2631 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
2632 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
2633 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
2634 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
2635 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
2636 configure definitions.
2637 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
2638 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
2639 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
2640 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
2641 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
2642 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
2643 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
2644 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
2645 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
2646 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
2647 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
2650 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
2651 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
2652 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
2653 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
2654 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
2655 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
2656 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
2658 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
2659 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
2660 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
2661 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2664 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
2665 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
2666 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
2667 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
2669 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
2670 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
2671 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
2674 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
2675 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
2677 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
2678 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
2679 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
2681 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
2682 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
2683 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
2684 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
2686 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
2687 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
2688 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
2689 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
2693 + add charset to generated html.
2694 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
2695 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
2696 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
2697 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
2698 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
2699 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
2703 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
2704 key code in get_wch().
2705 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
2706 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
2707 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
2708 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
2709 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
2710 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
2713 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
2714 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
2716 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
2717 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
2718 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
2719 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
2722 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
2723 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
2724 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
2725 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
2726 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
2727 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
2728 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
2729 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
2730 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
2731 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
2734 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
2738 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
2739 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
2740 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
2741 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
2742 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
2743 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
2744 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
2747 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
2748 character versions as well.
2749 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
2751 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
2753 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
2754 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
2755 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
2756 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
2757 if gettimeofday() is available.
2760 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
2761 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
2764 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
2766 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
2767 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
2768 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
2769 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
2770 + update config.guess, config.sub
2773 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
2774 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
2775 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
2776 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
2777 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
2778 alias for 'function'.
2781 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
2782 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
2786 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
2787 + implement wgetn_wstr().
2788 + implement win_wchnstr().
2789 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
2790 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
2793 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
2794 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
2797 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
2798 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
2801 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
2802 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
2803 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
2805 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
2806 + implement unget_wch().
2807 + implement wget_wch().
2810 + regenerated html manpages.
2811 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
2812 + implement wins_wch().
2813 + implement win_wch().
2814 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
2817 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
2818 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
2821 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
2822 + document wunctrl, key_name.
2823 + implement key_name().
2824 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
2826 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
2830 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
2831 in spurious symlinks on install.
2834 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
2835 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
2836 box() and box_set() functions.
2837 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
2838 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
2839 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
2840 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
2841 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
2842 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
2843 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
2845 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
2847 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
2848 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
2849 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
2850 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
2852 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
2853 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
2856 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
2857 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
2859 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
2863 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
2865 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
2866 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
2867 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2868 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
2869 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
2870 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2871 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
2872 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
2873 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
2874 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
2875 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
2876 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
2877 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
2878 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
2879 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
2882 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
2883 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
2886 + update config.guess, config.sub
2887 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
2888 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
2891 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
2892 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
2893 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
2895 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
2896 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
2898 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
2899 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
2900 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2901 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
2904 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
2907 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
2908 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
2909 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
2910 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
2911 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
2912 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
2913 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
2914 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
2915 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
2917 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
2918 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
2919 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
2921 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
2923 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
2924 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
2925 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
2926 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
2927 work with SunOS nawk.
2928 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
2930 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
2931 case it uses multiple tokens.
2934 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
2935 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
2936 interrupted by that signal.
2937 + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
2938 not needed with autoconf 2.52
2939 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
2940 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
2942 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
2943 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
2944 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
2945 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
2946 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
2949 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
2951 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
2952 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
2953 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
2954 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
2955 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
2956 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
2957 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
2958 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
2961 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
2962 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
2963 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
2964 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
2965 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
2966 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
2967 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
2968 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
2969 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
2972 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
2973 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
2974 may have different keypad() settings.
2975 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
2976 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
2977 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
2978 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
2979 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
2980 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
2981 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
2982 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
2984 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
2985 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2986 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
2987 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
2991 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
2993 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
2994 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
2995 implementation in cygwin package).
2996 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
2997 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
2999 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
3000 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
3001 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
3002 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
3003 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
3004 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
3005 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
3006 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
3007 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
3009 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
3010 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
3011 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
3012 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
3013 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
3014 <jevans@apple.com>).
3015 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
3016 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
3017 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
3018 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
3019 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
3023 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
3024 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
3025 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
3026 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
3027 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
3028 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
3029 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
3030 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
3031 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
3032 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
3035 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
3038 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3039 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3040 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
3041 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
3042 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
3045 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
3046 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
3049 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
3050 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
3051 + implement wecho_wchar()
3052 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
3053 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
3054 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
3056 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
3057 in a trace by using curly braces.
3058 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
3059 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
3060 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
3061 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
3064 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
3065 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
3066 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
3067 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
3068 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
3072 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
3073 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
3074 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
3075 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
3076 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
3077 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
3078 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
3079 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
3083 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
3084 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
3085 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
3086 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
3087 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
3088 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
3089 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
3090 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
3091 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
3094 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
3095 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
3098 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
3099 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
3100 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
3101 <bbraun@synack.net>).
3102 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
3103 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
3105 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
3106 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
3108 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
3109 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
3112 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
3113 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
3114 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3115 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
3116 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
3118 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
3119 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
3121 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
3122 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
3123 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
3124 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
3125 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
3128 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
3129 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
3131 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
3132 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
3133 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
3134 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
3137 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
3138 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
3139 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
3140 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
3141 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
3145 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
3146 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
3147 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
3149 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
3151 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
3153 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
3155 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
3156 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
3157 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
3158 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
3159 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
3160 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
3161 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
3162 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
3163 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
3167 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
3168 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
3169 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
3170 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
3171 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
3172 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
3173 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
3174 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
3175 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
3176 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
3178 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
3179 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
3180 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3181 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
3182 supports xterm mouse controls.
3183 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
3184 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
3185 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
3186 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
3187 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
3188 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
3189 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
3190 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
3191 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
3192 AX in a color xterm.
3193 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
3197 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
3198 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
3199 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
3200 + added llib-ncursesw.
3203 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
3204 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
3205 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
3206 header files (report by William P Setzer).
3207 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
3208 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
3209 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
3210 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3211 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
3212 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
3213 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
3214 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3215 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
3216 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3217 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
3218 obsolete with QNX RTP.
3219 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
3220 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
3221 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
3222 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
3225 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
3226 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
3227 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
3230 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
3231 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3232 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3233 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
3234 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
3235 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
3236 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
3237 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
3238 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
3239 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
3240 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
3241 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
3245 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
3246 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
3247 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
3248 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
3249 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
3250 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
3251 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3254 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
3255 new wide-character structures.
3256 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
3257 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
3258 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
3259 compiling for wide-character configuration.
3260 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
3264 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
3266 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
3267 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
3268 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
3270 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
3271 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
3272 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3275 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
3276 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
3277 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
3280 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
3281 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3282 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
3283 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
3284 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
3285 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
3286 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
3289 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
3290 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
3291 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
3292 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
3293 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
3294 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
3295 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
3296 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
3297 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
3300 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
3301 which may be in libutf8.
3302 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
3303 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
3304 links (Debian bug report #99550).
3305 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
3306 C++ vscan code (Debian bug report #97945).
3307 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3308 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
3309 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
3310 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
3311 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
3312 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
3315 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
3316 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
3319 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
3320 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
3321 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
3322 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
3323 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
3325 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
3326 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
3327 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
3328 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
3329 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
3330 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
3331 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
3332 are used to manipulate attributes.
3333 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
3334 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
3335 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
3336 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
3337 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
3338 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
3340 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
3341 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
3342 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
3343 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
3344 we are using chtype data.
3345 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
3347 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
3349 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
3350 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
3351 where a pointer would be more useful.
3352 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
3353 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
3354 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
3355 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
3356 passing cchar_t's by address.
3357 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
3358 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
3359 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
3360 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
3361 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
3362 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
3363 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
3364 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
3367 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
3368 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
3369 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
3370 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
3371 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
3373 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
3374 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
3375 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
3378 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
3379 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
3380 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
3381 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
3382 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
3383 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
3384 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
3385 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
3386 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
3387 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
3388 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
3389 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
3392 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
3393 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
3394 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
3397 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
3398 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
3401 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
3402 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3403 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
3404 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
3405 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
3408 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
3409 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
3410 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
3411 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
3412 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
3413 <bsittler@iname.com>).
