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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 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
50 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
51 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
52 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
53 + regenerated html manpages.
54 + update doctype used for html documentation.
57 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
58 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
59 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
60 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
61 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
62 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
65 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
66 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
67 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
68 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
69 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
72 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
73 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
76 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
77 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
78 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
79 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
80 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
82 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
83 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
84 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
85 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
88 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
89 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
90 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
91 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
93 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
95 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
97 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
100 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
104 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
105 (report by Christian Ebert).
106 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
107 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
108 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
111 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
112 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
113 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
114 add bold for consistency with sgr,
115 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
116 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
117 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
119 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
120 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
121 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
122 line split after "%;".
123 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
124 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
127 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
128 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
129 + regenerated html manpages.
130 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
131 + updated some autoconf macros:
132 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
133 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
134 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
135 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
136 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
137 configuration (Redhat #911540).
138 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
139 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
142 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
143 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
145 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
146 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
148 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
149 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
150 of raw input in MinGW port.
153 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
154 + update config.guess, config.sub
157 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
159 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
161 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
162 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
163 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
164 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
165 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
166 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
167 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
169 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
170 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
173 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
174 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
176 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
177 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
178 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
181 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
182 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
183 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
186 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
187 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
188 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
190 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
191 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
192 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
193 by Dennis Grevenstein).
194 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
196 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
197 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
198 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
201 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
202 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
203 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
204 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
205 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
206 + improve error-checking in copywin
207 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
208 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
209 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
210 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
211 matching capability names.
212 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
213 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
214 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
217 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
218 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
219 are unused in the current driver model.
220 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
222 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
223 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
224 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
225 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
228 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
229 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
231 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
232 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
233 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
234 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
235 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
238 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
239 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
240 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
244 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
246 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
247 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
249 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
250 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
251 wide-character which can be used.
254 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
255 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
256 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
257 by Erwin Waterlander).
258 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
259 > fixes based on Coverity report:
260 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
261 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
262 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
263 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
267 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
268 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
269 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
270 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
271 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
272 > fixes based on Coverity report:
273 + remove a few redundant checks.
274 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
276 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
277 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
278 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
279 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
281 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
282 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
283 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
287 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
288 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
289 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
293 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
294 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
295 > fixes based on Coverity report:
296 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
299 > fixes based on Coverity report:
300 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
301 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
302 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
303 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
304 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
305 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
306 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
308 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
309 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
310 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
311 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
314 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
315 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
316 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
318 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
319 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
320 libraries or executables.
323 + realign these related pages:
328 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
329 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
330 (report by Reuben Thomas).
331 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
332 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
333 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
334 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
335 based on testing with tack -TD
336 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
337 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
340 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
342 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
343 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
344 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
347 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
351 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
352 (patch by Christian Persch).
355 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
357 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
358 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
359 has used that for a while.
360 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
361 for experimental use.
362 + remove unused configure macros.
363 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
364 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
365 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
366 + update config.guess, config.sub
369 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
370 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
371 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
372 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
373 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
374 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
375 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
378 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
379 to help with MinGW port.
382 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
384 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
387 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
390 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
391 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
392 might not be allocated.
393 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
396 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
397 initial screen-sizes.
398 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
399 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
403 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
404 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
408 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
409 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
410 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
412 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
413 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
416 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
417 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
418 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
419 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
420 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
421 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
422 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
426 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
427 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
428 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
429 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
430 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
431 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
432 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
433 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
437 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
438 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
439 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
440 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
441 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
442 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
445 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
449 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
451 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
453 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
454 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
455 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
456 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
457 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
458 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
461 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
463 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
464 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
465 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
467 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
468 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
471 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
472 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
473 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
476 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
477 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
479 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
480 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
482 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
483 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
486 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
488 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
489 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
490 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
491 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
492 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
493 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
496 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
497 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
498 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
499 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
500 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
501 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
502 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
503 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
504 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
506 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
507 analysis by Martin Husemann).
508 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
509 Onno van der Linden).
512 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
514 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
516 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
517 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
520 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
521 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
522 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
523 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
524 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
525 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
526 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
529 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
530 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
531 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
532 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
533 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
534 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
535 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
536 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
537 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
538 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
539 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
540 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
541 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
542 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
543 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
546 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
547 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
548 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
549 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
550 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
551 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
552 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
553 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
554 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
555 are interpreted as key definitions.
556 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
557 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
561 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
562 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
563 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
564 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
565 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
566 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
567 as building-blocks -TD
568 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
571 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
572 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
573 title is a status-line. -TD
574 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
575 of ordering and overrides -TD
576 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
577 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
578 used in that file -TD
581 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
582 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
583 definable capabilities.
584 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
585 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
586 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
587 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
588 embedded in the description.
589 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
590 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
591 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
592 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
593 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
594 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
597 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
598 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
599 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
600 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
602 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
603 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
604 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
607 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
608 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
609 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
610 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
611 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
612 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
615 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
616 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
617 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
619 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
620 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
621 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
622 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
625 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
626 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
627 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
630 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
631 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
632 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
634 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
635 calls to setupterm().
636 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
638 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
639 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
640 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
642 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
646 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
649 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
651 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
652 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
653 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
654 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
655 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
656 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
658 + update config.guess, config.sub
661 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
662 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
663 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
664 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
665 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
666 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
667 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
668 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
669 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
672 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
673 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
674 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
675 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
676 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
677 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
678 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
679 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
680 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
681 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
682 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
683 Linux versus most other systems.
686 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
690 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
691 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
692 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
693 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
694 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
695 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
696 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
697 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
698 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
699 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
700 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
701 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
702 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
703 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
706 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
708 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
710 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
711 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
712 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
713 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
716 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
718 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
719 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
720 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
721 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
722 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
724 + regenerated html manpages.
727 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
728 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
729 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
730 + change recommended regular expression library.
731 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
732 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
735 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
736 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
737 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
738 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
739 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
740 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
741 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
745 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
746 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
748 + add putty-sco entry -TD
751 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
753 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
755 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
756 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
757 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
759 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
761 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
764 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
765 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
766 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
767 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
769 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
770 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
771 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
774 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
775 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
777 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
780 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
782 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
784 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
786 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
787 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
788 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
789 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
790 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
791 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
792 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
795 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
796 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
798 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
799 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
800 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
801 database (cf: 20111001).
804 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
805 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
806 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
808 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
809 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
811 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
812 in older FreeBSD machines.
813 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
814 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
815 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
818 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
819 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
820 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
821 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
822 root's home directory.
823 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
824 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
825 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
826 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
827 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
829 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
830 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
831 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
832 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
833 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
834 (report by Peter Kruse).
837 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
838 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
840 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
842 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
843 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
844 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
847 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
848 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
849 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
850 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
851 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
852 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
855 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
856 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
857 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
858 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
859 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
862 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
863 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
864 input and output of termcap source.
865 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
866 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
867 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
868 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
869 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
870 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
871 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
872 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
873 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
876 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
879 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
881 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
882 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
883 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
884 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
886 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
889 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
890 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
892 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
893 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
896 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
897 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
899 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
900 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
902 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
903 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
904 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
905 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
907 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
908 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
909 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
910 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
912 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
913 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
916 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
917 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
918 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
919 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
922 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
923 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
924 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
925 + add terminator entry -TD
926 + add simpleterm entry -TD
927 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
928 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
932 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
933 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
934 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
935 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
936 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
937 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
938 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
939 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
940 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
941 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
945 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
946 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
947 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
948 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
949 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
950 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
952 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
953 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
954 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
956 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
959 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
960 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
961 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
962 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
964 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
965 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
967 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
968 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
969 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
970 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
971 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
972 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
973 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
974 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
976 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
977 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
979 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
980 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
981 tctest (cf: 19991211).
982 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
983 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
984 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
985 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
986 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
987 translating to termcap.
988 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
989 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
992 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
993 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
994 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
995 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
996 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
997 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
999 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
1000 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
1001 regarding Schilling's test program):
1002 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
1003 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
1004 + use \040 rather than \s
1005 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
1006 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
1009 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
1010 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
1011 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
1012 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1013 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
1014 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
1015 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
1016 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
1017 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
1018 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
1019 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
1020 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
1023 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
1024 are not used in the $CC variable.
1025 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
1026 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
1027 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
1028 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
1029 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
1030 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
1033 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
1034 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
1038 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
1039 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
1040 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
1041 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
1042 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
1044 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
1045 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
1047 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
1050 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
1051 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
1054 + fixes for MirBSD port:
1055 + set default prefix to /usr.
1056 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
1057 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
1058 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
1059 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
1062 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
1063 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
1064 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
1065 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
1067 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
1068 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
1072 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
1075 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
1076 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
1077 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
1079 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
1080 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
1081 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
1082 help work around weak-symbol issues.
1085 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
1086 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
1087 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
1088 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
1089 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
1090 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
1091 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
1092 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
1093 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
1094 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
1095 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
1098 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
1099 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
1101 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
1102 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
1103 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
1104 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez):
1107 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
1108 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
1109 as different types on some Unix systems.
1110 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
1111 function pointer passed to tputs().
1112 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
1113 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
1114 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
1115 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
1118 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
1119 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1120 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
1121 + update config.guess, config.sub
1124 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
1126 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
1127 some ncurses packages.
1128 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
1129 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
1130 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
1132 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1135 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
1136 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
1137 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
1138 the in-tree build of sample programs.
1139 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
1140 needed for rpm script.
1141 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
1142 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
1143 options if building a shared library with gnat.
1146 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
1147 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
1148 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
1149 that sample program.
1150 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
1151 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
1152 which were added in 5.7 and later.
1153 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
1157 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
1159 + regen Ada html documentation.
1160 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
1161 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
1163 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
1165 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
1166 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
1167 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
1168 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
1169 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
1170 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
1172 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1173 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
1175 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
1176 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
1179 + regen Ada html documentation.
1180 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
1181 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
1183 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
1184 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
1185 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
1186 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1187 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
1188 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
1189 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
1190 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
1191 thread in comp.lang.ada).
1192 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
1193 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
1194 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1195 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
1196 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
1197 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
1198 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
1199 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
1200 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
1201 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
1204 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
1205 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1206 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
1208 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
1210 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
1211 explain.txt is not found.
1214 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1215 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
1216 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1217 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
1218 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
1220 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1223 + update release notes, for 5.8.
1224 + regenerated html manpages.
1225 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
1227 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
1228 a new install of hashed database.
1229 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
1232 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
1233 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
1234 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
1235 wide-character configuration.
1236 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
1237 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
1240 + regenerated html manpages.
1241 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
1242 special case of trace configuration.
1245 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
1246 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
1247 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
1248 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
1249 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
1253 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
1254 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
1255 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
1256 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
1257 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
1259 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
1260 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
1263 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
1264 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
1265 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
1266 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
1267 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
1268 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
1269 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
1270 file configuration if that is used.
1271 + update config.guess, config.sub
1274 + regenerated html manpages.
1275 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
1277 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1278 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
1281 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
1282 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
1285 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
1286 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
1287 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
1290 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
1292 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
1293 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
1294 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
1295 wide-character configuration.
1296 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
1297 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
1298 referred to quitting with 'q'.
1301 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
1302 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
1303 version which works with termcap.
1304 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
1305 (request by Sven Joachim).
1306 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
1307 (report by Sven Joachim).
1310 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
1311 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
1312 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
1315 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
1317 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
1318 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
1321 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
1323 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
1324 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
1325 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
1326 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
1327 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
1328 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
1332 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
1333 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
1334 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
1336 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
1339 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
1341 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
1345 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
1347 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
1348 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
1349 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
1350 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
1351 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
1352 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
1353 tree (report by Werner Fink).
1354 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
1355 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
1356 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
1357 (report by John P. Hartmann)
1358 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
1361 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
1362 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
1363 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
1364 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
1365 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
1366 external package "cindent".
1369 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
1370 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
1371 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
1372 inconsistent printer-controls.
1373 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
1374 form is available -TD
1375 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
1377 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
1379 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
1380 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1381 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
1382 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
1383 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
1385 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
1386 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
1390 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
1391 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
1392 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
1393 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1394 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
1396 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
1399 + regenerated html manpages.
1400 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
1401 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
1402 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
1405 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
1407 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
1408 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
1409 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
1410 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
1414 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
1415 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
1418 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
1419 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
1420 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
1421 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
1422 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
1423 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
1424 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
1428 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
1429 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
1430 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
1431 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
1432 by Tim van der Molen).
1433 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
1434 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
1435 library configuration.
1436 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
1437 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
1438 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
1441 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
1443 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
1444 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
1445 e.g., for cross-compiling.
1446 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
1447 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
1450 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
1451 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
1452 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
1453 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
1454 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
1455 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
1456 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
1457 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
1460 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
1461 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
1462 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
1463 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
1464 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
1465 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
1466 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
1467 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
1470 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
1471 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
1472 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
1473 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
1476 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1477 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
1478 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
1481 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1482 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
1483 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
1486 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1487 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
1488 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
1489 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
1492 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
1493 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
1494 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
1496 + update Ada95/configure.
1497 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
1498 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
1499 of updating LIBS variable.
1502 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
1503 work with 64-bit compiles.
1504 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
1508 + regenerated html documentation.
1509 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
1511 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
1512 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
1513 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
1514 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
1517 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
1518 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
1520 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
1521 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
1522 build- and target-machines differ.
1523 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
1524 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
1526 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
1527 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
1530 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
1531 new EINTR feature is enabled.
1532 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
1533 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
1534 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
1535 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
1536 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
1537 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
1538 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
1539 with the standard builds of ncurses.
1540 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
1541 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
1542 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
1543 found in predefined libraries.
1544 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
1547 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
1548 (patch by David Benjamin).
1549 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
1550 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
1551 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
1552 may be defined by that route.
1555 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
1556 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
1557 the predefined include directories.
1558 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
1559 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
1560 where older versions would produce an error.
1563 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
1564 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
1565 terminfo to termcap strings
1566 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
1567 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
1568 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
1569 directory was already added.
1570 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
1571 directories (which will be ignored).
1574 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
1575 + discard motion events
1576 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
1577 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
1578 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
1579 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
1582 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
1583 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
1584 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
1585 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
1586 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
1587 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
1588 extended-colors configuration.
1589 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
1590 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
1591 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
1594 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
1596 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
1597 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
1598 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
1600 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
1601 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
1602 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
1605 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
1606 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
1610 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
1611 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
1612 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
1613 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
1614 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
1615 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
1616 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
1617 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
1618 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
1622 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
1623 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
1624 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
1625 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
1628 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
1630 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1631 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
1632 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
1635 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
1636 making those separately distributable.
1637 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
1638 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
1642 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
1645 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
1646 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
1647 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
1648 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
1652 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
1653 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
1654 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1655 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1658 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
1659 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
1660 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
1661 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
1663 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
1664 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
1665 by Miroslav Lichvar)
1666 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
1670 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
1671 that line-drawing works.
1672 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
1673 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
1674 capabilities can run.
1675 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
1679 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
1680 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
1681 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
1682 before older in the list.
1683 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
1684 + minor documentation cleanup.
1685 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1686 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
1687 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
1690 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
1691 most common case of SGR 0.
1692 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
1693 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
1694 events remain, it will return ERR.
1697 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
1698 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
1699 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
1700 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
1701 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
1704 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
1705 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
1706 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
1709 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
1710 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
1711 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
1712 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
1713 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
1714 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
1717 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
1718 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
1719 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
1720 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
1721 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
1723 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
1725 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
1727 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
1728 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1729 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
1731 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1732 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
1735 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
1736 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
1738 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
1739 writing terminfo entries.
1740 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
1741 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
1742 by Nicholas Marriott).
1745 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
1747 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
1748 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
1752 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
1753 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
1754 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
1755 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
1756 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
1760 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
1761 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
1762 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
1763 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1766 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
1767 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
1768 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
1769 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
1770 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1771 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
1772 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
1775 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
1776 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
1777 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
1778 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
1779 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
1780 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
1781 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
1782 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
1783 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
1784 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
1785 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
1788 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
1789 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
1790 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
1791 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD bin/136223).
1794 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
1795 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
1798 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
1799 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
1800 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
1804 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
1805 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
1806 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
1807 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
1808 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
1810 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
1811 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
1814 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
1815 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
1816 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
1817 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
1818 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
1819 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
1821 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
1822 library (some work remains for forms library).
1825 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
1826 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
1827 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
1828 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
1830 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
1831 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
1832 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
1833 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
1836 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
1837 by sharing linedata.h functions):
1840 test/test_addchstr.c
1841 test/test_add_wchstr.c
1842 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
1843 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
1844 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
1847 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
1849 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
1850 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
1851 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
1852 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
1856 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
1857 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
1858 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
1859 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1862 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
1863 amd64 (Debian #542031).
1864 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
1867 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1870 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
1871 broken in 20090509 merging.
1872 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
1873 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
1874 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
1875 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
1876 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
1877 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
1878 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
1879 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
1881 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1884 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
1885 implementation details of hash function.
1888 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
1889 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
1890 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
1893 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
1894 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
1895 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
1896 test/demo_terminfo.c
1897 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1898 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
1901 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
1902 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
1906 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1909 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
1911 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
1912 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
1913 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
1914 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
1915 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
1917 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
1918 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
1919 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
1922 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
1923 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
1924 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
1927 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
1928 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
1930 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1933 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
1934 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
1936 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
1937 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
1941 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
1942 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
1943 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1946 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
1949 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1952 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
1953 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
1954 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
1955 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1958 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1961 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
1962 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
1963 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
1964 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
1968 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1971 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1972 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
1975 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1978 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
1982 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1985 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1986 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
1987 part of the form library.
1990 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
1991 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
1994 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
1995 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
1996 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
1997 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
1998 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
1999 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
2000 a temporary variable.
2001 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
2002 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
2003 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
2004 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
2005 with Charles Wilson).
2006 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
2007 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
2008 > patches by Charles Wilson:
2009 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
2010 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
2011 digits, after the final '.').
2012 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
2013 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
2014 using that in the libtool link-commands.
2015 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
2016 from 2009031 changes.
2017 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
2018 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
2019 termlib) is to be linked.
2020 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
2021 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
2024 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
2025 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2026 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
2027 (report by Charles Wilson).
2028 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
2029 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2030 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
2031 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
2032 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
2035 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
2036 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
2037 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
2038 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
2039 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
2041 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2042 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
2043 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
2044 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
2045 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
2046 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
2047 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
2048 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
2051 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2052 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
2053 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
2056 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2059 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
2061 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
2062 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
2063 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
2064 some internals work is needed to complete these).
2065 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
2068 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
2069 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
2070 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
2071 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2072 + make it work with $DESTDIR
2073 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
2076 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
2077 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
2079 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
2080 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
2081 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
2084 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
2085 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
2086 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
2087 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
2088 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
2089 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
2090 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
2091 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
2092 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
2095 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
2096 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
2098 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
2100 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
2101 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
2104 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
2106 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
2107 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
2108 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
2109 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2112 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
2113 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
2114 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
2116 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
2117 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
2120 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
2121 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
2122 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
2123 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
2124 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
2125 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
2127 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
2128 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
2130 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2131 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2134 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
2135 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
2136 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
2139 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
2140 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
2141 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
2143 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
2144 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
2147 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
2149 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
2150 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
2151 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
2153 + fixes from NetBSD port at
2154 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
2155 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
2156 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
2157 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
2158 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
2160 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
2161 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
2164 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
2165 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
2166 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
2167 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
2168 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
2169 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
2170 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
2171 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
2172 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
2173 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
2174 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
2177 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
2178 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
2179 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
2180 passing color or video attributes.
2181 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
2182 display meta-characters.
2183 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
2184 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
2185 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
2186 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
2190 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
2191 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2192 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
2194 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
2197 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
2199 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
2200 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
2202 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2205 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
2206 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
2207 does not work well on that platform).
2208 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
2211 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
2212 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
2213 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
2215 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
2216 --disable-database is used.
2217 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
2218 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
2219 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
2220 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
2224 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
2225 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
2226 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
2227 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
2228 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
2229 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
2230 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
2234 + regenerated html documentation.
2235 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
2236 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
2237 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
2238 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
2239 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
2240 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
2241 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
2242 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
2245 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
2246 works for C/C++ parts).
2247 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
2248 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
2251 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
2252 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
2253 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
2254 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
2255 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
2256 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
2257 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
2258 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
2259 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
2261 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
2262 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2263 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
2264 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
2265 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
2266 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
2269 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
2270 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
2273 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
2274 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
2275 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
2276 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
2277 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
2278 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
2281 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
2282 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
2285 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
2289 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
2290 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
2291 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
2292 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
2294 + update test/configure script.
2295 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
2296 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
2297 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
2298 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
2299 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
2302 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
2303 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
2305 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
2307 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
2308 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
2309 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
2310 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
2311 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
2312 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
2313 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2314 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2315 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
2318 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
2319 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
2320 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
2321 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
2322 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
2323 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
2324 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
2325 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
2326 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
2327 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
2328 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
2332 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
2333 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
2334 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
2335 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
2336 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
2338 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
2339 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
2340 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
2341 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
2342 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
2345 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
2346 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
2347 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
2348 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
2349 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
2350 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
2351 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
2354 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
2358 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
2361 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
2364 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
2365 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
2367 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
2368 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
2369 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
2373 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
2374 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
2376 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
2377 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
2378 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
2379 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
2382 + regenerated html documentation.
2383 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
2384 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
2385 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
2386 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
2387 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
2390 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
2391 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
2392 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
2396 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
2397 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
2398 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
2399 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
2400 window which is being used in a wgetch().
2401 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
2404 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
2405 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
2407 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
2408 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
2409 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
2410 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
2411 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
2412 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
2413 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
2414 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
2415 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
2418 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
2419 screen which must be updated.
2420 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
2421 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
2422 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
2426 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
2427 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
2429 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
2430 Emanuele Giaquinta).
2431 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
2432 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2435 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
2436 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
2437 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
2439 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
2443 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
2444 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
2445 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
2448 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
2449 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
2450 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
2451 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
2454 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
2455 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
2457 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
2459 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
2462 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
2463 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
2464 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
2465 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
2466 python-dev2 mailing list).
2469 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
2470 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
2471 are not associated with a particular screen.
2472 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
2473 stdscr to the callback function.
2474 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
2475 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
2476 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2477 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
2478 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
2479 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2480 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
2484 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
2485 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
2486 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
2487 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
2489 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
2490 wide-characters with extended-colors.
2491 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
2492 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
2493 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
2496 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
2497 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
2498 that the 'F' accepts.
2499 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
2500 are working concurrently.
2501 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
2505 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
2506 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
2507 _nc_free_and_exit().
2510 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
2511 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
2514 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
2515 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
2518 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
2519 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
2520 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
2521 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
2524 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
2525 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
2526 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
2527 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
2528 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
2529 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
2531 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
2532 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
2536 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
2537 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
2538 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
2541 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
2542 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
2543 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
2546 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
2547 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
2548 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
2552 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
2553 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
2554 "link_test" builds properly.
2555 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
2556 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
2557 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
2558 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
2559 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
2560 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
2561 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
2563 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
2566 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
2570 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
2571 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
2574 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
2576 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
2577 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
2578 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
2581 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
2582 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
2583 pierre4d2 comments).
2584 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
2585 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
2586 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
2587 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
2591 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
2592 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
2593 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
2594 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
2595 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
2597 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
2598 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
2599 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
2603 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
2604 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
2607 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
2609 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
2611 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
2615 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
2616 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
2618 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
2619 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
2620 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
2621 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
2622 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
2624 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
2625 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
2628 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
2629 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
2630 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
2631 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2634 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
2635 calls within the ncurses library.
2636 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
2638 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
2639 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
2640 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
2642 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
2643 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
2644 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
2645 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
2646 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
2649 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
2650 for threaded library (incomplete).
2651 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
2652 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
2656 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
2657 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
2658 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
2659 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
2660 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
2661 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
2662 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
2663 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2664 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2667 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
2669 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
2670 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
2673 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
2674 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
2675 "\0" followed by a digit.
2676 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
2677 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
2678 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
2679 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
2680 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
2681 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
2682 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
2683 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
2684 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
2687 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
2688 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
2689 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
2690 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
2691 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
2693 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
2694 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
2695 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
2699 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
2700 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
2701 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
2702 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
2703 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
2704 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
2705 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
2706 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
2707 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
2710 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
2711 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
2712 + add test/test_getstr.c
2713 + add test/test_inwstr.c
2714 + add test/test_instr.c
2717 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
2718 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
2719 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
2723 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
2724 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
2725 ".log" to the name and try again.
2726 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
2727 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
2728 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
2729 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
2730 --disable-echo option is used.
2731 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
2732 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
2733 + update config.guess, config.sub
2736 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
2737 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
2738 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
2742 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
2743 problems with multi-column characters.
2744 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
2745 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
2746 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
2747 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
2748 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
2749 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
2750 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
2753 + add test/demo_panels.c
2754 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
2757 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
2759 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
2760 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
2763 + add test/key_name.c
2764 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
2765 + update test/configure
2766 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
2767 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
2768 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
2772 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
2773 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
2774 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
2775 illustrate how to use mvcur().
2776 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
2777 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
2778 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
2779 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
2780 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
2783 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
2784 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
2785 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
2786 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
2787 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
2788 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
2791 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
2792 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
2794 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
2795 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
2796 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
2797 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
2800 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
2801 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
2802 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
2803 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
2805 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
2807 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
2808 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
2809 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
2810 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
2811 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
2814 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
2815 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
2817 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
2818 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
2819 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
2820 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
2821 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
2822 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
2823 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
2824 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
2825 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
2826 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
2827 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
2830 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
2831 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
2832 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
2833 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
2834 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
2835 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
2836 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
2839 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
2840 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
2841 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
2842 Ada95 tree is not built.
2845 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
2846 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
2847 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
2848 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
2849 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
2850 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
2852 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
2853 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
2854 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
2855 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
2856 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
2857 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
2858 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
2859 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2860 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
2861 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
2862 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
2863 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
2864 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
2865 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
2866 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
2867 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
2868 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
2869 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
2870 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
2872 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
2873 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
2874 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
2875 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
2876 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
2877 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
2878 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
2879 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
2880 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
2883 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
2884 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
2885 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
2886 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
2887 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
2888 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
2889 + improved install-sh's quoting.
2890 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
2894 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
2895 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
2896 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
2897 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
2898 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
2902 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
2903 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
2904 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
2905 in the configure script to an error.
2906 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
2907 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
2908 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
2909 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
2910 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
2912 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
2913 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
2916 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
2917 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2920 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
2921 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
2923 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
2924 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
2925 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
2926 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
2927 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
2928 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
2929 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
2930 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
2933 + regenerated html documentation.
2934 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
2935 opaque in selected configurations.
2936 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
2937 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
2938 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
2939 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
2940 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
2941 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
2942 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
2943 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
2944 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
2945 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
2946 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
2948 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
2949 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
2952 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
2953 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
2954 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
2955 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
2956 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2957 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
2958 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
2959 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
2960 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
2961 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
2962 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
2963 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
2966 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
2968 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
2969 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
2970 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
2972 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
2973 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2974 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
2975 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2976 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
2977 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2978 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
2979 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
2981 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
2982 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2985 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
2986 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
2988 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
2990 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
2991 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
2992 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
2995 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
2996 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
2997 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
2998 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
3000 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
3001 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
3002 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
3003 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
3004 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
3005 no longer relies on it.
3006 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
3007 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
3008 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
3011 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
3012 (report by Rong-En Fan).
3015 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
3016 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
3017 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
3018 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
3019 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
3020 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
3021 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
3022 its license consistent with ncurses.
3023 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
3024 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
3025 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
3028 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
3029 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
3030 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
3031 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
3035 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
3036 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
3037 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
3039 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
3040 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
3043 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
3044 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
3045 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3048 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
3049 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
3050 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
3051 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
3052 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
3053 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
3054 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
3055 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
3056 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
3057 to manpages as needed.
3058 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
3059 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
3062 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
3063 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
3064 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
3065 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
3066 + update config.guess, config.sub
3068 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3071 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
3072 definitions in <wchar.h>.
3073 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
3074 correct nor portable.
3075 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
3077 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
3078 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
3082 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
3083 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
3084 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
3085 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
3086 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
3087 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
3090 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
3091 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
3092 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
3093 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
3095 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
3096 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
3097 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
3098 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
3099 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
3100 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
3101 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
3102 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
3105 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
3106 database configuration.
3107 + updates for test/configure script.
3108 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
3109 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
3111 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
3112 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
3113 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
3114 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
3116 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
3117 _nc_printf_string().
3118 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
3119 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
3122 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
3123 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
3125 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
3126 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
3130 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
3131 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
3134 + add test/echochar.c
3135 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
3136 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
3139 + add AUTHORS file -TD
3140 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
3141 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
3142 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
3145 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
3146 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
3147 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
3149 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
3150 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
3151 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
3152 for rpath support in versions past 3.
3153 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
3154 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
3155 Ralf S Engelschall).
3156 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
3157 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
3158 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
3159 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
3162 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
3163 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
3164 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
3167 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
3168 and status line (Alain Bench).
3169 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
3170 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
3171 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
3172 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
3175 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
3176 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
3177 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
3178 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
3179 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
3182 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
3183 + updated html documentation.
3184 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
3185 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
3188 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
3189 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
3190 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3191 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
3192 option (from lynx changes) -TD
3193 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
3194 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
3195 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
3196 by report by Christopher Parker).
3200 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
3201 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
3202 since it does not really do this -TD
3205 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
3206 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
3207 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
3208 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
3211 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
3212 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
3213 embedded into a termcap description.
3214 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
3215 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
3216 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
3217 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
3218 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
3221 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
3223 + add test/foldkeys.c
3226 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
3227 source output (Debian #378783).