3414 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
3415 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
3416 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
3417 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
3418 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3421 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
3422 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
3423 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
3424 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
3425 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
3426 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
3427 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
3428 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3429 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
3430 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
3431 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
3432 any shots there, but the computer did.
3433 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
3434 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
3438 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
3439 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
3440 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
3441 3.09.08 (Debian bug report #92215).
3442 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
3443 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3446 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
3447 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
3448 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
3449 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
3450 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
3452 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
3454 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
3455 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
3457 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
3459 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
3460 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian bug #89222).
3463 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
3464 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
3465 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
3466 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
3467 interface from C++ binding.
3468 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
3469 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
3470 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
3471 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
3473 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
3474 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
3475 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
3476 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
3479 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
3480 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
3481 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
3482 (patch by Todd C Miller).
3485 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
3488 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
3492 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
3493 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
3494 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
3495 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
3496 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
3497 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
3498 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
3499 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
3500 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
3501 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
3502 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
3503 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
3506 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
3507 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
3509 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
3510 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
3511 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
3512 did not do this already.
3513 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
3514 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3515 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
3516 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
3517 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
3518 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
3519 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
3520 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
3523 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
3524 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
3527 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
3528 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
3529 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
3530 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
3532 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
3534 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
3535 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
3537 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
3538 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
3539 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
3540 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
3541 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
3544 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
3545 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
3546 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
3547 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
3550 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
3551 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
3552 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
3555 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
3556 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
3557 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
3558 work with 'indent') -TD
3561 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
3562 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
3563 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3564 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
3565 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
3567 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
3568 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
3569 termcap and terminfo functions
3570 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
3574 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
3575 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
3576 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
3577 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
3578 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
3579 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
3581 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
3582 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
3583 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
3584 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
3585 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
3586 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
3587 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
3588 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
3591 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
3592 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
3593 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
3594 /usr rather than /usr/local.
3597 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
3598 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
3599 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
3600 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
3602 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
3603 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
3604 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
3605 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
3606 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
3607 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
3608 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
3609 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
3612 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
3613 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
3614 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
3615 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
3616 + change trace output to binary format.
3617 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
3618 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
3619 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
3620 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
3621 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
3622 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
3623 the overwrite logic.
3626 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
3627 + resync config.guess, config.sub
3628 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
3629 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
3630 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
3631 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
3633 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
3634 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
3637 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3638 + update generated html files from manpages.
3639 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
3641 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
3642 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
3643 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
3644 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
3645 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3646 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
3647 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
3648 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
3651 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
3652 wrapping at the right margin.
3653 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
3654 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
3655 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
3657 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
3658 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
3659 understands how to run tbl automatically.
3660 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
3661 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
3662 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
3663 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
3664 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
3665 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
3666 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
3667 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
3668 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
3669 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
3670 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
3671 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
3672 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
3673 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
3674 option --with-libtool.
3675 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
3676 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
3677 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
3678 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
3679 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
3682 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
3683 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
3684 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
3685 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
3686 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
3687 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
3688 > patch by Todd C Miller:
3689 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
3690 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
3691 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
3692 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
3693 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
3694 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
3695 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
3696 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
3697 to set up a 3-button mouse.
3698 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
3699 replace select() call.
3702 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
3703 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
3704 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
3705 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3706 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
3707 cursor report before decoding.
3708 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
3709 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
3710 (see assume_default_colors()).
3711 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
3712 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
3714 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
3715 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
3716 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
3718 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
3719 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
3720 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
3721 for that capability.
3722 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
3723 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
3724 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
3725 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
3726 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
3727 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
3730 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
3731 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
3732 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
3733 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
3734 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
3735 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
3736 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
3737 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
3738 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
3740 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
3741 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
3742 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
3743 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
3744 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
3745 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
3746 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3749 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
3750 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
3751 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
3752 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
3753 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
3755 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
3756 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
3757 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
3758 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
3759 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
3760 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
3761 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
3762 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
3763 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
3764 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
3765 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
3766 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
3767 the expected number of parameters.
3768 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
3769 the option value is indeed a number.
3770 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
3771 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
3772 from the other signals.
3775 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
3776 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
3777 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
3780 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
3781 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
3783 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
3784 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
3785 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
3787 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
3788 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
3789 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
3790 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
3791 character set attribute from the displayed text.
3792 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
3793 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
3794 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
3795 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
3796 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
3797 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3800 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
3801 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
3802 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
3803 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
3804 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
3805 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
3806 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3807 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
3808 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
3809 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
3811 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
3812 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
3814 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
3815 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
3816 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
3817 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
3818 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
3819 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
3822 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
3823 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
3824 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
3825 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
3826 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
3827 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
3828 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
3829 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
3830 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
3831 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3832 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
3833 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
3834 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
3835 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
3836 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
3838 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
3839 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
3840 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
3843 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
3844 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
3845 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
3846 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
3848 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
3849 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
3850 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
3851 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
3852 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
3853 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
3854 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
3856 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
3857 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
3858 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
3859 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
3860 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
3861 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
3862 a default program-prefix.
3863 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
3864 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
3867 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
3868 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
3869 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
3870 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
3871 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
3872 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
3873 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
3874 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
3875 although the name is misleading).
3876 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
3877 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
3878 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
3879 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
3882 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
3883 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
3884 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
3886 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
3887 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
3889 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
3890 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
3891 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
3893 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
3894 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
3895 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
3896 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
3897 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
3898 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
3899 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
3900 test/configure script.
3901 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
3902 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
3903 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
3906 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
3909 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
3910 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
3911 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
3912 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
3913 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
3915 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
3916 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
3917 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
3919 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
3920 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
3923 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
3924 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3925 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
3926 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
3927 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
3928 there's still the explicit configure option).
3929 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
3930 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
3931 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
3932 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
3933 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
3934 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
3935 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
3936 simplify working around implementations that define random
3937 combinations of the related macros to zero.
3938 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
3939 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
3940 > patches by Bruno Haible:
3941 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
3942 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
3943 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
3944 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
3948 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
3949 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3950 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
3951 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
3952 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
3953 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
3954 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
3955 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
3956 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
3957 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
3958 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
3959 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
3960 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
3961 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
3964 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3965 + document configure options in INSTALL.
3966 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
3967 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
3968 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
3969 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
3970 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
3971 list of generated functions.
3972 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
3973 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
3974 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
3976 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
3977 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
3978 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
3979 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
3980 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
3982 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
3983 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
3984 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
3985 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
3986 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
3987 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
3988 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
3989 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
3990 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
3991 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
3992 examples cited in announce.html
3993 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
3994 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
3995 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
3996 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
3997 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
3998 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
3999 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
4000 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
4003 20000701 pre-release
4004 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
4005 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
4006 $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
4007 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
4008 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
4009 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
4011 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
4013 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
4015 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
4016 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
4017 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
4018 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
4019 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
4021 20000624 pre-release
4022 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
4023 that happen to render the same display colors.
4024 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
4025 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
4026 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
4027 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
4028 normalized value for cursor_address.
4029 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
4032 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
4033 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
4034 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
4035 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
4036 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
4037 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
4038 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
4039 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
4040 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
4041 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
4042 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
4043 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
4044 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
4048 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
4049 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
4050 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
4051 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
4052 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
4053 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
4054 allows larger symbol tables.
4055 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
4056 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
4057 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
4058 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
4062 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
4063 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
4064 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
4065 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
4066 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
4067 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
4068 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
4069 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
4070 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
4071 + add a "make libs" rule.
4072 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
4073 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
4074 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
4075 with existing ncurses libraries.