3228 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
3229 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
3230 variable is also used (Redhat #199369).
3231 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
3232 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
3233 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
3236 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
3237 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
3238 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
3241 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
3242 or as a text file if those are not available.
3243 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
3244 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
3245 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
3248 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
3249 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
3250 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
3251 + update config.guess, config.sub
3254 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
3255 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
3256 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
3258 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
3259 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
3261 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
3262 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
3263 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
3264 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
3265 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
3266 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
3268 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
3269 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
3270 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
3271 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3274 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
3275 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
3279 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
3280 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
3282 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
3283 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
3284 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
3285 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
3286 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
3287 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
3290 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
3291 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
3292 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
3293 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
3294 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
3295 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
3296 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
3297 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
3298 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
3299 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
3302 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
3303 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
3304 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
3305 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
3307 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
3310 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
3311 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
3312 + minor copyright fixes.
3313 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
3316 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
3317 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
3318 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
3319 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
3320 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
3321 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
3322 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
3323 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
3325 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
3326 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
3327 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
3328 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
3330 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
3333 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
3334 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
3336 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
3337 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
3338 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
3339 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
3341 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
3342 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
3343 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
3344 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
3347 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
3348 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
3349 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
3350 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
3351 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
3352 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
3353 + update config.guess, config.sub
3354 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
3355 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
3356 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
3357 function is broken in that implementation.
3360 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
3361 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
3364 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
3365 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
3367 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
3368 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
3370 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
3371 reported to implement this feature -TD
3374 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
3375 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3378 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
3379 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
3380 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
3381 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
3382 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
3383 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
3384 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
3385 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
3388 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
3389 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
3391 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
3392 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
3395 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
3396 (report by Alain Bench).
3397 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
3398 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
3399 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
3400 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
3402 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
3403 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
3404 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
3408 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
3409 and/or video attributes.
3410 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
3411 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
3414 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
3417 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
3418 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
3419 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
3420 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
3421 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
3422 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
3423 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
3424 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
3425 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
3428 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
3429 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
3430 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
3433 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
3434 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
3435 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
3436 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
3437 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
3438 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
3439 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
3440 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
3441 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
3442 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
3445 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
3446 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
3447 rather than delayed.
3448 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
3450 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
3451 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
3452 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
3455 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
3457 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
3458 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
3461 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
3462 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
3465 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
3466 + suppress line-drawing
3467 + implement max_attributes
3469 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
3470 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
3474 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
3475 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
3477 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
3479 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
3480 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
3481 etc., when allocating screens.
3484 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
3485 this in test/filter.c
3486 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
3490 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
3491 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
3492 + add extension nofilter().
3493 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
3494 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
3495 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
3496 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
3497 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3500 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
3501 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
3502 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
3503 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
3504 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
3505 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
3506 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
3507 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
3508 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
3510 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
3511 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
3512 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
3514 + update config.guess and config.sub
3517 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
3518 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
3519 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
3521 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
3522 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
3523 that was never built in that directory).
3524 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
3527 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
3529 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
3530 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
3534 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
3535 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
3536 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
3537 effect of the different functions.
3538 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
3542 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
3543 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
3545 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
3549 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
3550 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
3551 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
3553 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
3554 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
3558 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
3559 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
3560 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
3562 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
3563 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
3564 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
3567 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
3568 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
3569 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
3572 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
3573 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
3574 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
3576 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
3577 a derived window (Debian #316663).
3580 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
3581 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
3582 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
3583 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
3584 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
3585 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
3586 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
3589 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
3590 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
3591 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
3593 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
3594 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3595 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
3596 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
3597 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
3599 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3602 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
3605 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
3606 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
3610 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
3611 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3612 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
3613 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3614 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
3616 + update config.guess and config.sub from
3617 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3620 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
3621 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
3622 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
3623 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
3624 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
3625 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
3626 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
3627 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
3628 default if it is used.
3629 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
3630 --with-abi-version option was used.
3631 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
3632 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
3633 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
3636 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
3637 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
3638 handlers (Debian #326709).
3641 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
3642 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
3644 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
3647 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
3648 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
3649 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
3650 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
3652 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
3653 (report by Frank van Vugt).
3656 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
3657 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
3658 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
3659 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
3660 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
3661 + update llib-l* files.
3664 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
3665 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
3666 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
3667 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
3671 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
3672 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
3673 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
3674 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
3675 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
3676 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
3677 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
3678 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
3679 Konstantin Andreev).
3682 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
3683 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
3684 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
3685 several related cases -TD
3686 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
3687 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
3689 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
3690 resets line-drawing.
3693 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
3695 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
3696 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
3697 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
3698 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
3699 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
3700 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
3703 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
3704 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
3705 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
3707 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
3708 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
3711 + update config.guess and config.sub from
3712 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3713 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
3714 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
3715 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
3716 "make install.data" step.
3717 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
3718 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
3719 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
3720 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
3721 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
3722 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
3723 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
3724 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
3725 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
3726 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
3727 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
3728 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
3729 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
3730 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
3733 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3736 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
3737 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
3738 review of Debian package).
3739 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
3740 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
3741 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
3742 install using libtool 1.5.0):
3743 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
3745 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
3746 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
3747 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
3748 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
3749 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3752 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
3753 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
3754 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
3757 + fixes for termcap support:
3758 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
3759 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
3760 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
3761 extended names data will be freed consistently.
3762 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
3764 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
3765 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
3766 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
3767 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
3770 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
3771 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
3772 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
3773 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
3775 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
3779 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
3781 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
3782 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
3785 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
3786 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
3787 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
3788 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
3789 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
3790 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
3791 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
3795 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
3796 shift-, control-cursor keys.
3797 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
3798 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
3799 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
3800 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
3801 it will automatically be treated as a key.
3802 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
3803 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
3804 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
3808 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
3809 + add configure option --enable-largefile
3810 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
3814 + update config.guess, config.sub
3815 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
3816 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
3817 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
3818 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
3819 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
3821 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
3822 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
3823 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
3826 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
3827 position the mouse to a particular item.
3828 + implement test/demo_menus.c
3829 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
3830 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
3831 --enable-const option.
3834 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
3835 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
3836 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
3837 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
3838 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
3839 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
3840 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
3841 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
3842 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
3843 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
3844 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
3847 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
3849 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
3850 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
3853 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
3854 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
3855 anyone used that configuration.
3856 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
3858 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
3859 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
3862 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
3863 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
3864 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
3866 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
3867 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
3868 WenRui, Debian #300512).
3871 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
3872 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
3873 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
3877 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
3878 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
3879 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
3880 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
3881 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
3884 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
3886 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
3888 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
3889 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
3890 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
3893 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
3895 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
3896 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
3897 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
3898 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
3899 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
3900 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
3901 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
3902 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
3903 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
3904 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
3905 right (cf: 20040228).
3906 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
3907 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
3910 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
3911 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
3912 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
3913 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
3914 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
3915 added (Debian #295083).
3916 + add traces to panel library.
3919 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
3920 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
3921 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
3922 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
3923 mouse events in this case.
3924 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
3925 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
3928 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
3929 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
3930 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
3931 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
3932 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
3933 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
3934 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
3935 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
3938 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
3939 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
3940 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
3941 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
3942 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
3943 already been started.
3944 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
3945 pair_content() and color_content().
3946 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
3947 if it corresponds to the default-color.
3948 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
3949 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
3950 color pairs which are allowed.
3951 + add a top-level tags rule.
3954 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
3955 first calling initscr().
3956 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
3957 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
3958 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
3959 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
3960 that are curses-specific.
3961 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
3962 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
3963 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
3964 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
3968 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
3969 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
3970 for leading whitespace.
3971 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
3972 where a following line begins in column 1.
3973 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
3974 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
3977 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
3980 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
3981 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
3982 + update config.guess, config.sub
3983 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
3984 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
3985 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
3986 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
3987 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
3988 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
3989 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
3992 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
3994 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
3995 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
3998 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
3999 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
4000 and attr_set functions.
4003 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
4004 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
4005 forms-demo to be one character short.
4006 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
4007 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
4008 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
4009 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
4012 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
4013 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
4014 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
4015 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
4017 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
4018 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
4021 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
4022 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
4023 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
4024 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
4025 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat #140326).
4026 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
4027 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
4029 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
4030 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
4032 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
4033 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
4036 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
4037 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
4038 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
4039 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
4040 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
4041 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
4042 wide-character configuration.
4045 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
4046 or multicolumn characters.
4049 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
4050 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
4051 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
4052 use_default_colors() be called first.
4055 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
4056 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
4057 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
4058 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
4059 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
4060 must be wrapped to a new line.
4061 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
4062 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
4063 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
4064 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
4065 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
4069 + minor fixes for traces.
4070 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
4071 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
4072 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
4076 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
4077 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
4078 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
4079 and shift-out which seem to work.
4080 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
4081 at runtime (Debian #110586).
4084 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
4085 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
4086 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
4087 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
4091 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
4092 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
4093 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
4094 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
4097 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
4098 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
4099 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
4100 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
4101 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
4102 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
4103 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
4104 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
4105 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
4106 is no longer experimental.
4107 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
4108 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
4111 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
4114 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
4115 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
4116 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
4117 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
4118 using "tic -C" (Redhat #130921).
4119 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
4120 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
4121 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
4124 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
4125 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
4126 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
4127 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
4128 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
4129 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637).
4130 The xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and
4131 the new ones do not require this change. -TD
4134 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
4135 and window managers (Debian #265631).
4136 > terminfo updates -TD
4137 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
4138 with the common usage of bce/ech
4139 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
4143 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
4144 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
4145 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
4146 a help window as well.
4147 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
4148 the -d option is set.
4149 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
4152 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
4154 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
4155 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
4159 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
4160 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
4161 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
4162 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat #122815, patch by
4164 > terminfo updates -TD
4165 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
4166 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
4167 + add function-keys to decansi
4168 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
4169 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
4170 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
4173 > terminfo updates -TD
4174 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
4175 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
4177 + review/update konsole entries
4178 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
4179 + correct tsl string in kterm
4182 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
4185 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
4186 multibyte character.
4187 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
4189 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
4190 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
4191 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
4192 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
4193 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
4194 converting termcap to termcap format.
4195 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
4196 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
4197 > terminfo updates -TD
4198 + minor fixes for emu
4200 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
4205 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
4206 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
4207 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
4208 (report/patch by Tony Li).
4209 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
4210 > terminfo updates -TD
4211 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
4213 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
4214 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
4215 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
4218 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
4219 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
4221 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
4222 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
4223 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
4224 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
4225 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
4226 + update config.guess, config.sub
4227 > terminfo updates -TD
4229 + add xterm-xf86-v44
4230 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
4231 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
4236 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
4237 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
4238 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
4241 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
4242 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
4243 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
4245 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
4249 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
4250 field_buffer() results.
4251 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
4254 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
4256 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
4257 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
4258 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
4259 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
4260 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
4263 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
4264 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
4265 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
4269 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
4270 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
4272 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
4275 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
4276 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
4277 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
4278 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
4279 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
4280 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
4281 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
4282 information without an option.
4283 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
4284 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
4287 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
4290 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
4291 + free some memory leaks in tic.
4292 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
4293 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
4294 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
4295 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
4296 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
4298 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
4301 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
4302 to an unsigned char.
4303 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
4304 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
4307 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
4310 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
4311 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
4312 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
4313 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
4314 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
4315 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
4316 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
4317 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
4318 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
4319 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
4320 20030802 (Debian #237629).
4323 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
4324 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
4325 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
4326 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
4329 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
4331 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
4332 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
4335 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
4336 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
4337 mode is shown in that test.
4338 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
4339 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
4340 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
4343 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
4345 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
4346 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
4347 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
4348 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
4350 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
4351 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
4352 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
4353 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
4356 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
4357 (request by Mike Aubury).
4358 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
4360 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
4362 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
4365 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
4366 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
4367 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
4368 with Stanislav Ievlev).
4369 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
4370 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
4371 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
4372 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
4373 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
4374 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
4376 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4379 20040207 pre-release
4380 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
4381 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
4382 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
4383 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
4384 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
4386 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
4387 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
4388 verified by Scott Corscadden).
4390 20040131 pre-release
4391 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
4392 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
4393 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
4394 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
4395 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
4396 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
4397 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
4398 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
4399 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
4400 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
4401 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
4403 20040125 pre-release
4404 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
4405 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
4406 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
4407 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
4408 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
4409 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
4410 modifying the displayed value.
4412 20040124 pre-release
4413 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
4414 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
4415 that works better for cross-compiling.
4417 20040117 pre-release
4418 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
4419 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
4420 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
4421 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
4422 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
4423 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
4424 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
4426 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
4427 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
4429 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
4430 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
4431 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
4432 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
4433 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
4434 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
4435 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
4436 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
4437 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
4438 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
4439 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
4440 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
4442 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
4443 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
4444 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
4445 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
4446 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
4447 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
4448 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
4449 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
4451 20040110 pre-release
4452 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
4453 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
4455 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
4456 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
4458 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
4460 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
4461 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
4462 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
4463 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
4464 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
4467 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
4468 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
4469 + add pecho_wchar().
4470 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
4471 available) on older platforms.
4474 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
4475 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
4476 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
4477 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
4478 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
4479 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
4480 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
4481 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
4482 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
4485 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
4486 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
4487 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
4488 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
4489 work with Tru64 4.0d.
4490 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
4494 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
4495 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
4496 applications do not.
4497 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
4498 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
4499 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
4500 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
4501 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
4502 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
4506 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
4507 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
4508 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
4509 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
4510 <inger@altlinux.org>).
4511 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
4512 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
4513 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
4514 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
4515 awkward for some cases.
4516 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
4517 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
4519 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
4520 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
4521 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
4522 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
4523 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
4527 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
4528 values (Philippe Blain).
4529 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
4530 restarting (Philippe Blain).
4531 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
4535 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
4536 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
4537 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
4538 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
4539 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
4540 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
4544 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
4545 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
4546 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
4548 + update config.guess, config.sub
4551 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
4552 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
4553 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
4554 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
4555 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
4556 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
4557 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
4559 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
4560 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
4561 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
4562 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
4563 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
4566 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
4567 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
4568 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
4569 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
4570 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
4571 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
4572 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
4573 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
4575 + regenerated html documentation.
4576 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
4577 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
4578 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
4581 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
4582 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
4583 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
4584 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
4585 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
4586 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
4587 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
4588 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
4592 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
4593 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
4596 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
4597 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
4598 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
4599 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
4601 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
4602 (report by Philippe Blain).
4605 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
4606 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
4607 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
4608 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
4609 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
4610 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
4611 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4612 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
4613 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
4615 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
4617 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
4618 in the clr_bol logic.
4621 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4622 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
4623 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
4624 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
4625 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
4626 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
4627 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
4628 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
4629 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
4630 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
4631 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
4632 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
4635 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
4636 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
4637 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
4638 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
4641 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
4642 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
4643 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
4644 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
4645 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
4646 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
4647 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
4648 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
4649 --with-install-prefix is used.