4078 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
4079 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
4080 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
4081 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
4082 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
4083 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
4084 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
4085 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
4086 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
4087 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
4088 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
4089 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
4090 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
4091 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
4094 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
4095 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
4096 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
4097 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
4101 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
4102 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
4104 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
4105 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
4106 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
4109 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
4110 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
4111 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
4112 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
4113 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
4115 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
4116 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
4117 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
4118 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
4119 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
4120 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
4121 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
4122 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
4125 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
4127 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
4128 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
4129 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
4130 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
4131 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
4132 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
4133 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
4134 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
4135 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
4136 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
4137 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
4138 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
4141 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
4142 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
4143 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
4144 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
4145 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
4146 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
4147 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
4148 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
4149 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
4150 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
4151 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
4152 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
4153 means that it will not recur for that special case.
4154 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
4155 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
4156 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
4157 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4160 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
4161 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
4162 bg300-rv in esr's version.
4163 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
4164 (fixes Debian bug report #61088).
4165 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
4166 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
4167 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
4170 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
4171 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
4172 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
4173 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
4174 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
4177 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
4178 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
4179 improvement in setting default colors.
4180 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
4181 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
4182 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
4184 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
4185 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
4186 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
4187 check for buffer overflow.
4188 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
4189 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
4190 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
4191 such as "infocmp -Fa".
4194 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
4195 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
4196 is not permitted in termcap.
4197 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
4198 integrating 20000318.
4201 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
4202 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
4203 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
4204 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
4206 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
4207 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
4208 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
4209 result for OS/2 EMX.
4210 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
4211 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
4212 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
4213 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
4214 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
4215 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
4218 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
4219 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
4220 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
4222 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
4223 displaying string capabilities.
4224 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
4225 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
4226 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
4227 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
4228 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
4229 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
4231 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
4232 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
4234 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
4235 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
4236 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
4237 may not produce the same result as before.
4238 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
4240 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
4241 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
4243 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
4244 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
4246 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
4247 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4248 + drop support for gnat 3.10
4249 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
4250 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
4253 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
4254 made it check only one entry at a time.
4255 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
4257 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
4258 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
4259 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
4260 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
4261 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
4262 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
4263 address out of bounds.
4264 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
4265 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
4266 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
4267 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
4269 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
4270 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
4271 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
4273 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
4276 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
4277 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
4278 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
4279 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
4281 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
4282 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
4283 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
4284 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
4285 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
4286 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
4288 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
4289 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
4290 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
4291 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
4292 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
4293 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
4294 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
4295 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
4298 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
4299 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
4300 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
4301 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
4302 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
4303 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
4307 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
4308 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
4309 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
4310 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
4311 colors are white on black.
4312 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
4313 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
4314 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
4315 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
4316 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
4319 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
4320 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
4321 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
4322 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
4323 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
4324 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
4325 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
4326 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
4327 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
4328 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
4329 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
4332 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
4333 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
4334 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
4335 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
4336 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
4337 to wait indefinitely.
4340 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
4341 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
4342 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
4343 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
4344 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
4345 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
4346 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
4347 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
4348 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
4349 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4350 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
4351 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
4355 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
4356 programs build with c++/g++.
4357 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
4358 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
4359 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
4360 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
4361 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
4362 + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and
4363 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
4364 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
4367 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
4369 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
4370 terminfo entries -TD
4371 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
4372 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
4373 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
4374 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
4376 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
4377 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
4379 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
4381 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
4382 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
4383 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
4384 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
4385 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
4386 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
4387 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
4388 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
4389 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
4393 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
4394 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
4395 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
4396 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
4397 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
4398 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
4399 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
4400 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
4401 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
4402 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
4403 use_extended_names().
4406 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
4407 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
4408 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
4409 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
4410 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
4411 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
4412 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
4413 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
4414 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
4415 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
4416 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
4417 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
4418 + add manpage for infotocap
4421 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
4422 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
4423 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
4424 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
4426 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
4427 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
4428 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
4429 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
4430 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
4431 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
4432 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
4433 initc for xterm-88color.
4434 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
4438 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
4439 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
4441 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
4442 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
4443 SP, since it is part of that struct.
4444 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
4446 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
4447 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
4448 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
4449 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
4450 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
4451 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
4452 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
4453 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
4454 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
4456 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
4457 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
4458 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4459 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
4461 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
4464 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
4465 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
4466 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
4467 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
4468 over the use of default colors.
4469 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
4470 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
4471 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
4472 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
4473 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
4474 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
4475 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
4476 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
4479 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
4480 <robert@progplus.com>)
4481 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
4482 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
4483 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
4486 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
4487 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
4488 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
4490 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
4491 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
4492 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
4493 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
4494 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
4495 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
4496 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
4497 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
4498 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
4499 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
4500 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
4501 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
4503 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
4504 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
4507 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4508 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
4510 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
4511 (request by Bob van der Poel).
4512 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
4513 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
4514 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
4515 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
4516 libraries by default.
4517 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
4519 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
4520 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
4522 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
4523 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
4524 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
4525 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
4526 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
4527 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
4528 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
4530 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
4532 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
4533 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
4534 advice from Bela Lubkin).
4535 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
4536 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4537 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
4538 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
4539 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
4540 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
4543 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
4546 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
4547 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
4548 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
4549 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
4550 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
4551 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
4552 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
4553 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
4554 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
4555 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
4558 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
4559 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
4560 Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
4561 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
4562 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
4563 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
4565 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
4566 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
4567 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
4568 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
4569 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
4570 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
4571 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
4572 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
4573 is used), and in color.
4574 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
4575 shared library rules.
4578 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
4579 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
4580 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
4581 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
4582 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
4583 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
4584 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
4585 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
4586 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
4587 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
4588 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
4589 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
4590 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
4591 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
4592 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
4593 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
4594 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4597 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
4598 <j@interface-business.de>).
4599 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
4600 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
4601 that hard-links work on Unix again.
4602 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
4603 Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
4604 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
4607 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
4608 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
4609 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
4610 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
4611 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
4612 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
4613 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
4614 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
4615 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
4616 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
4617 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
4618 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
4619 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
4622 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
4623 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
4624 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
4625 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
4626 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
4627 in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
4628 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
4629 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
4630 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
4631 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
4632 function works only for sockets.
4633 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
4634 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
4635 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
4636 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
4637 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
4638 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
4639 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
4640 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
4641 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
4642 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
4645 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
4646 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
4647 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
4648 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
4649 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
4650 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
4651 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
4654 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
4655 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
4656 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
4658 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
4659 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
4660 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
4661 nonfunctional link().
4662 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
4663 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
4666 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
4667 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
4668 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
4671 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
4672 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
4673 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
4674 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
4675 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
4676 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
4677 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
4678 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
4679 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
4680 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
4681 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
4682 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
4683 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
4684 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
4685 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
4686 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
4687 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
4688 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
4689 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
4690 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
4693 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
4694 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
4695 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
4696 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
4697 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
4698 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
4699 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
4700 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
4701 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
4702 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
4703 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
4704 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
4705 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
4706 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
4707 short-circuit expression evaluation.
4708 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
4709 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
4711 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
4712 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
4713 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
4714 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
4715 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
4719 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
4720 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
4722 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
4723 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
4724 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
4727 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
4728 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
4729 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
4730 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
4731 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
4732 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
4733 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
4734 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
4736 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
4737 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
4738 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4741 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
4742 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
4743 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
4744 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
4745 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
4746 --with-rcs-ids option.
4749 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
4750 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
4752 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
4753 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
4754 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
4758 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
4759 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
4760 BeOS predefines a bool type.
4761 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
4762 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
4763 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
4764 option to infocmp -TD
4765 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4766 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
4767 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
4768 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
4769 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
4770 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
4771 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
4774 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4775 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
4776 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
4777 + change interface version-number to 1.0
4778 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
4781 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
4782 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
4783 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
4784 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
4785 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
4786 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
4787 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
4788 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
4789 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
4790 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
4792 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
4793 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (prompted by
4794 discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
4797 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
4798 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
4799 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
4801 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
4802 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
4805 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
4806 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4807 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
4808 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
4809 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
4812 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
4816 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
4817 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
4818 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
4819 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
4820 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
4822 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
4823 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
4824 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
4825 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
4828 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
4829 fields, and showing forms within panels.
4830 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
4831 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
4832 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
4833 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
4834 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
4835 ownership may change).