4652 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4653 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
4654 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
4655 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
4658 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
4659 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
4660 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
4661 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
4662 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
4663 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
4664 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4665 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
4666 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
4669 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
4670 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
4671 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
4672 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
4673 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
4674 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
4675 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
4678 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
4680 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4681 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
4682 the size of the scroll-region.
4683 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
4686 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
4687 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
4688 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
4692 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
4693 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
4694 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
4695 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
4696 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
4698 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
4699 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
4700 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
4701 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
4702 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
4703 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
4704 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
4705 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
4706 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
4707 usage and to prevent circular links.
4708 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
4709 (rxvt-color): new alias
4710 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
4711 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
4712 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
4713 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
4714 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
4715 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
4717 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
4721 + update config.guess, config.sub
4722 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
4723 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
4726 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
4727 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
4728 would not accept gcc warning options.
4729 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
4730 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
4731 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
4732 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
4733 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
4734 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
4735 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
4737 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
4740 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
4741 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
4742 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
4743 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
4744 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
4745 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
4746 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
4747 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
4750 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
4752 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
4753 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
4754 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
4755 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
4758 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
4760 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
4761 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
4762 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
4763 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
4764 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
4765 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
4768 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
4769 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
4770 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
4771 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
4772 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
4773 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
4774 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
4775 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
4777 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
4778 Albert Chin-A-Young).
4779 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
4780 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4783 + regenerated html manpages.
4784 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
4785 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
4787 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
4788 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
4790 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
4791 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
4794 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
4795 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
4796 + add tkterm entry -TD
4797 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
4798 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
4799 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
4800 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
4802 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
4803 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
4804 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
4806 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
4807 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
4808 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
4811 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
4812 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
4813 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
4814 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
4816 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
4817 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
4818 current test programs.
4819 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
4820 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
4821 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
4822 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
4824 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
4825 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
4826 mentioned in the terminfo.
4827 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
4828 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
4831 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
4832 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
4833 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
4834 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
4835 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
4836 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
4837 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
4838 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
4841 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
4842 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
4843 the editing position before making modifications.
4844 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
4845 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
4846 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
4849 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
4850 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
4851 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
4852 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
4854 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
4855 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
4856 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
4857 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
4858 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
4859 terminfo as is done in "screen".
4862 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
4863 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
4864 code, from recent rewrite.
4865 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
4867 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
4868 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
4871 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
4872 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
4873 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
4874 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
4877 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
4878 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
4880 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
4883 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
4885 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
4886 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
4888 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
4889 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
4890 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
4893 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
4894 a file when ^W is given.
4895 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
4899 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
4900 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
4901 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
4902 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
4903 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
4904 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
4905 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
4906 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
4910 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
4911 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
4912 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
4915 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
4916 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
4917 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
4918 baudrate was not known.
4919 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
4920 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
4921 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
4922 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
4923 corresponding capability might be
4925 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
4926 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
4927 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
4928 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
4931 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
4932 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
4933 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
4934 apparently typedef'd.
4935 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
4936 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
4939 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
4940 + updated configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
4941 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
4942 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
4943 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
4944 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
4945 cached for reallocating.
4948 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
4949 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
4950 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
4952 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
4953 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
4954 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
4955 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
4956 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
4957 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
4958 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
4959 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
4962 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
4963 emx-base to the latter -TD
4964 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
4965 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
4968 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
4969 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
4970 attributes, e.g., reverse.
4971 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
4972 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
4975 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
4976 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
4977 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
4978 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
4979 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
4980 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
4981 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
4983 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
4984 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
4985 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
4986 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
4987 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
4990 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
4991 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
4992 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
4993 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
4994 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
4995 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
4997 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4998 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
4999 is indeed a "blank".
5000 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
5001 sections as small as one line.
5002 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
5004 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
5005 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
5006 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
5009 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
5010 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
5013 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
5014 (report by Philippe Blain).
5015 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
5016 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
5017 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
5018 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
5019 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
5021 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
5022 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
5023 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
5024 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5025 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
5026 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
5029 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
5030 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
5032 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
5033 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
5035 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
5036 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
5037 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
5038 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
5041 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
5042 overridden from the environment.
5043 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
5044 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
5045 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
5046 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
5047 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
5048 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
5049 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
5050 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
5051 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
5052 by Sam Varshavchik).
5053 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
5054 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
5055 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
5056 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
5058 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
5059 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
5060 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
5061 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
5062 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
5065 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
5066 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
5067 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
5068 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
5069 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
5070 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
5071 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
5072 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
5073 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
5074 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
5075 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
5076 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
5077 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
5078 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
5079 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
5080 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
5081 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
5082 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
5083 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
5084 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
5085 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
5086 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
5087 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
5090 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
5091 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
5092 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
5093 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
5094 winsch() internal function.
5095 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
5096 more than one spacing character.
5099 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
5100 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
5101 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
5102 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
5103 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
5104 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
5105 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
5106 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
5107 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
5108 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
5111 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
5112 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
5113 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
5114 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
5115 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
5116 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
5117 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
5120 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
5121 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
5122 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
5123 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
5125 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
5126 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
5127 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
5128 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
5129 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
5132 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
5133 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
5134 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
5135 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
5136 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
5137 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
5138 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
5139 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
5140 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
5141 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
5142 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
5143 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
5144 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
5145 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
5146 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
5147 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
5148 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
5151 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
5152 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
5153 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
5154 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
5155 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
5156 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
5157 Frederic L W Meunier).
5159 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5160 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
5161 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
5162 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
5163 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
5164 the debug trace in that case.
5165 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
5166 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
5167 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
5168 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
5170 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
5171 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
5173 20021005 pre-release
5174 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
5175 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
5176 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
5177 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
5178 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
5179 formats such as "%.*s".
5180 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
5181 (report Floyd Davidson).
5182 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
5184 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
5185 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
5186 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
5188 20020928 pre-release
5189 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
5190 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
5191 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
5193 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
5194 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
5195 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
5196 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
5197 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
5198 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
5199 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
5200 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
5201 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
5202 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
5203 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
5204 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
5205 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
5206 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
5207 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
5208 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
5209 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
5210 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
5211 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
5213 20020921 pre-release
5214 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
5215 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
5216 result in core dump.
5217 + documented getbegx(), etc.
5218 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
5219 delimiter rather than '@'.
5220 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5221 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
5222 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
5223 to the lines given for the destination window.
5225 20020914 pre-release
5226 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
5227 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
5228 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
5229 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
5230 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
5231 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
5232 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
5233 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
5234 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5235 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
5236 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
5237 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
5239 20020907 pre-release
5240 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
5241 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
5242 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
5243 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
5244 html manpages on Debian.
5245 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
5246 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
5247 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
5248 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5249 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
5250 a variable from the stack.
5251 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
5253 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
5254 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
5255 _idcok window fields.
5256 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
5258 20020901 pre-release
5259 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
5260 + update config.guess, config.sub
5261 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
5262 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
5264 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
5265 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
5266 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
5267 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
5268 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
5269 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
5270 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
5271 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
5272 use in resizeterm().
5273 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
5274 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
5275 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
5276 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
5277 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5278 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
5279 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
5280 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
5281 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
5282 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
5283 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
5287 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
5288 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
5289 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
5290 + fix an overlooked case for Redhat #68199 (Philippe Blain).
5291 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
5292 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
5295 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
5296 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
5297 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
5299 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
5300 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
5301 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
5302 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
5303 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
5305 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
5306 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
5310 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
5311 when translating to termcap.
5312 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
5313 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
5314 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
5316 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
5318 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
5319 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
5321 + document TABSIZE variable.
5322 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
5323 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
5324 assume_default_colors().
5325 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
5327 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
5328 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
5329 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
5330 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
5331 window (completes Debian #87678, Debian #101699)
5334 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
5336 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
5337 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
5339 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
5340 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
5341 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
5344 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
5346 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
5349 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
5350 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
5351 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
5352 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
5353 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
5354 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
5355 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
5356 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
5357 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
5358 configure definitions.
5359 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
5360 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
5361 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
5362 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
5363 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
5364 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
5365 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
5366 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
5367 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
5368 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
5369 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
5372 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
5373 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
5374 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
5375 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
5376 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
5377 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
5378 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
5380 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
5381 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
5382 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
5383 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5386 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
5387 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
5388 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
5389 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
5391 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
5392 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
5393 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
5396 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
5397 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
5399 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
5400 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
5401 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
5403 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
5404 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
5405 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
5406 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
5408 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
5409 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
5410 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
5411 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
5415 + add charset to generated html.
5416 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
5417 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
5418 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
5419 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
5420 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
5421 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
5425 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
5426 key code in get_wch().
5427 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
5428 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
5429 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
5430 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
5431 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
5432 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
5435 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
5436 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
5438 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
5439 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
5440 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
5441 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
5444 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
5445 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
5446 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
5447 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
5448 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
5449 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
5450 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
5451 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
5452 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
5453 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
5456 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
5460 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
5461 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
5462 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
5463 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
5464 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
5465 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
5466 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
5469 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
5470 character versions as well.
5471 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
5473 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
5475 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
5476 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
5477 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
5478 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
5479 if gettimeofday() is available.
5482 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
5483 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
5486 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
5488 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
5489 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
5490 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
5491 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
5492 + update config.guess, config.sub
5495 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
5496 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
5497 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
5498 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
5499 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
5500 alias for 'function'.
5503 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
5504 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
5508 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
5509 + implement wgetn_wstr().
5510 + implement win_wchnstr().
5511 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
5512 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
5515 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
5516 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
5519 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
5520 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
5523 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
5524 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
5525 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
5527 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
5528 + implement unget_wch().
5529 + implement wget_wch().
5532 + regenerated html manpages.
5533 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
5534 + implement wins_wch().
5535 + implement win_wch().
5536 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
5539 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
5540 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
5543 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
5544 + document wunctrl, key_name.
5545 + implement key_name().
5546 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
5548 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
5552 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
5553 in spurious symlinks on install.
5556 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
5557 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
5558 box() and box_set() functions.
5559 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
5560 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
5561 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
5562 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
5563 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
5564 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
5565 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
5567 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
5569 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
5570 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
5571 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
5572 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
5574 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
5575 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
5578 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
5579 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
5581 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
5585 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
5587 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
5588 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
5589 Albert Chin-A-Young).
5590 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
5591 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
5592 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5593 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
5594 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
5595 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
5596 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
5597 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
5598 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
5599 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
5600 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
5601 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
5604 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
5605 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
5608 + update config.guess, config.sub
5609 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
5610 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
5613 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
5614 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
5615 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
5617 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
5618 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
5620 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
5621 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
5622 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
5623 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
5626 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
5629 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
5630 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
5631 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
5632 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
5633 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
5634 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
5635 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
5636 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
5637 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
5639 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
5640 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
5641 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
5643 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
5645 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
5646 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
5647 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
5648 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
5649 work with SunOS nawk.
5650 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
5652 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
5653 case it uses multiple tokens.
5656 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
5657 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
5658 interrupted by that signal.
5659 + updated configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
5660 not needed with autoconf 2.52
5661 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
5662 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
5664 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
5665 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
5666 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
5667 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
5668 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
5671 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
5673 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
5674 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
5675 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
5676 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
5677 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
5678 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
5679 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
5680 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
5683 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
5684 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
5685 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
5686 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
5687 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
5688 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
5689 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
5690 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
5691 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
5694 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
5695 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
5696 may have different keypad() settings.
5697 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
5698 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
5699 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
5700 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
5701 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
5702 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
5703 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
5704 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
5706 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
5707 + update config.guess, config.sub from
5708 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
5709 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
5713 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
5715 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
5716 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
5717 implementation in cygwin package).
5718 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
5719 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
5721 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
5722 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
5723 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
5724 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
5725 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
5726 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
5727 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
5728 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
5729 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
5731 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
5732 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
5733 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
5734 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
5735 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
5736 <jevans@apple.com>).
5737 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
5738 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
5739 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
5740 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
5741 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
5745 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
5746 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
5747 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
5748 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
5749 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
5750 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
5751 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
5752 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
5753 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
5754 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
5757 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
5760 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
5761 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
5762 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
5763 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
5764 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
5767 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
5768 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
5771 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
5772 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
5773 + implement wecho_wchar()
5774 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
5775 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
5776 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
5778 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
5779 in a trace by using curly braces.
5780 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
5781 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
5782 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
5783 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
5786 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
5787 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
5788 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
5789 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
5790 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
5794 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
5795 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
5796 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
5797 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
5798 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
5799 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
5800 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
5801 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
5805 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
5806 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
5807 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
5808 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
5809 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
5810 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
5811 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
5812 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
5813 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
5816 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
5817 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
5820 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
5821 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
5822 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
5823 <bbraun@synack.net>).
5824 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
5825 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
5827 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
5828 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
5830 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
5831 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
5834 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
5835 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
5836 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
5837 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
5838 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
5840 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
5841 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
5843 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
5844 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
5845 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
5846 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
5847 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
5850 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
5851 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
5853 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
5854 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
5855 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
5856 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
5859 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
5860 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
5861 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
5862 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
5863 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
5867 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
5868 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
5869 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
5871 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
5873 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
5875 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
5877 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
5878 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
5879 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
5880 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
5881 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
5882 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
5883 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
5884 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
5885 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
5889 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
5890 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
5891 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
5892 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
5893 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
5894 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
5895 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
5896 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
5897 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
5898 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
5900 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
5901 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
5902 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5903 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
5904 supports xterm mouse controls.
5905 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
5906 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
5907 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
5908 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
5909 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
5910 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
5911 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
5912 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
5913 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
5914 AX in a color xterm.
5915 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
5919 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
5920 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
5921 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
5922 + added llib-ncursesw.
5925 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
5926 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
5927 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
5928 header files (report by William P Setzer).
5929 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
5930 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
5931 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
5932 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5933 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
5934 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
5935 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
5936 Albert Chin-A-Young).
5937 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
5938 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5939 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
5940 obsolete with QNX RTP.
5941 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
5942 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
5943 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
5944 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
5947 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
5948 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
5949 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
5952 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
5953 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
5954 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
5955 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
5956 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
5957 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
5958 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
5959 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
5960 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
5961 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
5962 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
5963 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
5967 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
5968 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
5969 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
5970 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
5971 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
5972 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
5973 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5976 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
5977 new wide-character structures.
5978 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
5979 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
5980 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
5981 compiling for wide-character configuration.
5982 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
5986 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
5988 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
5989 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
5990 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
5992 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
5993 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
5994 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
5997 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
5998 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
5999 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
6002 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
6003 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
6004 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
6005 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
6006 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
6007 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
6008 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
6011 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
6012 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
6013 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
6014 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
6015 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
6016 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
6017 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
6018 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
6019 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
6022 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
6023 which may be in libutf8.
6024 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
6025 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
6026 links (Debian #99550).