4838 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
4840 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
4841 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
4842 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4843 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
4844 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
4845 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
4846 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
4848 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
4849 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
4850 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
4851 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
4852 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
4853 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
4856 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
4857 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
4859 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
4860 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
4861 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
4862 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
4865 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
4866 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
4867 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
4868 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
4869 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
4870 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
4874 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
4875 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
4876 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
4877 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
4878 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
4879 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
4880 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
4881 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
4884 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
4885 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
4886 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
4887 Alexander V Lukyanov).
4890 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
4891 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
4894 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the -g option.
4895 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
4896 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
4897 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
4898 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4899 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
4900 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
4901 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
4902 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
4903 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
4904 reset for the next newterm.
4905 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
4906 terminal has true SLKs.
4907 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
4910 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
4911 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
4912 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
4913 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
4914 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
4915 read of the extended capabilities.
4916 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
4917 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
4918 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
4919 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
4920 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
4921 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
4922 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
4923 throughout ncurses library.
4924 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
4925 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
4927 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
4928 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
4929 + regenerate some of the html documentation
4930 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
4933 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
4934 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
4935 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
4936 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD
4937 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
4939 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
4941 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
4942 defined for a keycode.
4943 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
4944 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
4945 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
4946 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
4947 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
4949 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
4950 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
4951 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
4952 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
4954 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
4955 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
4957 + modify configuration scripts to
4958 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
4959 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
4960 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
4961 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
4962 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
4963 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
4964 + rename ada_include directory to src.
4967 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
4968 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
4969 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
4973 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
4974 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
4975 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
4976 though the problem is more general.
4977 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
4978 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
4979 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
4980 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
4982 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
4983 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
4984 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
4987 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
4988 Alexander V Lukyanov).
4989 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
4990 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
4991 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
4992 operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
4993 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
4994 be any substring rather than the prefix.
4995 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
4996 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
4997 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
4998 has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
4999 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
5000 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
5001 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
5002 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
5003 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
5004 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
5005 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
5006 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
5007 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
5008 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
5009 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
5010 --with-shlib-version option.
5013 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
5014 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
5015 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
5016 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
5017 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
5018 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
5019 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
5020 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
5021 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
5022 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
5023 intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
5024 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
5025 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
5026 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
5027 source distribution.
5030 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
5031 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
5032 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
5034 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
5035 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
5036 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
5037 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
5038 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
5041 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
5044 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
5045 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
5046 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
5047 Alexander V Lukyanov).
5048 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
5049 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
5050 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
5051 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
5052 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5053 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
5054 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
5055 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
5056 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
5057 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
5059 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
5060 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
5061 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
5062 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
5065 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
5067 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
5068 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
5069 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
5070 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
5071 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
5072 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
5073 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
5074 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
5075 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
5076 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
5077 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
5078 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
5079 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
5080 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
5081 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
5082 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
5083 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
5087 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
5088 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
5089 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
5090 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
5091 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
5092 running screen built with ncurses.
5093 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
5094 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
5095 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
5098 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
5101 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
5102 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
5103 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
5104 by a Debian bug report).
5105 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
5106 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
5108 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
5109 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
5110 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
5111 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
5115 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
5116 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
5117 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
5118 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
5119 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
5120 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
5121 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
5122 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
5123 (reported by H.J.Lu).
5126 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
5127 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
5128 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
5129 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
5130 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
5131 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
5132 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
5133 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
5134 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
5135 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
5136 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
5137 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
5139 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
5140 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
5142 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
5144 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
5146 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
5147 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
5151 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
5152 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
5153 address rather than its length.
5154 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
5155 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
5156 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
5157 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
5158 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
5159 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
5160 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
5161 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
5162 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
5163 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
5166 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
5167 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
5169 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
5170 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
5171 for an older version of ncurses.
5172 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
5173 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
5174 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
5175 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
5176 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
5177 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
5178 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
5179 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
5180 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
5181 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
5182 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
5183 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
5185 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
5186 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
5189 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
5190 (request by Larry Virden).
5191 > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
5192 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
5193 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
5194 changes to ncurses library.
5195 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
5196 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
5197 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
5198 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
5199 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
5200 + some Ada95 cosmetics
5201 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
5202 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
5203 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
5206 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
5207 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
5208 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
5209 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
5210 proposed changes to ncurses library.
5211 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
5212 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
5213 broken configure scripts.
5216 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
5218 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
5219 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
5220 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
5222 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
5223 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
5227 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
5228 with --srcdir option.
5229 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
5230 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
5231 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
5232 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
5233 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
5234 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5237 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
5238 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
5239 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
5241 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
5242 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
5243 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
5244 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
5245 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
5246 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
5247 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
5248 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
5251 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
5252 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5255 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
5256 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
5257 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
5258 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
5259 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
5260 some older entries - TD
5261 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
5262 since that is a little more efficient.
5263 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
5264 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
5265 + add -g option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
5266 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
5267 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
5268 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
5270 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
5272 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
5273 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
5275 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
5276 + use format string for printing strings.
5277 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
5280 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
5281 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
5282 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
5283 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
5284 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
5285 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
5286 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
5287 > patches by Todd C Miller:
5288 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
5289 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
5290 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
5291 dealing with env variables again.
5292 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
5293 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
5294 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
5295 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
5296 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
5297 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
5298 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
5299 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
5300 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
5301 newhash data to SP struct.
5302 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
5303 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
5304 function's parameter which is deleted.
5305 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
5306 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
5307 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
5308 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
5312 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
5313 consistent treatment.
5314 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
5315 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
5316 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
5317 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
5320 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
5321 capability name, as in SVr4.
5322 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
5323 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
5324 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
5327 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
5328 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
5329 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
5330 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
5331 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
5332 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
5333 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
5334 > from esr's terminfo version:
5335 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
5336 + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
5337 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
5340 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
5341 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
5342 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
5343 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
5344 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
5345 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
5346 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
5347 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
5348 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
5349 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
5353 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
5354 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
5355 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
5356 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
5357 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
5360 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
5361 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
5365 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
5366 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
5367 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
5368 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
5369 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
5370 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
5371 as obtained via ioctl.
5374 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
5375 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
5376 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
5377 turning attributes off.
5378 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
5379 initializing multiple screens.
5380 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
5381 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
5382 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
5385 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
5386 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
5387 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
5388 with Solaris curses).
5389 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
5390 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
5391 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
5392 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
5393 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
5394 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
5395 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
5396 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
5399 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
5400 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
5401 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
5402 (request by QingLong).
5403 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
5404 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
5405 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
5406 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
5408 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
5409 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
5410 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
5411 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
5412 otherwise simply exit with an error.
5415 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
5416 "_g" for a debug build).
5417 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
5418 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
5419 compile/link working Ada95 program.
5420 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
5421 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
5422 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
5423 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
5424 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
5425 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
5429 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
5430 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
5431 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
5432 corresponds to vt100.
5433 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
5434 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
5437 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
5438 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
5439 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
5440 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
5441 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
5442 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
5443 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
5444 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
5445 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
5446 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5449 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
5450 several minor errors/omissions.
5451 + implement tparm %l format.
5452 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
5454 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
5457 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
5458 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
5459 to be written to large screens.
5460 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
5461 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
5462 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
5463 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
5464 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
5466 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
5467 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5468 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
5469 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
5472 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
5474 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
5476 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
5477 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
5478 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
5479 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
5480 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
5481 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
5482 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
5484 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
5485 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
5487 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
5490 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
5491 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
5492 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
5493 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
5494 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
5495 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
5496 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
5497 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
5498 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
5499 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
5502 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
5503 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5504 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty
5505 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
5506 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
5507 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
5508 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
5509 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
5510 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
5511 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
5512 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
5513 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
5514 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
5517 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
5518 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
5519 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
5520 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
5521 which contains a colon in the description field.
5522 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
5523 from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
5524 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
5526 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
5527 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
5530 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
5531 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
5533 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
5534 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
5535 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
5536 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
5537 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
5538 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
5539 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
5540 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
5541 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
5542 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
5543 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
5544 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
5545 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
5546 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
5547 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
5548 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
5549 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
5550 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
5551 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
5552 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
5553 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
5554 comparisons out of inner loop.