6027 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
6028 C++ vscan code (Debian #97945).
6029 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
6030 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
6031 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
6032 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
6033 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
6034 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
6037 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
6038 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
6041 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
6042 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
6043 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
6044 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
6045 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
6047 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
6048 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
6049 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
6050 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
6051 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
6052 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
6053 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
6054 are used to manipulate attributes.
6055 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
6056 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
6057 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
6058 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
6059 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
6060 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
6062 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
6063 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
6064 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
6065 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
6066 we are using chtype data.
6067 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
6069 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
6071 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
6072 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
6073 where a pointer would be more useful.
6074 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
6075 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
6076 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
6077 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
6078 passing cchar_t's by address.
6079 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
6080 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
6081 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
6082 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
6083 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
6084 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
6085 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
6086 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
6089 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
6090 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
6091 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
6092 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
6093 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
6095 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
6096 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
6097 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
6100 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
6101 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
6102 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
6103 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
6104 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
6105 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
6106 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
6107 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
6108 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
6109 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
6110 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
6111 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
6114 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
6115 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
6116 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
6119 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
6120 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
6123 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
6124 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
6125 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
6126 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
6127 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
6130 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
6131 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
6132 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
6133 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
6134 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
6135 <bsittler@iname.com>).
6136 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
6137 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
6138 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
6139 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
6140 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
6143 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
6144 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
6145 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
6146 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
6147 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
6148 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
6149 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
6150 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
6151 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
6152 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
6153 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
6154 any shots there, but the computer did.
6155 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
6156 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
6160 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
6161 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
6162 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
6163 3.09.08 (Debian #92215).
6164 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
6165 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6168 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
6169 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
6170 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
6171 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
6172 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
6174 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
6176 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
6177 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
6179 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
6181 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
6182 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian #89222).
6185 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
6186 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
6187 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
6188 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
6189 interface from C++ binding.
6190 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
6191 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
6192 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
6193 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
6195 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
6196 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
6197 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
6198 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
6201 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
6202 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
6203 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
6204 (patch by Todd C Miller).
6207 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
6210 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
6214 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
6215 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
6216 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
6217 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
6218 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
6219 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
6220 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
6221 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
6222 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
6223 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
6224 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
6225 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
6228 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
6229 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
6231 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
6232 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
6233 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
6234 did not do this already.
6235 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
6236 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6237 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
6238 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
6239 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
6240 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
6241 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
6242 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
6245 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
6246 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
6249 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
6250 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
6251 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
6252 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
6254 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
6256 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
6257 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
6259 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
6260 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
6261 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
6262 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
6263 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
6266 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
6267 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
6268 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
6269 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
6272 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
6273 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
6274 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
6277 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
6278 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
6279 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
6280 work with 'indent') -TD
6283 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
6284 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
6285 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6286 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
6287 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
6289 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
6290 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
6291 termcap and terminfo functions
6292 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
6296 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
6297 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
6298 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
6299 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
6300 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
6301 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
6303 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
6304 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
6305 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
6306 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
6307 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
6308 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
6309 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
6310 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
6313 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
6314 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
6315 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
6316 /usr rather than /usr/local.
6319 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
6320 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
6321 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
6322 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
6324 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
6325 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
6326 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
6327 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
6328 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
6329 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
6330 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
6331 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
6334 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
6335 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
6336 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
6337 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
6338 + change trace output to binary format.
6339 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
6340 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
6341 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
6342 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
6343 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
6344 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
6345 the overwrite logic.
6348 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
6349 + resync config.guess, config.sub
6350 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
6351 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
6352 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
6353 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
6355 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
6356 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
6359 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
6360 + update generated html files from manpages.
6361 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
6363 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
6364 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
6365 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
6366 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
6367 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6368 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
6369 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
6370 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
6373 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
6374 wrapping at the right margin.
6375 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
6376 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
6377 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
6379 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
6380 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
6381 understands how to run tbl automatically.
6382 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
6383 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
6384 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
6385 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
6386 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
6387 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
6388 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
6389 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
6390 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
6391 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
6392 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
6393 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
6394 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
6395 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
6396 option --with-libtool.
6397 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
6398 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
6399 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
6400 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
6401 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
6404 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
6405 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
6406 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
6407 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
6408 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
6409 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
6410 > patch by Todd C Miller:
6411 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
6412 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
6413 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
6414 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
6415 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
6416 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
6417 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
6418 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
6419 to set up a 3-button mouse.
6420 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
6421 replace select() call.
6424 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
6425 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
6426 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
6427 Albert Chin-A-Young).
6428 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
6429 cursor report before decoding.
6430 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
6431 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
6432 (see assume_default_colors()).
6433 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
6434 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
6436 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
6437 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
6438 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
6440 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
6441 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
6442 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
6443 for that capability.
6444 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
6445 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
6446 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
6447 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
6448 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
6449 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
6452 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
6453 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
6454 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
6455 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
6456 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
6457 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
6458 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
6459 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
6460 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
6462 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
6463 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
6464 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
6465 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
6466 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
6467 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
6468 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6471 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
6472 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
6473 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
6474 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
6475 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
6477 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
6478 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
6479 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
6480 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
6481 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
6482 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
6483 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
6484 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
6485 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
6486 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
6487 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
6488 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
6489 the expected number of parameters.
6490 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
6491 the option value is indeed a number.
6492 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
6493 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
6494 from the other signals.
6497 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
6498 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
6499 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
6502 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
6503 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
6505 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
6506 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
6507 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
6509 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
6510 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
6511 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
6512 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
6513 character set attribute from the displayed text.
6514 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
6515 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
6516 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
6517 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
6518 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
6519 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6522 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
6523 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
6524 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
6525 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
6526 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
6527 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
6528 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6529 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
6530 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
6531 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
6533 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
6534 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
6536 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
6537 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
6538 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
6539 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
6540 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
6541 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
6544 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
6545 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
6546 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
6547 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
6548 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
6549 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
6550 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
6551 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
6552 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
6553 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6554 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
6555 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
6556 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
6557 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
6558 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
6560 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
6561 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
6562 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
6565 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
6566 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
6567 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
6568 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
6570 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
6571 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
6572 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
6573 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
6574 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
6575 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
6576 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
6578 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
6579 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
6580 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
6581 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
6582 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
6583 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
6584 a default program-prefix.
6585 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
6586 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
6589 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
6590 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
6591 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
6592 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
6593 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
6594 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
6595 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
6596 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
6597 although the name is misleading).
6598 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
6599 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
6600 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
6601 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
6604 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
6605 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
6606 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
6608 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
6609 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
6611 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
6612 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
6613 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
6615 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
6616 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
6617 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
6618 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
6619 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
6620 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
6621 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
6622 test/configure script.
6623 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
6624 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
6625 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
6628 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
6631 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
6632 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
6633 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
6634 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
6635 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
6637 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
6638 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
6639 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
6641 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
6642 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
6645 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
6646 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6647 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
6648 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
6649 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
6650 there's still the explicit configure option).
6651 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
6652 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
6653 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
6654 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
6655 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
6656 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
6657 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
6658 simplify working around implementations that define random
6659 combinations of the related macros to zero.
6660 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
6661 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
6662 > patches by Bruno Haible:
6663 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
6664 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
6665 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
6666 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
6670 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
6671 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6672 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
6673 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
6674 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
6675 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
6676 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
6677 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
6678 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
6679 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
6680 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
6681 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
6682 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
6683 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
6686 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
6687 + document configure options in INSTALL.
6688 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
6689 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
6690 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
6691 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
6692 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
6693 list of generated functions.
6694 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
6695 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
6696 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
6698 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
6699 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
6700 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
6701 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
6702 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
6704 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
6705 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
6706 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
6707 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
6708 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
6709 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
6710 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
6711 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
6712 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
6713 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
6714 examples cited in announce.html
6715 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
6716 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
6717 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
6718 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
6719 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
6720 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
6721 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
6722 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
6725 20000701 pre-release
6726 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
6727 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
6728 $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
6729 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
6730 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
6731 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
6733 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
6735 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
6737 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
6738 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
6739 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
6740 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
6741 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
6743 20000624 pre-release
6744 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
6745 that happen to render the same display colors.
6746 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
6747 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
6748 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
6749 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
6750 normalized value for cursor_address.
6751 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
6754 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
6755 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
6756 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
6757 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
6758 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
6759 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
6760 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
6761 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
6762 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
6763 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
6764 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
6765 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
6766 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
6770 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
6771 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
6772 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
6773 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
6774 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
6775 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
6776 allows larger symbol tables.
6777 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
6778 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
6779 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
6780 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
6784 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
6785 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
6786 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
6787 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
6788 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
6789 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
6790 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
6791 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
6792 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
6793 + add a "make libs" rule.
6794 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
6795 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
6796 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
6797 with existing ncurses libraries.
6800 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
6801 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
6802 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
6803 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
6804 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
6805 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
6806 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
6807 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
6808 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
6809 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
6810 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
6811 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
6812 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
6813 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
6816 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
6817 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
6818 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
6819 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
6823 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
6824 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
6826 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
6827 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
6828 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
6831 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
6832 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
6833 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
6834 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
6835 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
6837 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
6838 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
6839 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
6840 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
6841 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
6842 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
6843 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
6844 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
6847 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
6849 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
6850 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
6851 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
6852 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
6853 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
6854 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
6855 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
6856 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
6857 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
6858 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
6859 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
6860 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
6863 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
6864 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
6865 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
6866 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
6867 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6868 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
6869 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
6870 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
6871 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
6872 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
6873 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
6874 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
6875 means that it will not recur for that special case.
6876 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
6877 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
6878 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
6879 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6882 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
6883 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
6884 bg300-rv in esr's version.
6885 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
6886 (fixes Debian #61088).
6887 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
6888 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
6889 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
6892 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
6893 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
6894 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
6895 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
6896 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
6899 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
6900 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
6901 improvement in setting default colors.
6902 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
6903 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
6904 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
6906 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
6907 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
6908 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
6909 check for buffer overflow.
6910 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
6911 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
6912 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
6913 such as "infocmp -Fa".
6916 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
6917 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
6918 is not permitted in termcap.
6919 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
6920 integrating 20000318.
6923 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
6924 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
6925 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
6926 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
6928 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
6929 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
6930 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
6931 result for OS/2 EMX.
6932 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
6933 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
6934 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
6935 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
6936 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
6937 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
6940 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
6941 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
6942 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
6944 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
6945 displaying string capabilities.
6946 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
6947 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
6948 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
6949 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
6950 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
6951 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
6953 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
6954 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
6956 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
6957 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
6958 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
6959 may not produce the same result as before.
6960 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
6962 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
6963 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
6965 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
6966 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
6968 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
6969 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6970 + drop support for gnat 3.10
6971 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
6972 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
6975 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
6976 made it check only one entry at a time.
6977 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
6979 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
6980 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
6981 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
6982 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
6983 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
6984 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
6985 address out of bounds.
6986 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
6987 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
6988 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
6989 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
6991 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
6992 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
6993 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
6995 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
6998 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
6999 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
7000 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
7001 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
7003 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
7004 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
7005 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
7006 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
7007 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
7008 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
7010 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
7011 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
7012 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
7013 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
7014 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
7015 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
7016 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
7017 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
7020 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
7021 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7022 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
7023 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
7024 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
7025 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
7029 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
7030 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
7031 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
7032 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
7033 colors are white on black.
7034 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
7035 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
7036 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
7037 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
7038 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
7041 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
7042 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
7043 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
7044 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
7045 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
7046 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
7047 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
7048 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
7049 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
7050 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
7051 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
7054 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
7055 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
7056 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
7057 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
7058 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
7059 to wait indefinitely.
7062 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
7063 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
7064 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
7065 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
7066 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
7067 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
7068 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
7069 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
7070 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
7071 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7072 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
7073 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
7077 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
7078 programs build with c++/g++.
7079 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
7080 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
7081 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
7082 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
7083 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
7084 + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and
7085 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
7086 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
7089 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
7091 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
7092 terminfo entries -TD
7093 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
7094 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
7095 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
7096 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
7098 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
7099 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
7101 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
7103 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
7104 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
7105 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
7106 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
7107 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
7108 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
7109 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
7110 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
7111 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
7115 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
7116 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
7117 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
7118 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
7119 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
7120 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
7121 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
7122 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
7123 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
7124 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
7125 use_extended_names().
7128 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
7129 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
7130 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
7131 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
7132 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
7133 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
7134 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
7135 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
7136 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
7137 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
7138 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
7139 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
7140 + add manpage for infotocap
7143 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
7144 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
7145 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
7146 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
7148 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
7149 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
7150 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
7151 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
7152 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
7153 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
7154 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
7155 initc for xterm-88color.
7156 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
7160 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
7161 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
7163 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
7164 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
7165 SP, since it is part of that struct.
7166 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
7168 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
7169 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
7170 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
7171 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
7172 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
7173 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
7174 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
7175 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
7176 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
7178 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
7179 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
7180 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7181 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
7183 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
7186 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
7187 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
7188 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
7189 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
7190 over the use of default colors.
7191 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
7192 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
7193 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
7194 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
7195 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
7196 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
7197 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
7198 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
7201 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
7202 <robert@progplus.com>)
7203 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
7204 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
7205 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
7208 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
7209 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
7210 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
7212 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
7213 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
7214 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
7215 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
7216 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
7217 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
7218 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
7219 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
7220 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
7221 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
7222 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
7223 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
7225 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
7226 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
7229 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7230 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
7232 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
7233 (request by Bob van der Poel).
7234 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
7235 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
7236 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
7237 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
7238 libraries by default.
7239 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
7241 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
7242 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
7244 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
7245 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
7246 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
7247 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
7248 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
7249 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
7250 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
7252 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
7254 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
7255 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
7256 advice from Bela Lubkin).
7257 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
7258 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7259 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
7260 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
7261 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
7262 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
7265 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
7268 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
7269 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
7270 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
7271 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
7272 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
7273 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
7274 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
7275 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
7276 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
7277 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
7280 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
7281 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
7282 Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7283 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
7284 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
7285 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
7287 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
7288 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
7289 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
7290 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
7291 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
7292 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
7293 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
7294 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
7295 is used), and in color.
7296 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
7297 shared library rules.
7300 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
7301 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
7302 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
7303 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
7304 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
7305 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
7306 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
7307 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
7308 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
7309 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
7310 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
7311 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
7312 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
7313 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
7314 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
7315 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
7316 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7319 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
7320 <j@interface-business.de>).
7321 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
7322 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
7323 that hard-links work on Unix again.
7324 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
7325 Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
7326 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
7329 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
7330 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
7331 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
7332 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
7333 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
7334 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
7335 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
7336 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
7337 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
7338 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
7339 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
7340 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
7341 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
7344 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
7345 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
7346 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
7347 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
7348 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
7349 in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
7350 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
7351 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
7352 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
7353 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
7354 function works only for sockets.
7355 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
7356 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
7357 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
7358 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
7359 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
7360 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
7361 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
7362 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
7363 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
7364 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
7367 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
7368 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
7369 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
7370 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
7371 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
7372 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
7373 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
7376 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
7377 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
7378 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
7380 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
7381 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
7382 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
7383 nonfunctional link().
7384 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
7385 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
7388 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
7389 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
7390 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
7393 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
7394 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
7395 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
7396 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
7397 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
7398 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
7399 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7400 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
7401 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
7402 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
7403 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
7404 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
7405 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
7406 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
7407 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
7408 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
7409 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
7410 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
7411 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
7412 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
7415 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
7416 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
7417 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
7418 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
7419 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
7420 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
7421 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
7422 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
7423 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
7424 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
7425 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
7426 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
7427 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
7428 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
7429 short-circuit expression evaluation.
7430 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
7431 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
7433 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
7434 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
7435 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
7436 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
7437 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
7441 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
7442 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
7444 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
7445 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
7446 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
7449 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
7450 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
7451 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
7452 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
7453 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
7454 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
7455 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
7456 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
7458 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
7459 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
7460 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7463 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
7464 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
7465 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
7466 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
7467 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
7468 --with-rcs-ids option.
7471 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
7472 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
7474 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
7475 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
7476 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
7480 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
7481 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
7482 BeOS predefines a bool type.
7483 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
7484 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
7485 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
7486 option to infocmp -TD
7487 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7488 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
7489 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
7490 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
7491 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
7492 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
7493 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
7496 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7497 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
7498 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
7499 + change interface version-number to 1.0
7500 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
7503 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
7504 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
7505 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
7506 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
7507 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
7508 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
7509 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
7510 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
7511 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
7512 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
7514 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
7515 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (prompted by
7516 discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
7519 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
7520 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
7521 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
7523 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
7524 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
7527 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
7528 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7529 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
7530 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
7531 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
7534 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
7538 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
7539 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
7540 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
7541 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
7542 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
7544 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
7545 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
7546 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
7547 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
7550 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
7551 fields, and showing forms within panels.
7552 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
7553 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
7554 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
7555 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
7556 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
7557 ownership may change).
7560 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
7562 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
7563 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
7564 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7565 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
7566 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
7567 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
7568 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
7570 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
7571 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
7572 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
7573 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
7574 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
7575 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
7578 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
7579 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
7581 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
7582 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
7583 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
7584 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7587 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
7588 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
7589 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
7590 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
7591 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
7592 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
7596 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
7597 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7598 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
7599 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
7600 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
7601 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
7602 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
7603 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
7606 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
7607 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
7608 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
7609 Alexander V Lukyanov).
7612 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
7613 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
7616 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the "-g" option.
7617 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
7618 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
7619 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
7620 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7621 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
7622 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
7623 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
7624 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
7625 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
7626 reset for the next newterm.
7627 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
7628 terminal has true SLKs.
7629 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
7632 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
7633 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
7634 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
7635 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
7636 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
7637 read of the extended capabilities.
7638 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
7639 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
7640 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
7641 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
7642 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
7643 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
7644 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
7645 throughout ncurses library.
7646 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
7647 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
7649 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
7650 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
7651 + regenerate some of the html documentation
7652 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
7655 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
7656 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
7657 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
7658 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD
7659 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
7661 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
7663 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
7664 defined for a keycode.
7665 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
7666 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
7667 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
7668 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
7669 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
7671 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7672 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
7673 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
7674 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
7676 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
7677 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
7679 + modify configuration scripts to
7680 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
7681 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
7682 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
7683 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
7684 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
7685 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
7686 + rename ada_include directory to src.
7689 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
7690 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
7691 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
7695 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
7696 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
7697 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
7698 though the problem is more general.
7699 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
7700 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
7701 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
7702 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
7704 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
7705 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
7706 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
7709 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
7710 Alexander V Lukyanov).
7711 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
7712 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
7713 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
7714 operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7715 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
7716 be any substring rather than the prefix.
7717 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
7718 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
7719 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
7720 has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
7721 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
7722 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
7723 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
7724 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
7725 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
7726 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
7727 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
7728 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
7729 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
7730 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
7731 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
7732 --with-shlib-version option.
7735 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
7736 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
7737 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
7738 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
7739 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
7740 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
7741 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
7742 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
7743 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
7744 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
7745 intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
7746 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
7747 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
7748 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
7749 source distribution.
7752 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
7753 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
7754 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
7756 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
7757 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
7758 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
7759 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
7760 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
7763 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
7766 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
7767 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
7768 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
7769 Alexander V Lukyanov).
7770 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
7771 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
7772 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
7773 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
7774 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7775 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
7776 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
7777 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
7778 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
7779 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
7781 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
7782 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
7783 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
7784 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
7787 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
7789 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
7790 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
7791 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
7792 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
7793 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
7794 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
7795 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
7796 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
7797 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
7798 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
7799 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
7800 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
7801 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
7802 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
7803 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
7804 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
7805 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
7809 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
7810 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
7811 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
7812 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
7813 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
7814 running screen built with ncurses.
7815 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
7816 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
7817 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
7820 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
7823 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
7824 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
7825 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
7826 by a Debian bug report).
7827 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
7828 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
7830 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
7831 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
7832 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
7833 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
7837 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
7838 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
7839 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
7840 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
7841 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
7842 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
7843 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
7844 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
7845 (reported by H.J.Lu).
7848 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
7849 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
7850 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
7851 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
7852 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
7853 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
7854 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
7855 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
7856 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
7857 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
7858 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7859 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
7861 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
7862 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
7864 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
7866 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
7868 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
7869 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
7873 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
7874 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
7875 address rather than its length.
7876 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
7877 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
7878 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
7879 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
7880 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
7881 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
7882 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
7883 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
7884 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
7885 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
7888 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
7889 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
7891 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
7892 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
7893 for an older version of ncurses.
7894 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
7895 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
7896 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
7897 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
7898 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
7899 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
7900 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
7901 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
7902 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7903 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
7904 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
7905 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
7907 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
7908 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
7911 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
7912 (request by Larry Virden).
7913 > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
7914 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
7915 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
7916 changes to ncurses library.
7917 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
7918 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
7919 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
7920 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7921 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
7922 + some Ada95 cosmetics
7923 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
7924 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
7925 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
7928 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
7929 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
7930 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
7931 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
7932 proposed changes to ncurses library.
7933 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
7934 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
7935 broken configure scripts.
7938 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
7940 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
7941 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
7942 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
7944 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
7945 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
7949 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
7950 with --srcdir option.
7951 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
7952 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
7953 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
7954 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
7955 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
7956 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7959 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
7960 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
7961 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
7963 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
7964 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
7965 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
7966 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
7967 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
7968 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
7969 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
7970 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
7973 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
7974 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7977 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
7978 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
7979 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
7980 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
7981 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
7982 some older entries - TD
7983 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
7984 since that is a little more efficient.
7985 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
7986 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
7987 + add "-g" option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
7988 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
7989 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
7990 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
7992 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
7994 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
7995 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
7997 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
7998 + use format string for printing strings.
7999 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
8002 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
8003 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
8004 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
8005 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
8006 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
8007 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
8008 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
8009 > patches by Todd C Miller:
8010 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
8011 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
8012 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
8013 dealing with env variables again.
8014 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
8015 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
8016 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
8017 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
8018 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
8019 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
8020 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
8021 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
8022 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
8023 newhash data to SP struct.
8024 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
8025 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
8026 function's parameter which is deleted.
8027 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
8028 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
8029 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
8030 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
8034 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
8035 consistent treatment.
8036 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
8037 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
8038 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
8039 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
8042 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
8043 capability name, as in SVr4.
8044 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
8045 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
8046 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
8049 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
8050 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
8051 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
8052 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
8053 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
8054 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
8055 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
8056 > from esr's terminfo version:
8057 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
8058 + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
8059 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
8062 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
8063 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
8064 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
8065 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
8066 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
8067 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
8068 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
8069 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
8070 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
8071 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
8075 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
8076 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
8077 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
8078 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
8079 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
8082 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
8083 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
8087 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
8088 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
8089 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
8090 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
8091 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
8092 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
8093 as obtained via ioctl.
8096 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
8097 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
8098 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
8099 turning attributes off.
8100 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
8101 initializing multiple screens.
8102 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
8103 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
8104 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
8107 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
8108 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
8109 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
8110 with Solaris curses).
8111 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
8112 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
8113 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
8114 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
8115 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
8116 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
8117 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
8118 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
8121 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
8122 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
8123 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
8124 (request by QingLong).
8125 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
8126 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
8127 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
8128 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
8130 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
8131 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
8132 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
8133 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
8134 otherwise simply exit with an error.
8137 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
8138 "_g" for a debug build).
8139 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
8140 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
8141 compile/link working Ada95 program.
8142 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
8143 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
8144 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
8145 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
8146 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
8147 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
8151 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
8152 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
8153 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
8154 corresponds to vt100.
8155 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
8156 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
8159 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
8160 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
8161 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
8162 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
8163 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
8164 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
8165 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
8166 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
8167 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
8168 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8171 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
8172 several minor errors/omissions.
8173 + implement tparm %l format.
8174 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
8176 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
8179 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
8180 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
8181 to be written to large screens.
8182 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
8183 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
8184 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
8185 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
8186 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
8188 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
8189 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8190 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
8191 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
8194 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
8196 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
8198 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
8199 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
8200 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
8201 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
8202 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
8203 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
8204 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
8206 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
8207 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
8209 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
8212 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
8213 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
8214 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
8215 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
8216 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
8217 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
8218 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
8219 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
8220 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
8221 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
8224 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
8225 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8226 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty
8227 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
8228 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
8229 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
8230 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
8231 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
8232 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
8233 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
8234 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
8235 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
8236 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
8239 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
8240 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
8241 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
8242 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
8243 which contains a colon in the description field.
8244 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
8245 from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
8246 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
8248 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
8249 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
8252 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
8253 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
8255 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
8256 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
8257 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
8258 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
8259 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
8260 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
8261 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
8262 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
8263 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
8264 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
8265 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
8266 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
8267 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
8268 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
8269 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
8270 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
8271 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
8272 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
8273 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
8274 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
8275 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
8276 comparisons out of inner loop.
8279 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
8280 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
8281 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
8282 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
8283 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
8284 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
8285 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
8286 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
8287 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
8289 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
8290 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
8291 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
8294 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
8295 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
8296 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
8297 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
8298 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
8299 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
8300 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
8301 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
8302 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
8303 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
8306 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
8307 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
8308 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
8309 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
8311 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
8312 avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
8313 by Juergen Pfeifer).
8316 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
8317 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
8320 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
8321 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
8322 uses them when they are available.
8323 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
8324 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
8325 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
8326 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
8328 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
8331 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
8332 declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
8333 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
8334 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
8336 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8337 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
8338 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
8339 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
8340 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
8341 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
8342 use --disable-overwrite).
8343 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
8344 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
8345 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
8346 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
8347 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
8348 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
8349 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
8350 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
8351 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
8355 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
8356 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8357 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
8358 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
8359 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
8360 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
8361 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
8362 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
8364 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
8365 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
8366 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
8367 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
8369 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
8370 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
8371 parameter according to XSI.
8372 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
8373 reflect above enhancements.
8376 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
8377 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
8378 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
8379 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
8381 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
8383 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
8385 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
8386 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
8387 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
8390 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
8391 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
8392 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8393 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
8394 <claesg@algonet.se>).
8395 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
8396 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
8399 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
8400 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
8401 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
8403 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
8404 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
8405 by Florian La Roche).
8406 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
8407 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
8408 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
8409 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8412 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
8413 distributions, though it is retained in development.
8414 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
8416 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
8417 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
8418 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
8419 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
8420 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
8423 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
8425 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
8426 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
8427 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
8428 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
8429 This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
8430 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
8432 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
8433 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
8434 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
8436 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
8437 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
8438 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
8441 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
8442 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
8444 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
8445 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
8447 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
8449 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
8451 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
8453 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
8454 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
8455 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
8456 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
8457 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
8459 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
8460 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
8462 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
8463 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
8464 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
8465 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
8466 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
8467 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
8468 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
8469 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
8470 turn off attributes inconsistently.
8473 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
8474 test for no_color_video.
8475 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
8477 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
8478 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
8479 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
8481 > from reports by Fred Fish:
8482 + add configure-test for isascii
8483 + add configure-test for -lm library.
8484 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
8485 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
8486 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
8487 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
8488 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
8489 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
8490 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
8492 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
8493 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
8495 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
8496 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
8497 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
8498 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
8499 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
8502 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
8503 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
8505 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
8507 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
8508 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
8509 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
8511 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
8512 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
8514 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
8516 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
8517 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
8518 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
8519 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8520 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
8521 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
8522 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8523 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
8524 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
8525 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
8526 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
8527 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
8528 fields are also always inactive.
8529 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
8530 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
8533 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
8534 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
8535 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
8536 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
8537 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
8538 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
8539 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
8540 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
8541 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
8544 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
8545 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
8546 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
8547 defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
8548 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
8550 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
8551 Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
8552 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
8553 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
8554 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
8555 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
8556 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
8557 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
8558 cross-platform compatibility.
8559 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
8560 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
8561 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8562 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
8564 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
8568 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
8569 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
8570 EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
8571 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
8572 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
8573 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
8574 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
8575 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
8576 that simply cannot scroll.
8577 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
8578 embedded \200 characters are matched.
8579 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
8583 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
8584 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
8585 functions from the build.
8586 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
8587 functions as a separate library.
8588 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
8589 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
8590 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
8591 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
8592 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
8593 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
8594 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
8595 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
8596 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
8598 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8599 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
8600 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
8603 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
8604 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
8606 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
8607 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
8608 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
8609 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
8612 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
8613 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
8614 + add configure check for 'tack'.
8615 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
8616 for Debian configuration.
8617 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
8619 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
8620 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
8622 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
8623 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
8624 case of wide characters in chtype.
8625 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
8626 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
8627 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
8630 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
8631 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
8632 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
8633 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
8634 have set root's umask to 077.
8635 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
8636 end of output when they had embedded comments.
8637 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
8638 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
8639 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
8640 correct logic for handling backslashes.
8641 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
8642 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
8643 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
8644 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
8645 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
8646 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
8648 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8649 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
8651 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
8652 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
8654 + resync of the html version of the manpages
8657 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
8658 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
8660 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
8661 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
8662 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
8663 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
8664 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8665 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
8666 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
8667 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
8671 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
8673 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
8674 comments from Daniel Weaver.
8675 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
8676 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
8677 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
8678 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
8680 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
8681 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
8682 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
8684 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
8685 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
8688 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
8692 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
8693 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
8694 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
8695 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
8696 in call to delay_output().
8697 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
8698 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
8699 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
8700 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
8701 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
8703 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
8704 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
8705 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
8706 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
8707 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
8708 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
8709 so that will work on NeXT.
8710 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
8711 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
8714 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
8716 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
8718 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
8719 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
8720 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
8721 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
8722 when that feature is not configured.
8723 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
8724 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
8725 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
8726 (this dates back to 951102, in 1.9.7a).