5557 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
5558 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
5559 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
5560 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
5561 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
5562 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
5563 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
5564 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
5565 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
5567 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
5568 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
5569 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
5572 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
5573 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
5574 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
5575 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
5576 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
5577 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
5578 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
5579 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
5580 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
5581 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
5584 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
5585 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
5586 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
5587 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
5589 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
5590 avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
5591 by Juergen Pfeifer).
5594 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
5595 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
5598 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
5599 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
5600 uses them when they are available.
5601 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
5602 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
5603 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
5604 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
5606 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
5609 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
5610 declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
5611 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
5612 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
5614 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
5615 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
5616 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
5617 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
5618 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
5619 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
5620 use --disable-overwrite).
5621 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
5622 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
5623 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
5624 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
5625 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
5626 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
5627 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
5628 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
5629 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
5633 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
5634 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
5635 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
5636 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
5637 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
5638 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
5639 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
5640 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
5642 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
5643 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
5644 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
5645 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
5647 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
5648 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
5649 parameter according to XSI.
5650 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
5651 reflect above enhancements.
5654 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
5655 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
5656 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
5657 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
5659 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
5661 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
5663 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
5664 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
5665 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
5668 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
5669 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
5670 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5671 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
5672 <claesg@algonet.se>).
5673 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
5674 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
5677 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
5678 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
5679 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
5681 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
5682 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
5683 by Florian La Roche).
5684 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
5685 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
5686 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
5687 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5690 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
5691 distributions, though it is retained in development.
5692 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
5694 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
5695 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
5696 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
5697 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
5698 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
5701 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
5703 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
5704 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
5705 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
5706 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
5707 This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
5708 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
5710 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
5711 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
5712 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
5714 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
5715 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
5716 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
5719 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
5720 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
5722 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
5723 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
5725 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
5727 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
5729 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
5731 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
5732 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
5733 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
5734 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
5735 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
5737 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
5738 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
5740 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
5741 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
5742 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
5743 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
5744 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
5745 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
5746 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
5747 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
5748 turn off attributes inconsistently.
5751 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
5752 test for no_color_video.
5753 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
5755 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
5756 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
5757 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
5759 > from reports by Fred Fish:
5760 + add configure-test for isascii
5761 + add configure-test for -lm library.
5762 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
5763 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
5764 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
5765 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
5766 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
5767 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
5768 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
5770 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
5771 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
5773 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
5774 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
5775 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
5776 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
5777 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
5780 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
5781 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
5783 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
5785 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
5786 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
5787 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
5789 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
5790 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
5792 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
5794 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
5795 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
5796 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
5797 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
5798 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
5799 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
5800 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
5801 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
5802 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
5803 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
5804 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
5805 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
5806 fields are also always inactive.
5807 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
5808 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
5811 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
5812 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
5813 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
5814 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
5815 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
5816 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
5817 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
5818 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
5819 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
5822 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
5823 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
5824 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
5825 defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
5826 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
5828 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
5829 Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
5830 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
5831 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
5832 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
5833 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
5834 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
5835 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
5836 cross-platform compatibility.
5837 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
5838 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
5839 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5840 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
5842 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
5846 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
5847 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
5848 EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
5849 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
5850 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
5851 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
5852 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
5853 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
5854 that simply cannot scroll.
5855 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
5856 embedded \200 characters are matched.
5857 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
5861 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
5862 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
5863 functions from the build.
5864 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
5865 functions as a separate library.
5866 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
5867 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
5868 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
5869 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
5870 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
5871 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
5872 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
5873 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
5874 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
5876 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5877 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
5878 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
5881 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
5882 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
5884 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
5885 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
5886 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
5887 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
5890 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
5891 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
5892 + add configure check for 'tack'.
5893 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
5894 for Debian configuration.
5895 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
5897 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
5898 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
5900 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
5901 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
5902 case of wide characters in chtype.
5903 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
5904 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
5905 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
5908 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
5909 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
5910 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
5911 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
5912 have set root's umask to 077.
5913 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
5914 end of output when they had embedded comments.
5915 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
5916 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
5917 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
5918 correct logic for handling backslashes.
5919 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
5920 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
5921 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
5922 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
5923 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
5924 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
5926 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5927 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
5929 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
5930 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
5932 + resync of the html version of the manpages
5935 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
5936 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
5938 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
5939 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
5940 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
5941 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
5942 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5943 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
5944 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
5945 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
5949 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
5951 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
5952 comments from Daniel Weaver.
5953 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
5954 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
5955 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
5956 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
5958 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
5959 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
5960 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
5962 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
5963 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
5966 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
5970 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
5971 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
5972 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
5973 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
5974 in call to delay_output().
5975 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
5976 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
5977 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
5978 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
5979 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
5981 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
5982 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
5983 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
5984 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
5985 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
5986 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
5987 so that will work on NeXT.
5988 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
5989 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
5992 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
5994 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
5996 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
5997 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
5998 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
5999 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
6000 when that feature is not configured.
6001 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
6002 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
6003 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
6004 (this dates back to 951102, in 1.9.7a).
6005 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
6006 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
6007 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
6008 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
6011 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
6013 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
6014 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
6016 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
6018 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
6019 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
6022 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
6023 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
6024 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
6025 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
6026 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
6027 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
6028 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
6029 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
6030 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
6032 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
6033 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
6034 tputs() if called from that function.
6035 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
6036 tputs works when SP is not set.
6037 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6038 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
6039 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
6040 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation
6041 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
6042 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
6045 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
6046 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
6047 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
6048 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
6049 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
6050 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
6051 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
6052 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
6053 _nc_update_screensize().
6054 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
6056 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
6057 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
6058 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
6059 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6060 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
6061 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6062 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
6063 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
6064 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
6065 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
6067 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
6071 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
6072 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
6073 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
6075 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
6076 click-interval without modifying it.
6077 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
6078 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
6080 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
6081 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
6082 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
6083 other ncurses headers.
6084 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
6085 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
6086 (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
6087 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
6088 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
6089 characters output in delay_output().
6090 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
6091 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
6092 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
6093 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6094 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
6096 + typo in configure --help.
6097 > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
6098 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
6099 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
6100 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
6103 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6104 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
6107 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
6108 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
6109 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
6110 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
6111 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
6113 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
6114 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
6115 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
6116 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
6117 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
6118 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
6119 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
6120 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
6121 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
6122 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
6123 form (sorted, unique mapping).
6124 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
6125 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
6126 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6127 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
6128 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6129 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6130 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
6131 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
6132 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
6133 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
6134 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
6135 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
6136 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6137 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
6139 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
6140 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
6141 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
6142 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
6143 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
6144 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
6148 + add 'deinstall' rules.
6149 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
6150 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
6151 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
6152 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
6153 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
6154 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
6156 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
6157 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6158 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
6160 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
6161 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
6162 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
6163 scripts are also provided.
6166 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
6168 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
6169 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
6170 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
6171 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
6172 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
6173 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
6174 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
6175 generating lint library.
6176 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
6178 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
6179 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
6180 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
6181 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
6182 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
6183 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
6184 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
6185 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
6186 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
6187 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
6189 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6190 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
6192 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
6194 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
6195 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
6196 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
6197 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
6198 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
6199 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
6200 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6201 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
6202 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
6206 + modify rain.c to use color.
6207 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
6208 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
6209 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
6210 of configure cache variables in 970906.
6211 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
6212 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
6213 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
6214 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
6215 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
6216 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
6217 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
6218 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
6219 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
6220 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6221 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
6223 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
6224 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
6225 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
6226 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
6228 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
6229 NCursesWindow class.
6230 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
6231 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
6232 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
6233 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
6235 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
6236 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
6237 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
6238 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
6239 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
6240 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
6242 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
6243 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
6244 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
6245 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
6246 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
6247 already disconnected.
6248 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
6249 navigation requests.
6250 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
6251 case-insensitiva comparision routine.
6252 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
6253 forms field by index.