8727 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
8728 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
8729 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
8730 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
8733 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
8735 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
8736 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
8738 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
8740 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
8741 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
8744 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
8745 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
8746 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
8747 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
8748 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
8749 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
8750 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
8751 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
8752 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
8754 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
8755 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
8756 tputs() if called from that function.
8757 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
8758 tputs works when SP is not set.
8759 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8760 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
8761 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
8762 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation
8763 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
8764 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
8767 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
8768 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
8769 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
8770 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
8771 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
8772 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
8773 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
8774 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
8775 _nc_update_screensize().
8776 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
8778 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
8779 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
8780 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
8781 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
8782 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
8783 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8784 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
8785 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
8786 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
8787 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
8789 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
8793 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
8794 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
8795 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
8797 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
8798 click-interval without modifying it.
8799 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
8800 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
8802 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
8803 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
8804 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
8805 other ncurses headers.
8806 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
8807 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
8808 (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
8809 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
8810 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
8811 characters output in delay_output().
8812 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
8813 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
8814 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
8815 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
8816 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
8818 + typo in configure --help.
8819 > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
8820 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
8821 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
8822 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
8825 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8826 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
8829 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
8830 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
8831 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
8832 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
8833 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
8835 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
8836 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
8837 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
8838 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
8839 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
8840 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
8841 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
8842 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
8843 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
8844 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
8845 form (sorted, unique mapping).
8846 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
8847 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
8848 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8849 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
8850 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8851 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
8852 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
8853 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
8854 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
8855 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
8856 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
8857 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
8858 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8859 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
8861 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
8862 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
8863 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
8864 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
8865 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
8866 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
8870 + add 'deinstall' rules.
8871 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
8872 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
8873 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
8874 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
8875 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
8876 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
8878 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
8879 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8880 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
8882 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
8883 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
8884 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
8885 scripts are also provided.
8888 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
8890 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
8891 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
8892 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
8893 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
8894 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
8895 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
8896 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
8897 generating lint library.
8898 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
8900 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
8901 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
8902 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
8903 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
8904 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
8905 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
8906 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
8907 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
8908 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
8909 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
8911 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8912 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
8914 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
8916 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
8917 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
8918 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
8919 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
8920 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
8921 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
8922 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
8923 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
8924 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
8928 + modify rain.c to use color.
8929 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
8930 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
8931 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
8932 of configure cache variables in 970906.
8933 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
8934 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
8935 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
8936 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
8937 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
8938 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
8939 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
8940 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
8941 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
8942 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8943 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
8945 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
8946 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
8947 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
8948 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
8950 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
8951 NCursesWindow class.
8952 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
8953 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
8954 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
8955 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
8957 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
8958 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
8959 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
8960 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
8961 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
8962 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
8964 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
8965 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
8966 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
8967 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
8968 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
8969 already disconnected.
8970 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
8971 navigation requests.
8972 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
8973 case-insensitiva comparision routine.
8974 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
8975 forms field by index.
8976 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
8978 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
8979 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
8980 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
8981 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
8982 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
8983 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
8984 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
8985 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
8986 move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
8988 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
8989 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
8990 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
8992 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
8993 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
8994 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
8995 know that auto_right_margin is true.
8996 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
8997 shifting character to LR corner.
8998 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
8999 terminal right margin mode is known.
9000 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
9001 _nc_scroll_window().
9002 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
9003 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
9005 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
9006 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
9007 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
9008 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
9010 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
9011 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
9012 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
9013 the terminal window is resized.
9016 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
9017 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
9018 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
9019 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
9020 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
9021 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
9022 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
9023 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
9024 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9025 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
9026 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
9028 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
9029 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
9030 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
9032 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
9033 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
9035 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
9039 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
9040 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
9041 lib_printw.c functions.
9042 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
9043 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
9044 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
9045 force the screen to scroll.
9048 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
9050 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
9052 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
9053 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
9055 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
9056 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
9057 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9058 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
9059 was in the wrong order.
9060 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
9062 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
9064 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
9065 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
9066 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
9067 invoke wechochar() instead.
9068 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
9071 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
9072 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
9073 work properly when we add calls to that function.
9074 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
9075 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
9076 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9077 + several fixes to getch:
9078 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
9079 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
9080 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
9081 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
9083 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
9084 6. correctly handle the case of receiption of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
9085 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
9086 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
9087 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
9089 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
9090 line-breakout optimization
9091 + improve hashmap.c by
9092 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
9093 2. not marking lines with offset 0
9094 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
9095 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
9096 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
9097 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
9099 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
9100 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
9101 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
9102 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
9104 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
9106 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
9107 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
9108 stored/retrieved via set_term().
9109 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
9113 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
9114 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
9115 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
9117 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
9118 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
9119 before looking for (n)curses library.
9120 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
9121 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
9122 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
9123 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
9124 include ncurses_cfg.h
9125 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
9126 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
9127 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9128 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
9130 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
9131 common subexpressions.
9132 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
9133 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
9134 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
9135 against the background character.
9136 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
9137 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
9138 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
9139 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
9140 > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
9141 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
9142 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
9143 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
9144 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
9147 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
9148 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
9149 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
9150 terminal type ncr7900).
9151 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
9152 package is built with an install-prefix.
9153 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
9154 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
9155 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
9156 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
9157 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
9158 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
9159 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
9160 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
9161 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
9162 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9163 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
9164 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
9165 by Juergen Pfeifer).
9168 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
9169 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
9170 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
9171 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
9172 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
9173 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
9174 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
9175 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
9176 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
9177 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
9178 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
9181 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
9182 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
9183 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
9184 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
9185 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
9186 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
9187 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
9188 configuration of wide-characters.
9189 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
9190 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
9191 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
9192 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
9193 does not have getttynam().
9194 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
9195 + add table entries for 230400 and 460800 bd to baudrate() function.
9196 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
9197 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9198 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
9199 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9200 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
9201 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
9202 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
9203 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
9204 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
9208 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
9209 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9210 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
9211 options should be accompanied by a message.
9212 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
9213 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
9215 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
9217 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9218 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
9219 better when csr is not available.
9220 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
9221 after failure to scroll one.
9222 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
9223 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
9224 case and wrong string in TRACE.
9225 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9226 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
9230 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
9231 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
9233 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
9234 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
9235 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
9236 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
9237 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
9240 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
9241 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
9242 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
9244 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
9247 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
9248 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
9249 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
9250 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
9251 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
9252 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
9253 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
9254 (reported by Larry Virden).
9255 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
9256 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
9258 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9259 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
9260 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
9261 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
9265 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
9266 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
9267 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
9268 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
9269 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
9271 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
9272 terminfo description to the stored strings.
9273 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
9274 terminfo descriptions.
9275 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
9276 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
9277 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
9278 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
9279 option is a stopgap.
9280 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
9281 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
9284 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
9285 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
9286 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
9287 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
9288 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
9289 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
9293 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
9294 lines in curscr that are shifted.
9295 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
9296 than a series of function calls.
9297 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
9298 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
9299 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
9300 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
9301 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
9302 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
9303 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
9304 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9305 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9308 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
9309 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
9310 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
9311 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
9312 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
9313 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
9314 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
9315 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
9316 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
9317 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
9318 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
9319 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
9320 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
9321 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
9322 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9323 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
9324 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9325 + improve threshhold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
9326 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9329 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
9330 use only the fallback data.
9331 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
9332 terminal descriptions.
9333 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
9334 still assume there's an ncurses.h
9335 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
9336 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
9337 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
9338 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
9339 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
9340 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
9342 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
9343 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
9344 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
9345 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
9346 <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
9347 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
9348 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
9350 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
9352 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
9353 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
9355 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
9357 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
9358 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
9359 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
9360 original implementation (1.9.6).
9361 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
9362 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
9363 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
9364 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
9366 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
9367 SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
9368 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
9369 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
9370 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
9371 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9372 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
9373 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
9375 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
9376 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
9377 field is not possible.
9378 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
9379 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
9380 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
9381 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
9383 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
9384 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
9385 in forms/menus libraries.
9388 + add description of xterm-16color.
9389 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
9390 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
9392 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
9393 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
9394 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
9395 works properly w/o first doing "make".
9396 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
9397 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
9399 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
9400 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
9401 bounding box without tidying up).
9402 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
9403 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
9404 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
9406 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
9407 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9408 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
9409 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
9410 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9413 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
9414 option is specified.
9415 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
9416 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
9418 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
9419 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
9420 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
9421 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
9422 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
9423 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
9424 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
9425 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
9426 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
9427 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
9428 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
9429 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
9430 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
9431 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
9433 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
9434 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
9435 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9436 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
9437 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
9438 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9439 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
9440 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
9441 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9442 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
9443 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
9445 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
9447 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
9449 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
9450 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
9453 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
9454 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
9455 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
9456 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
9458 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
9459 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
9460 during a call to newwin.
9461 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
9462 is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
9463 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
9464 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
9465 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
9466 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9467 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
9468 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
9471 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
9472 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
9473 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
9474 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
9476 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
9479 970505 4.1 pre-release
9480 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
9482 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
9483 unnecessary recompiles.
9484 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
9485 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
9486 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
9487 overwrite of symbolic links.
9488 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
9489 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
9490 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
9491 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
9492 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
9493 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
9494 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
9495 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
9496 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
9497 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
9498 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
9499 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
9500 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
9501 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
9505 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
9506 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
9507 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
9509 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
9510 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
9511 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
9512 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
9513 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
9514 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
9515 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
9516 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
9517 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
9519 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
9520 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
9521 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
9522 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
9524 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
9525 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
9526 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9527 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
9528 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9529 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
9530 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9531 + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
9532 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
9533 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
9534 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9537 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
9538 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
9539 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
9540 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
9541 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
9542 original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
9543 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
9544 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
9545 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
9546 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
9547 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
9548 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
9549 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
9550 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
9551 or redefinition within an acsc string.
9552 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
9553 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
9555 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
9556 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
9559 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
9560 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
9561 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
9562 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
9563 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
9564 match SVr4 documentation.
9565 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
9566 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
9567 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
9570 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
9571 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
9572 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
9573 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
9574 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
9575 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
9576 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
9577 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
9580 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
9581 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
9582 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
9584 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
9585 --enable/--with values.
9586 + add configure option --enable-big-core
9587 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
9588 + check for C++ builtin.h header
9589 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
9590 parameter from the expression.
9591 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
9592 ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted from diffs by
9594 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
9595 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
9596 was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
9597 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
9598 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
9599 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
9602 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
9603 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
9604 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
9605 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
9606 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
9609 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
9610 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
9611 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
9612 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
9613 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
9614 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
9615 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
9616 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
9617 (reported by Ward Horner).
9618 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
9619 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
9622 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
9623 even if "make all" is not done first.
9624 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
9625 expanded functions with ATAC.
9626 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
9627 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
9631 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
9633 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
9635 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
9638 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
9639 addressing request by Ward Horner.
9640 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
9641 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
9642 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
9643 a pointer-increment.
9644 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
9648 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
9649 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
9651 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
9652 (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
9653 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
9654 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
9655 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
9656 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
9657 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
9658 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
9660 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
9661 (reported by Ward Horner)
9662 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
9663 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
9664 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
9665 (reported by Gary Johnson).
9666 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
9667 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
9668 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
9669 wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
9670 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
9671 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
9672 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
9673 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
9677 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
9678 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
9679 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
9680 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
9681 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
9682 (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9683 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
9684 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
9685 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
9686 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
9689 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
9691 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
9692 the returned buffer.
9693 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
9694 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
9695 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
9696 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
9698 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
9699 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
9702 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
9703 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
9704 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
9705 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
9707 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
9708 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
9711 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
9712 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
9714 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
9716 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
9717 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
9718 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
9719 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
9721 + modify _tracedump() to pad pad colors & attrs lines to match change
9722 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
9723 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
9724 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
9727 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
9728 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
9729 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
9730 that machine - T.Dickey.
9731 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
9732 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
9733 linking against static libraries.
9734 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
9736 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
9737 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
9738 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
9739 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
9741 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
9742 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
9743 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
9744 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
9745 Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
9748 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
9749 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
9750 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
9752 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
9753 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
9754 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
9755 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
9756 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
9757 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
9760 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
9762 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
9763 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
9764 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
9765 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
9766 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
9767 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
9768 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
9769 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
9770 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
9771 insert/delete line method.
9772 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
9773 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
9774 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
9775 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
9777 961229 (internal alpha)
9778 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
9779 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
9780 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
9781 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
9782 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
9783 there is data on stdin.
9784 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
9785 descriptors, needed for GPM.
9786 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
9787 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
9788 prevented patch from working properly -TD
9789 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
9790 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
9791 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
9792 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
9795 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
9796 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
9798 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
9801 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
9802 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
9803 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
9804 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
9806 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
9807 solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
9808 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
9809 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
9810 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
9811 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
9813 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
9814 i.e., set current directory before linking.
9815 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
9816 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
9817 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
9818 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
9819 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
9820 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
9821 Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
9822 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
9825 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
9826 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
9827 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
9828 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
9829 Solaris curses, which does this.
9832 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
9833 work with wider range of screen sizes.
9834 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
9835 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
9836 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
9838 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
9839 resize between endwin/refresh.
9840 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
9841 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
9842 terminal modes in 960907.
9843 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
9844 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
9846 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
9847 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
9848 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
9849 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
9850 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
9851 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
9852 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
9853 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
9854 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
9856 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
9857 (requested by Florian La Roche).
9858 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
9859 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
9860 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
9861 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
9862 by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9865 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
9868 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
9869 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
9870 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
9871 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
9872 data used in ncurses library.
9873 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
9874 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
9875 Alexander V Lukyanov).
9876 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
9877 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
9878 beta may not be interchangeable).
9879 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
9881 961130 1.9.9g release
9882 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
9886 > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
9887 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
9888 to avoid warning messages.
9889 + the panel overlap detection was broken
9890 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
9892 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
9896 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9897 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
9898 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
9899 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
9900 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
9903 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
9904 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
9905 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
9910 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
9912 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
9914 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
9917 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
9918 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
9919 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
9920 + add entry for color_xterm
9923 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
9924 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
9925 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
9926 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
9927 CANCELLED_STRING values.
9928 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
9929 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
9930 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
9931 delays when in autoplay mode.
9932 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
9933 Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
9935 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
9938 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
9939 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
9940 a spurious clear-screen.
9941 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
9942 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
9944 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
9945 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
9946 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
9950 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
9951 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
9952 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
9953 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
9954 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
9955 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
9957 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
9958 distribution, as stated)
9959 + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
9960 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
9961 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
9962 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
9963 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
9964 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
9965 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
9967 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
9968 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
9972 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
9973 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
9974 file (lib_screen.c).
9975 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
9976 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
9977 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
9978 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
9979 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
9980 rendered as octal constants.
9981 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
9982 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
9983 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
9984 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
9985 in the top-level command-parser.
9986 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
9987 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
9989 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
9990 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
9991 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
9994 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
9995 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
9996 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
9997 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
9998 (reported by Tim Mooney).