6254 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
6256 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
6257 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
6258 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
6259 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
6260 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
6261 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
6262 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
6263 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
6264 move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
6266 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
6267 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
6268 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
6270 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
6271 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6272 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
6273 know that auto_right_margin is true.
6274 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
6275 shifting character to LR corner.
6276 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
6277 terminal right margin mode is known.
6278 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
6279 _nc_scroll_window().
6280 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
6281 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
6283 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
6284 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
6285 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
6286 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
6288 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
6289 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
6290 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
6291 the terminal window is resized.
6294 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
6295 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
6296 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
6297 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
6298 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
6299 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
6300 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
6301 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
6302 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6303 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
6304 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
6306 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
6307 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
6308 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
6310 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
6311 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
6313 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
6317 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
6318 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
6319 lib_printw.c functions.
6320 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
6321 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
6322 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
6323 force the screen to scroll.
6326 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
6328 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
6330 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
6331 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
6333 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
6334 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
6335 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6336 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
6337 was in the wrong order.
6338 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
6340 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
6342 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
6343 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
6344 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
6345 invoke wechochar() instead.
6346 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
6349 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
6350 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
6351 work properly when we add calls to that function.
6352 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
6353 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
6354 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6355 + several fixes to getch:
6356 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
6357 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
6358 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
6359 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
6361 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
6362 6. correctly handle the case of receiption of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
6363 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
6364 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
6365 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
6367 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
6368 line-breakout optimization
6369 + improve hashmap.c by
6370 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
6371 2. not marking lines with offset 0
6372 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
6373 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
6374 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
6375 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
6377 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
6378 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
6379 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
6380 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
6382 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
6384 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
6385 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
6386 stored/retrieved via set_term().
6387 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
6391 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
6392 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
6393 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
6395 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
6396 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
6397 before looking for (n)curses library.
6398 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
6399 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
6400 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
6401 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
6402 include ncurses_cfg.h
6403 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
6404 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
6405 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6406 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
6408 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
6409 common subexpressions.
6410 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
6411 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
6412 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
6413 against the background character.
6414 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
6415 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
6416 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
6417 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
6418 > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
6419 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
6420 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
6421 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
6422 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
6425 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
6426 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
6427 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
6428 terminal type ncr7900).
6429 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
6430 package is built with an install-prefix.
6431 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
6432 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
6433 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
6434 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
6435 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
6436 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
6437 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
6438 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
6439 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
6440 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6441 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
6442 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
6443 by Juergen Pfeifer).
6446 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
6447 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
6448 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
6449 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
6450 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
6451 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
6452 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
6453 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
6454 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
6455 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
6456 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
6459 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
6460 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
6461 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
6462 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
6463 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
6464 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
6465 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
6466 configuration of wide-characters.
6467 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
6468 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
6469 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
6470 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
6471 does not have getttynam().
6472 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
6473 + add table entries for 230400 and 460800 bd to baudrate() function.
6474 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
6475 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6476 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
6477 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6478 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
6479 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
6480 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
6481 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
6482 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
6486 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
6487 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6488 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
6489 options should be accompanied by a message.
6490 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
6491 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
6493 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
6495 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6496 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
6497 better when csr is not available.
6498 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
6499 after failure to scroll one.
6500 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
6501 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
6502 case and wrong string in TRACE.
6503 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6504 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
6508 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
6509 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
6511 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
6512 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
6513 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
6514 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
6515 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
6518 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
6519 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
6520 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
6522 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
6525 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
6526 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
6527 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
6528 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
6529 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
6530 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
6531 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
6532 (reported by Larry Virden).
6533 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
6534 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
6536 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6537 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
6538 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
6539 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
6543 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
6544 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
6545 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
6546 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
6547 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
6549 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
6550 terminfo description to the stored strings.
6551 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
6552 terminfo descriptions.
6553 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
6554 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
6555 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
6556 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
6557 option is a stopgap.
6558 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
6559 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
6562 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
6563 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
6564 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
6565 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
6566 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
6567 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
6571 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
6572 lines in curscr that are shifted.
6573 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
6574 than a series of function calls.
6575 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
6576 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
6577 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
6578 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
6579 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
6580 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
6581 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
6582 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6583 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6586 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
6587 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
6588 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
6589 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
6590 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
6591 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
6592 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
6593 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
6594 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
6595 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
6596 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
6597 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
6598 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
6599 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
6600 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6601 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
6602 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6603 + improve threshhold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
6604 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6607 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
6608 use only the fallback data.
6609 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
6610 terminal descriptions.
6611 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
6612 still assume there's an ncurses.h
6613 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
6614 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
6615 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
6616 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
6617 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
6618 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
6620 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
6621 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
6622 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
6623 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
6624 <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
6625 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
6626 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
6628 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
6630 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
6631 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
6633 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
6635 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
6636 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
6637 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
6638 original implementation (1.9.6).
6639 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
6640 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
6641 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
6642 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
6644 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
6645 SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
6646 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
6647 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
6648 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
6649 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6650 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
6651 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
6653 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
6654 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
6655 field is not possible.
6656 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
6657 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
6658 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
6659 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
6661 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
6662 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
6663 in forms/menus libraries.
6666 + add description of xterm-16color.
6667 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
6668 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
6670 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
6671 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
6672 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
6673 works properly w/o first doing "make".
6674 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
6675 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
6677 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
6678 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
6679 bounding box without tidying up).
6680 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
6681 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
6682 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
6684 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
6685 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6686 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
6687 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
6688 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6691 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
6692 option is specified.
6693 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
6694 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
6696 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
6697 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
6698 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
6699 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
6700 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
6701 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
6702 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
6703 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
6704 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
6705 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
6706 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
6707 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
6708 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
6709 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
6711 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
6712 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
6713 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6714 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
6715 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
6716 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6717 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
6718 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
6719 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6720 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
6721 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
6723 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
6725 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
6727 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
6728 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
6731 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
6732 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
6733 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
6734 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
6736 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
6737 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
6738 during a call to newwin.
6739 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
6740 is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
6741 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
6742 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
6743 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
6744 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6745 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
6746 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
6749 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
6750 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
6751 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
6752 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
6754 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
6757 970505 4.1 pre-release
6758 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
6760 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
6761 unnecessary recompiles.
6762 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
6763 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
6764 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
6765 overwrite of symbolic links.
6766 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
6767 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
6768 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
6769 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
6770 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
6771 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
6772 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
6773 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
6774 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
6775 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
6776 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
6777 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
6778 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
6779 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
6783 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
6784 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
6785 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
6787 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
6788 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
6789 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
6790 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
6791 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
6792 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
6793 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
6794 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
6795 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
6797 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
6798 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
6799 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
6800 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
6802 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
6803 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
6804 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6805 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
6806 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6807 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
6808 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6809 + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
6810 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
6811 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
6812 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6815 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
6816 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
6817 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
6818 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
6819 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
6820 original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
6821 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
6822 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
6823 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
6824 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
6825 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
6826 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
6827 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
6828 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
6829 or redefinition within an acsc string.
6830 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
6831 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
6833 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
6834 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
6837 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
6838 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
6839 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
6840 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
6841 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
6842 match SVr4 documentation.
6843 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
6844 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
6845 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
6848 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
6849 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
6850 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
6851 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
6852 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
6853 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
6854 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
6855 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
6858 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
6859 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
6860 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
6862 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
6863 --enable/--with values.
6864 + add configure option --enable-big-core
6865 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
6866 + check for C++ builtin.h header
6867 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
6868 parameter from the expression.
6869 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
6870 ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted from diffs by
6872 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
6873 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
6874 was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
6875 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
6876 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
6877 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
6880 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
6881 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
6882 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
6883 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
6884 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
6887 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
6888 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
6889 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
6890 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
6891 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
6892 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
6893 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
6894 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
6895 (reported by Ward Horner).
6896 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
6897 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
6900 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
6901 even if "make all" is not done first.
6902 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
6903 expanded functions with ATAC.
6904 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
6905 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
6909 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
6911 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
6913 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
6916 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
6917 addressing request by Ward Horner.
6918 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
6919 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
6920 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
6921 a pointer-increment.