9999 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
10001 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
10005 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
10006 that are available.
10007 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
10008 the pointer was -1.
10011 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
10012 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
10013 lower-right corner.
10014 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
10015 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
10016 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
10017 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
10018 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
10019 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
10020 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
10021 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
10022 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
10023 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
10025 + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
10026 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
10027 > patch #321 (ESR):
10028 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
10029 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
10030 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
10031 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
10034 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
10035 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
10036 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
10037 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
10038 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
10040 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
10041 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
10042 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
10043 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
10044 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
10045 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
10046 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
10047 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
10048 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
10049 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
10050 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
10051 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
10052 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
10054 + change ABI to 3.3
10055 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
10056 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
10057 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
10059 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
10060 Michael Elkins) - untested
10062 + correction to #317.
10064 + re-add _nc_hash_map
10065 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design
10066 (patch by A. Lukyanov).
10067 + modify test/ncurses.c and tputs, etc., to allow trace counting
10069 + add hashtest.c program to time the hashmap optimization.
10071 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
10073 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
10075 + merge changes to lib_doupdate.c to use ech and rep - untested
10076 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10077 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
10078 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
10079 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
10080 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
10083 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
10085 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
10086 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
10087 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
10088 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
10089 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
10091 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
10094 + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
10095 (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10096 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
10097 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10098 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
10099 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
10102 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
10103 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
10104 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
10105 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
10106 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
10107 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
10108 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
10109 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
10110 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
10111 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
10112 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
10113 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
10114 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
10115 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
10116 + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
10120 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10121 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
10122 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
10123 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
10125 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
10126 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
10127 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
10130 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
10131 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
10132 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
10135 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
10136 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10137 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
10138 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10141 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
10142 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
10143 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
10144 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
10145 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
10147 + add dtterm description
10148 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop mvwscanw subtest)
10151 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
10152 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
10153 + refine configure-test for "-g" option (Tim Mooney).
10154 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
10155 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
10158 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
10160 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
10162 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch (report
10166 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
10167 (reported by William P Setzer)
10168 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
10169 (reported by Tim Mooney).
10171 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
10172 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
10173 + updated qnx terminfo entry (patch by Michael Hunter)
10176 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
10178 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
10182 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
10183 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
10185 + terminfo changes (9.3.9), from BRL
10186 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
10187 + add more symbols to infocmp.
10190 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
10191 Juergen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
10192 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
10194 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
10195 null), and tests that use it.
10196 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
10197 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
10198 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
10200 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
10202 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
10203 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
10204 + fix option-processing bug in toe.
10207 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
10208 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
10209 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
10210 by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
10211 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
10212 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
10214 + enable more translations of nonstandard caps, and document them.
10215 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.8
10217 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
10218 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
10219 + cosmetic fixes to test/ncurses.c
10220 + modify open() call in ncurses/read_entry.c to use O_RDONLY symbol
10221 rather than constant (report by mib).
10222 + misc/terminfo.src sgr0 and acsc changes (report by Philippe De
10224 + modify ncurses/comp_parse.c so that entries containing a "+" can
10225 have missing rmcup vs smcup.
10228 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
10229 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
10230 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
10232 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
10233 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
10234 Philippe De Muyter).
10237 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
10238 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
10240 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
10241 (reported by Zeyd).
10242 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
10243 (reported by David MacKenzie).
10244 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
10245 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
10246 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
10247 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
10248 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
10249 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
10250 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
10253 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes.
10254 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.7 (report by A. Lukyanov).
10255 + modify man/Makefile.in to make terminfo.5 during normal build.
10257 + corrected allocation-length for $HOME/.terminfo path.
10260 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
10261 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
10262 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
10263 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
10264 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
10265 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
10266 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
10267 than function keys in 'g' test.
10268 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
10269 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
10270 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
10271 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
10273 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
10275 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
10276 msgwin needed scrollok set.
10277 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
10278 between PutRange and InsStr
10279 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
10280 MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
10282 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
10285 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
10286 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
10287 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
10289 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
10290 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
10291 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
10292 _yoffset to WINDOW).
10293 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
10294 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
10295 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
10296 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
10297 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
10298 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
10299 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
10300 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
10301 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
10304 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
10305 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
10306 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
10307 first entry in a list).
10308 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
10309 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
10312 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
10313 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
10314 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
10315 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
10316 with a shared-library configuration.
10317 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
10318 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
10319 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
10320 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
10321 builders to install into staging locations (requested by
10322 Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
10323 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
10325 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
10326 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
10327 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
10328 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
10329 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
10331 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
10332 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
10333 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
10334 invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10336 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
10337 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
10338 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
10340 + misc/ncurses-intro.html syntax fix (Kajiyama Tamito).
10343 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
10344 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
10345 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
10346 + added rules for lintlib, lint
10347 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
10348 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
10349 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
10350 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
10351 checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
10352 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
10353 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
10354 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
10355 + typos, don't use inline with "-g" (Philippe De Muyter)
10356 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
10359 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
10360 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
10361 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
10362 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
10363 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
10364 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
10366 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
10367 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
10368 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
10369 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
10371 + improve hash function (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10372 + 9.13.4 update for terminfo.src
10375 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
10376 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
10377 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
10378 <lav@yars.free.net>).
10379 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
10380 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
10381 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
10382 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
10384 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
10385 + html fixes (Phillippe de Muyter).
10386 + fix typo in ncurses-intro.html (report by Fabrizio Polacco).
10388 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
10389 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
10390 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
10391 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
10394 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
10398 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
10399 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
10400 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
10401 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
10402 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
10403 > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
10404 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
10405 + added TRACE_IEVENT
10406 + fix REQ_TOGGLE_ITEM in menu/menu_driver.c; it could select but not
10408 + added lib_print.c (request by Rick Marshall).
10409 + added has_key() (request by Juergen Pfeifer).
10410 + do not issue clrtoeol or clrtobot if the relevant portion of the line
10411 is already blank (analysis by Keith Bostic).
10412 + add parentheses for parameters of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER macros
10413 (analysis by Jurgen Eidt).
10414 + update screen's notion of cursor position in endwin() (analysis by
10415 Alexander Lukyanov).
10416 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
10417 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
10418 + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
10419 is not part of X/Open Curses).
10420 + removed boolean version of 'getm'.
10421 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
10424 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
10425 + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
10426 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
10427 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
10428 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
10429 "#include" if needed.
10432 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
10433 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
10436 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
10437 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
10438 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
10442 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
10443 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
10444 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
10445 > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
10446 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
10447 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
10448 + new "-e" and "-h" options of tic (request by Tony Nugent).
10449 + fix bug in mandatory-delay logic in lib_tputs.c (report by Sven
10451 + fix for "infocmp -e" to emit correct initializers (reported by Manual
10453 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c (report by Kayvan
10455 + use "-h" option on Solaris when generating shared libraries on
10456 Solaris 2.5 to record the library name in the file, for assisting
10457 the loader (patch by Scott Kramer).
10458 + undo patch #294 changes to form and menu libraries (request by
10463 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
10464 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
10465 K&R-style substitution)
10466 > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
10467 + rewrite wsyncup(), wsyncdown(), as well as small fixes to form and
10468 menu libraries to fix echo-breakage introduced by 1.8.9, 1.9.9e
10469 changes (patches by Juergen Pfeifer).
10470 + fix compile under QNX 4.2 by defining ONLCR in lib_raw.c when
10471 __QNX__ is defined (patch by Michael Hunter).
10472 + modify setupterm() to match documentation for its return value, fix
10473 newterm to work with this change (report by Emmet Lazich).
10474 + add checks in getch() for error, return ERR as appropriate (report by
10476 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode (report by Pete Seebach).
10477 + corrected askuser() logic in tset (patch by Remco Treffkorn).
10478 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing (report by
10480 + added trace support for TTY flags
10481 + update terminfo.src to 9.13.1
10482 + FreeBSD console entries (patch by Andrew Chernov).
10485 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
10486 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
10487 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
10488 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
10489 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
10491 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
10492 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
10494 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
10496 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
10497 copy-changed-lines behavior.
10498 * added and documented wresize() function.
10499 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
10500 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
10501 emitted before the first check.
10502 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
10503 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
10504 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
10505 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
10506 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
10507 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
10509 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
10510 * support for ESCDELAY.
10511 * small fixes for menu/form code.
10512 * the test directory has its own configure.
10513 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
10514 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
10515 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
10518 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
10520 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
10521 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
10522 * support infocmp -RBSD.
10523 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
10524 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
10525 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
10526 catastrophies or acts of God.
10527 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
10529 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
10530 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
10533 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
10535 * corrected return values of setupterm()
10536 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
10537 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
10538 one `use' capability.
10539 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
10540 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
10541 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
10542 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
10543 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
10544 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
10545 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
10546 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
10547 * added -h option to toe(1).
10548 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
10549 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
10550 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
10551 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
10553 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
10555 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
10556 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
10558 * mouse support for xterm.
10559 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
10560 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initally off.
10561 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
10562 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
10563 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
10564 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
10565 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
10566 * infocmp -T option added.
10567 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
10569 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
10571 * menus library is now included with documentation.
10572 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
10573 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
10574 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
10575 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
10576 * tweaks for compiling in seperate directories.
10577 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
10578 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
10579 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
10581 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
10583 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
10584 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
10585 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
10586 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
10588 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
10590 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
10591 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
10592 * added tracemunch to the test tools
10593 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
10595 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
10597 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
10598 profile and shared object models.
10600 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
10602 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
10603 * panels support added
10604 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
10605 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
10607 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
10609 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
10610 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
10611 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
10612 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
10614 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
10615 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
10616 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
10617 are consistent (they weren't).
10618 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
10619 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
10620 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
10621 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
10622 warnings from gcc).
10623 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
10624 * more spelling fixes
10625 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
10626 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
10627 core in init_acs()).
10628 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
10631 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
10633 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
10634 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
10635 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
10637 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
10638 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
10639 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
10640 resolution of traces.
10641 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
10642 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
10643 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
10644 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
10645 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
10646 is much less flaky.
10647 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
10648 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
10649 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
10650 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
10652 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
10653 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
10654 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
10655 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
10656 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
10657 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This wil mostly happen if
10658 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
10659 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
10660 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
10661 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
10662 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
10663 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
10664 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
10665 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
10666 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
10667 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
10669 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
10670 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
10671 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
10672 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
10673 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
10674 the correct alternate character set.
10675 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
10676 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
10677 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
10678 a terminal is undefined.
10679 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
10680 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
10681 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
10682 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
10683 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
10684 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
10686 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
10687 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
10688 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
10689 if other attributes are turned off.
10690 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
10691 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
10692 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
10694 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
10695 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
10696 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
10699 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
10700 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
10701 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
10702 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
10704 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
10705 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
10707 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
10709 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
10710 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
10711 break operation with any emulators.
10712 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
10713 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
10714 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
10715 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
10716 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
10717 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
10718 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
10719 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
10721 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
10722 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
10724 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
10725 unpredictable results.
10726 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
10728 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
10729 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
10730 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
10731 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
10732 take note of the terminfo directory.
10733 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
10734 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
10737 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
10738 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
10739 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
10740 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
10741 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
10742 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
10743 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
10744 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
10745 performs more testing.
10746 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
10747 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
10749 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
10750 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
10752 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
10753 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
10754 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
10756 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
10758 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
10759 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
10760 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
10761 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
10762 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
10763 will probably continue to work ok.
10765 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
10766 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
10767 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
10768 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
10769 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
10771 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
10772 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
10773 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
10775 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
10776 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
10777 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
10778 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
10779 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
10780 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
10781 changed accordingly.
10782 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
10783 bottom-right corner.
10784 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
10785 pads I'd love a copy.
10786 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
10787 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
10788 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
10789 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
10790 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
10791 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
10792 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
10794 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
10795 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
10796 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
10798 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
10799 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
10800 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
10801 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
10802 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
10803 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
10804 * See src/README for porting notes.
10805 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
10806 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
10807 rows instead of lines, etc.)
10808 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
10809 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
10810 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
10811 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
10812 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
10813 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
10814 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
10816 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
10817 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
10818 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
10819 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
10820 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
10821 fact was exposed by hanoi.
10822 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
10823 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
10824 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
10825 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
10826 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
10827 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
10829 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
10831 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
10832 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
10833 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
10834 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
10835 Config.* files through an awk script.
10836 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
10837 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
10838 * a few minor cleanups.
10839 * added more prototypes in curses.h
10841 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
10843 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
10844 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
10845 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
10846 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
10847 * a couple of bug fixes.
10848 * a few code cleanups.
10850 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
10852 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
10853 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
10854 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
10855 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
10856 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
10857 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
10858 * Cleaner Makefile.
10859 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
10860 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
10862 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
10863 (doesn't work on Linux)
10864 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
10865 screen before working.
10866 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
10867 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
10869 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
10870 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
10871 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
10872 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
10873 * several minor bug fixes.
10875 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
10877 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
10878 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
10879 * changes related to Config
10881 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
10883 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
10884 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
10885 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
10886 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
10887 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
10888 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
10889 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
10890 * added halfdelay()
10891 * fixed problems with asc_init()
10892 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
10893 * cleaned up vidputs()
10894 * general cleanup of the code
10895 * more attention to portability to other systems
10896 * added terminfos for hp70092 (wont work until changes to lib_update.c are
10897 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
10899 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
10900 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
10902 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
10903 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
10904 the rationale drop me a line.
10906 Included are several test programs in test/.
10907 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
10908 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
10910 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
10912 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
10913 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
10914 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
10915 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
10916 * keyname() is added.
10917 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
10918 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
10919 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
10920 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
10921 * included fixes from 0.6.1
10922 * added a few more missing functions.
10923 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
10924 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
10927 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
10929 1) Included the missing data/console.
10931 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
10933 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
10935 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
10936 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
10937 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
10939 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
10940 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
10941 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
10942 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
10943 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
10944 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
10945 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
10946 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
10947 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
10948 * added notimeout().
10949 * added timeout() define in curses.h
10950 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
10952 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
10953 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
10954 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
10955 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
10956 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
10957 * added slk_* support.
10958 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
10959 * added PANEL library.
10960 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
10961 * terminfo.h is really term.h
10963 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
10964 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
10965 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
10966 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
10967 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
10968 another key is pressed.
10969 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
10970 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
10971 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
10973 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
10974 * fixed bug in wvline().
10975 * added curs_set().
10976 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
10977 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
10979 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
10980 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
10981 * Addition of function prototypes.
10982 * Addition of several missing functions.
10983 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
10984 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
10985 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
10986 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
10987 * New scrolling code.
10988 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
10990 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
10991 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
10992 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
10993 * more fixes for updates.
10994 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
10995 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
10996 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
10997 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
10999 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
11000 * support for color.
11001 * support for PC graphic characters.
11002 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
11003 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
11005 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
11006 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
11007 * ANSIfication of some functions.
11008 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
11009 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.
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