6922 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
6926 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
6927 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
6929 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
6930 (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
6931 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
6932 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
6933 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
6934 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
6935 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
6936 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
6938 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
6939 (reported by Ward Horner)
6940 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
6941 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
6942 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
6943 (reported by Gary Johnson).
6944 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
6945 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
6946 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
6947 wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
6948 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
6949 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
6950 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
6951 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
6955 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
6956 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
6957 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
6958 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
6959 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
6960 (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6961 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
6962 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
6963 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
6964 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
6967 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
6969 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
6970 the returned buffer.
6971 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
6972 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
6973 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
6974 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
6976 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
6977 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
6980 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
6981 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
6982 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
6983 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
6985 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
6986 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
6989 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
6990 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
6992 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
6994 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
6995 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
6996 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
6997 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
6999 + modify _tracedump() to pad pad colors & attrs lines to match change
7000 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
7001 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
7002 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
7005 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
7006 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
7007 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
7008 that machine - T.Dickey.
7009 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
7010 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
7011 linking against static libraries.
7012 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
7014 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
7015 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
7016 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
7017 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
7019 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
7020 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
7021 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
7022 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
7023 Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
7026 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
7027 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
7028 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
7030 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
7031 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
7032 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
7033 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
7034 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
7035 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
7038 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
7040 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
7041 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
7042 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
7043 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
7044 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
7045 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
7046 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
7047 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
7048 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
7049 insert/delete line method.
7050 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
7051 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
7052 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
7053 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
7055 961229 (internal alpha)
7056 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
7057 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
7058 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
7059 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
7060 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
7061 there is data on stdin.
7062 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
7063 descriptors, needed for GPM.
7064 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
7065 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
7066 prevented patch from working properly -TD
7067 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
7068 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
7069 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
7070 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
7073 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
7074 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
7076 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
7079 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
7080 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
7081 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
7082 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
7084 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
7085 solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
7086 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
7087 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
7088 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
7089 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
7091 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
7092 i.e., set current directory before linking.
7093 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
7094 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
7095 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
7096 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
7097 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
7098 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
7099 Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
7100 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
7103 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
7104 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
7105 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
7106 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
7107 Solaris curses, which does this.
7110 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
7111 work with wider range of screen sizes.
7112 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
7113 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
7114 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
7116 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
7117 resize between endwin/refresh.
7118 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
7119 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
7120 terminal modes in 960907.
7121 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
7122 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
7124 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
7125 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
7126 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
7127 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
7128 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
7129 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
7130 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
7131 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
7132 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
7134 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
7135 (requested by Florian La Roche).
7136 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
7137 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
7138 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
7139 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
7140 by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7143 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
7146 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
7147 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
7148 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
7149 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
7150 data used in ncurses library.
7151 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
7152 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
7153 Alexander V Lukyanov).
7154 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
7155 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
7156 beta may not be interchangeable).
7157 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
7159 961130 1.9.9g release
7160 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
7164 > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
7165 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
7166 to avoid warning messages.
7167 + the panel overlap detection was broken
7168 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
7170 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
7174 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7175 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
7176 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
7177 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
7178 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
7181 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
7182 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
7183 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
7188 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
7190 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
7192 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
7195 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
7196 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
7197 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
7198 + add entry for color_xterm
7201 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
7202 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
7203 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
7204 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
7205 CANCELLED_STRING values.
7206 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
7207 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
7208 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
7209 delays when in autoplay mode.
7210 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
7211 Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
7213 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
7216 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
7217 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
7218 a spurious clear-screen.
7219 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
7220 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
7222 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
7223 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
7224 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
7228 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
7229 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
7230 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
7231 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
7232 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
7233 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
7235 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
7236 distribution, as stated)
7237 + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
7238 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
7239 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
7240 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
7241 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
7242 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
7243 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
7245 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
7246 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
7250 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
7251 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
7252 file (lib_screen.c).
7253 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
7254 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
7255 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
7256 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
7257 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
7258 rendered as octal constants.
7259 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
7260 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
7261 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
7262 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
7263 in the top-level command-parser.
7264 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
7265 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
7267 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
7268 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
7269 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
7272 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
7273 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
7274 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
7275 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
7276 (reported by Tim Mooney).
7277 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
7279 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
7283 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
7285 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
7289 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
7290 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
7292 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
7293 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
7294 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
7295 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
7296 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
7297 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
7298 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
7299 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
7300 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
7301 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
7303 + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
7304 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
7306 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
7307 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
7308 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
7309 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
7312 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
7313 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
7314 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
7315 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
7316 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
7318 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
7319 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
7320 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
7321 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
7322 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
7323 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
7324 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
7325 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
7326 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
7327 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
7328 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
7329 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
7330 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
7333 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
7334 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
7335 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
7337 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
7338 Michael Elkins) - untested
7340 + correction to #317.
7342 + re-add _nc_hash_map
7343 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design.
7344 + add hashtest.c, program to time the hashmap optimization.
7346 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
7348 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
7350 + merged Alexander V Lukyanov's patch to use ech and rep - untested
7352 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
7353 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
7354 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
7355 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
7358 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
7360 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
7361 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
7362 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
7363 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
7364 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
7366 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
7369 + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
7370 (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7371 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
7372 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7373 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
7374 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
7377 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
7378 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
7379 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
7380 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
7381 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
7382 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
7383 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
7384 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
7385 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
7386 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
7387 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
7388 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
7389 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
7390 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
7391 + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
7395 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7396 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
7397 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
7398 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
7400 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
7401 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
7402 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
7405 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
7406 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
7407 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
7410 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
7411 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7412 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
7413 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7416 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
7417 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
7418 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
7419 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
7420 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
7422 + add dtterm description
7423 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop vscanf subtest)
7426 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
7427 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
7428 + refine configure-test for -g option (Tim Mooney).
7429 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
7430 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
7433 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
7435 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
7437 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch.
7440 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
7441 (reported by William P Setzer)
7442 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
7443 (reported by Tim Mooney).
7445 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
7446 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
7447 + updated qnx terminfo entry (by Michael Hunter)
7450 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
7452 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
7456 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
7457 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
7459 + terminfo changes (9.3.10), from BRL
7460 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
7461 + add more symbols to infocmp.
7464 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
7465 Juergen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
7466 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
7468 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
7469 null), and tests that use it.
7470 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
7471 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
7472 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
7474 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
7476 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
7477 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
7480 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
7481 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
7482 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
7483 by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
7484 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
7485 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
7486 + terminfo patches #306/307 (ESR).
7487 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
7488 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
7491 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
7492 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
7493 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
7495 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
7496 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
7497 Philippe De Muyter).
7500 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
7501 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
7503 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes (ESR).
7504 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
7506 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
7507 (reported by David MacKenzie).
7508 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
7509 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
7510 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
7511 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
7512 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
7513 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
7514 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
7518 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
7519 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
7520 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
7521 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
7522 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
7523 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
7524 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
7525 than function keys in 'g' test.
7526 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
7527 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
7528 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
7529 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
7531 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
7533 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
7534 msgwin needed scrollok set.
7535 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
7536 between PutRange and InsStr
7537 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
7538 MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
7540 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
7543 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
7544 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
7545 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
7547 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
7548 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
7549 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
7550 _yoffset to WINDOW).
7551 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
7552 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
7553 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
7554 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
7555 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
7556 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
7557 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
7558 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
7559 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
7562 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
7563 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
7564 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
7565 first entry in a list).
7566 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
7567 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
7570 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
7571 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
7572 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
7573 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
7574 with a shared-library configuration.
7575 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
7576 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
7577 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
7578 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
7579 builders to install into staging locations (requested by
7580 Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
7581 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
7583 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
7584 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
7585 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
7586 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
7587 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
7589 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
7590 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
7591 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
7592 invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7594 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
7595 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
7596 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
7600 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
7601 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
7602 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
7603 + added rules for lintlib, lint
7604 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
7605 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
7606 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
7607 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
7608 checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
7609 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
7610 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
7611 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
7612 + typos, don't use inline with -g (Philippe De Muyter)
7613 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
7616 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
7617 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
7618 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
7619 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
7620 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
7621 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
7623 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
7624 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
7625 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
7626 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
7629 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
7630 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
7631 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
7632 <lav@yars.free.net>).
7633 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
7634 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
7635 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
7636 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
7638 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
7640 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
7641 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
7642 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
7643 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
7646 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
7650 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
7651 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
7652 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
7653 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
7654 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
7655 > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
7656 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
7657 + added TRACE_IEVENT
7658 + removed boolean version of 'getm'
7659 + added lib_print.c (for Rick Marshall)
7661 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
7662 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
7663 + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
7664 is not part of X/Open Curses).
7665 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
7668 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
7669 + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
7670 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
7671 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
7672 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
7673 "#include" if needed.
7676 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
7677 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
7680 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
7681 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
7682 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
7686 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
7687 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
7688 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
7689 > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
7690 + new "-e" option of tic.
7691 + fix for "infocmp -e".
7692 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c
7693 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
7694 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
7698 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
7699 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
7700 K&R-style substitution)
7701 > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
7702 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode
7703 + corrected askuser() logic in tset
7704 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing
7705 + added trace support for TTY flags
7708 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
7709 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
7710 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
7711 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
7712 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
7714 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
7715 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
7717 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
7719 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
7720 copy-changed-lines behavior.
7721 * added and documented wresize() function.
7722 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
7723 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
7724 emitted before the first check.
7725 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
7726 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
7727 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
7728 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
7729 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
7730 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
7732 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
7733 * support for ESCDELAY.
7734 * small fixes for menu/form code.
7735 * the test directory has its own configure.
7736 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
7737 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
7738 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
7741 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
7743 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
7744 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
7745 * support infocmp -RBSD.
7746 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
7747 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
7748 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
7749 catastrophies or acts of God.
7750 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
7752 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
7753 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
7756 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
7758 * corrected return values of setupterm()
7759 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
7760 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
7761 one `use' capability.
7762 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
7763 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
7764 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
7765 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
7766 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
7767 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
7768 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
7769 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
7770 * added -h option to toe(1).
7771 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
7772 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
7773 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
7774 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
7776 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
7778 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
7779 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
7781 * mouse support for xterm.
7782 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
7783 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initally off.
7784 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
7785 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
7786 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
7787 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
7788 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
7789 * infocmp -T option added.
7790 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
7792 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
7794 * menus library is now included with documentation.
7795 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
7796 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
7797 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
7798 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
7799 * tweaks for compiling in seperate directories.
7800 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
7801 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
7802 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
7804 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
7806 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
7807 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
7808 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
7809 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
7811 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
7813 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
7814 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
7815 * added tracemunch to the test tools
7816 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
7818 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
7820 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
7821 profile and shared object models.
7823 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
7825 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
7826 * panels support added
7827 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
7828 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
7830 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
7832 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
7833 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
7834 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
7835 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
7837 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
7838 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
7839 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
7840 are consistent (they weren't).
7841 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
7842 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
7843 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
7844 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
7846 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
7847 * more spelling fixes
7848 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
7849 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
7850 core in init_acs()).
7851 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
7854 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
7856 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
7857 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
7858 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
7860 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
7861 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
7862 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
7863 resolution of traces.
7864 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
7865 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
7866 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
7867 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
7868 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
7870 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
7871 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
7872 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
7873 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
7875 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
7876 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
7877 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
7878 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
7879 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
7880 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This wil mostly happen if
7881 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
7882 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
7883 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
7884 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
7885 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
7886 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
7887 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
7888 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
7889 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
7890 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
7892 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
7893 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
7894 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
7895 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
7896 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
7897 the correct alternate character set.
7898 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
7899 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
7900 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
7901 a terminal is undefined.
7902 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
7903 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
7904 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
7905 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
7906 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
7907 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
7909 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
7910 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
7911 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
7912 if other attributes are turned off.
7913 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
7914 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
7915 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
7917 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
7918 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
7919 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
7922 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
7923 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
7924 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
7925 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
7927 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
7928 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
7930 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
7932 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
7933 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
7934 break operation with any emulators.
7935 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
7936 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
7937 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
7938 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
7939 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
7940 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
7941 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
7942 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
7944 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
7945 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
7947 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
7948 unpredictable results.
7949 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
7951 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
7952 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
7953 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
7954 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
7955 take note of the terminfo directory.
7956 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
7957 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
7960 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
7961 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
7962 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
7963 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
7964 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
7965 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
7966 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
7967 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
7968 performs more testing.
7969 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
7970 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
7972 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
7973 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
7975 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
7976 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
7977 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
7979 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
7981 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
7982 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
7983 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
7984 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
7985 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
7986 will probably continue to work ok.
7988 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
7989 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
7990 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
7991 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
7992 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
7994 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
7995 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
7996 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
7998 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
7999 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
8000 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
8001 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
8002 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
8003 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
8004 changed accordingly.
8005 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
8006 bottom-right corner.
8007 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
8008 pads I'd love a copy.
8009 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
8010 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
8011 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
8012 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
8013 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
8014 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
8015 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
8017 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
8018 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
8019 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
8021 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
8022 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
8023 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
8024 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
8025 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
8026 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
8027 * See src/README for porting notes.
8028 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
8029 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
8030 rows instead of lines, etc.)
8031 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
8032 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
8033 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
8034 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
8035 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
8036 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
8037 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
8039 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
8040 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
8041 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
8042 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
8043 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
8044 fact was exposed by hanoi.
8045 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
8046 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
8047 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
8048 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
8049 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
8050 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
8052 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
8054 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
8055 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
8056 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
8057 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
8058 Config.* files through an awk script.
8059 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
8060 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
8061 * a few minor cleanups.
8062 * added more prototypes in curses.h
8064 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
8066 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
8067 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
8068 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
8069 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
8070 * a couple of bug fixes.
8071 * a few code cleanups.
8073 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
8075 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
8076 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
8077 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
8078 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
8079 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
8080 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
8082 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
8083 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
8085 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
8086 (doesn't work on Linux)
8087 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
8088 screen before working.
8089 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
8090 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
8092 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
8093 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
8094 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
8095 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
8096 * several minor bug fixes.
8098 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
8100 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
8101 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
8102 * changes related to Config
8104 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
8106 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
8107 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
8108 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
8109 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
8110 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
8111 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
8112 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
8114 * fixed problems with asc_init()
8115 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
8116 * cleaned up vidputs()
8117 * general cleanup of the code
8118 * more attention to portability to other systems
8119 * added terminfos for hp70092 (wont work until changes to lib_update.c are
8120 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
8122 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
8123 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
8125 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
8126 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
8127 the rationale drop me a line.
8129 Included are several test programs in test/.
8130 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
8131 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
8133 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
8135 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
8136 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
8137 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
8138 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
8139 * keyname() is added.
8140 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
8141 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
8142 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
8143 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
8144 * included fixes from 0.6.1
8145 * added a few more missing functions.
8146 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
8147 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
8150 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
8152 1) Included the missing data/console.
8154 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
8156 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
8158 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
8159 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
8160 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
8162 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
8163 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
8164 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
8165 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
8166 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
8167 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
8168 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
8169 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
8170 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
8171 * added notimeout().
8172 * added timeout() define in curses.h
8173 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
8175 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
8176 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
8177 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
8178 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
8179 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
8180 * added slk_* support.
8181 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
8182 * added PANEL library.
8183 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
8184 * terminfo.h is really term.h
8186 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
8187 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
8188 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
8189 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
8190 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
8191 another key is pressed.
8192 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
8193 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
8194 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
8196 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
8197 * fixed bug in wvline().
8199 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
8200 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
8202 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
8203 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
8204 * Addition of function prototypes.
8205 * Addition of several missing functions.
8206 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
8207 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
8208 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
8209 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
8210 * New scrolling code.
8211 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
8213 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
8214 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
8215 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
8216 * more fixes for updates.
8217 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
8218 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
8219 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
8220 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
8222 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
8223 * support for color.
8224 * support for PC graphic characters.
8225 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
8226 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
8228 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
8229 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
8230 * ANSIfication of some functions.
8231 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
8232 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.
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